The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-06-23
WASHINGTON
W0MEN'S FADS
Mrs. Roosevelt Is Changing Dec.
OratiOns of White House.
MRS. HAY MAKES CALLS AFOOT
SOCIETY WOMEN OF THE CAPT.
tai ARE GREAT FADDISTS.

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w Washington society leaders at
tract more attention than the
women of any other city in the coun-
try. Mrs. RooseveIts actions are chron-
icied with a minuteness that must oc-
casionally surprise the first lady of
the land. Her untiring energy has
been a source OF unbounded admiration
to Washington women. who are not
much given TO over-exertion. Through
her efforts, the interior of the White
House is taking on an appearance ln1rc
IN keeping with it's colonial exterior.
! heretofore its movable decorations
nave consisted of the cast-Off bric-a-
! prac or the long procession of presi-
Denial families that has filed through
IL. On the whole, the mansion looked
a good deal like a badly furnished fat
Mrs. Roosevelt has changed all that.
The lncongruities have been relegaJed
10 that mysterious region where old
vases and useless clocks find q resting
place. The mistress Of the White House
spends innumerable hours in old curios-
ity shops and among the collection If
antiques which abound in the capital.
Ancient silver plaques, grandfather
clocks and hangings of colonial tapes
try are some of the fruits of the search.
she has planned the contemplated
changes and enlargement of the White
House. 1t is to her the country will
/ be indebted if the mansion still retains
its colonial aspect In many instances
she has determined to obliterate van
DIAL Improvements upon its style and
architecture
Mr.. Hay Likes Caricatures.
Mrs. Hay. the premiere lady of the
cabinet, is wholly without fads. unless
walking can be so classed. She is the
only Washington lady who prefers TO
make her calls on foot. However, she
takes a great interest in her husbands
rad for original caricatures and car
toOns. Mr.. Hay has a remarkably fine
collection. Some of Du Maurier's best
sketches are to be found here. The
secretary of state has more than a
hundred cartoons of himself, drawn by
the best artists of the day. Many of
them are from Punch and Figaro. it
is interesting to study the foreign idea
Of a representative American, particu-
larly when some of the conceptions Of
our great statesmen re not flttarIag.
Mrs. Elihu Root acknowledges a SYM
pathy for the abused feline. She nearly
always has a dozen pensioners at a cat
hospital in the suburbs 1t is the back
alley cat that appeals to her charity,
not the silky-COated pet of fashion. Il
is no unusual thing for her to adopt the
hero of a hundred street battles and
nurse him back to responsibility, or
place him out of the way Of temptation
to love or adventure by means of a
gentle dose of chIoroform.
Whole Family Horse Crazy.
Mrs. Knox says, laughingly, that her
whole family is horse crazy. They ad-
mire all horses, but their special love
is lavished on -trstters. Every men,
Der of the family has a special horse
pet, and the Intimacy between them
and their individual faYOTites is we'll
known TO their friends.
But the greatest of the faddists is
Countess Marguerite Cassini. It is a
difficult matter to keep count of this
little ladys innumerable hobbies. She
brought with her to Washington three
fiOffy dogs, VINO went with her when
ever she stirred abroad, and at home
were nuisance to the Russian am
/ bassadOr, who failed to find anything
in civilized languages to express bis
/ feelings toward them. The dogs were
sUpplanted by the automobile. Then
she took to riding. and now she can
be seen often on a pretty sorrel mare.
Among these run several minor fads.
One which has been cherished all win
| ter and copied by almost every woman
in Washington, from shop girl to So
! ciety leader, is an enormous rosette
of white chiffon az the back of the
neck. The countess bow is bigger than
any ones else. In fact, it is doubtful
| if any other woman would dare wear
such a rOsette. She is never without
! it, and you may know her on horse
/ back or afOot by her neckwear. But
| the Countess Cassini is a fencer, a
, hOrsewOman, a. dancer. belle and
everything else that is pleasing, and
! TO every new fancy she devotes her
/ whole self, so that she seems to have
/ but one fad, though she may be riding
three or four Of her hobbies abreast.
Strictly a Grecian Room.
( Mrs. Herbert Wadsworth. whose
/ home is. one of the most beautiful on
/ Dupont Circle, is a devOtee Of roly
/ hymnia- She gathers about her a
/ group Of pretty girls. who robe them
| selves in flowing GTecian garments with
sandals and Psyche knots bound with
a gold circlet, and chant Greek Odes
/ to the music of the ripe of Pan. Mrs.
| Wadsworth has a rom which is an
! exact copy Of a hall in a ruin at Ath-
/ ems. No one may enter this sacred
( apartment who is not CARRIED as de-
/ scribed.
Mrs. John B. Henderson, wife of the
( ex-senator of Missouri, is the vege-
1 tartan of society, and practices physi-
| cal culture as a sister fad. Her friends
/ declare these hobbies are not congenial,
( and one or the other must perish. Mrs
! Henderson goes serenely on. She gives
/ dinner parties at which only vegeta-
/ bles are served, but some Of them are
! so cleverly disguised that they have
4, almost the taste Of outlets and beef.