The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1929-08-07
NEWS AND GOSSIP OF SOCIETY IN THE CAPITAL
Colonel and Mrs. Lindberyh VIII Be
Guests ut Presidents Fishing Camp
viii Return Friday for
Weekend With Chief
Executiveand First Lady

Executiveand First Lady
The President and Mrs.
Mower will entertain Col.
and Mrs. Charles Augustus
Lindbergh over the week
end at the Presidential fish
inR camp, near Rapidan, Va.
Colonel Lindbergh called
at the White House this
morning to pay his respects
to the President, en- route to
Boiling Field to hop off for
New York, and before
leaving the White House he
was given the invitation.
And, Of course, accepted it,
such an invitation being re-
garded usually as . COM
mand.
On Friday
Colonel and Mrs. Lindbergh
viii return BY airplane to Wash
inrton Friday morning for the
weekend visit. Mrs. Hoover has
been staying on In the noun
tains with her son, Allan
! Hoover, who is recuperating
from recent illness.
The famous little house at
i71S III St.once the rendezvous
of the most eligible bachelors OF
official Washington has won
new distinction as the residence
of Colonel and Mrs. Lindbergh
during their brief stay in wash
ingtofl.
IT'S h Street
Coming at the invitation Of
Brig. Gen. Charles r. Mccoy,
United States representative on
the Bolivian.Paraguayan Concilia.
tion Commission, it was approprite
That Colonel and Mrs. Limbaugh
be the guests of General and Mrs.
Mccoy, who have been making
their home at this address for
several months.
And life there has the simplicity
that would appeal to both Lindy
I and his bride. Mrs. Mccoy ID q
charming, Ynotherly woman. who
took the young wife Of the colonel
under her wing and entertained
her, according to her wishes, while
her husband was occupied with
conferences concerning the FEAST
bility of making an aerial survey
of the little-knOwn Chac0 region,
the ownership Of which Is dis.
puted by Bolivia and Paraguay.
AZ Luncheon
Colonel Lindbergh would have
luncheon with some OF the men in
the conferences. at the Carlton
Hotel or the Metropolitan Club.
And In the evening he and his
wife would be entertained ats ain
ner, far removed from the pubic
gaze.
s Last evening General and Mrs.
!. Mccoy took them by motor to the
Patuxent Country Club. down in
4 Maryland. They left the house
about $40 o'clock.
She Wore
Mrs. Lindbersh was wearing .
becoming sports costume OF canary
4 yellow Jersey with snaH 1elt nat
to match. This turned away nom
the face after the fashion adopted
by Mrs. "Liindy."
While still remarkably with.
drawn from the world. Mrs. Lind.
berxh seems to have lost bit
or that extreme shyness tnat
characterized her In the days q
4 Smith College.
At that time. some of her college
4 mates In Washington testify, she
I was SO shy that, when she was
/ initiated into the society Of which
| her mother was founder. she
was allowed to escape much OF
1 the usual initiation "hazing." The
girls Just didn't have the heart to
make her suffer! 1t would have
been too painful to them. az well
\ as to the reserved little daughter
Of the American Ambassadors to
Il Mexico.
"Out Of Order
That General McCoy's wife
/ should be living at r171s" IL de.
cidedly tout Of order" according
to the long.held tradition Of the
5 little group founding the club and
/ the limited number Of members
/, gaining admission In the twenty
years or more that have followed
itg organization.
However, all OF the quondam
Y bacheIcrs--there may be one or
two exceptions - have become
benedicts. And 30 the rules have
been imposed less and less as the
years have passed until now one
finds not only the wife of one Of
the members making her home at
ss17lS',-but also entertaining
beneath its roof the wife Of q
non.member.
Old Slogan
The old slogan was that no
woman was to be allowed to
remain overnight at the Bachelor
club. They were frequently
guests there at dinners. dances
ana 50 forth. but they were
never present at breakfast.
In the earlier days when q
bachelor member became .
benedict, he would have to pay
the penalty by housing his wife
elsewhere when he was In Wash
ington, II he wished to remain
with his bachelor friends.
On Roster
But the old order changethl The
pleasant little club, however, still
carries on. And on its roster are
such well.known men as the
forrner American Ambassador to