Evening star., 1936-03-01
Members of IllustriOus
Families Prominent in
Affairs of Present Dav
Robert Taft, Son of Late Former President,
Well Known Here-Wedding of Miss
Dunn Event of Spring.

is a daughter Of Sherman Hayes Of
New York.
Descendants of another Ohio Presi-
dent are prominent here. In the
Economic Adviser to the State Depart
ment and Mrs. Herbert Feis. the latter
a granddaughter Of President James
A. Garfield, who has made a name
for herself in the literary field. They
have a charming home in Georgetown,
and brother of Mrs. Feis, Rudolph
Stanley Brown, who. by the way,
hyphenates the Stanley Brown, who
came here in connection with the
New Deal, have a lovely home on
Bancroft place. Their mother is the
former Miss Molly Garfield. who was
little girl when her parents spent
their short time in the White House,
and their father is Joseph Stanley
Brown. secretary to the martyred
President, who was brought up in
Washington and was educated here.
The Brown home was the attractive
little house set back in the yard on
Massachusetts, avenue q few doors
east of Thomas Circle and on the
south side. which is still an attractive
house though q little the worse for
wear and tear.
A great-granddaughter of President
and Mrs. Benjamin Harrison. Miss
Mary Virginia Williams, who lives
here with her mother. Mrs. Mathena
Harrison williams. is an oficer in
the Young Republicans Club. Her
grandfather is Maj. Russell B. Harri-
son Of indianapolis and her grand
mother was the beauty of the admin
istration of that second President
Harrison. She was formerly Miss
Mary Saunders of Omaha and she
is an officer in the League OF Repub-
lican Women Of the District of Colllm-
bia.
Mrs. Warren Delano Robbins will
be warmly greeted by her many old
friends this week. She Is returning,
widow and grandmother, but still
the lovely Mrs. Robbins She will visit
in the White House and then be the
guest of Representative and Mrs. Rob-
ert Low Bacon. very old friends. The
late Mr.. Robbins. United States Min
lister to Canada, was a cousin of
President Roosevelt and an usher at
the marriage of Franklin D. Roosevelt
and Eleanor Roosevelt, and always q
close personal friend.
The annual dinner and stunt party
Of the Women's National Press Club
tomorrow evening will be attended by
women prominent in many fields of
endeavor in their own right as well as
wives Of men who are leaders In
affairs Of the day. The dinner, given
at the Willard, will be followed by q
program of satire on the honor guests
as well as others prominent in politics
and society. The actors are all mem
bers of the club, just as the party
Is always an invitation affair.
A fortnight later the Newspaper
Womens Club will give its annual
party. this year a st. Patrick's fair,
and again in the auditorium of the
National Press Club, composed Of the
masculine members of the fourth
estate. The fair is for the benefit of
the bed maintained by the Newspaper
Women's Club in the Childrens Hos
pital, and for the fund for milk for
undernourished children distributed by
the Ladies of Charity. Mrs. Roose-
welt will attend both parties. The
st. Patrick's fair, March II, falls on
the anniversary of the marriage of
President and Mrs. Roosevelt. the
latter being an honorary member of
the Newspaper Women,s Club. .
Mrs. Calvin Coolidge, like the Wild
ows of other Presidents, Mrs. Theo-
dorse Roosevelt and Mrs. william
Howard Taft, finds consolation in
travel, and after a Winter in the
South she Is now travelling in Eng
land, having arrived over there early
last week. She will later travel on
the continent. Before sailing, she
authorized the advertising for sale of
her lovely home at Northampton,
Mass which the former President
purchased after they left the White
House, end where they lived until
his death. Mrs. Coolidge has not
spent so much time there since his
death. The house is very large and
rather isolated and Mrs. Coolidge
loves to be in the midst Of things.
1t Is easy for her friends to see how
q smaller and more accessible place
would suit her better. Some others
find another meaning to her wish to
sell not only the place, but some of
the furnishings Of the place. They
think 1t looks like the forerunner Of
a change in her name.