Show I WASHINGTON VASI 1 h I LETTER i By ny MIt 1 Service Senke Writer r WASHINGTON W April 23 It It Is hard lIard to recall offhand whether or not Emily Post the tho authority on which olive fork to use for ripe olives and how many petals to re remove re- re remove remove move in denuding denuding- an artichoke wrote anything about ballyhooing some personage as the flagship of ones one's party before inviting inviting- said personage If It not Emily must have consid consid- considered ered cred such warning superfluous It has been the tho habit of or numer- numer oue time small New York social clubs to advertise that some celeb celeb- celebrity celebrity rity or other would be guests of or honor at the clubs club's next shindig Whereupon tho the tariff would be bo boosted to a couple instead of the customary 75 cents Perhaps the meringue of ot the themore themore themore more manicured portion of ot Washington WashIngton Wash ash ington society Is not to be com com- compared compared compared pared with the ladles ladies and gents of oC the tho Royal Assembly of Mulberry street or tho the Twenty- Twenty second Ward Beefsteak and Black Dlack Bottom associates perhaps we say But Dut It U is now certain that the tho Spanish ambassador Senor Don Von Alejandro ladilla y hell Dell and the Spanish ambassadors ambassador's wife Senora S Dona Cormen de do Padilla are neither taking les los lessons sons In social etiquette from frons these social organizations nor lessons In Spanish social customs from the aforesaid meringue All of oC which is part ot or the hitherto unwritten history of ot the swell elegant Ml MI-Careme fiesta Clesta re recently to- to recently promoted by the queens of ot the local jungle This fiesta was what is often orten known as a ball bali or dance and the surplus if any was to go for Cor a few tew timbers to prop up the roof root of ot decrepit Monticello time one-time abode ot of Thomas Jeffer Jeffer- Jefferson son toward which all devout Dem Dem- Democrats Democrats face Cace as M they the kneel kne l to pray for another honest Democratic president In tn the tho 1914 19 19 election Wouldn't It be Just too picturesque picturesque esque for anything to have ha a l real Spanish fiesta Clesta someone Suggested You bet It would and lets let's call it Careme Ml-Careme because Careme Ml-Careme was the occasion when all good dons and senoritas came up for tor a breath of ot air In mid-lent mid So everyone e began to feel very Span Span- Spanish SpanIsh ish isis there was much humming of stray bars bau b r of La Paloma a al a. a 1 I That ful Cui Kid from Ma Ma- Madrid Madrid and in a burst ot of enthusiasm earn It was announced that Senor Don Von Padilla and Senora Dona Dons Pa Pa- Padilla dilla would be the guests guest of ot hon lion or Yes Yea Indeed they would oc oc- occupy occupy oc- oc occupy cupy a specially decorated box In a moment of extreme mental thought to break the news to Senora Dona Dons Padilla And then Senora Dona Dons Padilla broke oke some news to the committee Careme Ml How ely lo But really real that Isn't a Spanish custom Its It's French It Is true that some seine people do dance in Spain during lent but no one I know So sorry Ive I've never been to a I mid lenten dance danee In Madrid and really I couldn't do 10 It here herc Ml Mi Is simply simp the French word wor l for Cor mid lent Spain says It differently The ambassador or himself was as ap appealed ap- ap appealed pealed to In the privacy of ot his boudoir he has been laughing Illus about it over ever since But the tho social lioness must pot pos possess sess seas the hide hl e of a rhino If It she would lead lea the pack Nobody wanted wan led to 10 wear French rench l costumes The fiesta Clesta had been named Mi- Mi Careme and that was Vas all nil there was to it It Perhaps Senora Sonora Dona Padilla would consent to adjust the tho mantillas for certain favored ta ladles ladies and see that Just the right amount of ot lace hung shaft abaft Oh yes es certainly which certainly which meant that there would be something Spanish about it after all So the French ambassador M al 1 Paul Claudei was roped In as the guest of oC honor full advantage ad was vaa taken of ot the fact that some of oC the Latin American diplomats will go anywhere where refreshments arc are served and an allegedly Spanish dancer was Imported from New York Whether hether the French ambassador groped grop d for smelling salts when he ho arrived and found himself sur sur- surrounded surrounded surrounded rounded by Spanish costumes for Cor Careme Ml-Careme has not been revealed He lie probably muttered |