¦Activities of Women Prominent in the Social Life of the Nation's Capitali/ASHIAOTO*,

; .:By L C. DRUM-HUNT.

Waahlngton to IUM to over-

_ with nnrndm auujr ofthwn .( put tatocvK ud distinction.quite tha mmt Interesting inM at¦May .«m slipped quietly to to*1"hursday la tlM heaviest dawnpouroC rata we ton had (ar some time.It waa spring, oSctally acknowledged¦ape PMfla have teen saylag thattm III haa coma (or mum weeks aadkar actual arrival waa preceded bypanther vary springlike In character,hot after Thursday no an* can deny

Tha only people who seemed to tktak(ha event at enough importance toaatohrata wara tha Persians. whodata that data. March a. aa NawYear's Day. Thay. aad with raaaoaaccording ta my way at thinking,declare that thay da nat understandwhy |t to aat Naw Tsar's Day foreveryone. tor thay say that with thaSpring everything itarto over aoaw;

SISSJ thing la natura seems to be be-Itoalai to take on new Ufa. Oftenaa a child It use-1 to caiaa Into mymtod that tha sprtng of tha year waatha aaaaan to be -ailed Now TaViaad not tha dead of winter when allnature la sleeping.la Panto the Naw Tear to celebrat¬

ed far foartoea day*, all of which arehaBdaya. iuch havtni been the caaefor thoaaaads of years. What wouldhappen to huatoaaa here If everybodytopped ta >oat and play for fourteenday*. 1 wonder. But In Peraia theyhave few neds. ao the people do nothave to labor conatantly aa we do la

Mry.Tha Paratoa Minuter. Mehdl Khan,

¦eve a large dinner In way of cele- |hration and a lovely party it waa. |A farmer minister to thla country |from Parsto lava a dinner a fewyaara ago oa tha him data and thegaaots were aaatad oa the floor at atable about a foot high. but MehdlKhan'¦ guests were gathered aroundaa ordinary American table, but aotat all ordinary In I to decoration* orthe sumptuous repeat served thereonHues cluatera of beautiful pink roaaawore placed at tntervala down thecenter of the table, while at the plateof every lady in the party waa a

dainty eorsage bouquet of violate,orchids. and one beautiful deep redroae. Large bowla of lucloua fruitalternated between the roaea. TheMlniater haa a Persian chef who cer¬tainly could teach much to aotne ofour chef* of repute about how toreally cook. One of the dlahea aervedwaa purely Peralan. but perfectly de¬licious. It la called "pollow".that lathe way a Peralan spelled It for me.and looked Uka a mound of rice,cooked aa I have always claimedonly tke Chinese can cook rice, but Iwon't aay that any more after eatingthat rice. Sprinkled over the rice were

tiny ttokea of candled orange peel andburled under the mound were (lakesof chicken and chicken livers. Some¬times. tkey tell me. tne same dish lacooked with beer Instead of chickenand raisins are Intermincled with theorange.Among the gueats were Charles H.

Russell. formerly Mlniater from thlacountry to Persia; Mrs. Rusxell wasill and could not be preaent; alsoSenator and Mrs. AIlee Pomerene.Mr srtii Mr-. Hov-rd Reeslil^-. Mr.and Mrs. Albert H. Putney. Mi. andMrs. Robert N. Harper. Oholam AllKhan Anaari. Dr. and Mrs. Irani,Mii-sa Mohsen Khan. Nairhi Khan,and Mrs. Frederick T. Cooper, ofMedia. Pa., who is visiting In Wash¬ington.Mme. Ansarl was not present, as

she is very busy these days lookingafter their cunning tittle three weeks'old daughter. Mr. Anaari. who bearathe same name a* a noted Persianpoet of centuries ago. Is an attacheof the legation. His wife Is a Rus-sian woman and as handsome as shela charming- Both are very young. JHe does not speak Russian and shedoes not know hia language, so theyhad to do all of their courting InGerman, which fact is not particu-1lar!y pleasing to either of them Just!now."flierefore. Mrs. Anaari is struggling

to conquer the English language andits idtasyncrnsies with great rapidity.She has been here only a lewmouth*, but her husband haa he*nhere several years, Mirza Mohsen]Khan, third secretary, is the bach-.ior of the legation staff except, ofcourse. Xaghi Khan, the Minister's*on. a most interesting youth of -J2.Ho is about to bo graduatedin medicine at <;oorg? Washing¬ton University and expects to go

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to New York next year to learnmore of the profession. He apeak*Engliah very well indeed, though hehas only been here about two years,Before that he was in Paris for ten>ears attending school in that city. Helias lived much alone and is a very in¬dependent. self-rvliant. bright young!man. He has one brother about twoyears hi*, senior and several sisters inTeheran, the capital of Peiila. Theylived in Russia for a while, but re-turned to Persia some time ago.Dr. Irani is not of the legation staff.

but is quite a successful osteopath ofihis city. He has livrd in Washington |4bout four years and has been in thiscountry some seven years and speaksEnglish like an American. His wife,x charming young American woman, isalso an osteopath, with quite a prac- *lice of her own. She was and is still *known professionally as Dr. Louise L>. IShunum. They have one little daugh- Jter. aged la months.Mr. and Mrs. Putney, who have a

handsome home in Thirtenth street,near Park road, have only lived illWashington about five years. Mr. Put-ley is from Boston originally, but haslived in Illinois some twenty years be-fore coming here. He is chief of thedivision of Near Eastern affairs of theState Department. Mrs. Putney actedits hostess for the Minister.

Last week was a record-breaking!week iu the number of large dinnerparties given. Hosts and hostessesseemed to try to outdo each other be¬fore the inauguration of Holy Week,tfhich will give all a welcomed rest for* few days from the round of gayetywhich seems to have been uninter-tupted by the war. Actvities of ajvarying sort with a social side have |certainly kept society on the move thiswinter.It is really astonishing how things

have come up to take the place of the¦ocial program of ante-Bellum daysUmI how society has adapted itselfto the new regime of Mars. The pure¬ly personal has been relegated to the>helf aIon? side of the selfish socialinterest. Service and sacrifice arc in jthe air while the bulwark of societysupports the increasing projects forwar relief and incidentally, is havingei very gr>od time.The social gatherings, partitulary!

tea parties, prove to be verj^fertilefror.nd for raising funds tov^arlousrelief efforts. At Mrs #. HamiltonLewis' the other aficu^ftm for exam¬ple, Gladys Hinckley was a very busyperson solicitingjpbney for the Emer¬gency Hospital and quite a few youngladies weirf endeavoring to sell ticketsfor c(^ 6r another of the large charitybal.s on the program for tho next fewweeks. And so it w every place onegoes!

I stumbled across another little In¬teresting group of Red Cross workersthe other day which hud quite es-L*aped my notice before. Really fewseem to realize how many womenthere aie In Washington who are glv-ing up much of their time for somesuch work every week. Much of suchwork is done so quietly that we don't

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at bedtime will produce tho requisitereduction without bother, delay orharm. In a feV weeks you can belosing a pound of fat a day. It willdrop off. as »t were: disappear as!quietly as it camc; remove uniformlywithout causing even a suspicion ofa wrinkle or distress. Meanwhile,eat and act as usual; deuy yourselfnothing. It Is not required if Mar¬mola Tablets sre used.Get off two inches of waistliue be¬

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k?"wJ"1 wh*' la being accomplish-. Thl* K<->1 <--roa» cUu meets three

times a week, on Mondays. Wednes¬days and Friday*, at the home of Mr.

^nd Mra. Julian H. Harria. who havethe house at I<S* New Hampshireavenue, owned by Col. and Mrs. Thom¬as W. Symon*. Mr. and Miw. Harrisare I Detroit people, who came to Wash-'n« ? .

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definitely. a. Mr. Harria.Col. Harris,*e 7°rr,.ct.Ls. serving* on the Air¬

craft I reduction Board. This groupor workers includes many Detroitwomen, who ate residing here tern-porarily, and also women from othercities, whose husbands are in the Oltl-

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iTE A So"» »f those whowoils there are: Mia. Charles W«i-»?U'f-Wwf °f MaJ- Warren, Mrs. llow-

h..t i' -M?,Uov D t-'hapin. whose

husband is chairman of the highwaytransport committee of the Councilor National Defenne; Mr. an<l Air* !Neil McMillan and Mr. and Mis. gteu-!art Fittman. who have the Meredith!\Men% " m'heV« Cha*a together; Mrs. iAllen Shcklen, Airs. Sidney Small Mrs

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Mrs. F. w. Smith, of M01 K street.is carrying on a bit of worthy work,according to my way of thinking,fche makes frequent trips to WalterjRced Hospital, where, she. with twoassistants. teaches basket-makin*and knitting to the convalescent sol¬diers. such of those who are ableto sit up or be In wheel chairs. There

Isk^oMi"10 5aUents at Walter Reed,sick soldiers from the various campsIn this country, and they are all

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vacancies on the Federal Trade t am-.niaaion, two ahifU In oWoml rala-lion.hips arc likely to take ptaoe be¬fore Ion*. In each case. if the re-port" may b« taken seriously. a «r»l -

know., member of the sub-oablnet.so to say. i» selected for pr..motk>nto the Federal Trade body. To bor¬row. or resurrect, a fam.li»r ''hr"*-'It will be safe to wait and see. Thechanges will be of decided interest Ito a wide social circle In each case. IfoP the familiwi) invoived are exten- Isively known and very popular.One Wonders sometimes how ourt

friends the allies.It sterna thatthey are not OUR alliea, but merelyTHK allies and OUH associatea jnwnage to tie so uniformly clever,in picking the people to carry ontheir propaganda and diplomaticand other relationa on this side.The observation is apropos of toefact that Lord Kustace Percy Isgoing horn* this week, after a y%aof successful work for the Britishforflffn office, and that at the sametime Charles Hubert Montgomerycomes here, attached to the em¬bassy In something more than .secretarial capacity.

I..ortf Percy needs no Introduc¬tion. He served here years ago Inthe embassy and was a r*"vorite. When he came back tolook after a lot of those hoptteMblockade and maritime Athat always give one a headaeljaTto think about, he was promppywelcomed to an Intellectual set)that was quite too Insist/fit ®n |stealing him away from the merelysocial clique that U/H claimed him inhis earlier experience he. Butsociety «i\v*enouKh of him to sat¬isfy t»elf that It would like moreami to make It extremely sorry hc ««4inK away now. Probably hellnot be back till after the war. Wuthe l.aa promised to come. It a a

good guesa than he'll come as am¬bassador one of theae days.

Mr. Montgomery really must havehis full title and dignities here. HeIs Charles Hubert Montgomery M.V O., which means member of theVictorian Order. Ho haa been in theforeign service ever alnce he was Inanything, and latterly head of an im¬portant division In London. He wi"have a great deal to do with therelations between Lord Heading a,establishment and the public outside. jand his friends who knew him InLondon declare that he will be par¬ticularly tactful and efficient In that

tRByCithe way, who remember* theOen. Montgomery, whose name ap¬pears in some of our colonial history,about the time of the fighting thatdetermined that Canada should beEnglish, not French? Wall, one ofhis ancestors was that Oen. Mont¬gomery. HI* Immediate paternal *n-cestor is a member of parliamentfrom County Tyrone. Charles HubertMontgomery. It naturally grieves on*to state. Is married, but he will bea temporary widower while he la InWashington, and will be found one ofthe desirable acquisitions to the so¬cial body.

"De mortuls nil nisi bonum.'Similarly "de" tha late. If not unan¬imously lamented. Clarence P. King.Far be It from Indulging any rhap¬sodies. r even appreciation*, of Mr.King's management of the Wash¬ington Railway and Electric Com¬pany. The unkind fate that des¬tines some hundred* of thousand*of u* to ride on Mr. King's c*ra ren-deYs one Indisposed to eulogies Inthat direction.

Still, without abandonlnf one Jotor tittle of ancient prejudice in favorof occasionally getting a seat, andreaching tha destination on time, itis possible to tell something oboutMr. Klhg that few Washington peo¬ple know. HI* repute as an un¬relenting antagonist of organisedlabor and as a confirmed protagonistof the "public be hanged" policyin running a publlp service corpora¬tion. has been such that some kind-Her sides of the gentleman havenot been so well known a* they de-aerved.

...I/i his personal relations. Mr. KingIs known to a little circle of friendsas one of the most charitable andliufrane persons. He '¦however, abeliever in Saint Paul . p»Ucy-lf

It «u Saint VmiI who Invented thatpolicy to useful to politicians everllm of UUlni not the right handknow what the left hand doetb. Hl»charities have always been done lothy closet. .

But there have been afood loan y of them, done in a sortof shamefaced manner as It It wouldbe embarrassing to have anybodysuspect htm of such a weakness.Hl« intimates know, howuvsr,' thattfceda charities are constantly In hisBind, and that his dependents andbeneMclartss ars so numerous as toreproaant a considerable drain onboth purse and patience. He hasboon the means of setting a tat ofdown-snd-ouisr. en their feot, giv¬ing them a new chance, and there¬after tavariably taking such an In-tarest In them that they have almostlawtably made good and morethan Justified his latareat.But after reading thle don't men-

tloa to Mr. Kla* that yuu knowanything about his weakness fororasIleal eharlty, the most practicalof ail. for It la the kind that en-ablea people to lielp themselves. Hewould blush and be hopelessly con¬fused.

The warm weather of the lastfew days has aroused many to thefact that summer le coming andthey must hunt for summer homes.The Italian Ambassador and Coun-taaa dl Cellere have eelected a glacenear Blue Ridge Summit, whichwaa so popular last year with thediplomats who wanted to keep Intouch with Washington and yetnot eufter the heat of the city. Mr.and Mre. Robert Klmore and theRandall Hagners are among thoeeWho have decided that KSdgemoorwill be eool enough for them. The¦Imores are (otna to reside with

Oriacora Bundle, who ta to the *bwfirm, also live* at Kdgemoor. wherehe hu quite a ehirnlnf littlehome, wife and baby. Lieut, and Mi»Waldo Johnsoe, who have Wevlt Mae-roe Hopkins' Ivouee In EdRemoor, will*»». It up In Mar. Their plana areall In the air.IJeut. Johnaon. who has been on duty

In the War Department for aome

months, la la (tart to learn ta «ljr inMay. wo thar dan't know Just whereha may ha aant. The Jahnaoos an-(ram New York and ha*a a ioveljlarge place In Coaperatowa, N. T. Thejlived In Ruaala at on* time MrsJohnson la a vary handaome woman.devoted ta mualc at which aha h*a a;wide knowledge, alao drlvea her ewncar.

Georgetown aeama ta ha coining intoita awn aaaln after yeara of quiet aa-duaion and la getting to be quite afaahlonable plane of residence oncemere. Onoe upon a time, whan Waah-Ington waa little mure then a wilder¬ness. Ueorgetuwn waa a thriving city,with ships coming up tha Potomac aafar aa tha present Aqueduct Bridge,bringing goods from all parta of thaworld. When Washington waa drat'built, all of tha Atnbaaaadora. the(ovemmeut ofllcials, and the socialelect resided on the haighu of Cleorge-town. Now the newcomers are dis¬covering that in the old part of Waah-ingtun there are to be found manymagnificent old homea far moie com¬fortable aad attractive than some ofthe newer houses of tha city proper.Secretary and Mrs. Baker were

among the flr*t to diacover the charmsof the old town.tha old Oeorgetownrrsclaim that it ta a aeparate city, anddislike to have It spoken of as "WestWashington".and have occupied forsome time tha delightful old arooot

the bull by the honw and has *aatadevery room In the Imrg* house theyhad leased In hnaar atsaat. <Vii>Chase, that they could . poaalWVspore. ,

I imagine the Russian* wha are lathis <ouatr> are very cU that dnrare hare. Certainly mat or theeseem to be returning to Russia. A<tof which reminds me that tmmnLawrence Hougtitrllng has Ju»» writ¬ten a book. "A Diary of the RussianRevolution." He smal as sec¬retary to Ambawisdor PVancls. forh short time, at tba Amerlnan l^eca-lion at l'ctrograd After hia mar-,rlaae to Laura Debut* he atiutad hackto HiuaM. hat fortuaatei) M aw tar-l her than Sew York vhen tfce lid(tew off. Now hia wiie ia la CU>cago aad be to la fraw. Mmwaa an oSoar with the Artillery CerpaVfd Lane to atoo la J'rawce aaw;flying, of course.Mr. sad lira. Dainaerfleld towctf

arc hack in Iowa. Mrs. Kpaaiwr wastba pretty Uttto Laaatte llMlth. aadthey are residing with her psreats.Mr. and Mrs. Orlando H. tomtitMr. Spencer was working far a whilewith the Kirth HtarliaK dtael < orpwre-tlon at Oiosboto I'oini. and then,at the time of his marriage, about ayear am, went to Pennsylvania tework for the Bethlehem litael (Van-pany. J list now he to try ing far aevmuiiaaion in the amy.

Ueut and Mrs. Wilson Offutt lr..who were guests of l^eot Offutt'sparents. Mr. and Mr*. M. Wilson Of¬futt, of Metheada. are now in TexasWhen they ill at left here they wentto Tennesar, where Lieut. Odfutttrained for his commission in theAviation Corps of the aiany and waato act as instructor, but soon afterteaching there be had orders to go

MISS LINDA ELIZABETH STEWART.Daughter of Mrs. Alexander Stewart, whose engagement to Lieut. Roland C. Rehm S. R, ha?

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the "Bardy** Hopkins'. Bob Klmore.who" la a paymaster In the NavalReserve Corp*, ia quite broken upjust now because he has found itnecetiary to awk to be put on theinactive list for a while. II** Is amember of the firm of Flather.Moorhead & Klmore. and Mr.Flather is leaving th*» firm, makingit necessary for Mr. Klmore to takea more active part In the business,for a while at least. While on theinactive list he will not be allowedto wear that good-looking blue uni¬form, which is so becoming to him.

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Dancing isn't rated very high In theBolshevik rategory of necessities forthe folk of bleeding Russia, so Thcodor8herer, mcmber of the former Rus¬sian Imperial Ballet, has come to theUnited States to join Pavlowa, andhopes that he will be permitted todance before President Wilson- He »saccounted on# of the best dancer*produced under the patronage of thetoppled Komanoff regime.

place In X street. Henry Uterhart.the famous New York lawyer, whowas such a prominent tlgure in theDe Saulles trial. haa Just taken theE. S. Kennedy Hou.**e in Dumbarton!avenue. He is with the IntelligenceBureau of the War Department, andis on duty at the War College. WhenSothern and Marlowe came to Wash-inKton to reside for a while it mas toGeorgetown they went to live andthoi-oughly enjoyed thte handsomeWagner place at the top of Twenty-ninth street. The Col. Baron and JBarroness de la Grange rented the de-llghtful old home of Mr. and Mrs.William B. Orme, "Evermay,M lastsummer and when they had to giveIt up in the fall, they selected an¬other house on the heights of the Po¬tomac, the heme of Mrs. EugeneByrnes, built by old Prof. Joyce. Mr.and Mrs. Everett Colby have the housenow, leasing It after the De la!Granges had to return to France. It isrumored that some very Importantpersonage lias bought the house and'will take possession in the early sum-mer.

Xot far from Georgetown Is aninteresting little family, that ofIJeut. A. Smirnoff, of the RussianEmbassy staff. Mme. Smirnoff is acharpiing littla Frenchwoman, andas clever and sensible as she ischarming. I suppose the salary ofa young officer attache is neverlarge, and what other Income theSmirnoffs may have had, it is com¬pletely cut off by the frightful con¬ditions prevailing in Russia Just now.So. grasping the opportunity present¬ed by the pressing need for roomsin Washington, Mme. Smianoff took

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HaoMfol Kalbfus arc grooming for the*COO*I aajor bia lovely swimming pooltblg aummer. ba boo ooid bia ConeMr. ond Mra ICalbfua have tbla niceform near BockviUc gad have tber*-w a dandy eoncrete aortmming pool»bkh they hove allowed all of theirrrloada to enjoy. Tbo backy purchaseria o Mr. Pawbarton Bob Elmore waaconsidering buying tbe pioce buiohiia bo waa thinking about It. MiPemberlon boat bia to it.Wo oil know Mr. KImere, so might

tiovo a awim there oooaaiona!l> ifbe bad aaly bought tbe place; butno one aoema to knew thla Mr. JVm-barton. Mr. and Mra. Kalbfua hat*a winter borne In Q otroet. iiiiieor**-Low*, whore they are at preaent.

When Manuel Ooadro. MiniaterFrom Paraguay to the tailedtftatea weat to the telephone in h<»"oom at the Anoonia. in New Yorkane day loot "Week, ha forgot for tbemoment tbot he waa in the nut*,to. inataad of aoying 'ice mater" hlaid "agua.agua gelada * The hot#telephone girl answered, "Si. aeaor.immediatamente."The dlplomatiat did not realize

what had occurred until a momentlater. He had aaked for somethingia Spanish and been ansaeied in

Bpanlah in a New York hotel andby a telephone operator.That ia typical of what the hotel*

are doing in the flght for tipani*h-American trade and good will sev¬eral of the force at the Anaoiua r«-

recently took a practical bpaniahcourae »o they would undeiatanithe moat aimple d^mandr of fh»Central and South American!* Mop¬ping in the houae. Senor Gondiaand Senora Gondia are apending nfew daya in New York on a springshopping expedition and e*pe< t tocome to Waahington right afterBaoter.

When Mr. and Mrs. Samuel l"n- ^termyer left Palm B^ach last weekfor Waahington. while Mr. Uater-myor ia entitled to a private car an

general counsel for Director Gen¬eral of Railroads William G. M«-Adoc. he declined to accept th»> caroffered him on the ground that 1t«uae by him would be against publirpolicy and ordered a compartmentcar, the oompartments of which netoccupied by hia party were aold tothe public. In thin connection, itia Intereating to note that whilethere were forty odd private carson the aiding at Palm Beach at thintime last year there ha* been butone there all thia oeoson.

Society has learned that aome of It*pet romantic auperatitionn have no*and probably for all time loat theirmyotic influence over brides and bride-grooma.In the pant a pontponed wedding

wan something to cause a shudder, butMtas Anna Ijawreitee Moctier is onlyone of many brides of wartime whohave snai ped their fingoro at ouper-st it ton in putting off their marriageceremonies. M i*s Mactier. a ho in a

daughter of Mr. and Mrs. tlenryMacth't. of Obevy t'hawe. Md «m tehave become the bride of l«ieut. Bf>C*Gray, of tbe Aviation section of theSignal «'orps. of New York, a meekbefore the ceremony maa actually per- jformed. but military emergencies i

forced a jontponement to March Wwhen the ccremonv waa solemnixed at'

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