SOCIETY. igoofiety President and Mrs. Coolidge Guests at Dinner Tonight of Secretary and Mrs. Hughes. THE President and Mrs. Coolidge will be guests tonight at din- ner of the Secretary of State and Mrs. Charles Evans j ijiighes. the dinner being the first of tive series given by cabinet members for the Chief Executive and the first lady of the land each season. The Secretary and Mrs. Hughes were joined today by their sou and daughter-in- litv. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Evans Hughes jft and Col. George Harvey, former am- bassador to Great Britain, is arriving to attend the dinner and will remain In the Capital a short tin*, before go- ing to Jekyl Island for a holiday. The ambassador of Era nee and Mine Jusserand will lie the guests of honor at dinner this evening e.f the minister of Panama and Senora d> AKaro, who will entertain a distinguished company at the legation. The ambassador of Belgium, Baron de Cartier, was host at luncheon yes- terday, his guests including the am- -1 iassa'diir of Spain. Senor Hiano; ambassador of Cuba. Dr. de la Tor- rlente; the Swdss minister. Mr. Marc Peter: Mr. John Merriam. president of the Carnegie Institute, Mr. Kersten and Mr. Amdry of Belgium and Mr. LTser, secretary of the embassy. John and Calvin Coolidge. jr.. will ar- rive this afternoon from their school at Mercersburg. Pa., to spend the Christmas holidays with their parents, the President and Mrs. Coolidge, in the White House. Dinner Party Tonight At Bulgarian Legation. The minister of Bulgaria and Mme. Panaretoff will entertain a company of eighteen at dinner this evening in honor of the Secretary of the Interior and Mrs. Hubert Work. The minister of Colombia and Senora de Olaya will entertain a company at dlnne.y this evening. Senora de Cordova and Senorita Car- men Cordova, wife and daughter of the minister of Honduras, entertained a company at luncheon today at the Hotel Hamilton. Those Invited were Miss Laura Bryn,l Senorita Yolanda Jaimes Freyre, Senorita Angela Cro- meyer. Mile. Nina Diamantapoulos, Miss Janet Moffett. Miss Eugenia Lejeune. Miss Claudia Read, Miss Elizabeth Taylor Adams. Miss Muriel Eleanor Gray. Miss Betty Byrne, Miss Katharine Wrenn, Miss Eleanor Mon- tague. Miss Loliia Dawson, Miss Ruth Stoddard, Miss Elizabeth Haynes, Miss Eugenie LeMerle. Miss Cecil Lester Jones. Miss Margaret Zolnay. Miss Novell Clark Munford. Senorita Julia Lgradizabal and Senorita Kina Laeos. The minister of Siam, Phya Burl Navarasth, has issued invitations for a tea Wednesday afternoon. Japuary 2. from 5 until 7. at the legation, 2300 Kalorama road. The counselor of the German em- bassy and Krau von Lowinski. will entertain at dinner this evening in their home on 16th street, in honor of the commercial attache of the United States embassy in Berlin. Mr. Charles Elred Herring, and his moth- er, Mrs. Herring, who arc in Washing- ton for a short time. Frau von Lewinski was hostess to a small company yesterday, entertain- ing informally at tea. Mrs. George Wharton Pepper will receive on Thursday afternoon, after 4 o’clock, at the Hotel Powhatan. Mrs. Young, wife of Representa- tive George M. Young of Valley City, N. D-. will be hostess at tea this afternoon from 4 to 6 o’clock in her home on 16th street in honor of Mrs. Frazier, wife of Senator Lynq J. Frazier, the new senator from North Dakota. Mrs. Young and Mrs. Frazier will have receiving with them Mrs. Ed- win F. Ladd, wife of the senator from North Dakota, and Mrs. Burt- ness. wife Representative Olger Burfness of that state. Assisting will he Mrs. Peter Norbeek, Mrs. Pat Har- rison, Mrs. T. H. Caraway, Mrs. A. .T. Gronna, Mrs. John M. Baer, Mrs. Margaret Cow™, Mrs. Clyde B. Altch- ison, Mrs. L. C. Cramton, Mrs. James A. Frear, Mrs. Edward E. Brown, Mrs. Philip H. Swing, Mrs. Sydney Anderson. Mrs. Henry F. Woodard, Airs. Lindley H. Hadley. Mrs. Percy <iuln, Mrs. Ladlslas Lazaro, Mrs. John Smlthwlck, Mrs. M. Clyde Kel- ley and Mrs. LC. Dyer. Presiding at the punch bowl will be Miss Lucy Burlingame, Miss Dorothy Dennett, and the Misses Frazier, who will be assisted by Miss Katharine Young and Miss Margaret Cramton, who are home from school for the holidays. Mile. Nina Diamantapoulos, debu- tante sister of the secretary of the Greek legation, was th® guest of honor at luncheon today of Mrs. Thornton P. Boland, who entertained in her home. Her other guests were Mme. Tsamados. wife of the charge d’affaires of Greece; Miss Margaret Zolnay. Miss Anne Devereux, Miss Natalie Hammond, Miss Bessie Mc- Keldln, Miss Betty Byrne. Miss Helen Strauss, Miss Janet Moffett, Miss' Laura Winder Marshall and Miss (Charlotte Freeman Clark. Mrs. Boland will entertain a com- pany of twelve at luncheon Thursday in honor of Mrs. Preetorius. Rear Admiral and Mrs. Edward W. Eherl® will entertain a company of twelve at dinner this evening in honor of the assistant secretary’ of the Navy and Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt. The Misses Stitt, daughters of Sur- geon General and Mrs. Edward R. Stitt, “Say it with Flowers” FLOWERS Will Carry Your Yulctldc Message —better than words. Ready for your selection at Shaffer's are the finest specimens of Cut Flow- ers and Blooming 1 Plants of every variety—all at Moderate Prices. Holiday Baskets, Boxes, Table Center- pieces, Corsages, etc., arranged to your order. Christmas Flowers Delivered at any dis- tance by Telegraph SHAFFER’S Phone . Phone Main 2416 Main 106 900 14th St. arc entertaining a large company at bridge this afternoon In honor of Miss Jane Moffett nnd Miss Eugenia Le- jetine, debutantes of this season. The other guests at bridge are Mrs. B Carroll Reece, Miss Laura Bryn. Mrs. Gerald Desmond Linke, Mrs. Egmont Koenig. Mrs. Roger Bagnall. Mrs. F. Addison Bra-tow, 2; Mrs. Xenophon Price, Miss Elizabeth Taylor Adams, Miss Bessie MeKeldln, the Misses Krone Mias Agnes Shands, Miss Charlotte Freeman Clark. Miss May Taylor. Miss Margaret Davis, Miss M>ra Morgan, Miss Katharine Dent. Afi-s Lucille Smith, Miss Atala Kim- mell. Miss Bertha Coontz, Miss Ruth AMller Green. Miss Ruth Stiles, Miss Irene Hancock Russell, Miss Mary Diana Cummipg, Miss Elizabeth Tay- lor Jones. Miss Dorothy Mondell. Miss Alary Happen Miss Jessie Adkins, Allss Eleanor Northrop. Miss Louise Anderson, Miss Helen Newton, Miss late John W. Darley and Is a member of the Maryland bar. No date has been set for '.he wedding. Mr. Earl J. Davis, new assistant attorney general, is at the Burling- ton Hotel. Miss Lydia Bush-Brown will ar- rive this afternoon from New York to spend Christinas with her parents, Mr, and Mrs, Henry K. Bush-Brown. Miss Hush-Brown will receive with her mother tomorrow afternoon and again Wednesday, December 26, in the studios at 1 729 G street, return- ing to New York early in the new year. Representative and Mrs. Homer Hoch of Kansas nnd Representative and Mrs. John W. Summers of Walla Walla. Wash., will give a family Christmas party and musical at the Congressional Club Wednesday, De- cember 26, at 8 o’clock. Hepresentatllve and Mrs. Hoch will have with them Mr. and Mrs. James W. Reid and their sons and Repre- sentative and Mrs. Summers will have Miss Hope Summers, from the School of Public Speech, Northwest- ern University; their son Paul and Air. and Mrs. V. H. Donald and their daughter of Arthur, 111., with them. There will he music as a special fea- ture of the Christmas party. Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Samuel Row- land of Waterbury, Conn., have is- sued invitations for the marriage of their daughter Helen North to En- sign Melville Bell Grosvenor, son of Dr. and Mrs. Gilbert Grosvenor of Washington, Friday, January 4, at 4 SENORITA AURORA QI KSAUA, Daughter of Senora dr Uurwada of Havana, and the late Senor tfuesada, first Cuban minister to Washington, and with her mother Just completing a visit in the Capital. Vernon Seminary, and is an intimate friend of Minn Grosvenor. Ensign Grosvenor is stationed on the U. S. S. Wert Virginia. Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt, wife of the assistant secretary of the Navy, will receive tomorrow afternoon In her home at 1601 21st street, from 4:30 to 6:30 o’clock. She will be as- sisted by Mns. Henry (Jetty Chilton. Mrs. Edward W. Eberle. Mrs. Robert L. Bacon and Airs. Hillary A. Jones Mrs. David Aleado Lea entertained at luncheon today in her home on Massachusetts avenue jn honor of her house guest. Miss Katharine M. Hun- ter of Berkley Springs, W. Va. The company numbered twelve, and re- mained to play bridge through the afternoon. Air Willoughby S. Chesley. jr, who is a student at the University of Michigan, is cxpecetd today and will .sincinl the holidays with his parents at the Ruchainheau. He will enter- tain some of the members of the ca<t from the musical comedy. "Cot- ton Stockings,” playing here Thurs- day night. Postmaster General and Mr*. \rw Honor Guest*. Assistant Postmaster General and Mrs W. Irving Glover entertained last evening at dinner at the Ward- man Dark Holed in honor of the Postnmster General and Mrs. Harry S New. The table was decorated with red roses and Christmas greens. The company Included th« Post- master General and Mrs. Harry 6. New the Secretary of th® Interior and Mrs Hubert Work, the Secretary of Agriculture and Mrs. Henry L. Wallace. Senator and Mrs. Walter E. Edge. Senator nnd Mrs. Arthur Cap- per, Senator and Mrs. Edward I. Ed- wards. Undersecretary of State and Mrs William Phillips, Assistant At- torney General and Airs. Rush 1.. Holland, First Ass'stant Postmaster General and Mrs John IT. Bartlett. Second Assistant Postmaster General *" * Fascinating Remembrances ARE these Delicately P erfu in e d Bath Salts in lovely hand- decorated bowls. They carry the Yuletide mes- sage on the wings of a rare fragrance, which is hot quickly forgotten. Personally Prepared by V <**•COVMCcncuT Avtaue PRANKLIN 4324 Handled Downtown by Betty Way, 1110 F St. N.W. I' ¦ mJ> Cecil Lester Jones. Miss Elizabeth Marbury Beale, Miss Madora Robert- son. Miss Margaret Yard, Miss Be- atrice Whittier. Miss Virginia Ellis, Aliss Lewis, Miss Henrietta Hill, Miss Katharine Shaw, Miss Dorothy John- son. Miss Caroline Happer. Miss Es- ther MoVann, Miss Katharine Wrenn, Miss Virginia Edwards and Miss Laura Winder Marshall. Additional guests are asked for tea when Mrs. Bogert, wife of Capt. Edward S. Bogert, and Mrs. Stitt, mother of the hostesses, will preside at the tea table. Among those w-ho will attend the tea are Miss Theresa James, Allss Genevieve Rusk. Miss Helen Strauss. Miss Corinne Stevens. Miss Muriel Eleanor Gray, the Misses Butler and Miss Jane Hopkins. The Congressional Club has issued invitations for a reception Friday afternoon in honor of the ambassa- dor of France and Mme. Jusserand. Airs. Bertie W. Roller of Washing- ton. D. C., announces the engagement of her daughter, Mrs. Alberta Roller Stacks, to Mr. John W. Darley of Baltimore, Md. Mrs. Stacks is the daughter of the late P. S. Roller of Mount Jackson, Va., and niece of the late Gen. John E. Roller and Col. O. B. Holler of Harrisonburg, Va. Mr. Darley is the son of Mrs, and the BRAM’S SUNSET INN Thomas Circle 1407 Mass. Ave. N.W. Noted for its good cook- ing and beautiful dining room I Week-day Dinner, 75c \ : jr Sunday Dinner, 85c From 5 to 8 p.m. Special Christmas Dinner at SI.OO From 1 to 4 p.m. \ | o’clock in the First Congregational Church, Waterbury, Conn. Aliss Gertrude Grosvenor will be maid of honor for Aliss Rowland, and Miss Alabel Gfosvenor and Aliss Lil- lian Grosvenor, younger sisters of the bridegroom, will be in the party of bridesmaids, which also includ.-s Miss Frances Pitcher of East Hamp- ton. Hass.: Miss Frederica Chase. Miss Anna de Lancy and Miss Eliza- beth Gauss of Waterbury. The bride has. a number of friends in Wash- ington, having attended the Mount Open Evenings s f\ BALLARD JSj» GIFTS- | i C PECIALIZATION, the year-round, in 8 IE collecting suitable fIJL fit gifts for every oc- caslon—naturally en- This Smoker’s m b i*y Candlesticks Set, $4.00 time.g ,F T' 0| v |NO Illustrated * (without candles) Others 70c Up No matter who $7.50 or. the recipient —we —, JT_ are confident that a Other#, $2 up most satisfactory selection will be fill X made from our In- fT ’gk 111 I fV elusive stocks. ( || JSg / 1 1340 G Street I J Windsor Chair, Christmas Vase) ss.oo** $9.00 Greeting Cards Others $1 up Continuing the Sale of All Our s l3- 50 to s ls Evening Slippers *lO . , ADORABLE Xmas Gifts indeed jj >\ are these glittering bits of per- 7 section! Our complete stock of J&L better grade Evening Shoes included. Distinguished fashions in rare imported S/ Paisley Brocades, Metallic Brocades, Paisley Velvets, Silver and Gold Bro- Un cades, Silver and Gold Kid, and other brilliant materials—all reduced to |io. ®”City Club Shof’ 414 9th St . 1318 G St. THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C„ TUESDAY, DECEMBER 18, 1923. and Mrs, Paul Henderson, hourth As- ¦ distant Postmaster General and Airs. ¦ H. H. Blllany, Representative and , Mrs. Ernest R. Ackerman, Secretary C. Basoom Slump, Miss Webber. Com- mlssloner of Internal Revenue and Mrs. David Blair, Col. and Mrs. Frank Hatch and Mr. and Mrs. John T Adams. Air. Walter S. Penflcld entertained at dinner last night in the presidential suite of the New Willard In honor of the minister of Panama and Mine. Alfaro, and later took his quests to the opera. The counselor of the Brazilian em- bassy and Mme. dc Sousa Leao Graeie " p r<i hosts at dinner last evening, (>n* tertalnln* in compliment to the r**tir- niAf naval attache of the embassy, Capt. Heraclito tlrara Aranha. • Miss Ag-nes Ashford is spending to- day in Baltimore, where she went for the wedding of Miss Dorothy Town»h«nii, daughter of Col. O. P. Townshend, and Lisul. Robert Chaffee Oliver, IT. S. A. Miss Ashford will be the bride’s only attendant and wi)l i return to Washington tomorrow. j The first private entertainment held ! at the Metropolitan Club annex will [ be Hie dansanto given by Mr. and 1 Mrs. Arthur Hale in honor of their i debutante granddaughter, Miss Clsa l Diedericb, tomorrow. Mrs. Harry Payne Whitney of New 1 York Is spending some days In Wash- I Ington at the Shoreham Hotel, where! she entertained a. dinner company of | eighteen last evening. Maj. and Mrs. Sidney !•'. Mash Kir have arrived in Washington from Tokio and have taken a suite at Ho- tel Roosevelt for the winter. _ Admiral and Mrs. Robert K, Coontz (Continued on Ninth Page.) $jP IMI ; | EXTRA SPECIAL VALUES NOW!!! I %$ $ Bath and Corduroy Robes Silk and Tailored Blouses r\s ‘ n Sweaters and Chappie Coats Silk Underwear and Underskirts %S 0 Silk Hosiery and Linen Handkerchiefs & g jg Handsome Winter Coats *? Os *3 ilk Luxurious Furs Smart Cloths H? I# i Values to $60.00 Values to $95.00 & »3fta »6fta | TB| £4O Suits, £25 g K L • Women’s and Miss-s’ Models, tailored and fur- js; I trimmed styles. g ¦) Fashionable Dresses $ K |W Wool 525, 539.50, 549.50 jS Elegant dresses for gen- sr*' eral wear, sls, $19.95. ft —For Xmas Giving —For Xmas Entertaining \ AITOur second floor is complete with a sclec- jJ tion of many beautiful designs and pat- terns in the ever popular and distinctive Henox Cfiina Os which we arc the sole distributor in Washington. The Ming, the Colonial, the Autumn, the Orchard, the Golden Cate, the Florida and the Coronado arc the favorite patterns. Sill ©her 4501 i) encrustations Tea Sets. $45.00; Cake Plates, 512.50; After-Dinner Coffee Sets, $35.00; Bonbons. $3.25; Salad Bowls, $12.00; Vases, $18.00; Cheese and Crackers, $18.00; Cake Sets, $40.00; Salt and Pep- pers, $3.00 pair. HuStre Cea £kts These popular and serviceable 23-pc. tea sets, in Orange, Blue. Green and Yellow lustre with black trimming, priced at SIB.OO the set. jHistellaneouS Stems of Cfjina Mayonnaise Sets from SI.OO to $5.00; Syrup Jar and I late, 50c to $4.00; Condiment Sets, $2.00 to $3.00; Honey Jars, $1.25 to $2.00; Marmalade Jars, $1.25 to $4.00; Spoon Trays, SI.OO to $2.50; Bonbon Dishes. 50c to $3.50; Salad Bowls, SI.OO to $15.75; Cake Sets, $2.50 to $25.00; Chop Sets, $4.00 to $.>0.50; Salad Sets, $9.50 to $45.50; Tea Sets, $5.00 to $127.75; Break- fast Sets sll-00 to $55.00. 100 ©inner sl6 to $350 Second Floor DUUNsNARTINC? ilis*i7i7 T Street And ili4to ilis <3* Street, Hours: 8:45 to 6:00 U ' n ¦= SOCIF. T Y . Satisfy Your Christmas Desires at—PLITT’S T* 3 . ~~ Writing Desk?, $30.00 up. J Mfl jJtEt Spinet Desks. $38.00 up. Tables Sewing Tables, $2425 up. ion<i p^p ir C onsole Tables, $31.50 up. |{| “u n .*n.U.n° n f f Desk Sets, $12.50 up. problem* "of I Wall Desks, $46.00 up. wall space, if M Li ring Room Suites— |||i| an tdiown. i i JIA.OO armchair, W i« B chair, 1 1U B ' davenport, covered " nd up $300.00 up. Butterfly Shields, $3.25 r) up ‘ „ U Priscilla Pottery Vases, $3.00 pair c up. 4 Crown Ducal Decorated I | I t_li Ware, 22-piece set, $35. I ¦ 1 Ducal Ware Decorated 1 P-“ W ,n Tea Sets, $16.50. g 0 Mn *o » ,ny Japanese Coffee Sets, $lO. 1a Davenport Tables, $25 up. S|Q SO ! Ferneries, all steel, $15.00 • «P- —————— Jardinieres, $9.50. .^s?^~T i Dinner Chimes, $5.75 up. JWf r Telephone Stands an d Stools, SIO.OO up. Smoking Stands, $9.75 up. Inlaid Muffin Stands, I ¦ Photograph Frames. $2.50 _ Fern Dishes, $4.75. Governor Wmthrop Ash Trays. $3.50 up. e f-«s ß ’. u , Magazine Book Racks, I <3B inch.*) -S. nA GEORGE PUTT CO., Inc. j Painting, Paperhanging and Upholstering 1325 14th St. N.W. Main 4224 I JEff’Retbmslhmp TWELVE-TEN TWELVE-TWELVE F STREET A Month in Advance! j/ All Mid-Winter Apparel Silk Stockings for Christmas! Heavy silk. She will appreciate them—first full fashion, of because they are beautiful; and quality "and re- again and again because their markable dura- beauty is a source of everlasting billty. A su- satisfaction, premo quality. $2-95 t.WS.Ti gHIESDEEPHIA s&&ffiss GOLD SEAL °”d.. o- cl Ik, Stockings $1.85 j y' In every weight from chiffons S • of gossamer sheerness to the heaviest ingrains. In the season’s newest tones as well as the staple shades. ETplefosudhteD? TWELVE-TEN TWELVE-TWELVE F STREET 8