The Washington times., 1937-12-04

sary today and are having just
q few very old and intimate
friends into their quarters at the
Marine Barracks, for a bit Of
cheer" and chatter.
TOL. and Mrs. Charles Hunt
~ are giving a tea and recep-
ton out at the Army and Navy
Country Club tomorrow. Mrs.
Hunt, who is a darling little
person, the former Marjorie
Brown of Georgia, has no end
CT friends and is one of the mer-
riest, most hospitable Of people,
and her husband is equally nice,
so doubtless half the world and
his wife will be there. .-
Col. and Mrs. Harrison Rich
ards are another couple who al
ways give the incest parties and
are all set for a large tea, with
themselves as hosts, tomorrow
afternoon at the Officers Club
at Boiling Field.
So
A ND speaking of the Officers
"A Club at Boiling Field, we
are reminded that a new ven
ture in entertaining on this post
will begin December IL with a
big tea dance, and several more
planned for the future. It would
seem, and several of the ladies
at the post are positive, that this
idea will be most popular, for
Sunday is the one day everyone
is free to do as he pleases, and
it would certainly be nice way
in which to get everyone to-
gether and better acquainted.
Mrs. David H. Baker, attractive
wife Of Lieutenant Baker, so we
understand, is one of the per-
sons who foStered this idea and,
If so, it is bound to be successful,
for she is quite an executive.
HOL. AND MRS. HARRY K.
ORUTHERFORD and their
daughter Dorothy are a most
attractive family. Dorothy,
who had thought something
about a debut for this winter,
changed her mind and preferred
to continue her studies at King
Smith School. She is a slender,
winsome person with a wealth
Of waving brown hair, a pretty.
gentle mouth and big bright
eyes and she wears clothes
suited exactly 70 her type.
Recently we saw her at a tea
and she was all in gray, from
tiny hat to the hem Of her
smart gray frock with collar,
pockets and cuffs of Krimmer
fur, and bag, gloves and match
ing handkerchief. Mrs. Ruther.
ford, who has a cream and pink
complexion and exquisite silvery
hair, is graciousness itself and
has the most beautiful speaking
voice with just a bit of a British
intonation.
BECAUSE you will hear, event
- ually, this story, we might
as well tell it, thought it has to
be anonymous, which we dislike.
However, a Navy woman told it
as the very truth. It seems that
not so long ago a Service widow.
who had spent better than half
Of her life being a patient Gri-
selda to her doughty husbands
whimS and moods, and conSe-
quently had little time to be her
self and practically no time for
laughter, was approached upon
the subject Of a suitable epitaph
for the departed gentleman.
She instructed them to wait
and also informed them that
she would compose the epitaph,
and it must be exactly as she
had written it. Finally after
some days, the lines for the cpl
taph arrived, and though the
gentlemen waiting it were horri-
fled, the widow must have rid
herself Of some 80 years. annoy,
ance for these were the lines,
MY Husba n d-God Knows
Why"
THE Army Daughters are be-
L ginning something new.
Once a month these daughters
are giving a get-together lunch
con at the Army and Navy Club
in town. Each Army daughter is
allowed to bring a guest, and it
will doubtless be as popular as
the luncheons of the Senate
Daughters, which are most sue
cessful and worked out on the
same basis.
MRS. BENJAMIN GANTz,
N1 wife of Commander Gantz,
U. s. NJ, gave a luncheon and a
shower for pretty boo" Offutt,
who is to be married next week.
Not one whisper was given out
to "Boo'' about the shower and
she believed she had been asked