Evening Star Newspaper, September 27, 1931, Page 37

Mrs. Howard Davidson ! Entertains Guests at Mansion on Patuxent 20 A ‘Deas Hogion 1o Spending September at/ '| Can a Girl Porto Bello. \ ABONARDTOWN, Md, September 26.—Mrs. Davidson, wife of Maj. How- ard Davidioh, commandant of Bolling Fleld, in Washington, who is spending some time i her mansion Cremona on the Patuxeht, entertained Mr. and Mrs. Robert Prettice and their son Robert Prentice, ¢, of Buffalo, N. Y, this week. Mrs. A. Dana Hodgdon of Washing- ton and Sk. Marys County, wife of the head of the Visa Offices in the Depart= ment of State, is spending the month of September &t Porto Bello on £t. Marys River, ovel g St. Marys City. Mrs. J. Spence Howard and J. Spence Howard, jf, and Broom= Howard, who have been &t St. Marys Manor, in St. Marys cxa,-!or the Summer months, returned week to their home in Baltimore. Mrs. 0? Harrison of Baltimore, 8t. Marys, a few . P. Bell at Charlotte of_much interest is Etoyle Burroughs, Mr. and Mrs. Keating ths Oraville, to Mr. Kenneth H , som of Mr. Edward Howard of Hughesville, Md. The wediing will take place the ently part of the Winter. Miss Burroughs §s a graduate of the Mechan- icsville High School. Mr. Robert Payne, of Newark, N. J., 4s spending his vacation with his o agion sseel, Leonardronn: orth n street, Leonardtown. Mr. and Mrs. William A. Reid of Phil- adelphia, Who have been visiting Mr. and . @rif Alexander, at Green Holly, on the Pltuxe&tr mvfir. Nll;:t mon- for théir home. Mr. an , Alex- e ‘will ¥emain st ulneg;‘ place instead ©f returnibig to Philadelphis. Miss Reddington of Washing- ton visited iIn the North End Sunday evening. Mr, Joséph F. Crew of Maddox has returned % his hum:m in St. Marys, through ‘western % m& States. He motored to ‘Texss, with his daughter, Mrs. . B. Dunkle, and her two children, him in St. Marys earlier nd, daughter of Mr. and , Bond, of Hector on the hms received her diploma Jol Hopkins School for S She will spend several weeks with parents. and one of the first A ‘wedding of ml season was that of Miss Renia Hammett, daughter of Mr. and Hammett, of St. Marys City, and Mr. Tennison Ridgell, son of Mr, and Thomas Ridgell, of Scot- land, Md. ceremony was performed the St. Michael's Roman Catholic CI Ridge, Md., Wednesday morning at § o'clock, followed by a nup- tial mass, brated by the rector, Rev. , 8. J., who performed ., The bride was given in by father, with whom she the mt:umh. and the bridesmaid Betty she wants Joan to own No womén was ever No life was ever made ners are valuablé fi should they sul HERE is & pretty g our etty Brown. has been and she has & named Joan. Betty Brown, before she was was Beity Green, as a wild Mareh day. thing in thé world her father, and th anxlety. R daug] Wi ‘Ten lie Lumpkins of Ridge, | Loon Saiae follot the ceremony | County. Mrs. Pike Gough of Baltimore spent this week as the guest of bar brother, State Senator J. Allen Mrs. Coad, in their home, :n the Washington-] | her, - | the distraction ‘Washing- of St. Marys, is the guest Mrs. Prank Hayden, on Cove, for this week. ‘Walter I. Dawkins, of Balti- who _ have Mr. Long's . P.'E. Long, of eir home in s e B e e ot 3 tty O'Con- mor, mu“gem summering in their home across the Bay from Leonard- town, returned to Washington on Sun- day, where Miss O'Connor entered Mr. and Mrs. Earl Bennett, of Bal- timore, are visiting Mr. Bennett's par- | ents, Mr. and Mrs. Willlhm Bennett, e afi‘u%mh} cit 5 Margus of Jersey City lea her rents, Mr. and Mrs. Stephen G. g, in Leonardtown, dur- ing the week. Miss Selina Jones is the guest of Mr. | and Mrs, 8. Paul Hayden for this week in their home, Mount Osborne, on the | ‘Washington Boulevard. Mr. and Mrs. Marion Gough and their children, of Baltimore, were the guests during the week of Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Mattingly, in fl’;!( North l%‘lnd‘ Mr. George Morgan ight, jr., Leonardtown, was among the dinner of Mr. and Mrs. Grif Alexander, guests of Green Holly on the Patuxent, last| evening. Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Taylor, of Wash- ington, were the guests of Mr. and Mrs. | J. Julius Johnson, in their home in Brushwood this week. Mrs. Joseph Burch and her small son are the guests of Mrs. Burch's parents, Dr. and Mrs. F. F. Greenwell, in Leon- ardtown. Mrs. Charlotte B. Fowler, of Mechan- icsville, and former treasurer of St. Mary's, has moved to Washington for the Winter and is expected to return in the Spl‘lns ‘The Late Owls Bridge Club was en- evard, and those getting high scores were Mrs. Joseph I. Gough . H. 8. Van Devanter. Miss Martha Mattingly, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph M. Mattingly, of Neck, has entered George ersity. Fraternity fic;:g;;:_Meet At Arts Club October 5 The Washington City Alumnae Chap- the Chi Omega Fraternity will Cresks | pertics sicepiog, and to nightelubs and and Toad il bogs. *Bie would e come bofed and the instant boys were fiot in evidence; ail time at home Wwas it in , ba , cold-ereaming for fresh eéxpeditions with boys. . _To _cot te the petting, drinking, sm , dressing, powdering, speeding that Betty experienced be- tween 17 and 22 quite sickens one. All | sorts of boys kissed her and hugged saw her tired and dishevel d“.l;unk "i:d‘c, tte-scented, half-nude even or bathing clothes. She refused no gn every patty she picked one whom to At e Betty and the oy, Glappeared. fo en y 0 ppeared, of her hostess and the disgust of the other girls, but t6 the great satisfaction of Betty. No matter what the others were dol theatricals, swimming, picnicking, tal , playing games, Betty was away with a ¢ ‘When they came back she would be smiling mysteriously, perfecly sure that all the other girls would do as she did, too, if they her charm. In the group she would be sweet, absent- minded, bored—2nd then gone . She was extremely y, and she had unquestioned appeal. ‘This went on for years. Then the in- evitable happened, and Betty gréw thin whom she had been too generous, and who did not happen to reciprocate. This happens oftener than mothers like to believe, these days. They se¢ daughters nervous and distressed, realize that some favorite boy is no lomger in the picture, but they don’t put two and two together, and ask themselves why & Jovely, popular girl of 20 has suddenly lost her taste for parties, why she is suddenly depressed and dull. For Betty a combination of motor cars, money, night, young passion, com- plete indifference to consequences, dancing, gin and freedom from family cor code control was too much; she told several intimate friends about it after- ward. She was young, and the excite- men and strain of the whole thing were too much for her. ‘The boy vanished; went back East to college, and Betty was actually {ll. Presently there was another boy, and. Betty revived. She and Prank Brown were married. Frank knew Betty was & modern girl, he wasn't looking for a prude—all those old regulations were the bunk, anyway—girls weren't like that any more, and men didn't expeet them to be. They were married, and the rushing and jazzing and drinking went on for awhile, Then they had a desperate guarrel, and after that they both sobered up and cried, and promised each other everything, and started all over. No they see the 1 will be e the hi rmn.fli‘: M"""”M.fi“" Jenier | and anxious over cne particular boy to i THE Live Down Her ’Wilder Years? By Kathleen Notris. as bravely to laugh off a good deal of teasing when she says that s e AR Saniond. #till esteem self-contrel, fo come clearly and can years? and license and jmpurity. associations and fine man- r school. Why years? th "4 wid | Rome &:"mmtqmm from heret " yon thm'm s d riot? i y'S. & " “In what way?” - “My dear, trying to join the Home- stead Club—that has all those snob- bish, prudish, tremendously conven- ticnal girls in it—it's delicious!” “They seem very human girls.” “Well, tiey are. But you remember what Betty ways exhausted and talking about men Kissing her, and how divine the cocktails at the ‘Cross- roads’ were, and how she could get any man away from his wife—and now it’s all ‘my darling baby, and dear Frank, and our little home’—and trying to squeeze into the Homestead!” Even Betty’s W hasn't much faith in the new y who is trying s0 hard to pull up. “I've heard you talk reform too often!” says Betty's mother. “Mothet,” Betty says patiently, “this in't reform. I've just come to my senses. All that kissing and drinking wotld boré me now, bore me to death. I wish I'd never done it. There's noth- ing in it, and I was a fool. Frank and the baby are the only two persons 4 WINTER —brings rough weather is an excel- lent time to have roofs gone over and necessary REPAIRS handled. It won't cost you anything to get our estimate on the cost of making your “overhead” 100% weathertight. fAll Kinds of RE- PAIRS at Fairest Prices. Maurice J. Colbert Co. PLUMBING—HEATING—TINNING more gin, no more night clubs, no more gambling. They cut the old Smart — COATS 1908 M St. N.W.—Tel. No, 0402-3-4 1213 P Flattering — Wearable SBUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D, who mean anything in the world to me, and as long u’&wy want me around 1 can find what I want at home " And with her small stepsister, Clare, Betty is very firm “Cut 1t all out, Clare” the wiser Betty advises her. “There's nothing in it, for a girl. You get the short end time. You think ynu"‘n ’nhnd"ln What & sport you are, not afraid of anythin ind you get burped, and the ny: esn't cATe 8 &hAp of his 1 e goes after some girl who lsn't a who hasn't been kissed by every man of voting age in the county.” Clare's crowd—and this seems to me the most interesting feature of the whole thing—seems inclined to follow this advice. Perhaps this youngest of the younger generations has been study- n:g the situation for itself and has de- cegmtthemw-ymaoem' ‘work. At 4l events, several quite notorious places in our neighborhood have failed in the past year, and the incoming col- lege group last term divided itself sharply into two groups—the girls who would go everywhere and the girls who wouldn't even get started. Five yéars éigo there was no @ividi fine and thé man had fo 46 & | dexl of gué<ting on_a _party. oW there is 8o sharp a @ividing line that some girls stand for ohe thing and some for another, and there is never any @oubt. Hémes are bezmvnm?z to come GWn again, and it 18 ple to & mother's ear to heéaf thé young persons say-they are going over to the Joneses or down to the Smiths for an evening and to hear them return and the brewing of chocolate are pop- ular in London, in the very nicest cir« cle of writers and professional folk generally. My véry last even there, two years ago, was nt with some quite” famous Y6k, Who Weré confent with conversation, charades and a hys- terical game of “sardines” for & long g. In New York, in Washington, among certain groups that certainly could not sd £l resctionary ele- o it Of Personal Interest To Washington Residents Sol Rice of New York, who i8 homé st the i ¢ ot :gg §§ EY 2 the Woodmont Club last night. Mr. Lee Block and Mr. Ralph Saks of Baltimore are week end guests of friends. Mr. and Mrs. Joseph King have been spending two weeks in Atlantic OCity and were joined by their two daughters, the Misses Hilda and Marion King. Mrs. Joel Hillman of Atlantic City and Parls, France, came to Washington Thursday after spending the Summer in Atlantic City, and will be at the Shore- NORTH 17 4 2 Distinctive Black Velvet ¢ | 1antic_City were recent and Mrs. Milton King C, SBEPTEMBER 27, ham for 10 days prior o sailing for Paria. ©., s visiting his Mrs. Isanc Behrend o eut_avenue. Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Revness and daughter, Miss Charlotte Revness. re- turned today from Westport, Conn, where they have been spending the Summer, fo their home on Twenty- aflfih street. 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