New Britain herald., 1930-04-19
BUSY SOCIAL WEEK
 IN WASHINGTON
Not Many Big Events at Capital
 However
BY SALLIE V. II. PICKETT

Washington, April IS R>-While there have bep but few society events, Washington has never been more sociable than it has this week when women from every state ill the union met under the>roof of the National D. A. R. hall for their annual conference. Senators and representatives bestirred themselves to entertain the delegates from their respective districts; luncheon par ties were given in the senate and house cafes, and there were many very large and elegant afternoon teas.
 Mrs Edward Everett Gam assist ed at many of the teas, assuming nation. Although Mrs. Hoover was too ill to receive so large a body as that represented by the D. A. R. in congressional session, she receiy- ed the children of the American Revolution in her living room on the second floor of the White House. The small granddaughter of the President and Mrs. Hoover, Peggy Ann Hoover, has been enrolled in the children's organization.
 Drawing rooms, filled to capacity. testified to the popularity of Mrs. Gam. With Mrs. Robert P. Lamont she assisted at the reception of the Iowa delegation at the Congressional club, standing with Mrs. Daniel Frederic Steck and Mrs. Smith Wild tors from that state.
 She was also with Mrs. Lucy Wilder Morris when tea was giv- en for Miss Carolyn Punderson, of St., Paul. Minnesota, state regent for the D. A. R. delegates from the state were present. Mrs. Gam was handsome in her spring clothes, and whether the guests were from north south, east or west, she was gracious and interested.
 Like many-of the other hostcsses, Mrs. Morris gave visiting delegates an opportunity to meet ladies of the diplomatic corps. During tea she was assisted by Sonora De Tel leg. wife of the Mexican ambassadors Mir. and Mrs. Larz Anderson en- tertained the children of the Ameri- can Revolution and their new presi dent general, Mrs. Percy Quin. wife | of Representative Quin of Macomb. ! Mississippi, at an afternoon recep- ition and musicale. Boston musi- clans gave the program.
 | Mrs. Theodore Hoover, the presi- dents sistcr-in-law, and other mcm- bers of the California D. A. E. dele saton. were honor guests at a din- ner given late in the week for the secretary of the interior and Mrs. | Ray Lyman Wilbur by Representa- tive and Mrs. Joe Grail of California | Of quite another nature was the luncheon at the Willard where members of the Womens National Press club were hosts to one of their number, Mrs. Ruth Hanna Mccormick of Illinois, just back from triumphant primaries. With her was Mrs. Alice Roosevelt Long,
 worth, wife of the speaker of the house. A
 Mrs. James J. Davis, wife of tho secretary of labor, and Mrs. Clyde Kelley of Pennsylvania, dropped in al the end of the luncheon to heal Mrs. Mccormick describe her cam.
 paign.
 After Mrs. Mccormick finished
 her talk, Mrs. Davis was asked il
 she wouldn't speak. Her apt, re. sponse was that she was there only
 to get few pointers for her bus.
 band who is q candidate for th>
 senate from Pennsylvania.
 The ranks of society will h;
 greatly depleted over the week end
 many going to nearby resorts. MT
 and Mrs. Edward Everett Gam art
 going to Virginia Beach. Other.
 are planning to go to Atlantic City
 to witness the Easter Sunday pa ;rade on the boardwalk.