The White House Week

The White House Week

P: Pink carnations, maidenhair ferns, golden candlesticks, 50 empty chairs were seen in the state dining salon of the White House. Soon, and promptly, the chairs were occupied, for the President and Mrs. Coolidge had opened the official Washington social season with the annual Cabinet dinner. Among those present were Vice President and Mrs. Dawes, the Cabinet members and their wives, Senator Charles Curtis of Kansas, and a few favored guests from Washington, New York, Boston, such as Bruce Barton, advertising man, writer of books on the Bible and Jesus; Dr. Vernon L. Kellogg, famed zoologist; Mortimer L. Schiff, potent Manhattan banker; all with their ladies.

P: Fresh from his homecoming jubilee at Cleveland, Col. Carmi A. Thompson, personal representative of President Coolidge in the Philippines, came to the White House to be a guest of the President. He presented a report.

P: The White House breakfast parties this last week have been something more significant than the, mere consumption of buckwheat cakes and sausage. "Old Guard" Senators and Representatives have come to talk tax reduction, insurgents have come to be placated (see p. 9), all have come to be jolly with the President.

P: The bees are in the tree, the coon is in his shelter, all's right with the "South Lot."* The President announced last week that he and Mrs. Coolidge are very fond of their wild swarm of bees. However, the President does not eat honey because it once made him sick when he was a little boy. As for the raccoon, which was sent to the President from Nitta Yuma, Miss. (TIME, Dec. 6), it has won its way into the Presidential affection and will not be sent to the zoo. An eternal coonship has been founded.

P: Dwight W. Morrow, classmate of President Coolidge's at Amherst College, partner in J. P. Morgan & Co., was an overnight guest at the White House.

* Rear grounds of the White House.