Evening star., 1939-01-22
Residential
News Notes
Of Week
EX.AmbassadOr
And Mrs. Bliss
Hosts Today

to Argentina and Mrs Robert Woods
Bliss will be hosts at luncheon to-
day, entertaining in their historic
home, Dumbarton Oaks, in George
town.
Mrs. John Allen Dougherty, who
has been i'll in New York for over
three weeks, has returned to her
Washington home and is recovering
from the effects of her illness.
Mrs Joseph D. Cecil will entertain
at luncheon Wednesday.
Mrs. John F. Wilkins has issued
invitations for luncheon Friday.
Mrs. Guy Alexander OF Window
place left by train Friday nigh, for
Miami, where she will take plane
for Balboa, Canal Zone. While in
Panama, Mrs. Alexander will be the
guest of her brother, Mr.. w. B.
Parker. En- route she will visit her
mother in Savannah, Ga; friends
in Miami and will spend several days
in Havana.
Mr.. and Mrs. Gerald Clark Brant,
jr., of Alexandria sail Friday from
New York on the steamship Pilsud-
ski for a cruise in the West Indies
They will stop in Nassau, Jamaica
and Cuba and expect to be away for
two weeks.
Mr. and Mrs. William Huff Wagner
of Chevy Chase, Md, will be hosts
today at the first of two Sunday
morning breakfasts that they will
give in January. Both breakfasts
to which so guests have been in
vited, will be held at the Columbia
Country Club.
The second party in the series will
be given Sunday, January %.
. Mr.. and Mrs. Norman Kal and
their daughter are entertaining
Miss Betty Grabosky of Philadel-
phia at their home over the week
end. Mrs. Kal will leave February
for Miami, where she will spend
month. She will be accompanied
to Miami by Mrs Mary Narcisenfeld
Mrs. Sadie Orr Dunbar, president
of the General Federation of
Women's Clubs, will be guest at
a tea which Mrs. Frank M. Hoadley
will give January 81 at her home
In Chevy Chase, Md.
Sharing honors with Mrs. Dunbar
will be Mrs. John L. Whitehurst of
Baltimore, first vice president of the
General Federation of Womens
Clubs.
The tea to which nearly 100
women have been invited will be
held from 4 to 6.
The guest list includes many
prominent club women in Washing
ton and Baltimore as we'll as a large
group of women from Montgomery
County.
Mr.. and Mrs. Jeter P. Battley
announced today that no engage
ment exists between their daugh-
ter Margaret Elizabeth to Mr.. John
Bynun Lance of Ashville, N. c., as
announced.
Mr. and Mrs. Earle F. Hiscock of
Ednor, Md, announce the birth of
a daughter Thursday, January 10,
in Columbia Hospital.
Mrs Hiscock is the former Miss
Ernestine Jaffe, daughter of DR..
and Mrs. S. S. Jaffe Of Washington
and Somerset, Md.
Miss Edith Cooke of Brooklyn,
N. Y, and Pemaquid, Me, is the
guest of Mr.. and Mrs. William
Cravens at their Livingston Heights
home.
Thursday Mr. Cravens mother,
Mrs Elizabeth Cravens, entertained
at the Dodge Hotel for bridge and
luncheon in compliment to her
daughter and Miss Cooke.
Signora Olivia Rosetti Agresti of
Rome is again in this country on a
lecture tour, her subjects being both
international and non political
Tuesday evening she will speak at
the Brookings Institution on Italy
of Today" While in Washington
she will be the guest of Miss Janet
Richards, both of whom will be
dinner guests of the Brookings In
stitution preceding the lecture.
Miss Rosalie Weinberg is now a
member of the staff of the Highway
Commission holding a conference in
Santiago, Cuba, where she will re-
main until next week. She was
named Translator for the PAN
American Conference which re-
Gently finished its meetings in Lima,
Peru. Her mother, Mrs. J. H. Wein-
berg, recently joined her daughter
and together they plan to return
home via the east coast countries of
South America.
Mrs. Jesse Amidon entertained at
the Blue Willow Inn at Woodsidel 4
Md, Thursday afternoon. Among
those present were Mrs. Lawrence
Callahan, Mrs. Clarence Robbins and
Mrs. Eva M. Lineburg.
- After the luncheon the guests
went to the home of Mrs. Lineburg,
where a surprise party had been
prepared in observance of the BIRTH
day anniversaries of Mrs. Callahan
and Mrs. Amidon.
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