The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1907-06-06

VIII De only aDOut4nree miles from the
Summer home of 1.-THE Chief Executive.
and quite near enough to accept any
invitations to luncheon or dinner, If he
is fortunate enough to receive such. The
house he has leased is known as the old
Van Wyck place. and is 4 comfortable,
loid-fashioned residence, built many
years ago. 1t is set in tract of about
100 acres. has water front, and while
not exactly snowy place is most desir
able in every way.
They say that Queen Alexandra of
England is one of the most considerable
and simple of visitors. and wherever
she goes people are loud in her praises
in this respect. She seems all the time
to forget she is a great Queen, and to
try in every way to avoid giving tTOu-
BILE. Very different from her in this
regard was her lamented mother-in-
law, Queen Victoria, who. whenever she
went anywhere insisted upon having
her apartments entirely repapered, and
who always carried her own furniture
about with her. The late Empress OF
Russia when travelling invariably de-
clined to occupy any rooms at hotels or
palaces that were not papered. tapes
tried and furnished in light blue. When
the present Gar and Czarina travel
they take with them couple of cows
in order that the children may nave
absolutely fresh milk on the way. These
COWS spend most of their time in their
wheeled homes. which are most COM
Portable and even luxurious. For clean
illness their tails are passed thru silver
rings suspended from the roof of the
car by silken cords.
How to look pleasant. tho tired, is
one of the things taught by Nine.
Adolphe Erisson in her university at
Paris. which turns out the perfect
woman There are courses in poetic
dressmaking," in beauty culture. in wo-
mans coquetry. but nothing gives the
student so much trouble as the course
on looking pleasant when tired" The
Madame says that Of all her pupils she
has the most trouble with Americans in
this respect. Their expressions when
tired are, she says, one of fiSt gloom,
most unbecoming and most difficult to
alter.
unique society has just been in
corporated in New York City, composed
of prominent women who propose to
make study of social usages. Mrs
Donald Mclean, President of the
Daughters of the Revolution. is one of
the incorporators, and says that the
members 8 ra just going to practise the
beautiful and sometimes apparently for
gotten art of being polite and agreeable.
hoping to create such sentiment for
good manners that eventually bad man.
ners Will be unknown. Kindness and
agrecableness are the foundation of real
social courtesy. Ella Wheeler Wilcox
is one of the members of this society.
and the circumstance reminds. one of
her own beautiful lines
while just the art of being kind
Is all this old world needs"
The new paper thread or cloth made
from paper is likely to revolutioniZe the
dry goods business. This new thread
or cloth is said TO be very strong, I'M
shrinkab,e and unaffected by dampness
and costs two-thirds less than cotton
and 10 times less than linen. The
French are taking this matter up, and
it is thought that the day is near at
hand when the dresses of women will be
largely made of this material
Gabriel dAnnunzio, Italian poet,
dramatist, prose writer and feminine
heart breaker. not content with the lau-
rels he has already won, is about to
enter the RAIN of music and try con-
illusions with those of that profession
The latest news is that he is to write
both the words and music of a new
opera supposed to be founded on his
own experience with the fair sex. If
this news be true, the public may con-
fidently look for something unusual and
piquant, TO say the least.
1t may not be generally known that
the women of Finland have been given
the ballot, and that at the last election
about half the votes polled were cast
by women, which resulted in 10 men,
bers of the fair sex being elected to the
National Assembly. This makes nearly
10 per cent of the whole, as there are
only 200 members in all. Fourteen of
these 10 Congresswomen are unmar-
ried, and, generally speaking, belong to
the lower classes. One province sends
a peasant woman, who ran on a plat
form of higher prices for eggs. Several
of them are school teachers from the
smaller country towns. Nine belong to
the Social Democatic Party, and these
are all easy speakers with great flow