Evening star., 1947-11-19

stood nearby With the FTencn Mill
tary Attache, Gen. Maurice Mathe-
net, and lovely-looking Mrs. F. Bur-
rail- Hoffman, chairman OF the ba-
Zaar, Mrs. George Worthington and
Mrs. Charles S. Dewey remained
close by. They were, of course, wait
ing for their number one guest, Mrs.
Truman, whose time of arrival was
not generally known.
The First Lady entered the En-
bassy with Miss Reathel Odum at
10 minutes past and was 1mmed1-
ately presented with two beautiful
French dolls to add to her collection
by little blond Odile Valensi, daugh-
ter of the French Financial Counse-
lor. The dolls had been dressed by
Mrs. Raymond Cam.
Next, the wife of the Chief Exec
utive, accompanied by Nine. Bonnet,
began a tour of all the booths, while
every one present strained to get
a glimpse of the lady in the trim
black suit, fur scarf and light blue
felt hat trimmed with blue feathers.
At her first stop she bought
beautiful small brocaded purse, at
her next some lovely French Christ
mas cards, then some playing cards,
and finally she bought the privilege
of guessing the number OF beans m
a large jar and with it the posi-
bility of winning the furnished doll
house on display. Her estimate was
$4,000 beans, and her money with
all the rest collected at this booth
will buy milk to be sent to France.
Two of the booths that Mrs. Tru-
man must have particularly noted
for the vitally important work they
represented were the CARE table
and the Child Adoption table. Nine
RAYMOND Tartiere, chairman of the
Child Adoption Program in Wash
ington, has just returned from
France with facts and pictures OF
individual children in pathetic
need. and yesterday these were be-
ing chosen to receive two packages
a month of food and clothing. The
American who pays for the packages
for six months or year becomes
the godparent and knows the heart
warming thanks of the adopted
child from the letters they always
send back.
Mrs. Thomas Stone, wife OF the
Canadian Minister, was one of those
who sent a CARE package OF
food then and there to a friend
abroad. and helping out at that
table were Mrs. Samuel ScrlVener,
jr., Mrs. Tom Blake, Mrs. Ware
Adams and Mr.. Harry De Pauer.
Petite Lady Inverchapel, wife OF
the British Ambassador, looked al
most lost in the tremendous croWds
that filled the entire first floor OF
the Embassy. There must have been
several thousand in the continuous
stream of people that kept pouring
into the bazaar all day. Mrs. FREQ
Vlnson, wife of the Chief Justice,
poured coffee until Mrs. Stanley
Reed, wife of the Associate Justice,
took over for a while. Mrs. Dwight
Davis found some gorgeous scarves
to suit her: Mrs. Francis Whitten
some Christmas gifts. and Mrs. Fred
Merrill, whole armful OF packages.
Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt Whit
nev, wife OF the Assistant Secretary
of the Air Force, flew down from
New York Just for the bazaar ana
flew back again last evening. AND
others helping to make 1t a success
either by being good customers or
by working, or both, were MISS
Alice Dodge, Mrs Robert H. Dun
lap, Mrs. Raymond Cox, Mrs. Robert
Guggenheim, Mrs. Philip Strong,
Mrs. w. Chaplin Huntington, Mrs.
Emory Land, Mrs. Reber Ltttlehales,
Mrs. William MacCracken, Mrs.
John Magruder and Mrs. Pearsons