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Naval Secretary and Wife
To Be Hosts Wednesday
Massachusetts, Members in Congress Will Be
Dinner Cuests-Mrs. Adams Sister
Is Week End Visitor

The Secretary of the Navy and Mrs.
Charles Francis Adams will entertain
at dinner Wednesday evening in their
nome on r street, when their guests will
be members Of the Massachusetts, dele
cation IN Congress and their wives.
Secretary and Mrs. Adams have with
them for the week end Mrs. Adams
sister, Mrs. Henry Brinton Coke Of Phil
adelphia.
Mrs. Barkley wife OF Senator Alben
w. Barkley, Will entertain at luncheon
Wednesday for her daughter. Mrs. Max
O'Rell Truitt of st. Louis, who is visit
ing her.
Miss Laura Barkley, daughter of Sen
ator and Mrs. Barkley, will entertain at
buffet supper tomorrow evening pre-
ceding the leap year dance at the
Shoreham, The guests will be members
OF her dance committee, including Miss
Mary Martha Wrenn, Miss Rosa Hayes,
Miss Mary Stewart BirdsaI, Miss Kath-
leen Carmichael, Miss Mary Henry Miss
Eleanor Calvert, Miss Margaret Peyton
Calvert, -fiss Mary Wooteh and Mrs.
Max ORell Truitt.
Senator and Mrs. Hiram Bingham
were hosts to company at dinner last
evening in their apartment on Six
teenth street.
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Underwood Photo.

Senator and Mrs. James Couzens will
entertain at dinner Saturday, March II
They will be joined Tuesday by their
daughter, Mrs. William r. Yaw, who
will come from her home in Detroit.
Representative and Mrs. William l.
Tierney Of Connecticut had dining with
them Friday evening Mrs. M. A. Bailey
of Hartford, Conn, who is the house
guest of Miss Mary OFarrel at her
home on University place.
A number of parties have been given
for Mrs. Bailey during her visit. Among
others who entertained for her were
Mrs. William Roach, who gave a din
ner and bridge, and Mrs. Frank Heron,
who was hostess at bridge at the Shore
ham Hotel. Mrs. Bailey will remain in
Washington for two or three days more.
Representative and Mrs. William r.
Eaton had guests dining with them in
formally at dinner Wednesday at
Wardman Park, where they make their
home during the congressional season.
Miss Anne Wyant, daughter of Rep
resentative and Mrs. Adam M. Wyant,
will entertain q small company at din
.(Continued on Page 2. Column A.
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Visitors In Capital
and Homecomings
Provide Gay Motif
Many Guests Entertained
and Absent Residents Re-
turn In Week.

Mrs. William Mcclellan Ritter re-
turned last evening from a short visit
in New York and joined Mr.. Ritter
in their home on Massachusetts, avenue
Mrs. George Barnett is spending the
week end with her cousin, Mr.. Minton
Talbot, at his estate near Norfolk, Va.
Mr.. Hugh D. Auchincloss will be
joined the middle of the week by
Mrs. Auchincloss, who mas been spend
ing some time in Mexico.
Mr. and Mrs. Rowland Stebbins of
New York City are making a brief
visit in Washington at the Mayflower,
where the formers brother-in-law and
sister, Col. and Mrs. James Brady
Mitchell, have an apartment.
Mrs. Axel de Wichfeld of New York
City is spending a few days in Wash
ington and is at the Mayfower Hotel
MF. and Mrs. William Woodward
Cook, the latter a sister of Mrs. Cor
dell Hull have gone to Staunton, Va,
where they have leased the Stolen
werck home on South Coalter street for
a year. Mr.. and Mrs. Cook have been
making their home in Washington.
Judge and Mrs. Edward R. Finch of
CONTINUED on Page 5. Column g.
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Mr.. Justice Holmes Honored
By Federal Bar Association

The ninety-first birthday anniversary
Of Mr.. Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes
will be the occasion for the annual re-
ception and dinner of the Federal Bar
Association in the Shoreham Hotel,
Tuesday evening, March 8. The pro-
gram will include addresses by Judge
Learned Hand of the United States Cir
cult Court in New York and other
speakers of note who will be announced
later. Music will be furnished by the
Marine Band Orchestra and a recep-
ton for distinguished guests will be
held at 7 o'clock preceding the dinner,
which will begin exactly at 8 o'clock.
The District Bar Association, Wom-
ems Bar Association and local repre-
sentatives of the American Bar Asso-
citation and the American Law Insti-
tute are invited to cooperate. The
Committee on Arrangements is plan
ming an interesting program, and reser-
vations may be made through Mr..
Ralph G. Cornell, secretary, in room
4O2 in the Hibbs Building, or by tele-
phone through National 1922.
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Senator Cores Nephew
To Wed JERSEY Girl

Mr.. and Mrs. Clarence D. Mapes of
Glen Ridge, N. j., have announced the
engagement Of their daughter, Miss
Edith Mapes, to Mr.. Harry Everett Kay
of Washington and Oklahoma City, son
of Mr.. and Mrs. John Warren Kay Of
Los Angeles, Calf.
Miss Mapes is a graduate of the
Kimberley School of Montclair, N. j..
and of National Park Seminary. Forest
Glen, Md. She is a provisional member
of the Junior Auxiliary of Glen Ridge.
Mr.. Kay is a graduate of the Ma
tional University of Law at Washing
ton, and member of Phi Beta Gamma
Fraternity. He is a nephew of Senator
and Mrs. Thomas P. Gore of Okla
homa.
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Enduring Place Given
Bicentennial Week in
Memory of Capital City
MayAower Ball, Wakefield Pageant and Othel
Events Mark Occasion for Brilance.
Costumes Rare Feature.

care of Gunston Hall and its landed
surrounding through board Of regents,
placing it on exactly the same basis
as Mount Vernon. Mrs. James P. An
drews of Hartford, Conn, the sister
of Mrs. Edward A. Hartman, and fire.
quently her guest here, is president of
the National Society of Colonial Danes.
Since the purchase Of Gunston Hall
in 1912 by Mr.. Hertle, who was the
intimate friend of the late Robert
Lansing, Secretary of State, Mr.. Hertle
and his family have been closely allied
with Washington society, and while, of
course, the ancient history Of Gunston
Hall stands out in the pages Of the past
in indelible writing, the newer history
is charming and fitting thing to re-
member. While using Gunston Hall as
their home, Mr.. Hertle and the late
Mrs. Hertle yet gave access there to
all patriotically minded visitors and
graciously turned the place over to
them for inspection. officials and dip
lcmats were entertained there at over
Sunday parties and many was the COM
pany that trailed the old Virginia road
by night for dinner party there.
The building was restored by Glenn
Brown, who is undoubtedly the best au
thority on Colonial architecture in this
country, and the famous lockwood
walks and other features of the grounds
took on the exact appearance of the
past. A more charming picture than
that Of the late Mrs. Hertle showing
her guests over the grounds and
through the gardens could not be
visioned.
Again pictures and music will receive
response from society. The Vice
/ President, Mr.. Curtis, with his sister
and brother-in-law, will occupy a box
at the lovely Belasco Theater tomor-
row night for the opening of a weeks
presentation of Gilbert & Sullivan's
old favorite, THE Gondoliers," which
has been rehearsed to the point of per-
fection and is as crisp and bright as
though being heard by Washington's
music loving world for the first time.
Next Sunday the Washington Orches-
ira, with Hans Kinder as its conductor
will renew its popular Sunday evening
concerts, and March 10 and IT are the
dates for the two concluding concerts
of the series in Constitution Hall. The
orchestra has come very near to COM
plete success in Washington this sea-
son, and it is an absolute duty of every
/ citizen in the Capital to contribute their
dole to its success and permancy.
| The Philadelphia Orchestra comes to
Constitution Hall Tuesday evening, and
many of the more important dinner
! parties of that night are early events, to
/ permit the audience arriving before the
orchestra starts. From Frank Laforge
came a plea for music last week when,
in an interview from New York, he de-
clared that Americans hnger too long
at dinner, arrive late at opera, do not
understand a word that is being sung,
Continued on Page 2. Column B.
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BY SALLIE v. H. PICKETT.

Bicentennial week in Washington and
especially Monday, February %, mus
ever linger in the minds of the citizens
as its most momentous event since its
foundation. Especially was the ball al
the Mayfiower thing of beauty which
must ever filter through the minds OF
those who saw it as beautiful pic
ture. Then there was the pageant
Wakefield" with its brilliant opening
Sunday night, the All States ball Mon
day night and the dignifed, beautiful
ball of the New England States on the
same evening and which carried with ii
a program particularly fitting the occa-
sion. The Willard ball room was stately
and without decoration other than the
many flags and portraits of Gen. Wash
ington and while not nearly SO large as
the other balls there was the great
advantage Of a show place for Colonial
costumes and working out the program
Later generations represented II
proud attire their ancestors collateral
and otherwise at the Bicentennial ball
and those who named never an ances-
tor wore rarely beautiful robes, gowns
such as Vatican and others of his day
alone dreamed of. OF course to be quite
UP to date the Thirteen Original States
simply would not stay put, the charac-
ters in the various divisions running
away at the last moment to meet 6
friend or for a drink of water causing
a confusion like unto the Revolution
itself. But then much of it answered
the program to letter, and the rest
only fulfilled the Biblical saying, about
the first shall be last, etc, and be il
said the vast audience which filled tbs
ball room was so busy looking at tht
beauties of the pageant that they dis
covered no distortion of historic facts
Many costumes were original or au
thentic reproductions Of their time, ant
through the pictured pages Of large pub
lications all over the United States tht
present generation saw and realized tn
beauties of the past. Washington wa
looked to furnish the most complete
Bicentennial program in every way IL
the whole country, but nothing coulc
surpass the Honor to Washington
celebration put on in Town Hall. New
York, during the week. So loud wa
the demand for a sight of the New
York show that it was repeated in the
afternoon, students filling Town Hall tt
oyerfowing. In the evening the His
torical Society Of New York and tht
museums of the city were represented
these latter helping to perfectly stag
the nine scenes in the life Of Washing
ton in New York with additional scene
of Washington's home life at Noun
Vernon.
Almost the crowning event Of Bicen'
tennial week is the gift of Mr.. Loui!
Hertle to the State of Virginia of hi
historic home, Gunston Hall, on tht
Potomac, the news breaking on thi
particularly fitting gift yesterday morn
ing A fact however, not made known
is that MI Hertle has further provided
that the National Society of Colonia
Danes cf America Is TO have perpetua
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Cabinet Member Host
For Dean of Diplomats
Donna Antoinetta de Martino Asks Secretary
Lamont Take Ambassadors
Place as Host.

Guests invited to the Italian en-
baSsy last evening for the dinner given
by the dean of the corps and Donna
Antoinetta de MARITIME were grieved to
find their host missing, a heavy cold
combining him to his room. Donna
Antoinetta asked the Secretary of Com
nerce, who with Mrs. Lamont was
guest at the dinner, to take the Am
bassador's place and act as host. Other
guests at the dinner besides the Sec
retary and Mrs. Lamont were the Am
baSsador of Poland, Mr.. Filipowicz; the
Ambassador of Brazil and Senhora de
Lima Silva, the Minister of Den
mark and Nine. Wadsted, Senator and
Mrs. William H. King, Senator and
Mrs. Felix Hebert, Representative and
Mrs. Hamilton Fish, jr.; Representative
Mr.. Ronald Owen Of England; AS
siStant Secretary Of State and Mrs.
Wilbur j. Carr, Assistant Secretary of
State and Mrs. James Carlton Rogers,
Mr.. Robert Kelley of the State De-
partment; Baron Robert de Doblhott
and Baroness de DobIhott, Mr.. and
Mrs. George B. Mcclellan. Miss Jose
phine Patten, Miss Meta Morris Evans,
and members of the embassy staff, in
Guiding the counselor, Conte Marchetti;
the air attache and Signor Sbernadori,
and the assistant naval attache, Conte
Figarlo di Gropello.
The Hon. Lady Lindsay, wife of the
Ambassador of Great Britain, who is
spending the Winter in Boca Grande,
entertained there with a beach party
last week. Her guests included Mrs.
August Belmont, New York; Miss Edith
Hoyt, washington; Mrs. Bayard James
and Miss NJ. L. Draper, New York
City. Lady Lindsay IS at the Boca
Grande Hotel and will return in a
fortnight.
The Minister of Portugal and Wis
countess d'Alte will return tomorrow
from New York, where they went at the
end of last week.
The Minister of Austria and Nine.
Prochnik have with them the latter's
sister, Miss Violet James, who arrived
few days ago from her home in Bos-
ton and will remain with them for sew
eral weeks.
The Minister of CzechoSlovakia and
Nine. Veverka went to New York
Thursday afternoon and are remaining
over Sunday. They made the trip by
motor and will drive back tomorrow.
This afternoon at l o'clock the Minis
ter will confer the Czechoslovak Order
of the White Lion on DR.. Walter Dam
rosch, distinguished music conductor
The ceremony will take place during the
weekly orchestral program which DR..
DamroSch conducts and which is broad
cast. The Minister and Nine. Veverka
attended the performance of opera given
yesterday afternoon in the Metropolitan
Opera House, which also was broadcast.
The Minister of Sweden, NJ. Bostrom,
is expected to go to New York the
middle of the week to meet Nine. Bos-
from, who is due to arrive there Thurs
day from her home in Sweden, where
she has been for a few weeks.
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At Homes Engage

Attention of Society
Maj and Mrs. Parker W. West will
be at home this afternoon after
o'clock.
Mr.. and Mrs. Gerrit S. Miller, jr,
have discontinued their at homes for
the season and will san Thursday for
Porto Rico, where Mr.. Miller will be
engaged in scientific work for the
Smithsonian Institution.
Mr. and Mrs. Miller are expected
to return the latter part of April.
Mr. and Mrs. Raymond E. Macom-
Der of 1927 Fourteenth street nave an
nounced the engagement of their
daughter Virginia Nancy to Mr.. Alex
ander McFarlain of New Orleans. The
news was given to their friends at a
st. Valentines party February IL.
Mrs. Mamie Green Jobe and her
daughter, Miss Elizabeth Van Dyke
Jobe, will be at home this afternoon
from 4:30 to O'Clock, when they will
be assisted by Mrs. Henry st. George
Tucker, Mrs. Maurice H. Thatcher,
Mrs. Charles E. Riggs, Mrs. Marye
Tyler Mccormack, Mrs. Richard Ewell
Thornton, Mrs. Julien Jaquelin Mason
and Miss Cornelia Bowie.
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The Minister of Honduras, Senor DR..
Don Celeo Davila, will be joined tomor-
row by Sonora de Davila, who has been
visiting for several days in Pittsburgh.
The Minister Of Bolivia and Sonora
de Abelli will entertain at dinner Thurs
day evening. They will be hosts at
dinner March IS in honor of the Sec
retary of State and Mrs. Henry L.
Stimson.
Sonora de Zaldumbide, wife of tie
Minister Of Ecuador, is recuperating
from an Illness. She is now at her
home, having left the hospital a week
ago.
The charge daffaires of Costa Rica
and Sonora de Gonzalez entertained at
dinner last evening in honor Of Senior
Don Francisco Palomo, attache of the
Guatemalan legation, the occasion being
in celebration of his birthday ami
versary.
The counselor of the Polish embassy
Continued on Page S, Column 81
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Mrs. Borah S Niece
Will Arrive Today
For Capital Visit
Miss Mary Lueddenan From
Portland, Oreg., Is Guest
at Senator S Home.

Senator and Mrs. William E. Borah
will be joined today by the latter's
niece, Miss Mary Lueddenan, who will
arrive from her home in Portland, Greg,
for visit.
Representative and Mrs. Frank Crow
ther are spending the week end In At
lantic City. Mrs. Crowther will not re-
turn in time to observe her day at
home tomorrow.
The major general commandant Of
the Marine Corps and Mrs. Ben H. Full
Ter have as their week end guest Mrs.
Smith, wife of Col. Holland Smith of
Philadelphia.
Mrs. Fuller will be at home tomorrow
for the last time this season.
The Assistant Secretary of the Navy,
Mr.. David S. ingalls,, is spending few
days with Mrs. ingalls, at their home
in Ohio.
Maj. Gen. and Mrs. James E. Fechet
will be joined Tuesday by the latter's
sister, Mrs. George Harris Smith, who
will arrive from her home in Salt Lake
City.
Maj. Gen. Roderick L. Carmichael,
chief Of finance, u S. A, and Mrs. Car
michael, will be joined tomorrow by
their daughter, Miss Billy Carmichael,
who with Miss Mary Henry, daughter
of the chief of Cavalry and Mrs. Henry,
is spending the week end at West Point.
Mai. Gen. Lytle Brown, chief Of Engi-
neers, will be joined today by Mrs.
Brown, who has been visiting in Pitts
burgh.
Brig. Gen. Daniel B. Devore and Mrs.
Devore are spending few days at the
Hotel Plaza, in New York ....
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DR.. LUNDELL GETS
CHEMISTRY AWARD
Study of Mysterious Engines
Described by DR.. Balls to
American Society.

A new laboratory has just been es-
tablished here by the Agriculture De-
partment for the investigation of scores
of mysterious chemical substances
found only in living organisms. which
are basic factors in almost all the
processes of life.
These substances the engines, were
described before the annual meeting of
the Washington branch of the Ameri-
can Chemical Society at the Cosmos
Club last night by DR.. Arnold K. Balls,
who recently came to Washington to
take charge of the work. At the same
time the Hillebrand award made an
nually by the society for the greatest
contribution made by Washington
DR.. G. E. F. Lundell of the Bureau
of Standards for an outstanding book
dealing with analytical chemistry.
Effects Powerful.
The chemistry of engines, Dr. Balls
told the society, is still an obscure sub
Ject. The effects of some of them are
very powerful.
Their function in an organism, he
explained, is that of catalystS-that is,
substances whose presence speeds up
other chemical reactions. A notable ex-
ample is in the case Of digestion Of
prOteinS Before these parts of the
diet. which are the building stones of
tissue. can be used they must be split
into the amino acids. This process
requires the presence of whole series
of engines. One group breaks up the
proteins into what are known as poly
peptides.
From these, in turn the amino acids
are derived by another series of
engines. Each engine has one spe-
cif1c job There are at least 100 of
them and biochemical research may
reveal many more.
DR.. Balls hkened the engines to
those other mysterious biochemical
substances which are essential to life,
the hornone secretions from the endo-
crime glands and the vitamins con-
tanned in foods Ali Of these. present
in extremely small amounts. are nee
essary parts of the infinitely complex
mechanism of life. Unlike the others,
however, the effects of the engines
can be produced in test tubes as well
as in living bodies. although they can
not be made outside the body, as can
some of the hormones, and they can
not be obtained from dead tissue. Their
chemical composition is almost entirely
unknown
Speeding-Up Process.
The speeding-up process made pos
sible by the engines sometimes is very
great, Dr.. Balls said. There is one
known as catalase, one preparation of
which decomposed 10000 times its
weight per minute of hydrogen peroxide
into water and oxygen. Just what pur-
pose such powerful substance serves
in the body nobody knows 1t is
present in almost all tissue but es-
pecially in the blood and liver.
Every engine. DR.. Balls said, is spe-
cific. 1t promotes only one physiologi-
cal reaction, and since there are a
great variety of these in the body, there
is probably a catalyst for almost every
one, 1t has recently been shown, he
said, that an engine forms a chemical
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Three Girls Attack Bull.

In an attempt to save their father
from the attack Of a savage bull, the
three daughters of Thomas Lyons, a
farmer, of Bolclutha, New Zealand,
bravely fought the beast. One girl MT
the bull over the head with a stick,
While another held on with might and
main to the animals wildly tossing
head. The third girl dragged Lyons
from the paddock. He had, however,
been SO seriously injured that he died
in a hospital.
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Traffic Department at 462 louisiana
avenue.
In announcing the transfer OF the
tag bureau. william A. Van Duzer,
director of the traffic, said the demand
for 1892 tags had fallen of to such an
extent that it no longer is necessary to
maintain a special office for the work.
Thus far, Mr.. Van Duzer said, the
Traffic Department has issued l2S,070
pairs of 1892 gs, approximately 1000
of which went 10 dealers and 2,400 to
District and Federal Government de-
partments. The number of vehicles
titled, however, exceeds by $3.50 the
number of cars for which tags have
been issued, the records showing that
title certificates have been sent out for
131 400 vehicles.
Mr. Van Duzer believes the dis
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combination with a substance before

combination with a substance before
decomposing it.
Some enzymes," DR.. Balls continued,
especially some of the diges e
engines, are able to break down chemi-
cal substances which do not occur in
nature, but which must be made in
the laboratory. In this way we are
able to tell something of how an
engine works. We can make many
curious derivatives of the amino acids,
the building stones of the proteins, and
study the effects of the engines upon
them.
The problem is to explain why some
of the substances which do not occur
naturally are decomposed by engines,
while others very like them are not.
1t depends on how the atoms are ar
ranged in the nolecule, and since the
arrangement of the atoms affects
polarized light when it is passed
through a substance, there is relation
between the behavior to polarized light
and the engines.
Theory Developed.
I'VE have developed a theory to ex-
plain why the engine is affected by
variations in the arrangement of the
atoms. Certain atomic arrangements
are more reactive than others, and the
active ones are those which combine
with the engine and then split apart.
Other substances have been found
which combire but are not afterwards
split, so that we can tell something
about what sort of a combination it Is.
THE chemical nature of the engines
remains almost unknown. Three have
been crystallized, all by Americans. The
crystals are proteins, but we do not
know enough about the proteinS to tell
how these engines work. Lately, in
the case of two cf them, peroxidase
and catalase, the active substance has
been shown to be related to hemin,
the red-colored substance Of the blood
which contains iron. One of the di-
gestive engines has been shown to
contain phosphorus, which it gives off
as phosphoric acid when it is decom-
posed. The engine is an organic COM
pound containing phosphoric acid"