The age-herald., 1902-05-11

angry and outraged by the rulership as- stunned by Mrs. Hay, the daughter of a self-made millionaire will not, it seems, seek to carry the war to their own homes in the South. By the beginning of the next society season, their wrath will have been calmed, and they will quietly ignore Mrs. Hay instead of pursuing the boy colt which their sisters of the east and west have determined upon.
 Thus you may see that amongst the "Congressional ladies' remaining in Washington there has been a great deal of exciteme ent and no little feeling of resentful bitterness. The effect of Mrs Hays action will not be fully observed until the next season, her decree having been issued too late to have any con siderable direct bearing at this time. Next winter there will assurdely be very lively times in society here. for the Con gressional ladies' and all their friends have made up their minds to cut Mrs. Hay, to decline to recognize her person. ally or otherwise.
 In this relation, curious story is now current in Washington and is greatly en- joyed by the women whom Mrs. Hay has offended, and by their husbands and friends. It is this: When the invitations to the recent marriage of Secretary Hays daughter to the son of William c. Whit ney were sent out, they bore the DOT trait of the Secretary of State, father of The bride premier of the American gov ernment and co-arbiter of the Republican court of America. This act of crudeness and boorishness, so like the act of a stablemen sending out his advertising cards. is believed to be wholly without precedent in any class of society, from the slums to the White House.
 Persons who dealtin the more personal gossip concerning the great, continue to babble about the more intimate family relation of the President. They go so far as to say that the charming and ami able Mrs. Roosevelt is actually jealous of the society influence of her equally charming and amibale stepdaughter. Miss Alice Roosevelt
 This sort of talk Is not only rude, but openly false. Mrs. Roosevelt herself is a most motherly and wifely type of the wtll-bred woman;, she Is of those women who prefer their own homes and their own households to the excitement and display of the outside world. She im- presses one as being the ideal wife and mother, and that type of good woman whom the Scotch adore as 8 "home- body one who loves her home and prefers 1t at all times to all other places; and 1t is clear to every one who has observed Mrs. Roosevelt and Miss Roosevelt to- gether in society, that Mrs. Roosevelt takes great pride and joy in the gracious ness, sweetness and personal popularity of the younger woman.
 As for Miss Roosevelt, her bearing as the world sees her Is that of the ideal young girl, blushing and bubbling over with the great happiness of her first sea- son In society. and her first society con- quests. She is a happy young girl, and looks 1t all the time, acts it wherever she is seen. She is wholly unaffected, and resorts to none of the devices of makeup so common amongst young women of society, and elderly women as well; and she seems entirely and unselfshly de- voted to the sweet woman who took the place of her mother when she was a lit tie child. Therefore. it would appear that gossip to the effect that Mrs. Roosevelt is even in the smallest degree jealous of Miss Roosevelt's wide popularity, would seem all the more vulgar, and all the more outrageous on the part of those who indulge in vulgar gossip concerning great and small alike.
 Scott wrote that If you would see Melrose Abbey alright. you must see 1t by the pale moonlight" In similar spirit, one may say if you would see Washing. ton in it's most beautiful aspect, you must see it in the early days of May. The wilderness of trees, numbering more than a third of a million within the city proper are now full-leaved and gloriously green. All this city-full of greenness in these soft. days. suggest the hue of the Irish fields. so vivid and. so sparkling it seems. All of the cross streets up town are long avenues of trees, the branches of which meet and mingle in the centre of the roadway. The vistas thus formed are sur ,passirsxly- inviting and charming-. One