Evening star., 1937-05-17
BY NINA CARTER TABB,

T ION. R. WALTON MOORE, the
- Assistant Secretary of State,
and his sisters, the Misses
a 4 Moore, entertained between
five and seven hundred people with
a delightful lawn fete at their lovely
place at Fairfax yesterday afternoon.
Many guests from Warrenton, Middle
burg. Culpeper and Upperville motored
to the party and rubbed elbows all
afternoon with diplomats and high
officials from Washington. Those
who attended were struck with the
beauty of the large, white, rambling
old home. We were greeted by Miss
Jennie Moore. who received the guests
beside one of the huge pillars of the
front porch. Then into the house Of
many rooms one wandered and found
Miss Margaret Moore, who sent you
on out to the wide veranda. Here
the beauty Of the scene was breath
taking and you fingered moment to
take it in before going down the steps
to speak to Mr.. Moore, who stood
on the lawn.
The spacious green lawns sloping
away from the house were incloSed
by high arbor vitae hedges and droop-
ing white syringa bushes. pink dog
wood trees and graceful elms. Borders
and beds Of tulips, iris and all kinds
OF Spring flowers were blooming in
profuslon. It was a brilliant sun
shiny afternoon and the guests wore
gaily-colored Spring costumes. Eight
or 10 young girls in long, crisp organdy
dresses of different colors strolled
among the guests, serving refresh
ments and seeing to their every need.
Long tables were placed down in the
garden from which punch and ices
were served. Old family servants
served salads and beaten biscuits.
You wondered where the food for so
many was coming from, but Miss
Helen Moore was seeing that there
vas no end to it,
Down in the far corner of the
lawn was the most luxurious mint
bed, and I saw lovely Constitution
oak up IN one corner that had been
planted by Mr.. Moore. Do you know
what a Constitution oak is? After
the Virginia Convention, which was
held in Richmond in 1902, each men,
Der was sent a sapling oak by the
Agricultural Department to plant on
their places Mr.. Moore has taken
special care of his tree and it is
said to be the finest specimen of q
Constitution oak in Virginia.
WE WANDERED around this lovely
place all afternoon enioying
everything, especially the true hos
pitallty of the Moores Members of
the diplomatic set who motored out
from Washington, included Sir Ronald
and Lady Lindsay of Great Britain, the
French Ambassador and Nine. Bonnet,
the Spanish Ambassador Senor DR..
Don Fernando de los Rios; Sonora
Given and their daughter, Senorita
Laura de los Rios; the Turkish Am
basador, Mr.. Mellmet Munir Ertegun,
and Mn1s. Ertegun; the Soviet Ambas-
sador and Nine Troyanovsky. the
Austrian Minister and Nine. Prochnik.
There we're attaches of various en-
bassies and legations and high officials
OF the Department of State, including
Assistant Secretary of State Carr and
Mrs. Carr and Mr.. Flournoy. From the
congressional set came Senator and
Mrs. McAdoo and Senator Wheeler.
Others seen were Judge and Mrs.
McReynolds. Maj. Gen. Malin Craig,
chief Of staff; Admiral and Mrs. Leahy,
Secretary of Agriculture Wallace and
Mrs. Wallace, Secretary of Commerce
Roper and Mrs. Roper, Assistant
Secretary Of Commerce Johnson and
Mrs. Johnson, Mrs. Helm, social secre-
tary from the White House; Col.
Edwin M. Watson, military aide to the
President; Mr.. and Mrs. Forster. from