Evening Star Newspaper, April 14, 1933, Page 13

RS. GANN DEPICTS OFFICIAL HOSTESS Bocial Secretaries and Eli- | gible Bachelors Called Im- ' portant Adjuncts. —iiin— ! This is the thirteenth of a series of daily articles in which Mrs. Dolly Gann, sister of Charles Curtis, Vice President in the Hoover administra- tion, is giving reminiscences of her fnteresting cxperiences in politics and society in Washington. BY DOLLY GANN. The keynote of official entertaining In Washington is the at-home, an open- house reception. Anybody is welcome. | If snobbery creeps into official life it & the snobbery of individuals, not the | system. Outside of Government and diplo- | fmatic circles there are, of course, many | ‘cligues and sets and groups. Perhaps al gayety is a somewhat more no- iceable aspect of Washington life by ason of a proportionally larger lei- ure ¢class and because men in Federal | ce have shorter working hours. | owhere, however, are the qualifications or preferment in society less dependent | n wealth or family. | Men who can talk well, charming | Avomen, have become popular in Wash- | Sngton without inherited riches or family. They may have established themselves in the beginning through official position. But the dullards and unsociables eventually are invited only #o parties where their status prescribes their presence, while those adding to he joy of the occasion are in demand | for “entertainments not confined to cial lists. < Days when hostessés keep open house re mostly fixed on the calender. The ves of cabinet members, jurists, dip- ts and the others have their regu- afternoons through the Winter. tors from Oregon, Kansas or the inas can inquire at what times Jthe homes of their Senators or Repre- sentatives are open to them without special invitations. In the line at these t-home parties may be a dozen or a I never knew how many callers to ex- pect. When my brother Charles was Vice President I had as many as 1,100 an afternoon, and the average was 400 to 500. I served simple refreshments. 1 always had an aide, a young army officer, in full dress uniform, who in- trocaced the guests. Four to seven, or later, was the period fo my at-homes. The wives of new members of the Senate and House are sometimes per- plexed and appalled at the number of official calls required. In other cities the newcomer is visited first by those who have lived there longer. In Wash- ington, in the official circle, the new arrival makes the first calls on all of higher rank and all of the same rank with longer service. When I first made calls, as sister of & Congressman, I had to visit every one. After brother became Vice President, I was not obliged to call anywhere except at the White House. Defends First-Call Rule. I think the first-call rule is good. It leaves to cach newcomer the decis- jon what course to follow in social matters. The woman interested in lit- erature, art or anything else besides entertainments can stay entirely out of social I by failing to make initial calls. If she likes to be on the go, she starts immediately to cover the field. The first step is to leave cards at the White House. Official receptions and dinners are so regulated by custom that the sched- ule can be recorded in advance. Cer- tain dates, approximately, mean the same parties each Winter and Spring. President and Vice President, Senators and Supreme Court justices, diplomats, cabinet officers and other personages entertain those whom tredition decrees they shall entertain. I have already touched upon impor- tant official dinners and receptions we attended after my brother became Vice President, but they required compara- tively few of my hours and usually came after days when I had been on the go since dawn. Here is a typical day with me, a day early this year. At 6 o'clock in the morning I began to read the newspapers, in bed. After breakfast I motored with my husband to his office and went to market. Though fewer heads of households now do their owh buying than when I arrived in Washington in the nineties, there are some left. I still meet friends at the meat and vegetable stalls. Mrs. Taft is a regular marketer, as are wives of several Supreme Court justices and of & few Senators and Representatives. After marketing, the next few hours found me recelving out-of-town friends and a woman came in to ask my help in obtaining work. A luncheon was|‘ THE EVENING Afterward '#e went to a ball and stayed an hour, receiving friends in our box. Home, I worked until bedtime on this story, an undertaking which played havoc with social obligations for weeks. ‘The story is about the only enterprise I have ever allowed to curtail regular activities, As official hostess, I took part in all sorts of functions. I planted trees, pre- sented cups, dedicated fl.rg' help lay cornerstones and light Christmas trees, | received groups of children, greeted con- ventions, sponsored regattas, presented prises and ribbons at horse shows, served food in welfare kitchens, dis- tributed baskets at Thanksgiving and Christmas, made handkerchiefs for church bazaars,-shook hands with end- less lines at receptions and autographed hundreds of letters, cards and programs. Role of Social Secretary. The telephone became of increasing importance to me. We had three wires into our hotel suite. Less formal en- pegements were made continually by | telephone. There was one period when | ‘Washington's whole list of formal en- gagements was virtually recast over the | telephone—the month of official mourn- ing after ex-President Coolidge’s death. The institution of “social secretary” has fastenced itself Washington society. Few women heads of official families get along without these helpers. I am one of the few. I prefer to do my own work in a social way, as well as in running the details of ‘my housekeeping, and also because my long residence in the Capital has made it simpler for me to keep track of my engagements and arrange my entettaining, than to train an assistant. A social secretary can be invaluable it she knows her business. The suc-| cessful secretary attends to all the social correspondence of the household, keeps a record of engagements, gives| notice of the time when her principals should go here or there, makes sure they arrive on time, supervises details of dinners and receptions, attends to| the seating of guests in the order of precedence and generally looks after the | orderly performance of each day's so0- cial obligations. To those who inquire why meticulous ermanently upon Rubs Pain Away Quickly Agonizing rheumatic pains, sore muscles, bru quickly respond to Musco thing, stimulating and other | good humor and more than the avera attention is paid to social correspon- dence in Washington, let me explain that in the Capital, the social code is observed to the last dot. All invitations must be answered immediately, and in most cases the answers are dispatched by hand, while the exact day and hour of each event are recorded in one’s en- gagement book. To be late at a dinner is theoretically unforgivable. Somebody has said that the most nu- merous units in Washington's social whirl are the social secretaries, who run things from within the houses and the unattached bachelors, who have the run of things everywhere. Certainly these two important adjuncts are al- ways with us. I don’t know which is the more useful, Without either, many par- ties would be lamentable affairs. The resentable bachelors are ever weicome. ey may have minimum incomes with E:mmw requiring great stability or dustry, but a hostess considers her- self fortunate if she has at her beck, a squad of them possessing good manners, gray matter. Another numerically strong group has | been the subject of the chroniclers. The climbers! But after all, does not every one try to climb one way or an- STAR, WASHINGTON other? When the impulse to climb dis- appears, we are through. 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APRIL X $6,000,000 JOBLESS RELIEF FUND RUSHED Pennsylvania Legislature Ceases Controversy for Enactment of Appropriation. By the Assoclated Press. HARRISBURG, Pa., April 14 —The Lec:fl.n.\m shook off tlhe mukh; of controversy Wednesday en to rush to enactment & :5,‘3"08.000"1'»;0. priation for immediate unemploymeént relief. Pact lines wefe broken and precedents ignored as a relief bill was passed by Bentte And House and signed by the Governor. On the basis of this and & Knvlaus $2,000,000 State appropriation, the Gov- ernor and legislative leaders hope to ob- tain $7,000,000 Federal atd and give Pennsylvania a total of $14,000,000 for BOSTON SHOES distribution to jobless this month and nt ext. The Senate-House Conference Com- mittee ted its report on the Bowers- r beer control bill. 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