The Savannah morning news., 1903-11-29

lomatic corps. Ill health is assigned as
the reason. In that event the wife of
the Secretary of the Treasury, Mrs.
Shaw, will stand next to Mrs. Roose-
welt in the receiving line at the White
House reception, and at all other Off
cial functions, and be the ranking fem
mime member of the administration
circle in society. The Attorney General
| and Mrs. Knox and family went to
| their newly purchased estate at Valley
Forge, Pa, on Wednesday to spend
Thanksgiving and several days there
after. Mrs. Knox and her daughter
will not be at home or Wednesdays in
Washington until after Jan. l.
The speaker of the House gave his
first entertainment in his new office
on Monday evening, in the form of
dinner to the Illinois delegation in
6IongresS. Their family party for
Thanksgiving Day, Miss Helen Can
non being mistress of the house, in
Guided Mr.. Cannons married daughter
and her children from Danville, III.
Lady Herbert, widow of the late am
bassador from Great Britain, and her
sister, Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt, Jr.,
who spent last week in Washington.
have returned to New York, where
Lady Herbert will remain with her
parents most of the winter. Lady
Herberts visit here was a sad one
the object of it being to remove her
personal effects and those of her fam
lily from the British embassy, which
will shortly be occupied by her hns-
/ bands successor. During her short
residence here she made the embassy
a place of delightful hospitality, and
had planned yet more brilliant func-
lions for the approaching season. She
has the heartfelt sympathy of hun
dreds of Washington friends who
learned to love and respect her for
the qualities of mind and heart which
made her so conspicuous a credit to
her native land and to the land of her
adoption.
The National Society of the Red
Cross, which has been deplorably rent
by dissentions for a year past, hopes
to readjust it's differences at the next
annual meeting, Dec. 8. The twenty
three suspended members who made
the trouble Including two ex-cabinet
| officers, President Roosevelt's sister, an
eX-m1nister abroad. and half a dozen
lawyers, male and female), have been
invited to bury the hatchet and return
to the fold. Whether they accept the
proffered olive branch or not, remains
to be seen. They have incurred con-
siderable personal expense for printing
and disseminating literature derogato-
ry to Miss Barton and her work, and
have accused her of about all the
crimes in the calendar in the way of
dishonesty; and have promised to bring
all their batteries to bear upon Con-
gress this winter with a view to the
utter ruin of that good woman and her
life work. Miss Barton, however haV-
ing greater things in her mind, has
paid little attention to their efforts.
She has been deeply engaged in the
new department of the Red Cross, or
ganized last summer. known as the
First Aid Department. Said she in a
recent interview: Its work has been
sorely needed. and we believe that it
will fill very important place. A lee
ture course is provided wherever the
work is taken up. 1t teaches practi-
ca1ly what every intelligent citizen
should know of first aid Glasses are
formed and the lectures are delivered
by experts. So far, the work has been
pushed chiefly in New England In
Massachusetts and Connecticut large
classes are being instructed in many
towns. Red Cross ambulance brigades
are organized as a second feature of
the first aid department. They con-
SloI VI graduates Oh the classes. 1t is
intended that they shall form perma-
nent, active division of the Red Cross
for field service in times of war or
national calamity
The first aid'' movement has re-
ceived much encouragement from Gov
ernors and other state officers, to whom
it has been necessary to appeal in con-
nection with the plan to mako the a M
bulance brigade useful in time of war.
1t is Miss Barton's idea that these
brigades shall, if invited by the state
Governors, become incorporated with
the state militias to form the ambu-
lance division of the regiments. The
truth is that in spite of SANDER and
opposition, the work of the Red Cross