March 17, 1916. 
packed to hear Robert Lovett discuss the effect of the 
war on feminism, after which they responded enthusiastic- 
ally to calls for money and for recruits in the June suf- 
frage parade. The fashionable Chicago Equal Suffrage 
association promised 1000 recruits, various women rais- 
ing 10 to 100 marchers. 
“He’s so reckless he’s always taking chances.” 
“Oh, do send him to our charity bazaar.” 
WASHINGTON 
Mrs. John C. Phillips, mother of Mrs. Andrew J. 
Peters, has left Boston to remain a month at Woodley, 
the home of the Peterses, while they are absent in South 
America. 
Sos 
The White House has been the scene of several small 
and informal receptions or teas when Mrs. Wilson meets 
informally certain groups of people by invitation. One 
afternoon last week she met in this way the various so- 
ciety writers of Washington. 
Oo 8 O° 
Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Leiter and the latter’s sister, 
Miss Francise Williams returned last Saturday from a 
cruise in southern waters in their house-boat. They came 
directly from New Orleans. 
o % 
Mrs. William F. Draper and Miss Margaret Preston 
Draper entertained last week at their home on K street. 
The ‘dinner table was beautifully decorated in yellow 
roses and ferns. The guests were the Russian Ambas- 
sador and Mme. Bakhmeteff, the Italian Ambassador and 
Countess di Cellere, the Charge d’Affaires of Argentina 
and Mrs. Quintana, Mr. and Mrs. William Collier, Mr. 
and Mme. Scherbatskoy, Mme. Wilikin, Admiral and 
Mrs. Clover, Miss Manuela de Pena, Miss Eudora Clover, 
Baron von Ungern, Jules Blondel, Leslie Buswell, Edwin 
Flather and John Hays Hammond, Jr. 
Mrs. Roland Cotton Smith will soon give a reception 
at which many friends will have an opportunity to see the 
recently completed portrait of the Rev. Dr. Smith. The 
canvas is the work of Wallace Bryant of Boston ard h-s 
been on view at Moore’s gallery the last week. 
Oo 8 9 
Miss Frances Moore of Pride’s Crossing was among 
the young folk entertained at dinner at the Shoreham by 
John Pitney in honor of Miss Anne Bradley of Moors- 
town, N. J. 
Oo & 
Miss Padelford, Mrs. Nicholas Longworth, Henry 
du Pont, Mrs. Marshall Field, who had in her box Mr. 
and Mrs. Lawrence Townsend and the Misses Patten, 
were among the guests at the National Theatre concert 
last week. 
Oo 8 
Mr. and Mrs. Lyon Weyborn (Ruth Anthony) re- 
turned from New Orleans last week, where they had 
been on their honeymoon, and were registered at the 
Willard. Henry A. Wise Wood and his daughter, Miss 
Elizabeth Wood of New York and Annisquam, were at 
the Willard also. Mrs. S. Reed Anthony and Miss Mary 
C. Sears were at the Shoreham. 
Mr. and Mrs. Philip H. McMillan of Detroit met 
Lady Harrington of England, when she arrived in New 
York for a visit in this country with her mother, Mrs. 
James McMillan of Washington and Manchester. — Sir 
John Lane Harrington is an officer of the British army 
cn the western front. 
NORTH SHORE BREEZE | 5 
Mrs. Marshall Field, aunt of Mrs. Albert J. Beve- 
ridge, will close her Washington home the first week in 
April. It is expected she will make a brief visit in Chic- 
ago before going to Dublin, N. H., for the summer. 
o % 
Assistant Secretary and Mrs. Andrew Peters are in 
the party going to the conference at Buenos Aires on the 
U.S. S. Tennessee with Secretary of the Treasury and 
Mrs. McAdoo, 
o % 
Mrs. Francis Crowninshield is being extensively en- 
tertained during her visit in Washington. She was a 
guest last week when Mrs. James Carroll Frazer gave a 
dinner for 18 at her home. 
oOo 8 
Mrs. Henry’ Cleveland Perkins and Mrs. William 
Draper were among the patronesses at the smart gather- 
ing of Washington society folk last week at Rauscher’s 
when the Junior League gave the “Gypsy Prince,” a de- 
lightful little play in which the stars and the whole cast 
covered themselves with laurels. 
Robert Bolling and eight of his classmates from 
Harvard attended a dinner-dance for about 75 at the new 
house of Mr. and Mrs. Raynal C. Bolling at Greenwich, 
Conn. The affair was in honor of the debut of the Misses 
Mary and Elizabeth Lanier of Greenwich. Mrs. Bolling 
is the daughter of Mrs. John C. Phillips of Beverly. 
PATRIOTISM was the subject of one of Lyman Ab- 
bott’s editorials in the March 8th issue of The Out- 
look. The editorial said: “A nation is made great, 
not by its fruitful acres, but by the men who cultivate 
them; not by its great forests, but by the men who use 
them; not by its mines, but by the men who work in them; 
not by its railways, but by the men who build and run 
them. America was a great land when Columbus dis- 
ccvered it; Americans have made of it a great Nation. 
“In 1776 our fathers had a vision of a new Nation 
‘conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that 
all men are created equal.’ Without an army they fought 
the greatest of existing world empires that they might 
realize this vision. A third of a century later, without a 
navy they fought the greatest navy in the world that they 
might win for their. Nation the freedom of the seas. Half 
a century later they fought through an unparalleled Civil 
War that they might establish for all time on this con- 
tinent the inalienable right of life, liberty, and the pur- 
suit of happiness. A third of a century later they fought 
to emancipate an oppressed neighbor, and, victory won, 
gave back Cuba to the Cubans, sent an army of school- 
masters to educate for liberty the Filipinos, asked no war 
indemnity from their vanquished enemy, but paid him 
liberally for his property. Meanwhile they offered land 
freely to any farmer who would live upon and cultivate 
it, opened to foreign immigrants on equal terms the door 
of industrial opportunity, shared with them _ political 
equality, and provided by universal taxation for universal 
education. 
“The cynic who can see in this history only a theme 
for his egotistical satire is no true American, whatever 
his parentage, whatever his birthplace. He who looks 
with pride upon this history which his fathers have writ- 
ten by their heroic deeds, who accepts with gratitude the 
inheritance which they have bequeathed to him, and who 
highly resolves to preserve this inheritance unimpaired 
and to pass it on to his descendants enlarged and enrich- 
ed, is a true American, be his birthplace or his parentage 
what it may.” 
