The Savannah morning news., 1904-01-10
AT THE CAPITAL.

Washington, Jan. 9.-Miss Alice
Roosevelt carried luck in her hand on
New Years Day, and has launched still
another fad in Washington society.
Instead of flowers or fan or lorgnette
or dingle- bangles at the end of q rope
of pearls, the daughter of the President
sported a silver wish-bone from the
time of her appearance at the White
House reception New Years morning,
until the young peoples dinner at s
o'clock. with which the gayeties of the
day concluded.
The wish-bone occasioned vast
amount of interest as we'll as amuse-
ment among Miss Roosevelt's friends.
1t was the one New Years gift that
especially appealed to this original
young girl and she explained. laugh
ingly, that it was to bring her good
luck throughout the year.
Last spring Miss Roosevelt set the
style of carrying a gold tipped cane,
and the girls of Washington adopted
1t without a murmur, appearing on the
street and at bazaars with airy fairy
sticks that quite dazzled the youth of
Washington.
Now the wish-bon craze has set in
and the local jewellers have booked a
lot of orders for wish bones of silver,
gold and jewel-studded platinum. Be
fore many days the girls of Washing
tons smart set will display a wish bone
as talisman and a badge of fashion.
One legation attache begged to ex-
change a gorgeous jeweled order that
decorated his chest for Miss Roose-
velts wish-bone New Years morning,
but the latter declared she would not
part with her lucky bauble for the big
pearl atop of the Chinese minister's
cap. And still another manAan Amer
lean this time-tried to barter his gold
rabbits foot for the much-coveted
wish-bone. Miss Roosevelt declared
that rabbits feet could not be men,
toned in the same breath with wish
bones, so now the college man and the
poker man and the man of all-around
fashionable sports will carry the rab-
bits foot back to the graveyard at the
dead of the moon, bury it deep and turn
up at the club with a wish-bone in his
pocket.
Miss Roosevelt's word is law in
Washington society, and now that she
has started the wish-bone fad, it is
bound to boom.
Speaker of the House.
Uncle Joe" Cannon. is going to be
the roaring lion of official society this
winter. Since the days Of Gen. Will
liam Tecumseh Sherman there has not
been a success among elderly men
like that of Uncle Joe" at the first
state levee of the season at the White
House, New Years morning. He was
the feature of the day, a quaint lit
tie old gentleman, broad-shouldered
and slim wasted, with a beeming
smile just above a short, square-crop-
ped beard that extends from ear to
ear and is sufficiently frosted to make
color contrast with his sun-tinted
Roman nose.
Uncle Joe" smiles with his mouth
and talks with his arms. His ies-
lures are famous and almost as uni
que as his society bow. When en-
gagged in conversation, the Speakers
left arm describes a mighty backward
sweep that throws his coat to wind
ward off the shoulder, and on the re-
turn swing his great wristplay gets
in it's work until you are morally GER
tain the pointed fore-finger will be
shaken out of joint. Then comes into
action the right arm, straight up and
with such vlgor as to send the coat
tails flying and every finger is ex-