The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-12-08

Washington, December i.-NoPeciai'l Miss Helen Taft is naturally the prlght particular star in the Washington official social Armament, and her plans anu doings are matters of very general inter- est. Society intends to show Miss Taft every possible attention and if she Is not a candidate for the rest cure at the end of the season it will not be for lack Of having her time fully occupied. Hosts and hostesses are clamoring for dates to en- certain her, and before many days she will find her entire session taken, Tor scores of invitations have been sent out.
 Capt. Graham L. Johnson, United States Army, will give breakfast at the Chevy Chase club tomorrow for Miss. Taft, and on the following evening the Assistant Secretary of the Navy and Mrs. Beekman Winthrop will give din- ner for her. Among her other engago- ments are a dinner on December to be given by Miss Margery Cotton. another in Baltimore on December 10, one on De- cember IS, at which Miss Mary South. erland will be the hostess; one on De- cember 16, arranged by Miss Jessie Krog- stad, and one on December 19 in the
 home of Mrs. Thomas T. Calf. Mrs.
 Richard Townsend will give a cotillon in
 January at which Miss Taft will be the chief guest, and several entertainments are in prospect among the families of the cabinet circle.
 Miss Taft is leading the way in so- cial movement against cigarette-smok- ing women In prominent club in the capital, where bridge may be enjoyed from morn until eve a sign Is in evil dence requesting members not to smoke during the game.
 few young girls who have the repu- tation of being fond of the weed have been ignored when the fetes for Miss Taft have been arranged, and there IS a general wave of reform in official so- icety.
 The women who compose the foreign set in Washington have already been ac- customed to smoking, but even they do fl much less publicly this winter than ever before. Last winter the Baroness yon Hengelmuller, wife of the Austro- Hungarian ambassador, at present dean of the corps, had a smoking room for the fair ones at her Saturday evening recep- lions. Those who played bridge, whether men or women, smoked at their will. But this year all is changed There Is even talk of dscontinuing the Sunday dinners and receptions.
 Because Miss Taft embroiders her own collars and says so with much pride, all the girls in her set are also making dainty dress accessories. Miss Alice Boutell, daughter of Representa- tive Boutell of Illinois, wears a dainty shirtwaist of blue chiffon embroidered with orchids by her own hand. Miss Gladys Hnckley embroiders her own slipners She has designed a pair for each of her new gowns. Donna i3eatrice Cusani, the debutante daughter of the Italian ambassador, wears an exquisite gown of white satin, the lace at the neck and throat being her own handi- work
 Miss Marthena Harrison, the grand daughter of former President Harrison, has also started fad among the Wash | ington younger set It is the fashioning of her own jewelry. Miss Harrison, | while in Egypt, procured a very rare stone, and having been student at the | Arts Crafts school for several winters | she determined to set it herself. This | ring is distinctive. Since that time she | has fashioned herself an exquisite ban | deau of coral and turquoise, and has | several good looking pins which are ner | own make Miss Harrison has also made | a belt buckle to match each of her | suits and has also an exquisite | huff chain of amethyst. Miss Ruth Pill ling, not to be outdone by the other girls, has embroidered an exquisite evening gown of pale pink. The design of tne is punches of pale pink mess rosebuds and forget-me-nots.
 It is said the reason the Nicholas Long | worths have given up their Washington | home and decided to live at a hotel is | Mrs. Longworth's determination to cut | down her society work. She has, it is said. found the strain too much for her