Evening star., 1937-12-05

gave in DR.. Swigart's honor.
Mrs. Samuel Steinmetz served coffee
at one end of the tea table and Mrs.
George D. Horning, jr., just back
from visit in Madison, Wis, where
her daughter, Miss Marie Horning is
studying journalism and is also taking
part in college activities with her Pi
Beta Phi Sorority sisters, served tea
and cake.
There were about 20 guests at
Wednesdays party which is the first
Of a series Of parties that have been
planned for DR.. Swigart during her
stay here.
Mrs. E. Winsor Offutt
Hostess at Tea.
Mrs. E. Winsor Offutt entertained
at tea Tuesday afternoon in honor of
Mrs. Carroll B. Haig State regent of
the District of Columbia D. A. r.,
and Mrs Wilbur Bunnell Blakeslee,
State regent of Maryland, who were in
Bethesda to attend the unveiling of a
memorial to Gen. Richard Montgom-
cry. Revolutionary hero, for whom
Montgomery County was named.
Miss Margaret Loughborough and
Mrs. Richard Cunningham, both
members of Col. Tench Tilghman
Chapter, D. A. R., which presented
the marker to the county, presided at
the tea table.
Since the tea and the placing of the
memorial marker and even the naming
Of the county for Gen. Montgomery
was gallant tribute to an Irish sol
dier from Northern State, who had
never set foot in Maryland, it was OF
more than passing interest that nearly
all the guests at the tea Tuesday were
descendants of pioneer families of
Montgomry County. The very names
of the guests present at the tea are
the same names that are found on the
grants of land from one of the Eng
lish kings to the early settlers; and
the ancestors of these same guests
were the people who helped to settle
Montgomery County.
A pretty ceremony took place a,
Tuesdays party when Montgomer,
Countys flag. created last year by ar
act of the Maryland Legislature, was
unfurled for the first time 1t was
particularly appropriate that the flae
should be displayed at the tea party
since the idea of making a flag wa.
developed at another tea in Bethesda
three years ago. Among the guests al
the party were the three women. Mrs
povfnYS uy1 1op AHye T
and Mrs. Hewitt Griggs Robertson
who planned the design of the flag
the coat of arms of the Montgomery
family on background of yellow
silk-and sent it to the State Legis.
lature for its adoption.
Col. and Mrs. Fitx Gerald
Back From Florida.
Col. and Mrs. Sheplar Ward Fit
Gerald have returned from a months
stay IN Florida and are now at theil
residence on Massachusetts avenue
Col. and Mrs. Fitz Gerald were resi-.
dents OF Somerset until they moved te
the District just before leaving fol
their trip to the South.
Mr.. and Mrs. Preston King of Bat.
terry Park were in Warrenton last
Saturday, where they were Dime,
guests of Mr.. and Mrs. George Nc.
Neir of New York City Mr.. and Mrs
King are cousins of Mr.. and Mrs
McNeir and they frequently visit
them in their New York home, Last
summer Mr.. and Mrs. King spent
several u,oekc r,itI, Nv anl Hr.z ~.
Neir at the latter's summer home
near Lake Placid, N. Y. Mr.. and
Mrs. McNeir returned to New York
Wednesday and they will leave some
time this week for Florida, where they
will spend the winter.
Mrs. B. Peyton Whalen of Alta
Vista and Mrs William Mobley of
Forty-fifth street, Chevy Chase. were
IN Sandy Spring yesterday, where
they were invited to preside at the
tea table at the annual donation dav
tea at the Montgomery County Hos
pltal. Both Mrs. Whalen and Mrs.
Mobley are members of the Montgom-
cry County Hospital Board. Donation
day at the county hospital is one of
the favorite charities of Bethesda
women and in addition to Mrs.
Wnalen and Mrs. Mobley about IS
women from the community drove
out to Sandy Spring for the tea.
Mrs. Ruth Morgan invited the MEM
oers OF the Bethesda Community
Chorus to be her guests Tuesday
at an evening party at her home
In Edgemoor. The chorus recently
presented an evenings program of
music IN Leland Junior High School
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