Evening Star Newspaper, January 11, 1929, Page 4

P APPLAUSE RINGS - INWHITE HOUSE Guests at Brilliant Reception |, Set Precedent by Giving H Stirring Ovation. * Political lines were effaced at the veception which the President and Mrs. Coolidge held at the White House Jast night in honor of Congress. Both parties were more largely represented than at any official reception in the mansion in years past. So appreciative were the guests of the hospitality extended that as the President and Mrs. Coolidge left the blue room to ascend the state stairway 1o the private part of the mansion, they were greeted with applause, some- thing never before known to' happen at a state Teception in the White House. In accord with this unusual ovation was the exceedingly cordial feeling pervading the company of more than 2,000 guests, every one there seemingly knowing and being on friendly terms with every one else. There Was no waiting line to be spoken to first. Beginning at the east wing of the yesidence, where the mass of guests entered; continuing through the long waliing line in the lower corridor, up the stairway into the state dining room, where the guests formed in 2 d(\u\vJ]r line—all along the way was the live- llest conversation and laughter. Only as guests entered the blue roou, where the President and Mrs. Coolidge ¥ ceived, was there a Jull in the conversa- wg\.’en in the red parlor, a resting place for those who wished to escape the over- crowded blue room, there Was an inter- esting group, with the Secretary of State and Mrs, Kellogg, Vice President-elect Senator Charles Curtis and Mrs. Nicho- Jas Longworth hoiding forth. Senator Curtis and his sister, Mrs: Edward Everett Gann, were a few paces back of the Speaker and Mrs. Longworth in greeting the President and Mrs. Coolidge and they paused a moment for Mvely conversation, as did many of the ifirst dignitaries received. In point of comfort and splendid ‘management of & vast company, the reception has never been exceeded. Many Recelved for First Time. N Mt of the guests viewed for the nnhmt’l,mz the formal opening of a State reception, new members of both branches of Congress attending and having with them guests. All of the formalities carried out at each of the other receptions lent dignity to the opening. The military and naval aides marched to the second floor of the mansion and later, at the sound of the trumpet, descended the steps in advance of the President and Mrs. Coolidge. Following several paces behind the Vice President and Mrs, Dawes were members of the cabinet, walking two ‘abreast, according to preccdence. Due to the absence of & hostess in the household of the Secretary of the Treas- ury, and the Postmaster General being in’ Florida, Secretary Mellon acted as escort for Mrs. New. Then came the Secretary of War, Dwight F. Davis, and tary of the Interior, Roy O. Mrs. Davis was unable to at- illness nmln Lgn. West never come to Washington since e Petbands appointment. The At-| the bodice encrusted with the skirt made with long flares at th es. Her slippers of vel- vet matched (i gown. -Speaker and @s. Longworth Welcomed, Mrs. Longworth, who, with the Speaker of the House, was the first to be received by President and S, Coolidge, wore one of the most striking costumes at the function. Fashioned of rich flowered satin taffeta, an orchid pink background with large blue and deep rose flower designs, the bodice, close fitting with an oval neckline, filled in at the front with rare lace. The skirt was made in tiers, cut circular at the sides and extended several inches longer than the hemline back and front. She carried a red shawl and large bro- caded bag and wore the diamond neck- lace and pendant presented to her by Cong; when she was married. Conspicuous in the company were chiffon vel brilliants a; house, Representative Rogers of Lowell, Mass.: Representative Katherine Langley of Pikeville, Ky., and Representative Mary T. Norton of Jer- sey City, N. J. Representative Florence {P. Kahn of San Francisco, ghe other woman member of the House, did not attend because of illness. Mrs. Rogers was In a striking gown of black velvet, made with a full skirt cut in points, lined with white, and falling quite long at the back and shorter in the front Mrs. Langley was in a black jet robe made severely plain with a V neck- line and a panel effect falling from the neckline at the back, She wore crystal ornaments. Mrs. Norton was in a black satin gown fashioned along graceful lines. Mrs. Harlan Fiske Stone wore a gown of mauve chiffon velvet fashioned with | a short train at the side. Senator and Mrs. Charles S. Deneen has with them their daughter, Miss Bina ¢y Deneen, who made her debut two asons ago. Miss Deneen wore a gown | of oyster white brocade made with a | fitted bodice and & full skirt, ankle length, with a large sash of wine red at the left of the skirt. Mrs. Deneen was in black satin embroidered in varied beaded colors. Mrs. George H. Moses, wife of Senator Moses, wore a gown of light green moire ashioned with an uneven hemline and trimmed with a cluster of pale green roses at the left shoulder. Mrs. James E. Watson, wife of Sena- tor Watson, wore a2 gown o. silver metal cloth festooned with rhinestones, white sequins and jet. Vice President’s Nieces Attractive. The Vice President and Mrs. Dawes had with them in the blue room the former’s four young nieces, Miss Mary Dawes, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Dawes: Miss Margaret Dawes and Miss Helen Dawes, daughters of Mr. and Mrs. Rufus C. Dawes, and Miss Betsy Beach, daughter of Mr. and Mrs, Arthur Beach, the latter a sister of the Vice President. Mrs, Henry F. Ashurst, wife of Sen- ator Ashurst, was in a lovely gown of strawberry chiffon velvet, made on straight lines with a large bow of the material lines with cloth of silver caught at _the back. Mrs, Hiram Bingham, wife of Senator Bingham, was in a blue velvet gown draped to one side and held by a clus- ter of rhinestones. Mrs, Charles W. Waterman, wife of Senator Waterman, wore a beaded flesh- color chiffon gown made with an un- even hemline. Mrs. Tasker Oddie, wife of Senator Oddie, in white chiffon velvet, made with a fitted bodice and a skirt de- signed in tiers, wore a garland of gardenias at the left shoulder and her hair was fixed low on her neck. Mrs. Wesley Jones, wife of Senator Jones, wore a gown of black velvet, trimmed in rhinestones. Mrs. Gann had a gown of pale gold heavy satin, made in a V neckline at le rney General and Mrs. Sargent then !.t;llovyed. In the absence of Mrs. Jar- dine, who is 1ll, the Secretary of Agri- culture with Mrs. Everett Sanders, wife of the secretary of the President. Then came the Secretary of the Navy and Mrs. Wilbur, the Sec- yetary of Comumerce and Mrs. William Fairfield Whiting and the Secretary of Labor and Mrs. James J. Davis. Marineés stood at attention on either side of the blue room door, each hold- ing a huge flag, the Presidents flag and the Stars and Stripes. There they stood, scarcely moving or giving & mo- tion to the heavy silken flags, from the ing to the very end of the recep- gfi when the President and Coolidge returned to the upper floor. There was an unusually attractive decoration of flowers in the entire en- tertainment suite. The long red cor- ridor, which with the east room forms the congregating places for guests, showed tall palms that reached almost to the ceiling and the graceful candela- bra of bronze, a style of lighting the hall revived with the restoration of the Mansion during the Loosevelt adminis- tration. Hundreds of carnations and Troses were used in the various drawing rooms and in the State dining room. There was scarcely a congressional guest without a party, many of them having visitors from their own cities with them. Mr. and Mrs. Sanders, who entertained a house party at the May- flower for the dinner they gave Tues- day evening for the Vice President and Mrs. Dawes, were first entertained at dinner, last night at the Mayflower. Later they took their guests to the ‘White House. House. There was a Springlike note in the brilliant scene. Heavy velvet and bro- cade in the darker shades scemed to give ‘way to soft chiffons and silks combined with fine laces, many of the most ef- fective gowns at the party last night blending gracefully with the hues of the fragrant blossoms used so artistically throughout the drawing rooms. Black, ever popular with the ladies of the cabinet, was entirely forsaken by them last evening, for there was no one in the long line that accompanied the hosts down the state stairway who had not selected a gown of a light hue. Notice- able was the absence of long white kid gloves last evening, and save for the ladies of the cabinet and a few of the guests in the blue room, there were but few gloves in evidence. Handsome Gown of First Lady. Mrs. Coolidge wore a lovely gown of ivory white satin brocaded in large gold roses, with a deep decolletage in the back, where a cape of fine gold lace fell gracefully to the low waistline. A double court train of the satin lined with lace hung from the shoulders. Draperies of the lace at the sides from the hips gave the effect of a half-opened fan when she walked. She wore a gold neckiace and earrings and her slippers corresponded with her gown. Mrs. Dawes was in a gown of irides- cent sequins with green the predom- inating color. The gown was fashioned in blouse effect, and a narrow train of green velvet fell from the shoulders, Mrs. Kellogg wore a striking gown of electric blue chiffon, made with a square neckline, and the skirt of soft folds of the material cut in petal fashion. She wore a collar of seed pearls and car- ried a large ostrich feather fan which matched her gown. Mrs. New wore a handsome gown of heavy gold metal cloth with & flowes design worked oul in green and bla It was fashioned with a flesh-cola decolletage showing above the metal cloth, cut in decp syuares back and front. The surplics bodive was slightly bloused and low waists, and a long train of the metal cloth fell gracefully at the left side. Wich this she wore an effective string of green beads and earrings, bringing out the green in the metal cloth. She carried a large gold bag to correspond with her striking wn. Mrs. Sargent had on a gown of pale old brocade made with panels of gold ce at the sides, which fell several inches below the hemline, Mrs. Wilbur was in a becoming gown of flesh chiffon beaded In several shades of rose, and & fringe of beads at the scalloped hemline. Mrs. Whiting had on a gown of wder blue chiffon, the bodice em- roidered in crystals and the skirt fash- foned with an uneven heml: Mrs. Davis was in a_gown of gold lace over cloth of gold. The bodice was close-fitting and the full sl broidered in large rose desisns in many hues. . Sanders wore a gown' of rose > the front and back and the train geing into a train at the left side. Mrs. Harry King Curtis, daughter- in-law of the Vice President-elect, were a gown of black velvet, fashioned with a deep bertha of rare lace. Representative and Mrs. Henry Allen Cooper had with them Miss Polly Cal- lencar, who was in a dainty white satin frock combined with tulle, Mrs. Cooper wore a gown of black velvet. Miss Mary Randolph had on a gown of chiffon encrusted with green sequins and crystals, made with a blouse effect and a side train of green velvet. Lady Lister Kaye, who recently came from England, had a gown of silver and rose brocade and a dlamond tiarra. Mrs. Alfred J. Brosseau, president general of the D. A. R., wore a gown of deep rose chiffon made along softly draped lines. Mrs. Edward T. Clark had on a gown of gold sequins on white net. Meking a dainty rosebud center for members of the younger set attending were several debutantes of the season, headed by Miss Marian Jardine, debu- tante daughter of the Secretary of Ag- riculture and Mrs. Jardine, The cabinet bud wore a gown of white flowered taf- feta, simplicity being its keynote. A large bow of the material was caught at the left side and fell into wide streamers to the floor. Miss Peggy Tyner, who was with her mother, Mrs. Elonzo Tyner, had on a gown of powder blue tulle, the bodice close fitting and the skirt of many folds of the tulle. Miss Frances Wall accompanied her parents, Dr. and Mrs. Joseph 8. Wall, wearing a gown of black net, the fitted bodice embroidered in crystals, and Miss Susan_Guignard, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. C. G. Guignard, had on the gown she wore at the tea dance given by her uncle, Rev. Meade Bolton MacBryde, to present her to his friends. The frock L«ir uxt white satin and tulle bouffant effect. Salvation Army Lassie Received. Attracting attention was Col. Elystra Pickering, of the Baltimore b:nch of | the Salvation Army, who wore her uni- form of red and blue with the tradi- tional bonnet. When she passed down the line, Mrs, Coolidge chatted with her | fo_several minutes. Three vears ago | = Pay Your Bills Start the .7\<e'-w Year with a (lean Slate THE MORRIS | Easy to Pay | Monthly - $120 1 $180 | $240 $300 $360 $540 $1,200 $100.00 56,000 $500.00 | | It is not necessary to have had an Ac- count at this Bank to Borrow. THE EVEN Col. Pickering brought to the White House to call on the First Lady a young deaf mute girl whom Mrs. Coolidge taught at a Northampton school. Each year since then an invitation had been sent to Col. Pickering for a State recep- tion. Mrs. Charles P. Summerall, who accompanied her husband, the chief of staff of the United States Army, was in a black velvet gown trimmed in rhine- stones, The large company included prace tically every member of the House and their wives, a large number from the Senate, several hundred officers of the Army, Navy and Marine Corps and not a few from residentfal circles. Among those at the reception were: Senator_and Mrs. Charles L, McNary, Senator” and Mrs. Thomas Schall, Senator and_ Mrs. . Peter Norbeck, Senator and Mrs. Charles W. Water- man, Senator and Mrs. Hiram Bing- the three women members of the 10Wer | ham, Senator and Mrs. Walter E. Edge, Edith Nourse | Senator and Mrs. John B. Kendrick, Senator and Mrs. Ellison D. Smith, Representative and Mrs. Sol Bloom, iss Vera Bloom, Representative and Mrs, Maurice Thatcher, Representative and Mrs. Samuel C. Major, Miss Sarah Major, Representative and M L. J. Dickinson of Iowa, Representative and Mrs. Albert Johnson, Representative and Mrs. Otis Wingo, Miss Blanche Wingo, Mrs. Timothy J. Campbell, wife of late Representative Campbell, who was in a gown of green sequins; Miss Margarette Campbell, in green tulle and sequins; Miss Mary Teyhurst of Huntingdon, Pa.; Representative and Mrs. Clyde Kelly, Miss Anne Randolph, Mrs. Truman G. Palmer, Representative and Mrs. Adam Wyant, Representative and Mrs, Fred Purnell, Miss Elizabeth Edwards, daughter of Senator Edward I. Edwards; Representative and Mrs. Briggs, Representative and Mrs, S. Wallace Dempsey, ‘Mrs. Robert Nelson Stanfield, Mr. and Mrs, Howard Chandler Christy, S. Parker Gilbert, s. William Orr and her daughter: B. W. Draper and Mrs. Morr s while in Washington of Mr. and F. A. Louden; Mr. and Mrs. Daniel J. O'Brien, Representative and Mrs. David A. Kincheloe, Mrs. Watson Freeman Clark, Miss Charlotte Free- man Clark, Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Burleigh Milton, Seymour McConnell and Mrs. Daisy Seymour Fronheiser, Mr. and Mrs. William 8. Bennet and Miss Florence Bennet of Evanston, Il1.; Mrs. Brewster Marwick, Dr. and Mrs. Macpherson Crichton, Miss Hester Ann ]l;:tevre, Ml‘M‘undFers, Clifford K. erryman, ss Florence Berryman and Miss Callie Doyle. ¥ PEASANTS FILE PROTEST. 3,000 Japanese Present Resolution Against Riparian Project. TOKIO, January 11 (#P).--With a large force of police and gendarmes on hand to prevent disorders, 3,000 peas- ants today swrounded the prefectural office in Gifu to protest against a gov- ernment riparian project which they said would flood their rice flelds. A delegation saw the governor and pre- sented a resolution to him. The gover- nor replied that he would do his best to satisfy their demands. There was no disorder. - More than a hundred arrests have been made in connection with a dis- turbance two days ago which resulted in a serious clash between the farmers and troops. STUDENTS ESCAPE HURTS. Penn Fine Arts “Egg and Smock” Fight Won by Sophomores. PHILADELPHIA, January 11 (). — An examination of the fsmcimnu to- day showed that none of the University of Pennsylvania freshmen or sopho- mores in the School of Fine Arts who engaged in the annual “egg and smock fight” received any serious injuries. The battle was fought yesterday and many of the nearly 1,000 students re- tired with torn clothing. The outcome of the battle decided that the sophs are permitted to wear smocks in classrooms during the y ney of Saginaw, Mich, who are | GENLS S FOUND N EALES SO0 Boy With Drawing Complex Simply Wouldn’t Do Anything Else. Note—This is the sizth of a series of articles describing the remarkable ez- veriments in the redemption of boys who have proved unmanageable in ordi- nary schools which is being carried on by the District Public School system. BY THOMAS R. HENRY. Child geniuses sometimes are found among the problem children of the Dis- trict public schools, | Two of the blackboards in the room | {which houses the Gales Special School | are covered with pictures in Ge) pastel chalks. The drawi |such high quality as to attract imme- diately the attention of the visitor. There 1is a Thanksgiving barnyard scene, for instance, that would not '.e out of place in anybody’s drawing room. The boy who does this work handles the chalk as fast as his fingers can move. He has a marvelous sense of form and color. ~ He is the boy who | made a pen-and-ink sketch of Lind- | bergh which is mistaken for a photo- graph and which now hangs in a Los Angeles art gallery. It is a very un- usual portrait of the “Lone Eagle.” ‘The boy is an intense admirer of the transatiantic flyer, He has put some- | thing in the face which is hard W analyze. e seems to have had a vision of Lind- bergh as archangel cleaving the fog. He studied a painting of Joan of Are i one of the local galleries before draw. ing Lindbergh. He had put into the | fiyer’s face what the other artist had put in the of the Maid of Orleans. Yet it looks so much like Lindbergh that it has been mistaken for a pho- tograph. ar in Near to Genius. This work, H. D. Fife thinks, ap- proaches close to genius. Yet the boy was transferred to the Gales Special School with a low L Q. as a hopeless case. ‘The trouble was that he would do nothing but draw. He carved pic- tures all over his desk with a penknife. He drew pictures—some of them not very complimentary cartoons of his teachers-—all over his school books. Given an arithmetic problem, he would pass in a sheet of paper with a picture. Apparently he couldn’t learn. He started ¢ g up his desk the first day he was at the Gales School. ‘The next day Fife took him to a vacant room downstairs, provided him with a plentiful supply of every material for drawing which he could obtain from the supply officer, and told him to draw to his heart’s content. He shut the door and left him alone. Boy Completely Happy. Apparently for the first time in his life the boy was completely happy. Day after day he returned to the room and did nothing but draw. That bare room was a seventh heaven. Eventually he got some of the worst of the drawing complex out of his system, but he has made marvelous progress in art. Fife in this ease has been able to graft upon the drawing| interest other interests. Now the boy can't draw until he has completed his arithmetic lesson, and if his desk is scratched up or his books marked he is denied the use of his beloved drawing materials for a time. ‘This was one of the simplest of Fife's cases, 'The procedure was obvious. Very few boys come to him with such a marked special interest which can be used as a basis for conditioning. He realizes the value of producing all- around boys, but some simply are geniuses in a special line. “What did you do to be sent here?” Fife asked a boy a few weeks ago. D. FIFE. . __ Star Staff Photo. _ He was the son of a wealthy Wash- ingtonian and apparently was incor- rigible. “Nothing,” said the lad sullenly. Later he admitted that he had been accused of stealing. In fact, he had been caught with the goods. “That's not so bad” Fife sald. “Really, that's nothing at all. When I was in school I—" He related a partly imaginary inci- | dent that completely overshadowed the The child’s vanity was touched. He was a thief because of some hidden in- feriority complex. “I guess you never robbed a house, hen. 1 guess you never got caught in room when you was robbing a house and had to hide behind a screen while they were looking all over for you.” Fife ascured him that even that was nothing to boast about—nothing worth mentioning. “Well, I guess, then, you never took a gun and held up a gasoline station. You ain't done no stealing unless you've done that.” Recited His Crimes. Thus challenged, the boy recited a long list of crimes, petty and other- wise, some of which turned out to be real and some imaginary. But he was an_accomplished little thief. This is a recent case and it still is & problem. “Dad.” the boy says, “gives me every- thing but thrills. I've got to have thrills.” 2 This boy is not exactly a klepto- maniac. - He does not have an irre- sistisle impulse to steal, but he steals because that is the easiest way to get a thrill, to identify himself with his idols. He steals in order to run the risk of being caught. The line of procedure in this case is not yet clear, It will require lots of patience. Boy Hated Rich. Fife makes the most of a boy's idols. Most of these idols were bad boys themselves. Many of the problem children are hand-minded. Henry Ford is a popu- lar idol. A great appeal can be made through the career of Henry Ford. “Shut up about that guy.” a little boy said the other day. “He was a damn rich kid.” If there ever was a child bolshevik, Fife found, it was this boy. He hated the “rich. He was quite skeptical when it was explained to him that his own family were in rather better cir- cumstances than were Mr. Ford’s father and mother. Now, however, he belleves the story and he is rather confused. Why hate the rich, he thinks, when he himself can become rich? He would like to_be rich, and ride in fine automobiles. Yet he has been taught from cradle days to hate them. 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He is greatly puzeled over Henry Ford. Basic Appeal Needed. Most boys steal and lie. Almost anybody who ever has been a boy, facing the facts frankly, will admit this. The shocked expression which adults put on when they learn that so-and-so is a thief and a liar is rather hypocritical, after all. There is nothing particularly shock- ing about these almost universal v.rnns! of boyhood. Any successful attempt to | N EITHER reform boys must recognize this and concentrate upon keeping these steal- ing and lying tendencies from path- ological extremes. A very slight incident may change a normal boy into an incipient Hick- man, Loeb or Leopold. The time to deal with such cases, Fife is convinced. is in the schoolroom and not in the courtroom. The place to abolish the electric chair is on the base ball diamond. In late adolescence the personality split often has become so set that there | is nothing to do about it. Dr. Jekyll is dead and Mr. Hyde has conquered, for all practical purposes. 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