The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-12-19
OPENLY ESPOUSE
VOTES FOR WOMEN
Two Ardent SuGragettes Are
Guests of British Embassy
at Washington.
COFFIN NAILS ARE
INTRODUCED AT DINNER
GentIer Sex, 1t Is Said, Have In
trOduced After-Dinner
Smoking.
The Tribune.


WASHINGTON, D. c., Dec. lS.-Two
ardent suffragettes are guests at the
British embassy this season, Mrs, j.
Amman Bryce and her beautiful daugh-
ter, Miss Marjorie Bryce, sister-iu-law
and niece Of the British ambassador,
These two have openly espouscd tho
cause of 'yotes for women" but have
not taken part in its militant demon
strations Thus does the leavcn work
in the very heart Of British official
DOM
Mrs. J. AMMAN Bryce has set the seal
of approval on another custom, coveted
of the cmancipated woman, custom
Washington NAV or may not elect to
fnllow-ihaS of after dinner smoking
by the gcntler sex Mrs. Long
worthl' some one murmurs. did she
not affect the fascinating coffin nail at
one timc, she that was Princess
Alice '?'' Oh. well. if she did no one
took 1t seriously; it was only the fad
for the moment Of that vivacious
daughter OF the strenuous ex-President,
and President-elect, il one wishes TO
credit the pale phantom of the Roose-
Welt conspiracy. But sanctioned by so
dignified a parsonage as the British
matron of the high diplomatic class,
unexpected angle, Is this one Of her
hidden and human attributes which viii
he'll 10 make her n good fellow men
plaintively hope she Will be when she
gets the ballot!
Bachelor S Buttons.
Too busy 10 go accounting this is
the reason rendered for the bachelor
estate Of many new department. heads
in Washington whose history i'll busting
has landed them on their feet in the
national capital '"Che Social HubN is
full Of pitfalls for the unwary. and
who knows but the bachelors may be
benedicts ere the season wanes. There
were bright eyes enough at the first :
horse show on the speedway OF the
Potomac last week to turn any man s
head. and they were not fastened on
tho equine beauties all The time. Scv-
er3l bachelors came out of their pro
fessional shells on the occasion, and 10
all appearances were able to sit up and
take notice. Two there were who
staged 1t 10 this social outpouring and
were eagerly holding converse together.
One was the best product Yale had 10
offer the present admnistraiion--trlm.
well set up, a famous football star and
n rider. one might imagine, TO match
III kind The bloodcd horses showing their
PAGES on the tan bark-Lco McClung,
treasurer of tho United States His
companion piece was Dr.. Andrews Of
Harvard, another choice selection, and
hy way of occupation director of the
mint, Cupid stood in the wings of the
rough and ready speedway 10 catch the
words which might fall from the lips Of
these two shining marks for his bow.
Was IL the young Baroness Rosen they
had come out to see? Or were they
discussing the far-Iamed beauty or Miss
Maihllde Townsend, twice blue ribbon
winner! Alas the little god turned
colder than the icy air, for the two
untcclmg ones were not lightly turning
flesh before them: they were trying to
devise scheme 10 get enough golden
quarter eagles Of tho mintage Of '09
for Santa Claus TO put into the Christ
MS stockings of the land Just you
wait - said the little god.
Exit, Minister WI
Au revoir. Minister VA: $50 long,
Mirister WI; anything but farewell;
for 10 the regret Of all who know him
ou this side of the world Minister Wu
is leaving these hospitablo shores--but'I
nc is coming back again He is max
ing longtime engagements 10 dine with
friends fifty or scventy-iivc years hence,
for Minister WI intends TO live $50
years at the least, perhaps 200 wears,
and be is coming back 10 see his friends
in the United States. and to behold the
results Of certain policies they arc en-
deay oring to work out in this infantlc
land But says tho unbeheving
one, his friends may be dead by that
time" All. the willy Oriental has pom
dered this phase of the question, for
he is very clever. and consequently he
Is always ready 10 tell others of his
plan so that they. may profit by his
example aud enable him TO keep his
dinner engagements, say in 1889. IL
is not in the spirit that he intends to
revisit the country where he has spent
60 many happy moments, but IN the
flesh, renewed reviyifed b. his system
Of diet, exercise, fresh air. and forgive
ness of enemies, emphasis on forgive
ness Of enemies.
''It is not from the high altruistic
standpoint that l forgive those who in
jure me-" says Minister WI. "but
anger disturbs the mind and poisons the
body. and ! cannot be serene if l am
angry, If my enemy hit me on one
check, ! do not turn tho other, Oh,
mo- with long roll TO the oh, and
long roll to the. MOI, but L am not
Il am very proud of the Americans
especially of the American ladies'" de-
clared Minister WI, "childlike and
bIand,' talking TO a group of these
seifsame American ladies at Raucher
after an exposition to them of his de-
termination to live a long life. Ono Of
them rose to the occasion by saying:
And if one of lis is alive when YOU
do come back, Minister WI. she will
certainly give YOU warm welcome,n
''And l hope he will como back,n
murmured another. with The same dia.
mold button on the front OF his cap.
and the same funny little chess man on
Top Of it, And she was not aware
that she was wishing that WI Ting
Fang might come again as minister
dinary from the land of the Sun of
Heaven, for these are the insignia Of
his high Office,
Christmas Treesl Christmas Trees