The Washington times., 1929-01-02
NeW Year Day Gay Despite Presidents s
Detection; The Diplomatic Breakfast
Brilliant Company at
Secretary and Mrs.
Kellogg's Last Annual
Fete for Foreign Corps

heIloggS Last Annual
Fete for Foreign Corps
In spite of President Cool
idge, Washington had a
reasonably gay New Year
Day. To be sure, with the
White House reception miss
ing and the Cabinet tnot
at home except for the
Secretary of the Navy and
Mrs. Wilbur-there was little
of the pomp and ceremony
Of other days. But there
seemed to be enough going
on in the afternoon to keep
everybody amused and in
terested. And there re-
mained the diplomatic break
fast at the Pan American
Union, with the Secretary of
State and Mrs. Kellogg as
hosts, to carry on a tradition
Of stately entertaining.
Happy New YearI
'Happy New Year" was the
slogan therein score Of Ian
guages, ''including the Scandi-
navian." And, although diplo-
matte uniforms, always donned
for the New Year reception at
the White House. were conspicu-
Gus by their absence, the break
fast was both colorful and de-
lightful.
The company was larger than
usual, the diplomatic group,
several hundred strong, being,
augmented by the delegates to
the Conference of American
States on Cancellation and Arbi-
tration, with the many charm
ing Latin-American women who
are here with their husbands
or fathers for the conference.
There were the usual official
groups-the Cabinet, the Su-
preme Court, the Senate and
House Foreign Relations anc
Foreipu Affairs Committees,
ct al-which are annually IN
vited to meet the diplomats,
uuondam diplomats. foreign and
domestic, diplomatic sons and
daughters, who are holiday visi-
tors in town, and a chosen few
from the private ranks Of So
cial Washington.
British Envoy Absent
The British Ambassador, Sir
Esme Howard, was an absentee--
housed by a slight attack OF flu
but Lady Isabella Howard was
accompanied by her tall young
sons, one fair and English in type,
the other dark and showing DELI
mite traces of his mothers Italian
ancestry. The Chinese Minister,
and Nine. Sze, too, were accom-
panied by holiday visitors, their
two schoolboy sons and their eld.
est daughter, Miss Mamie SEE, a
student at Bryn Mawr. A pictur-
esque group this, with almond
eyed Nine. SEE and little Miss Sze
both in native Chinese dress.
Then there were ever so many
of the girls from the Diplomatic
Corps who are already Out
Princess Elizabeth de Ligne, with
the. Belgian Ambassador and Prin.
cess de Ligne, Nile. Refine Clau-
del, with the French Ambassador
and Nine. Claude1; the Padilla
girls, with the Spanish Ambassa-
dor and Nine. Padilla; Mile. Jeanne
Cretziano, with her father, the
Rumanian Minister; Mile. Adele
Varela, debutante daughter of the
Minister of Uruguay, and all the
Grisantis, four strong, daughters
OF the Minister OF Venezuela.
Postmaster General and Mrs.
New were accompanied by their
young niece. who is their guest,
and the Secretary Of Labor and
Mrs. Davis by the Secretary's
niece, Miss Esther Ford Jones.
with the Secretary Of Agriculture
and Mrs. Jardine was their good
looking son. Bill. "pinch hitting
for his sister, Marian. who was
resting up for Mrs. Walsh's tea
dance in the afternoon. And the
youngest person at the party was
little Miss Jean Stanton, who,
with her grandmother, Mrs. Aus.
tin, is visiting Secretary and Mrs.
Kellogg. Mrs. Austin is the Sec
retary's sister.
Rank
But one must not quite forget
rank in preoccupation with youth.
Charles Evans Hughes, some time
Secretary of state, and Mrs.
Hughes were early arrivals and
held court for an hour. They
had Miss Elizabeth Hughes with
them-youth to the front again.
Senator Charles Curtis, Vice Pres
headed a distinguished
senatorial delegation his sister,
Mrs. Edward Gam, as usual, at
his elbow-which also included
Senator and Mrs. Claude Swanson,
Senator Arthur Capper and Mrs.
William 3. Borah. From the
House group were Representative
and Mrs. Henry Allen Cooper,
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