Newspaper Article, "Mrs. Victoria Geaney Relaxes on Ranch From Duties as Hostess at Blair and Prospect Houses," by Ruther Shumaker

= Society Mrs. Victoria Geaney Relaxes On Ranch From Duties as Hostess At Blair and Prospect Houses By RUTH SHUMAKER HAT better way to spend a vacation than relax- ing on one's own ranch? Doing just this is Mrs. cently of Prospect House. House, the Presidential guest quarters, and more re- Victoria Geaney, official "guardian" of Blair She's just completing the first week of her first real vacation in 11 years. Her job of making of the butter they had thought important visitors to our shores safe in a thermos jar. feel comfortable and at home is Victoria Geaney's accumulated one she wouldn't trade, but it leave could last until it's time usually keeps her on the go to move back into Blair House, seven days a week. but she undoubtedly won't be Many mornings she has been content to rest on her laurels to market and back by 7:30, that long. She may go trotting when most of Washington is over to a desk at the State de- catching its last 40 winks. And partment that's been hers since it's not unusual for her to wait she moved out of Prospect up until 4:30 a.m. for the ar- House and Rep. and Mrs. Thur- rival of some visiting dignitary. mond Chatham started to move To rest up at the ranch from in about mid-July. the social whirl looks pretty at. All the hard work of her of- tractive at the moment. To be ficial-chatelaine job is made up sure, Mrs. Geaney's land totals for, she believes, by the genuine only half an acre. But, she appreciativeness of the trav- reasons, half an acre in Cali- elers whose autographed pictures fornia is called a ranch, and fill the ranch-house's living why shouldn't it be the same room. Making our country's here? guests at home, she feels is do- Located in Oxon Hill, just 12 ing her bit for good interna- miles from Blair House, El tional relations. Rancho Geaney boasts a built- Already she is thinking about to-be-lived-in house that will be getting back to Blair House- four years old in. November. and the vacation's just begun! Among other features, the house has a 26-foot living room Miss Butler with fireplace, a glassed-in porch, a screened porch and a Picks Attendants spacious stone terrace. Miss Pearce Butler, whose the Lively Terriers orange-blossom date is Sept. 15, the has chosen her bridal attend- Share Homestead ants. Her wedding to Donald Young will take place in the Sharing the homestead with Blessed Sacrament church and Mrs. Geaney are two lively Bos- there will be a reception at the ton terriers, appropriately named Army-Navy country club. Princess Blair, or Cindy, and Maid of honor for her sister Princess Blair-Lee, or Tinker. will be Miss Caro Butler, and Cindy is dignified and well-be- the matron of honor will be haved, but Tinker bears watch- Mr. Young's sister, Mrs. Am- ing every minute. brose Hartknect. Slated to be The only crops the Ranchera bridesmaids are the Misses raises are grass and gay-hued Laura Alvord, Constance Logan, flowers. Like many another Jane McAtee, Joan Pennington, whose career is city-slanted, she Mary-Stuart Montague Price, likes to get out and dig in the Fay Rudolph, Shannon Ryan, good brown earth. It's a good Nancy Sullivan and Cynthia way, she finds, to relax and build Woll, Mrs. Wendall Neville Vest ('hitago up energy for a new round of so- and the bridegroom's sister-in- cial goings on. law. Mrs. Samuel A. Young jr. Tho for a week she has been Samuel A. Young jr., will be glad to do nothing, habit won't best man for his brother. Ush- allow her to continue such a ers will be another brother, la blissful existence for long. Thomas Young, and William She'll probably go to try out Joseph Butler jr., the bride's Maine's cooling sea breezes for brother; David Camack, Austin two weeks or so. And whether Canfield, James Miller, Joseph Tu in Maine or the Capital, and Ives, Robert Keefe, Archibald probably in both places at one MacGlasson, John J. McDonald timn or another, she's sure to jr., Arthur Stringer and Donats, BEAUTY OF de DA CAMISS woll, a bridesmaid. In two weers of her this female follower of Tzaak Tomorrow evening Miss Louise arrival in Washington. blonde and English borp,