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for Rome to join her husband
and spend the rest of the win
ter there.
The Aliens and Mrs. Nelson
have really been visiting among
themselves with no large par
ties being given, but ever so
many of Mrs. Nelson's friends
dropping into the hospitable
Allen home for a cup Of tea
and chat.
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HOL. and Mrs. Monk" Lewis
~ spent Thanksgiving holidays
with their daughter, Frances,
who is a student this year at
william and Mary. Frances, who
is among the prettier Of the sub
debs, is dark as to hair and
eyes and has a lovely olive skin,
splashed with pink, and will be
home for the first time since
September for the Christmas
holidays.
MRS. ALBERT NORRIS, wife
Iva of Captain Norris, who is
just as pretty as her very pref
ty daughter, Mary, is entertain
ing at luncheon. next Wednes-
day at the Army-Navy Club in
town for her attractive house
guest, Mrs. Edwin Walker, of
New York, with a guest list Of
around 20 ladies, all friends Of
the honor guest.
MRS. BENJAMIN CAN'T,
VA wife of Commander GantZ,
has a house in Virginia which is
a veritable treasure store of
Chinese works of art. Both she
and her husband are devoted to
China and Chinese things and
the rug in Mrs. Gantz's drawing
room is one Of the most beauti-
full things. Made to order, just
before they left China, the rug
stretches endlessly in length and
is black with a stream, fashioned
of gray material and strewn
with lotus flowers, as the pat
tern Of the rug and it is as soft
and silky as chinchilla. Her
silver, some Of it inlaid with rose
quartz, is exquisite and diff
ferent.
There is an antique Chinese
camphor chest which any mu-
scum collector would envy and
screens so intricately and deli
cately carved that one wonders
how anybody'S eyes ever lasted
to finish it. Mrs. Gantz also
collects tiny ivory and amber
elephants and many Of her
jewels, in matching sets, of
rings, bracelets, earrings and
necklaces are fashioned of jewel
jade, crystal, lapis lazuli and
amethysts were brought back
from China by her. And if you
want to feel no end elegant and
impressive, just get Mrs. Gantz
to serve you a cocktail from her
glasses Of jade and crystal.
THE first few days in Decem.
L Der are filling up with
parties. Major and Mrs. Francis
Bondham are giving a tea
on the 3rd, Col. and Mrs.
Charles Hunt are having q tea
the 5th, and Major and Mrs
Leven Allen are entertaining at
tea on the 9th, at their home on
California Street.
MRS. THOMAS HOLCOMB,
UA wife of General Holcomb,
commandant of the Marine
Corps, who has the most charm.
ing and gracious manner and is
always SO beautifully groomed,
has a hobby to do with orna-
ments. She likes fish, in pins,
or clips, or a belt buckle, and is
very well pleased when she has
one of these cunning things
somewhere on her frock or coat.
One dress we remember, in par
ticular, as being very attractive
was a dark blue, heavy crepe
fastened in front with salmon.
colored buttons, carved in the
shape of wee fishes.
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NOMDR r. ROBERT CUTLER,
~ whose lovely daughter, Pa
tricia, is having so much fun
with her first winter in Wash
ington, is, though few people
know it because he uses a pen
name, an author Of many, many
short stories, most of them de-
tective and Western stories. It
seems that Commander Cutler
used to find great relaxation in
detective stories or adventure
stories and one day decided to
try his own hand at writing
them. So very well did they
turn out that he had more
orders for stories than he had
time to do them and So
another writer was born.
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HOMDR. AND MRS. ROBERT
~ DONOHUE and their prett!
daughter, Patsy, are entertain