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JEAN ELIOT ON CAPITAL SOCIETY
: Capital's Official
Husbands Re
main Here
By JEAN ELIOT.
THE term golf widow has been
worked overtime. Ever since
the ancient and honorable
game was inaugurated husbands
have deserted their better halves
on Saturday afternoons, all day
Sunday, and every other occasion
possible, to pursue the elusive golf
ball around the velvet links of this
or that country club.
And there are numerous "gone
to Europe widowers” in the Cap
ital this summer. A number of
more or less hard working promi
nent Washington men, who are
unable to take enough time away
from their work to take a trip
to the other side, have unselfishly
packed up their various families
and given them carte blanche on
the European hotels. It seems as
though over half of Washington’s
important hostesses have taken
their steamer trunks and sailed
for the old world.
But there is still another class
of widower or should they be class
ified as semi-widowers? They are
the men who, for business or
other reasons, are unable to get
away except for week-ends. There
are hordes of these patient crea
tures now in town: men whose
wives are summering at the vari
ous resorts. They are unselfish
enough to let them get away from
the dullness and heat of a Wash
ington summer, and suffer in com
parative silence, putting up with
indifferent care from their ser
vants and cheerless meals taken
for the most part at the club
where there are scores of other
unfortunate males in the same
situation.
THE Assistant Secretary of
War, Dwight F. Davis, who
in the absence of the Secre
tary on the Alaskan trip, is in
charge of the War Department,
has just returned from a short
visit with Mrs. Davis at Dark Har
bor, Maine, where she is for the
summer. The Polish minister
Wladislas Wroblewski is another
benedict whose wife sees him onlv
occasionally. Mme. Wroblewski
and the children are at Ventnor
for the summer and the minister
runs downs to spend his week
ends with his family. Another dip
lomatic semi-widower, is the
Chinese minister. Dr. Alfred Sze
who will return in a day or so from
Wods Hole, Mass., where he
joins his family occasionally.
Dr. J. B. Hubrecht, charge d’af
faires of the Netherlands legation
in the minister’s absence, returned
today from Syosset, Long Island,
where he has established Mme.
Hubrecht and their children for
the summer. He will be able to
get away from Washington only
occasionally. Daniel Steen, charge
d’affaires of the Norwegian lega
tion, will go with Mme. Steen and
their family to Cape May, N. J.,
on Friday but will return to keep
the embassy open during the min
ister’s absence and will only jion
his family when his duties permit.
Marquis di Bernezzo, military at
tache of the Italian embassy while
not a week-end widower, will be
left to "battle for himself” the lat*
ter part of this month, when his
wife and daughter sail to spend
several months in Italy. Mme.
Dumont, wife of the French mili
tary attache, and their two daugh
ters, Mlle. Marthe Dumont, and
Mlle. Paule Dumont, are also leav
ing Major Dumont in a short
while. They expect to sail for
their home in France and be ab
sent some time.
Henry Getty Chilton, counselor
of the British embassy, has just
returned from a brief visit with
Mrs. Chilton, who is now at Mat
tapoisett, Mass., with Engineer
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Commander and Mrs. H. A.
Brown who have taken a cottage
there for the summer. The coun
selor of the Japanese embassy,
Sadao Saburi, will not join Mme.
Saburi at Williamstown. Mass.,
until later in the month, and is
keeping bachelor’s quarters at his
apartment at the Shoreham until
then.
Wilbur Carr, director of the
Consular Bureau of the State De
partment, will be able to get
away only infrequently to join
Mrs. Carr and her mother, Mrs.
Ezra Koons, at Lenox. Admiral
Cary T. Grayson is another semi
widower, as he will remain ?nere
except for occasional week-ends
with Mrs. Grayson and their
three small sons at Narragansett.
One might enumerate many,
many more of these unselfish hus
bands and it is safe to wager, the
list will be constantly growing new
that mid July is upon us. But
one also wonders, if they were not
week-end widowers, would their
wives be "golf widows?”
Rian os to Return
From Biltmore Tomorrow.
The Ambassador of JSpain and
Senora de Riano and Mariano de
Amoedo, second secretary of the em
bassy, who are visiting Mrs. George
Vanderbilt, at Biltmore, N. C., will
return to Washington tomorrow.
Senora de Riano will go to York
Harbor the latter part of the month
to spend some time with her sister,
Mrs. Chandler Anderson.
The ambassador of Germany, Dr.
Wiedfeldt, returned Saturday to the
embassy after a brief visit in New
York.
The minister of Siam. Phya Buri
Navarasth, will entertain today at
tennis, followed by a tea at the
Chevy Chase Club.
The Minister of Uruguay and Mme.
Varela are in Delaware for a few
days
The Minister of Haiti and Mme.
Dejean and the latter’s sister, Mlle.
Jane Brun, who have been at their
home in Haiti, will arrive in Wash
ington the latter part of the week.
The minister of Costa Rica, J.
Rafael Oreamuno, left Washington
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yesterday for New York, where he
will spend a week.
The minister of Venezuela, Pedro
Manuel Arcaya, who with Mme.
Arcaya has a cottage at Atlantic
City for the season, spent the first
of last week in Washington.
The charge d’affaires of Salvador,
Hector David Castro, will return to
Washington Thursday from Niagata
Falls, where he went to spend a
week.
Jaime Agelet, third secretary of
the embassy of Spain, sailed Satur
day from New York on the Homerite
for Spain for a two-month vacation.
Leander McCormick-Goodhart, at
tache of the British embassy, and
his mother, Mrs. McCormick-Good
hart, are occupying the Italian cot
tage at Bar Harbor for the summer.
Charles Baumbach, the new at
tache at the Mexican embassy, and
Mrs. Baumbach have arrived in
Washington and are temporarily es
tablished at the embassy in Six
teenth street.
Slobodan Godjevac, attache of the
legation of Serbs, Croats and Slo
venes, will return today from New
York.
Dr. V. de Sokolowski, of the Pol
ish legation, will leave here shortly
for Newport to make a series of
visits before sailing for Europe on
the Leviathan on July 28, to re
main until the autumn.
The Assistant Director of the
Pan American Union and Mrs.
Francisco Yanes are in Los An
geles, Cal., where they went to at
tend the Monroe centennial exposi
tion. I
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Mr. and Mrs. Stephan Bonsai,
with their children, are established
for the summer* at their place
"Whitefields” at Bedford, Mass.
General and Mrs. Harry Band
holts, accompanied by Miss Gene
vieve Yarborough are at Constan
tine, Mich., until late in August.
Rear Admiral John H. Dayton,
of the Washington navy yard, is
the guest, of Capt. and Mrs. Pitlph
Earle at the torpedo station in
I Newport.
Capital Society
Scattered for
Summer
Mrs. T. Septimus Austin and her
daughter. Miss Madeleine Austin,
will leave Washington the latter
part of the week for New York.
They will sail later in the month
for Europe, spending one week on
the Normandy coast, after which
they will visit Norway and Sweden.
They will spend the early autumn
in the lake country of Italy, going
to France for some time before
their return to this country in the
early winter.
Dr. and Mrs. James F. Mitchell
have gone to Bar Harbor. Me.,
where they will spend the re
mainder of the summer at the
Stanwood cottage.
Mr. and Mrs. Gist Blair, are at
Bar Harbor, Me., where they have
opened their cottage. Clifstone, for
the season.
Mrs. D. R. Crissinger and Miss
Donna Ruth Crissinger will leave
Washington the first of the week
for Nova Scotia, to pass several
months.
Mr. and Mrs. Franklin Ellis have
closed their house on Nineteenth
street and gone to Bar Harbor,
where they are occupying the
Wyandotte cottage.
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Mr. and Mrs. C. Philip Hill and
their children will leave Washington
the latter part of the week for
Bayhead, N. J., to spend the re
mainder of the summer.
Mr. and Mrs. H. M. Poole of Des
Moines, lowa, who are on their
wedding trip, are .staying at the
Hamilton Hotel. They came to
Washington from White Sulphur
Springs.
Mr. and Mrs. Basil Gordon are
spending the week-end with Mrs.
George Barnett at Wakefield Manor,
Va. ’ -4-
Mrs. Frederick A. Johnson of
Holmead place, Mount Pleasant, has
gone to Minnesota to spend the
month of July. She was accompa
nied as far west as Chicago by her
son, Major Gerald A. Johnson, U. S.
M. C., who recently returned from
Santo Domingo after a service of
two years in the tropics.
Mrs. Mary Louise O’Connor has
just returned from Dublin, N. H.,
where she was the guest of Mr.
Norman Williams.
Dr. Maurice H. Herzmark. who
has been house surgeon at the
St. Agnes Hospital during the past
year, has returned from Baltimore
to spend a short time at his home
prior to his departure for Europe,
where he will visit the principal
surgical clinics.
Mannix Walker to
Give Dance Tonight.
Mannix Walker, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Ernest G. Walker, will enter
tain at a dance this evening In
honor of Curtis Thomas, a class
mate at Harvard.
Robert Ash and his mother, Mrs.
John R. Ash, have returned from
a two-week motor trip to Eagles
mere, Niagara Falls and elsewhere.
Mrs. Ash entertained a dinner
party of ten at the Domer House
Wednesday.
Frank Estabrook, member of the
Republican National Committee
from New Hampshire, entertained
informally at dinner last evening
on the Willard roof.
Patton-Wetzell Wedding
In Greenwich Saturday.
Miss Beatrice Patton, daughter of
Mrs. Almira Patton and the late
Rev. Matthew Patton of Coscob,
Conn., was married to Charles Wet
zel of Washington, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Charles A. Wetzel of Coscob,
Conn., at the home of the bride in
Greenwich, Conn., Saturday. The
Rev. Charles A. Whitemarsh, pas
tor of the Diamond Hill Methodist
Episcopal Church, officiated.
Mrs. F. C. Adams of Coscob, sis
ter of the bride, was matron of
honor, and Mrs. C. M. Patton of
New York, sister-in-law of the bride,
was bridesmaid. Howard Keller of
Montclair, N. J., cousin of the
bridegroom, was best man.
A reception followed the cere-
The couple will reside in
Washington.
St. James Dance to Be
At Montgomery Club.
./X dance for the benefit of the
' lo nal School of Music and Oper
a .ic Alt which was to be given in
he old Ringgold Mansion in Mary
land on Saturday evening, will be
7. ! . v t n at . I h e Montgomery Country
Club and tickets for it as well as
leservations for dinner preceding
he dance may be obtained from
Durham Rodger at 2924 Macomb
street.
Among the patronesses for the
party, which promises to be quite a
smart summer gayetv, are: Mrs.
''alter Tuckerman, Mrs. Thomas
Lell Sweeney, Mrs. Richard Har
low. Mrs. Basil Gordon, Mrs. Julian
L,* <U Mi’s. Walter Grove.
1 be men s floor committee Is head
ed by William Bowie Clarke, who
was one of the persons instru
mental in arranging the dance.
Some of the others of the com
mittee are Senor de Buenavista of
the Peruvian embassy. Dr. Paul
Lessinoff of the Bulgarian legation,
Hampson Gary, ’ Walter Tucker
man, Horace Luttrell, and Chester
Lockwood.
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Mrs. John Campbell Forrester,
who is now at the Curtis hotel,
Lonnox, Mass., will open her cot
tage. Tamarack, in Tvringham, this
week.
Mrs. Harry Kite is passing the
week-end with Mrs. Britten Brown
at her cottage at Cape May. N. J-
Mrs. King Carley and Mrs. J. Lee
Tailer are at Pine Lodge, Newport.
Major C. H. Wells, U. S. M. C.,
and Mrs. Wells have arrived at
Newport, R. i. t and are in their
cottage Major Wells was recently
detached from Quantico, Va., and
ordered to .the Naval War college
for inslructKms.
“Good Old Days” Not
So Good for Real
Housewives
Utterly beyond the grasp of
grandmother are the ideas of
electrical housekeeping and the
ease and grace of home-making
that the modern housewife has
at her command. The touch of
a button accomplishes in five
minutes what it took grand
mother as many hours to do.
“They didn’t do that when
I was a young married wom
an,” grandmother sighs when
her newly married grand
daughter puts the dinner in the
electric oven to cook, turns on
the current, sets the thermo
stat (or control) that will shut
off the electricity when the
meal is done, and then puts on
her hat and goes calmly off to
a matinee. “Times have
changed since I was a girl.”
Perhaps grandmother is a bit
too set in her old-fashoined
ways. She forgets the drudg
ery that occupied her to such
an extent when she was a
young woman. In those days
a housewife’s love for her
home was gauged by her ca
pacity for household drudgery.
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The old kerosene lamp is be
coming but a memory, according to
J. B. Baily, of the department of
electrical engineering of Purdue
University in a speech broadcast
from the university station.
"As night comes on.” said Dr.
Baily, "instead of getting the old
lamp out, we press-a button and
the whole house is illuminated in
every corner. In 1882 the cen
tral station industry in the United
States, operating at Appleton, Wis
consisted for a brief period of a
single plant having a capacity of
250 low-power carbon lamps. In
1922 the estimated central station
output was 2.000,000,000 kilowatt
hours, and of this output about a
third is used for lighting. Os
this lighting load about 25 per
cent is used in residence lighting.”
How the “Iron” Is
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time iron was replaced with a self-heated
iron—a slight improvement.
Now—all work, strain and annoyance of
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weight and on mutton 35 per cent.”
It is of course natural for roasts
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an oven where the heat cannot be
confined. The moisture, the savor,
and much of the “good” in meats
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Electric ovens are so constructed
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electric method, too, the heat control
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the cook is not harassed with
“keeping up the fire” or discovering
there is too much or too little heat
to accomplish the proper cooking
of that day’s menu.
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from the combustion of the saw
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ELECTRIC DIVINING RODS
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An electrical divining rod that
will locate whiskey caches and
stills may be the development
some day soon from the electrical
divining rod used in Sweden that
simplifies the work of prospecting
for hidden minerals.
The Swedish device has already
proved its usefulness by the dis
covery of rich copper deposits in
that country.
ITALY AND GREECE PLAN TO
REBUILD PHONE SYSTEMS
The Italian and Greek telephone
systems, both to be reconstructed,
will call for much electrical equip
ment from the United States, ac
cording to export figures in the
trade press. The Italian telephone
system is being turned over from
government ownership to com
mercial corporations.
The cost of the Greek reconstruc
tion work on its contemplated en
larged telephone system is esti
mated at 65,000,000 drachmas, or
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