The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1905-02-10
LETTERS LIKELY
TO Leave CAPITAL
Washington Palace OF Famous
Family to Announced to
Be for Sale.
GIRLS ALL WE'D ABROAD
on!y the Famous Brother Joe is Left
Unscarred by the Shafts of Cupid
General Social Doings Of
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Washington letter: The reio'-
persistent in Washington that tho
Letters are about to quit this city FOG
good and all. While it has been denied
ny one member of the family, II
known that one of the more prominent
real estate agents on II street has been
given a quiet commission to see wha.
:he Letter mansion or Dupont circlo
will bring in the market. one business
1nen is authority for the statement that
tnlf Il million dollars will get the house
innd furnishings.
The big Letter house. on the Circi.
las been closed for the winter. Mrs.
Letter will sail on the nth of Dccem-
Der for Liverpool in company With her
aeW Son-in-law and daughter, and with
Miss Daisy. They will join Lady Cur
lon in London and will accompany her
ON her return trip to India rs far as
Port S:id. where they expect To stop
and make plans for wintering in Egypt.
The entire elimination OF the Letters
from the social world of Tho capital wilt
De felt as quite II loss. 1t is neu,ly
swenty years since the old business
partner OF Mashall Field drew out and
came to Washington for a life of
leisure and Il social career. WashinG-
ton was the doorway to the society
world. 1t has served its purpose for
the Letters. The married daughters
find all their principal interests abroad,
and there is only Joseph. and he is busy
ilaying at war at Zeig!er. Ill.
Alice RooseveIt's Plans.
Again the story pops up. with contir-
nation. that Miss Alice Roosevelt it to
go abroad as soon as she has done her
duty by the winters social season and
seen her father installed in the White
House, president in his OWN right. Soon
after March 4 she Will probably be
taken under the care of the White
laws Reds, and will be booked for
England. There will be some agreeable
house parties there, after which Miss
Alice is planning to go to the con-
tinent, where she will doubtless be the
object of attention from royalty, not
forgetting the German emperor.
The first of Miss Alice Roosevelt's
entertaining at the White House was
The invitation received by Nj. and Mrs.
Robert C;oelet TO spend a few days at
her fathers temporary residence. There
was n dinner, and later the young pco-
pie were entertained by Mrs. Town
send and a few other Neutrality-suspicious.
who are on Miss .A,ice's visiting list.
The presidents daughter is to pay up
some her social debt this winter, rs
we'll as help her rlother to do the
honors of the executive mansion,
Moody Is Eligible.
William II. Moody, attorney general.
Is a bachelor, aud perhaps the most
eligible one in the official set of Wash
lngton. He has everything now To
make him manageable except n lot
of money. OF wealth he has no large
store. He came to Washington as a
humble member of congress from Bcs-
ton. and while working for his constItu-
ents spent his 5000 Il year. Then he
was suddenly and quite uncxpectclly
Invited to enter the cabinet. where he
receives 5000 II yea. But he is Obliged
I" entertain some. and to live as BELTS
a cabinet officer. and he is not getting
rich on the margin of savings. There
fore he was tempted to take oppor-
tunities which came to him to get into
IL lucrative law practice: but finally
Needed to postpone this nth ne could
fetire With some kind of a record.
There are ambitious mothers in Wash
lnStoE who would be willing to take
q chance on Moody for daughter.
Mrs. De kovcn Returns.
Mrs. Reginald De Koven. who has
been living quietly on account of tie
Heath of her father, the late Charles
f;arwcll. of Chicago. has returned To
the capital. and opened Il house on
Thirteenth street. Some interest at
tends the coming ou this winter OF
Miss ~l.stelle DE Eoven. their only
~ ''N' ''Fh III ! III y otiic t'lN
has been educated With great thor
onSililess. unIar the close personal
supervision of her mother. and is a
skilled musician and Il thorough Lam
EuaGe scholar. She is Il graduate OF
BrNn MaWr
Mrs. Dc koven is cherishing the idea
OF a return TO literary pursuits. She is,
Ill her sister. Mrs. Chatfield TAYLOR,
who has taken up bootbinding and
printing for n career. and believes that
every person. man or woman. is NOR.
happy if thoroughly Interested in some
useful occupation. After the debut OF
her daughter and some steering of her
small craft IN the first turbulent waters
OF society, Mrs. DE owe ma return
10 literature and write books for her
sister to print and read.
The De kovens are pioneers in
Washington in the Sunday entertain
ing. Every Sunday afternoon the
street about the old General Mcigs
house is packed with automobiles, cabs
and carriages.
Mrs. Shaw Likes Capital.
One reason why Secretary Shaw
needs more than a hint to get him out
q daughter. Enid, who wants Il season
in the capital. Mrs. Shaw believes
that her daughter. who comes out this
winter. would enjoy it more to come out
in Washington than in Denison, la.
The president wishes that MIR. Shaw
would feel called to Iowa, or any other
place. lie has another man in his
mind for the treasury portfolio.
A Brilliant Explanation.
Before Thomas T.. Watson became ST.