The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-02-06
SOME SENATORS
NOT ON THE LIST
Invitations to State Dinners Always
Go TO Same Persons.
SOCIETY IN WASHINGTON
UNDERSTANDINGS HAVE MOST
OF THE FUN.
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Special to The 4erald)
Washington, Feb. 5.-Lady Cto new
servant)-You quite understand, Bird
get, that 1 shall only be at home every
Wednesday from 10 ;?
Bridget-Yis, mum. Go herself)-
Bridget, me swate soul, if liver d woman
had hivenly sitivation, sure it's yer
self has got il. Wild the mistress only
at home fur two hours livery wake,
phwat roarin' time OF can have az
it,
This is the way the conventional
phase AT Home" strikes the simple
minded. So much official life in Wash
ingtor has had a marked effect upon
the ways of the simplest and the quiet
est in the city, until it has become the
veriest necessity TO have ones day
sandwiched in sometime during the
short week. Even the woman in mod
crate circumstances calls on from three
20 five hundred at least once during a
session of congress. Nobody ever has
own home but trusts to luck to see her
at some other house. Indeed. if il
were not for casual meeting, shopping,
at the market, or in the street car, no
v-~"lan would ever have the chance to
talk to any other woman in Washing
ton.
Depends Upon Hostess.
o introduce or not 10 introduce.
That is the harassing question There
is no cast iron formula as an answer
1t all depends upon the tact OF the
hostess. There is that hostess who
seizeS you the instant you enter and
out of the fullness of her heart carries
you all around the room fun of people,
leaving you at the end with jumbled
list of names in your head not one of
which you could tit upon his owner
if you had to- How YOU wish she
would just introduce you to two or
three nice people with whom you could
really talk. Then there are other
houses where absolutely no introduc-
tons are made, because everybody
that is anybody belongs to our set and
we all know each other" Sometimes
there does stumble into this select as
semblage the shy little woman who
does not beyong to ''our set" and who
stands by herself appearing to enjoy
the glass of punch the kind-hearted
butler has handed her. She does not
get half as much pleasure out of II as
the crowd outside, who stand punched
in the swapping cold trying to catch a
glimpse of the guests as they step out
of their carriages only 20 be swallowed
up in the awnings. Canvas awnings
are almost universally used nowadays
without regard to the weather. They
serve as protection from the curious
and as shield from the cold. WASH
ington has taken to having a northern
climate with sleighing some part Of
every week from the middle Of Noven-
Der. The people have gone into heavy
furs and sealskin coats The latter
solutely useless in the genial climate Of
the capital.
Bryan's White House Visit.
Mr.. Bryan's recent visit TO the White
House and his public Endorsement of
f.,fg OF 6 I1ra-slor,f DAAeaxrpIf have
caused much talk of hopeful tendency
i'm political life, namely, the growing
liberation and even Endorsement of GER
tain of one party's policies by many
adherents of the opposite party In the
abstract. ii seems simple enough that
all persons, irrespective of party, should
be for those measures that are plainly
for the public welfare. But devotion to
party lines has long been the slogun.
and when men Of Bryan's prominent
position give up the old idea that party
regularity prevents SecOnding helpful
measures advocated by the opposite
party, it is a long step in the line of
helpful measures for the government
of the country. If this keeps up the
remark of A certain senator viii be-
come null and void. He exclaimed one
day after a strenuous debate that all
the use there is for Democrats. any
how, is to oppose when you want TO do
something"
Canteen Has No Chance.
Canteens VIII not be re-estabiished in
the army for many years to come. is the
pessimistic opinion OF the most san
guine of those who have the best con-
ditions OF the enlisted man at heart. II
spite of the weight Of evidence of an
nuaI reports based on the close study
of army officers, in spite Of the petitions
of the women who know conditions
from their work for the Army and Navy
league, the attitude Of congress viii not
permit any change toward the abroga-
ton of the anti-canteen law The in
terest back of it, the w. c. T. T., and
the plainly enlightened liquor dealers
of the country, will keep the statutes
on the books until the women who
know the truth. who put the Army and
Navy league on the right trend. can
make patent the sin that is done in
sending the enlisted man to the dives
and low resorts that have lowered the
morale of the enlisted man since the
canteen was abolished.
Some Are snubbed.
There is grievance voiced in certain
senatorial sets about the method Of
choosing guests for the state dinner.
Some senators and a few representa-
tives figure year in and year out at
these formal bau-Suets- There are 9th
ers who have never stretched their feet
under the White House mahogany since
Roosevelt took possession. Some Of
these are high in the presidents re-
gard and the councils Of the party. Men
like Moses +. Ciapp of Minnesota, JUL
ius G. Burrows of Michigan. and 4
score of others, are never asked to the
White House banquets. In some cases
il might be suggested that some of the
senators are not socially inclined and
do not subscribe 10 the popular notions
of etiquette but this does not apply to
Senator Burrows. Senator Clapp and at
least dozen more. a small circle OF
men who wear the toga are regularly
present at these affairs. Senators
Lodge Kean. Depew. Plat. Hale, Wet