Evening Star Newspaper, April 18, 1929, Page 19

| ISOCIETY. (Continued From Eighteenth Page.) vey, past Ohio State secretary, are spending the week at the Hotel Pow- hatan while attending the D. A, R. Congress and will return to their homes in Xenia, Ohio, later in the month, Miss Virginia Fleming Dickins has as her guest in her aj t in the Dresden her cousin, Mrs. Bruce Bowe of Richmond, who is attending the | Congre Congress of the N. 8. D. A. R. Mrs. Frank Harper Elmore of Cyn- wyd, Pa., is visiting her mother, Mrs. Lawton-Morgan, and her brother, Mr. Douglass Oswald Morgan, at- Stonleigh Court, for a few days. Mrs, James R. Riggs, national Demo- cratic committeewoman from Indiana, is regent of the Nathan Hinkle Chapter, D. A. R, of Sullivan, Ind., and is at the Willard while attending the D. A.R. Congress. Mr. and Mrs. John Gregg have come to Washington, and are at home in the apartment in the Hay-Adam House which they have leased. Mr. and Mrs. Gregg were married early in the month in the State of Washington. Mrs, Harry Irwin of Chattanooga, Tenn., mother of Mrs. Jullus Young Talmadge, is at the Willard. She re- ceived with Mrs. Talmadge at the re- ception given by Mrs. Theodore Hoover and the California delegation at the Lafayette, Sunday afternoon in compli- ment to Mrs, Jesse H. Shreve of Cali- fornia, who is a candidate for reporter- general on Mrs. Talmadge's ticket. Mr. and Mrs. Jackson H. Ralston, former residents of Washingion but now making their home in Palo Alto, Calif., are spending two weeks in Wash- ington, where Mr. Ralston, who is one of its vice presidents, will attend the sessions of the American Society of Na- tional Law next week. They are stay- ing at the Cairo Hotel. Mr. Ralston is a lecturer at Stanford University, conducting a seminar on in- ternational tribunals. The Press of the university has just issued & work of which he is the author, entitled “Inter- national Arbitration from Athens to Locarno.” Congressional Club Tea Tomorrow Under New Plan. An innovation in Congressional Club entertainment has been inaugurated. ‘The States are invited to provide Friday afternoon entertainment during the spe- cial session. ‘The first program under this arrange- | ment will be sponsored by the State af ‘Washington tomorrow afternoon. They will present Hope Summers Witherell | of Evanston, Ill, daughter of Repre- sentative and Mrs. John W. Summers of Washington. She will read Edward Sheldon’s three-act play, “Romance.” Miss Summers is a former student and frequent visitor at the Capital. Since her graduation from Northwestefn Uni- versity School of Speech she has had wide experience in recital work in the East and stock on the West Coast and is now a staff member of Goodman’s Memorial Theater in Chicago. Hostesses for the tea will be the ladies from the State of Washington and others. Mrs. Ernest Thompson Seton of | Greenwich, Conn., has been the house guest of Mrs. Edward Hood Watson for a few days, in_her home at 1605 Ken- nedy place. Mrs. Seton has left for New York to keep several lecture en- gagements about her experiences in Al- glers, where she has been for_ three months, but she will return to Wash- ington Sunday, to be Mrs. Watson's house guest during part of the following week. Gov. Ritchie of Maryland and Mrs. Seton will be the two honor guests of the Baltimore branch of the League of American Pen Women at a banquet ‘Tuesday evening. 2 W. W. Winship of Winchester, Mass., are at the Grace Dodge Hotel for a visit in Washington. ‘With them are Miss Florence Winship, Miss Dorothy Winship and Mrs. P. A. Bearse, all of Winchester. Mrs. Alfred Benson, vice regent of Hendrick Hudson Chapter, D. A. R., of Hudson, N. Y., is attending the D. A. R. congress as a delegate and stopping at the Mayflower. Mrs. Benson is a cousin | of Dr. Ellen Spencer Mussey, former vice president general and State regent of the District. Mrs. Joseph L. Ludewlg, who has been | spending a week with her aunt, Mrs, Anna MacMillan, and her father-in-law, Mr. Joseph Ludewig of Chevy Chase, Md., left yesterday for New York for a brief visit with her mother, Mrs. Charles | A. Danam, before sailing Thursday for San Francisco. Mrs. Ludewig, formerly Miss Minerva Danam, who is a Wash- ington girl, was married a year ago to Lieut. Joseph L. Ludewig in New York City. They sailed to Panama on their wedding trip and have been living there for the past year. Mrs. Ludewig will go to the West Coast through the Panama Canal Zone to meet Lieut. Ludewig, has been transferred to the Pasilic fleet. She will spend a few days en route with friends in Panama City. Mrs. Alice Lucey of New York and entertained at several dinner parties in thelr hono; vABRSOoS Berry and his daugh- of Portland, at the Hay-Adams. for his daughter. cCarthy is making & short visit to her sister, Mrs, P, Harry McCarthy, in New Orleans. B Mrs, John M. Slayton, wife of the ing the D. A. R. Congress and is at the ‘Willard. Conn., who is here for the D. A. R. H. Gildersleeve of Hackensack, N. J. Mr. and Mrs. R. D. Benson of Pas- for a short stay. Additional reservations have been made for the benefit card party to be given tomorrow afternoon and evening at the Women's City Club by Mrs. Charles Sener, Mrs. L. 8. Robins, Miss Grace Osgood, Mrs. Elliott H. Haag, Miss Margaret Bayly, Mrs. C. A. White, Miss Myrtle Frebey, Mrs. Laura' A. Bradley, Mrs. A. M. Howser, Mrs. geour’ge Chase and Mrs. E. W. Van etre. Constitution Chapter Annual Lunch Tomorrow. Constitution Chapter of the District N. 8. D. A. R. will give its first annual luncheon in honor of the regent, Mrs. Robert H. McNeill, tomorrow- in the crystal room of the Willard Hotel, at 12:30 o'clock. The guests of honor will also include Mrs. Daniel C. Roper, Mrs. David D. Caldwell, State regent of the District, and Mrs. Harry Clay. Among those who have subscribed for the luncheon are Mrs. G. D. Ellsworth, Mrs. Charles L. Dasher, Mrs. Charles P, Kaiser, Mrs. E. Richard Gasch, Mrs. T. Hardv Seay. Mrs. Ella 8. Knight, Mrs. M. W. Junkin, Mrs. S. G. McElhannon, Mrs. Tomlinson, Mrs. Charles H. Gay- lord, Mrs. Mitchel, Mrs. H. B. Denham, Mrs. Alfred L. Talbot, Mrs. Charles H. B. Fisher, Mrs. Harold Brooke, Mrs. Rob Roy McKahan, Mrs. Charles C. Gallaway, Mrs. Harry Taylor, Mrs. S. H. Cunningham, Mrs. F. I. Swift, Mrs. G. L. L. Opdycke, Mrs. Samuel Moore, Mrs. John Darrow, Miss Frances Fisher and Miss Liona Kelley, delegates from Poughkeepsie, N. Y. Pen Women of the District will keep “open house” in the league clubrooms, at 1108 Sixteenth street, tomorrow aft- ernoon from 3 to 6 o'clock in honor of visiting Pen Women who are in the city for the D. A. R. Congress. Tha president, Mrs. E. Richard Gasch, will be assisted in receiving by Mrs. Elil A. Helmick, Mrs. William Wolff Smith, Mrs. Harriet Hawley Locher, Mrs. Aaron | Newman, Mrs. E. N. Dingley and Mrs. Theodore H. Tiller. Mr. Wallace Wright will be the guest of honor of the Art Promoters Club at the weekly dinner tomorrow . evening at 7 o'clock in the Playhouse Inn, at 1814 N street northwest. Other guests will be Mrs. Lillian Cox Athey, Mrs. Huntington-Kidd, Mr. and Mrs. L. H. Shipman, Mrs, Eunice Tyree Ryan, Miss | Eva Monroe, Miss Inez Ryan and Mr. | William Gray. Following the dinner | the usual round table conference will | be held at 8 o'clock in the oriental | | studio adjoining, when Mr. Wright will | | read from his new musical comedy, | “How Shocking.” No cards have been | issued. ‘The former headquarters staff of the | Potomac Division of the American Red | Cross will give an informal get-together dinner prior to the annual meeting of the American Red Cross Saturday eve- ning at 7 o'clock in the Hamilton Hotel. Former members living in or out of the city are expected to be present. Reservations have been made by former division heads, Mr. Thomas De Coursey Ruth of New York, man- ager; Mr. David H. Brown, assistant manager; Miss Anna S. Cummings, su- pervisor of field representatives; Miss Nellie Oxley of St. Gertrude’s Guild, New York, assistant director of nurs- | ing; Miss Ella Ball of Norfolk, chapter | | correspondent; Mr. Charles H. Hille- | geist, chairman of arrangements, and | | several others. Additional patronesses for the Entre | Nous Club card party, to be held in the Hotel Washington Saturday, are: Mrs. Edward Comstock Wilson, Mrs. Arthur - Portner Cafe 15th St. Bet. U and Table d’hote 75 C i Dinner 5 until 7:30 A variety of meats and vegetables' that are really home cooked. Chicken, Tuesdays and Thurs- days—Sea Food, Wednesdays and Fridays Desirable Apts. Reasonably Priced Portner Apts. Airplanes as baggage The world moves faster and faster! < Leading the cross-Atlantic parade of progress once again, the French Line institutes a new service « « - “girplanes, uncrated, carried as baggage.’ @ On shipboard, the air-minded ultra-modern will find his own high-powered gayety end- leasly multiplied by the smart young crowd ‘who never consider any other kind of cross- ing. < The ship's personnel... French to the last smile in the matter of service. © The food...why mention it, when everybodyknows that France begins the ml:menl yl‘:l“’ cross ':ll_l;e est lank in the world?” « The 'l'.ri:de Fm", *Paris”and “France” call first at Plymouth for London .. . then slip over to Le Havre ‘where the 3-hour boat-train for Paris waits. < The ultra-modern may fly him- self up if he chooses, for mechanics wait his pleasure at the dock. < The “De Grasse” and “Rochambeau” for a leisurely cabin voyage. o French line e Information from any authorised French Line Agent, or write direct to Chandler Bldg., 1429 Eye Street, Washington Berry's selection of | thur former Governor of Georgla, is attend- | g Miss E. S, Gildérsieeve of Gldersleeve, | Edd, Miss saic, N. J., are at the Hay-Adams House | ha: + Philips, jr.; Ji Charles Macon Wallingsford, Mrs. N. M. 'Beum Mrs. l‘l.u ey, Mrs, Benton ‘ardner and Mr. Hards ‘The national council of the Gamma, Sotority wil entertaln st din- ner. rdny evening. in race Hotel in honor of Miss Beity Jo Miss Frances Miss be held in the garden house, a reception | - will be held, when will meet the meml Beat Chapters, The card r-ny to be given in the ‘Willard Hotel Monday afternoon, April 29, by the rector’s of St. Thomas Church is being sponsored by the chalr- clety, including Mrs.. A. M. mlcz. Mrs. G. Slater Davidson, Mrs. Pcul Fenlon, Mrs. Ralph Hills, Mrs. James Reilly, Mrs. Wi C. Pren tiss, Mrs, Florence Hyde, Mrs. Pike and Mrs. Willlam Wheatley. These are working under the able leldulhlwr Mrs, R. H. A, Carter, the vice president, assisted by Mrs. Watson Freeman Clark and Mrs, Walter Findley. Mrs. Charles H. Tompkins, Mrs. Mina Van Winkle and Mrs, Harvey Wiley have taken boxes for the benefit per- formance of “Coquette,’ ‘'which the American Association of University ‘Women is sponsoring, for Monday eve- ning in Poli's Theater, in connection with its million-dollar fellowship fund | campaign. Mrs, Wiley will have as guests in her box several prominent Columbian women. Baroness Korf will also be present at the performance, as will Mrs. Le- ander McCormick Goodhart, Mrs. Merle Thorpe, Mrs. Avery Coonley, who will have with her a large mfly; Mrs. Da Mrs. as W. Jt 5 vis, tos, r.; Judge Mary O'Toole, Mra the . honor guests Alpha and Avail yourself of the reduced prices now effective on dll Summer FURS REMODELING and REPAIRING Storage rates are also lower at this time Phi Delta | © mn. Johlfilmnétmld ber of others eres association’s campaign fund for research fellowships 'n. v Monday, when he will speak Ameiican Press in Politics. Mrs. Otto L. Veerhoff will have as her uests at the luncheon meeting of the trict of Columbia Federation of Women's Clubs, Monday, Mr. and Mrs. Marshall Doolittle from Painesville, Ohio; Mrs, Frank Lyon, Mrs. C. W. Fitch, and Miss Bennett from Langley, Va., and Mrs. A. C. Gibbs and Miss May ‘Walters from McLean, Va. ” ‘The annual theater benefit for the at 3315 Wis- jven Church Home, at 3 Episcopal Church Hom o consin avenue northwest, the of C intown home, In this group the range of fabrics includes French Silk Faille, Flat Crepe, Creola, Kashmirola, and Moire. Galyak, Monkey, American Broadtail, Natural Squirrel, Mole and Fox are very effec- tively used in trimming. All black and navy. We also in- clude coats of Llama cloth and fur trimmed, imported tweeds. Two Groups Exemplifying the Versatility NORMAN FRENCH RESIDENCE - OPEN ma Road 2446 Kalora R 1t 1s located in Washington's itial section, “Dlaced ‘amont STONE & FAIRFAX Connecticut_Avenue at K Street Main 2424 Satin, Velvet Fitch, Ermine, new shades as well as The OAT Equally attractive is this group sn- cluding Velvets, Moire, Satin, the nezw Covert cloths in Oxford and Middy Blue and other light weight fabrics. Fur hkas been used with discriminating taste—some have fur cuffs and others fur collars. Cape backs and very flattering throw scarfs enhance the attractiveness of these " TWELVE-TEN SERVING WASHINGTON FOR OVER THREE-QUARTERS OF A CENTURY Bulin & Martin Company 1214 G. Street FANCY CHINA 159% Lower Footed compotes, $3 to $6 each Plates ... $15 to $48 dozen Oval and round bowls, $2 to $10 each Delightfully quaint and old-fashioned are these imported fancy china. They open - work borders and are decora- ted with old Dres- den flow- ers. Reduced by 25% Heavy colanders gieus of ave Angel cake pans—removable bottoms Water pitchers—4 bridge. Tea kettles—5 gt. qt. paneled with ice Fry pans—11-inch with wood handle Percolators—2-4-6-8-10 cup. i Deep fryers with basket Milk kettles with covers—1 qt. Small garden tools —at Y price Trowels Hand Sickles Shears Usual One-Dollar Values, 75¢ each Ees R Gsepipees new models. smart sports coats. éelf Included are several ACHE kit 40 TWELVE-TWELVE P STREET S > ~ WE ARE GOING OUT OF THE FURNITURE BUSINESS SACRIFICING! OUR $100,000 STOCK OF FURNITURE We are going to devote our entire time tc the par- ticular lines of business which we established in 1891 —namely, Interior and Exterior Painting, Paper- hanging, Upholstering, Draperies, Laces, Refinishing Furniture and Decorating. TO CLOSE OUT OUR ENTIRE STOCK OF FURNITURE, RUGS, LAMPS AND LAMP SHADES, WE HAVE MADE SWEEPING RE- DUCTIONS. Take advantage cf this opportunity to buy all the things needed for your home at a genuine saving. 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