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Francis last Monday afternoon and
there were fourteen tables.
The prizes We're French miniatures
painted by the hostess during her re-
cent sojOurn in Europe
There was an informal hour at tea
after the card party and among those
who enjoyed the hospitality OF the
hostess We're;
Mrs Walter Webster Mrs. David Green
Sirs Sirs- 4; IL; 1; brien Mrs. Thomas Dempsey
PITS PITS AVIAN Doe Mrs. ". G.. Hopper
Mrs. Herbert Schriber Mrs James r nr,9ga7
Mrs Walter WeIbanks1 Mrs. Henri NfeCorrict
Mrs Paul Kingston Miss Flla irving
Mrs. Margaret Nav Mrs Josanb Nfer.-
Mrs. James FennelI Mrs. lanes Seeiev
Mrs. Charles Bredhof Mrs Kafhrvn Rv-no
Mrs. William COburn
While 400 comprise New York So
ciety. according to the dictum Of the
late Ward McAllister. 1.5OO comes
nearer TO the number OF the members
OF the more inclusive and not less in
terestlnS world of society at Wash
inSton, according to the society editor
OF the Washington Post. Approximate
" that number of guests were pres
ent at the White House when Mrs.
Taft presented her daughter. Miss
Helen Taft.
ne reception was one Of the most
significant functions on the season
calendar. and aside from its purely so
cial aspect settled several problems
that have perplexed leaders IN the
world OF politics as well as Of society.
The vice president and Mrs. Sherman
were among the early arrivals They
fingered until the reception was haIf
over being warmly greeted by their
nosts and holding a little court OF
their own as they progressed from one
room 10 another.
Every one had good time at Miss
Iafts coming out party, and would
nave hked to shake hands again with
their hosts on leaving, and to have
told them so in the good old fashioned
way Il was a happy occasion. and
the president and Mrs Taft. who have
worn their high hOnOrs with eQuanim-
lty, showed Enthusiastically their pride
In the handsome young woman who
stood between them to receive their
guests Her debut gown. in which she,
showed her prediction for pink, wa
very becoming. and it's selection gavl
another evidence of the Independent
viewpoint Of Mrs. Taft. It has been
the custom for debutantes. like brides
70 appear in white, some having an
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assisting Mrs. Day was Miss Margaret
Robertson. There were pretty cos
tunes galore at the tea and one of the
effective white gowns was worn by
Mrs Day The frock was fashioned of
lace over satin and was extremely be-
coming. Among those who called dur
ing the afternoon to meet Mrs. Bliss
and Miss Bliss were:
Aa5GE 6Se and Mrs J. P rifqtsnsnt rtsoa Robert Nor
oolonel st. John Chubb Colonel and Mrs n P.
Major Leon Roudiez Phister
Captain Pierce Murphy Capt and Mrs e.aorga
Mrs. John Robertson Grimes
Mrs. c. F. Hunt Lieutenant and Mrs
mrs Mrs Eugene Ladd Worthington Moseley
MIS-. si. FRED Won Schrader Lieutenant George
MIS- IL T. Dung Goodrich
Mrs Mrs. b; L: Haskell Mrs. Thomas H. John
Lieutenant W. A. Car Mrs. c. F. Rumsey
,as,.o dsaon Mrs Z. G. Bingham
i Laeutenant j.: G.. Ord Mrs. James Shea
Lieutenant d. q. En- Mrs. James Farrell
,,ie mons Mrs. Gaillard Stoney
MISS Wuest Miss Mcdonald
MISS Edith BonneH became the bride
OF Judge Frank H. Dunno last Wednes-
day evening at pretty welding. cele-
brated at the home of her parents. Mr..
and Mrs. Edwin Bonnell, in Cough
street None of similar events this
season has had a more effective set
tlng than that of Wednesday evening
in the spacious drawing room of the
.Bonnel home. There was an fmpro-
Yised altar of marguerites and a great
archway of marguerites shaded the
doorways through which the bride en-
tered on the arm of her father In
stead of veil and orange blossoms the
bride wore coronet of white mar
guerites in her hair Her gown was a
creation of white samite, elaborated
with lace, and finished with a train.
She carried a shower bouquet of white
roses.
The maid of honor was Miss Helen F.
Cole, who wore a gown of white satin
elaborately embroidered with pink
roses She carried an armful of white
marguerites.
The best man was John P. Coghlan.
The bride was given in marriage bv
her father and the service was read bv
Rev. Bradford Leavitt Mrs. BonneIl.
mother of the bride, wore a gown of
silver gray satin embellished with lace.
The wedding was attended only by
the relatives of the couple. An eIab-
crate supper was served after the we'd
ding. The bride is a pretty girl with
masses of fair hair and blue eyes She
is a graduate of the University of Cal
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WHAT'S the Matter. Child

up the block so close that we had the
appearance of being almost down town.
Even inside the house looked different,
but quite beautifully different, done
over with lovely, fresh papers, and
japanese nlattings; but what touched
and pleased me most of all was to find
the picture of mother, which had used
to hang over fathers dressing table.
now in my room, above my bed. You
need it now more than l do" he said,
and though / couldn't see just why /
needed it, I loved to look at it. The
amusing part of 1t was that mother
in the picture was holding me--a little
me-a baby years old Myself would
never look out at me- But mother
looked always. with the same half
brave, half timid glance, when, sitting
on the bed. l made her my condolences.
With all my new esponsibilities. and
my new clothes l felt as If l had some
how been done over" too Yet it
was surprising how quickly I became
used to the patter of my long petit
coats around my feet as l walked, the
weight Of all my hair upon my head,
and my stately pouring of the tea at
the foot of the dinner table. Fathers
friends were always coming in and out.
and staying to luncheon or dinner, and
with their high silk hats, their elegant
bows to me. and their laughing at
things | said which were not in the
least funny, at first they confused
me not little. But / grew accustomed
TO them, too; grew even to like
them, especially Mr.. Dingley, fathers
greatest friend, who was the district
attorney. He was big, dark man,
with a broad face and a frown that
never came out of his forehead He
looked frightfully severe, but I soon
found out he was really quite easy go
ing, much more so than father, and
often 1 could get around Mr.. Dingley
when father. for all his being pleasant.
wouldn't have given an inch But
father said he had to be very stern
or other people would spoil me- BY
that he meant not so much Mr.. Dingley.
who was the same TO everybody, as Sc
nora Mendez who had been mothers
greatest friend. She had been a New
England girl, in the early days
of California. had married a Spanish
gentleman. She was lovely to me. 1t
was at her house that I went to my
first ball. Except the Fergusons', hers
was the only house in the city with
rooms large enough to dance in, and
that ball is still the most dazzling I
can remember. 1 wore rose colored
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at it's back On the other three sides
was a high fence. Over the fence only
the upper story could be seen, and it
had look so still and closed up that
mystery the city used to give me as a
child. But I never noticed or won
dered about it particularly until one
day when I saw an open carriage
waiting in front of the steps
While 1 was looking woman came
out of the gate and got into the car
riage. She was Spanish. l saw at a
glance, and big, and all in sweeping
black, but instead of being dark she
copper colored hair through her
black veil, and in all my life
had never seen a creature move so
gracefully as she. 1t was like watching
beautiful cat. / asked Estreila Men
dez who she was, and Estrella hlushed
and said she did not know. And when
| asked was she sure, because I knew
the woman was Spanish, Estre1la got
quite angry, and said she wasn't sup
posed to know all the Spanish people in
the city. and especially If they didn't
have husbands That surprised me. for
the woman had looked quite like great
lady, and when l went home 1 spoke to
father about it,
He said he feared EstreIfa was right
we IIOHt Vi Us hicW tut spanish
woman But I told him, "she looks
like a queen; and she has a beautiful
carriage" He laughed and said yes,
she had money, and a good deal of in
fluence in high places. but the women
she knew were not the sort of people
l would care about; and he finished by
saying / was silly child to go star
ing at strange "greaSers.'
/ did hate to have father laugh at
me, but ! couldn't help looking at her
slyly when now and then I saw her
about the city. She was like no other
Spanish woman / had ever seen. Most
of them are as white as caIlas. pow
dered over the lashes: but you could
see the strong bloom of her skin even
through the thick coat of rice powder
she wore, and her lashes were lovely.
noticed that because she kept them
half down, and looked out through
them. But the most fascinating thing
about her was the way she moved. like
something flowing; and once in shop
heard her speak. and her voice was
so attractive, sweet and rather thick.
with such a gracious. petting sound
to it, But she was always alone
With it all she seemed to be mysteri-
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tulle skirt with peasant waist of
rose colored satin, and father, for a
great surprise, had given me pair Of
pink silk stockings. No other girl in
town had such a beautiful thing, and
In the dressing room they would not
let me go down until / had shown them.
The lighted dancing rooms, and all the
strange people, and my tall partners,
made me nearly die of shyness. but L
danced two large holes in the toes of
my lovely stockings, and afterward
father teased me, and said he found he
had suddenly become very popular with
the young men. He had never been so
called upon in his life.
But most of our parties were not
such elegant affairs though sometimes
they were even mere fun, like the Fer
gusons calico ball, where I wore my
grandmother's gingham and prunella
shoes; or the party the Sumner Light
GUARDS gave. which was the prettiest
of all on account of the young mems
uniforms, and the way we sat around
the little refreshment tables between
dances with our mothers and our part
nefs. the band playing all the time, and
every one so gay.
l sometimes went to as many as four
parties week, SO that in the morning e
~ was all could do to- UP in time
to see breakfast on the table 7
NNNAAt D1e siut bCill6 IL itOuStF- keeper
meant more than long petticoats, and
pouring tea. 1t means being all over
the house before 10 in the mroning.
for, as Abby said, house has a lot
of strings to it, and unless you keep
them all tied up tight something's
going TO sag. But I enjoyed my
authority of the house and my liberty
abroad seemed like license to me.
felt launched on wide sea of life.
The city itself was changed to my
new horizon. It was larger, more COM
plicated. with more masts in the har-
Dor. new streets and horsecar lines.
and every one moved about in it like
the pieces of a Chinese puzzle. The
friends who had lived close about us
had all moved westward or southwark
with the trend of the CITY,, and be-
tween Telegraph and Chestnut street
hills there were some very fine
houses. l was often running over
there to see Halle or Estrella, and my
shortest way lay past the convent that
stood a little apart in the middle of
the settlement. Next to it, but facing
on another street. was a house which
had been built at the same time as the
convent. The ceuysnt wall came up
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Gus, like her quiet closed-up house.
| got to making stories about her, and
sometimes in my room. in front of my
mirror, / practiced looking out through
my lashes. But it was a nuisance, for
though they weren't short they curled
back so suddenly that it didn't look
right; and my hair being blond and
flying into corkscrews. and my being
so little, and forgetting not to step on
my dounces when l tried to sweep"
altogether made it rather a failure, in
spite of the black lace shawl.
But though l thought about her
didn't t-say anything more to father or
Abby, because questions that hadn't
bothered them when / was little
seemed to worry them now. Father
was forever talking of the things
must not do. One was not 10 be about
in our neighborhood alone. 1t was
changing. And above all never to go
over to Dupont street for that, he said
was getting to be notorious, and he
hated to have it so near. 1t was only
a block below us. but it seemed to me
very quiet, and though Mr.. Roods
gambling house was on the corner.
there was never any noise there, only
such fine young men. and some that
1 knew, all the time going in and out
of it.
But that pleased father least of any
thing. and he asked me how 1 would
like to move over to the North beach
district, where all my friends were.
Talking il over, with Haliie and Es-
trella, liked the idea very much. But
when l came home again TO the old
house, with the long windows. and the
palm and the long steps up TO the
conservatory and all the rooms I
knew. the very idea that l could have
thought for a moment of going away
from it gave me lump in my throat.
So l had to tell father that I could
not. He pinched my cheek and said:
Next year. then; and so we stayed
on This was in February. 1865.
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CHAPTER l
The basket of Mushrooms

HE 7th of May was my fathers
birthday. I always planned some
little surprise for him besides his
present. and this morning l had
got up very early. before any one else
was stirring to slip down to the Wash
ington street market for some fine fresh
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PROLOGUE
THE CITY

. HE city is always gray Even in
March, the greenest month OF all,
when the Presidio and the Mis-
sinr, nills and thn islanas in IL
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1910-02-24
.INCEHDIARY FIRE
THREATENS EIGHTY
Fire Bugs Plan Well Work
ed Up, and Several Have
Narrow Escapes.

NEW YORK. Feb. 24-The lives OF
eighty persons were put in perial and a
score injured at a FIRE kindled by a fre
bug on the lower west side early today.
Before the arrival Of the police and
the hreUeu. men and women sCanIIy
clad climbed down dre-escapes from
The burning tenement
The incendiary had made careful
plans for the destruction Of life ana
property He placed the flaming ma
terial a. the foot Of the stairs IN such a
way mat a. shot I'D 20 the skylisht as
though pumped by a bellows
Loud or Is or FIRE were heard through
out the house when Mrs Annie Kane.
who lives on the first floor. aWOke and
aroused ner husband and children. The
helSdG0rs heard the cries ind in q few
moments IN" alarm was given 10 all
The tenants The police made Severs .
rescues and were scOrched I'm their Of
ioIts 10 save The lives OF th- children
ana women who We're trapped in the
burning building
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NEW TRIAL COSTLY
TO A MURDERER
McGrath Would Have Serv-
ed Term Had 1t Not
Been for Request.

NEW YORK. Feb. Edward r. Nc
Grath was declared guilty Of murder in
,he ii st degree by a jury before Judge
COT, Ia the criminal branch Of the su-
prem court. and when me heard the
verdi e No lid not disguise hIs contempt
of lavy ers and courts.
For if IL had not been for a technical
error Of his counsel at mis- first trial he
would have gone 10 Sing Sing for life.
while now he must so 10 the electric
chair
Al his frs trial for the slaying OF
fenjaWln Rose. the jury convicted him
az murder i'm the second degree. His
counsel, Robert ID. Hihbard, al once
moved for new trial on the ground
tldt tfe verdict was against inc weight
Of evidence. Judge GOn, who believed
the verdict should have been for murder
H the hrst degree, granted the motion
So quickly that the lawyer was amazed.
In the trial just ended McGrath was
defended by Robert J. Haire, but he
did not take the stand i'm his own de-
tense, as he did at his preceding trial.
lie VIII be sentenced next week.
Nhen McGrath was led from the court
room William b. Hornblower. wei
known as a corporation lawyer. took his
seat as counsel for John Washington. a
negro accused of murder He had been
assigned 10 the defense by Judge Ma
-Nl'N' al 'l' same tiue lhdl SdmUet In
tcIIn}cf ami De .anCcy NicOU were
named TO defend accused murdcrers.
WIN Mr.. HOnblONer was Augustine
Derby. who was one Of District Attor-
ney Jerome's assistants, and 10 him Mr.
10 -nblOwer left the examination of
talesmen, explaining that ne was some
what rusty on the practice, not having
been ia criminal tribunal for more
than generation.
-Four jurors had been obtained when
court adjourned for the day. The negro
IS accused or having shot and killed
Giovanni Chieca, after quarrel over a
game Of cards, in which the stake was
5 cents.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1910-02-24
PRESIDENT INSISTS
ON NAMING BUGHER

The appointment OF Frederick II. Bug
her. first deputy police commissioner or
New York, as surveyor Of the port, was
under discussion at the White House
today. when Senators Root and Depew
called on the President.
President Tart has been anxious 70 ap-
point Bugher, believing be would be Of
assistance 10 Collector Loeb in his Gus
toms house work in New York
Certain OF the New York politicians.
however, arc Of the opinion that the ap-
pointment should be made with view
TO the eXiEencies Of the present RepubH-
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at all. but my husband is and my daugh-
ter Muriers a poet
She and Mr.. Niereck sent out cards
TO all the poets and poetic people they
knew around here. And we had fully
80 come 20 as. There Was Mrs Ger
trude Atherton and Edwin Markham
and Dr. Simon Baruch and Robert Ster-
ling Yard, OF Monatt * Yard. and Col
George Harvey and Leonard -. Abbott
and Judge MaCLaue and Hudson Maxim
and I. X. Funk and ever so many
others ] didn't realize there were half
So many poets here In New YORK
Mr.. Niereck. the originator Of me idea,
Is tremendously enthusiastic.
1T will he a salon OF the people who
do wo-th-while thiugs,' he said impress
siNely. 1T will be "A meeting ylaCe for
all the writer's OF poetry iu This great
city We shall read our own verses and
discuss and CTiticise thePi-pOeJs and
publishers and poet lovers
Then ] have another wonderful plan.
] would have here in New York a fes-
tival OF poets. in which the p.ets would
meet in rivalry and read their poems.
And a beautiful girl-Aiss Marjorie
Gould. perhaps-should award the prize
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SALON OF POET
IN STORE FOR NEW YORK
Gatherings In the Paris of Old to Be Outdone By the
Occasions When GothamS VerSiferS Will AS
Semble-Festiyal of Poetry Proposed.

NEW YORK, Feb. 2L-New York is
at last TO have a salon,
Just like a real Paris one. where Hols
roar and are untroubled; where wit.
wisdom and pink punch flow; where the
A-r-r-tistic Temperament shall find its
own.
Mrs Isaac l. Rice, the ant.-noise
crusader, has opened her heart and her
home 10 this new cultural effort. In
fact. IL was really MIS-. Rice's hca:a
that set Jhe salon idea fcrmenting in
the brain of her pretty daughter. Miss
Muriel Rice and Poet GeOrAe Sylvester
Niereck. Miss MuHel is a Toetess. And
connected with Mrs TIce's apartments
In the Hotel Ansonis, Broadway and
Seventy-third street. is a beautiful long
room-an entire apartment thrown into
one. in fact It's z salon made To your
hdnd-auy poet would recognize that.
IL VIII easily hold $50 people" Mrs.
Rice said proudly, and Mr.. Niereck
said no one else ia New York had such
a room FOR salon. I'm not literary
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1910-02-24
DEALERS IN MILK
UNDER INDICTMENT

NEW YORK. Feb 2i-Chargod Uirb
combining in the restraint of trade
eight OF the seventeen directors of the
Consolidated Milk Exchange have her,
indicted by the grand jury of the Grim
maj oranch OF the supreme court. Other
inolctments are expected 10 follow.
Tho indicted arc r. f.. Sewer. Of Soy
Ter Brothers, dealers in Newark. Walter
comfort president Of the Robert Reid
Ice Cream Company; Thomas O. smith
y Bros, John r. Mcbride. of the
J,on sohdated Milk Exchange; r. F.
liunteinan, president of the Standard
Ilairy Company; James Howell, OF the
Howell condensed MIX and Cream Com
pany; GeorSp Slaughter. Of The + p
stevens Company. OF Brooklyn. and
larllei bailey, an out-of-toWH dealer
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1910-02-24
MAYOR MAHOOL HITS +.
SUGGESTIVE PLAY.
Baltimore Executive Would
Eliminate From City the
Problem Drama.

BALTIMORE. Md, Feb. 24.-MayOr
MshooI is not content with merely elm
mating Objectionable words and phrases
from plays. the course pursued by Col
lector Of Water Rents and Licenses and
Play Censor j. Spencer Clarke, but IS
in favor Of prohibiting al so-called
problem plays from being presented in
Baltimore.
While he is not familiar with the cuts
made by Mr.. Clarke i'm the life like
drama now playing in this city. Mayor
Mahool indorses the action of the col
lector. and SAYS that he will support
him. The mayor Is not, however. salts
fed with the length TO which NIr. Clarke
has gone, or Is able TO 60, but thinks
That all plays dealing with topics thai
cannot De mentioned m polite converse
uon should be prevented from showing
In this city.
1T seems TO me that in cases where
the idea of the play is bad instead OF
Few lines being eliminated the entire
play should be ruled off. I am in favor
OF. removing the evil instead Of compro-
missing with u.
often when young mon take women
TO The theater, with no idea that they
VIII see anything which viii offend their
sense or dece1cy, they are made TO feel
rs thCpSn they would like 10 SIM,
TrouSh the floor with embarrassment,
because Of something which is shown
on the stage. ] have been IN that DO
S!tton myself, and can S, mpathize with
those who suffer from it.
Another point IS that there is no
need, and, I think. no demand. for
the exhibition OF problem plays. There
arc so many good plays and themes that
can be developed which ares entirely in
nocent, not only in language, but in idea
that II seems pity 10 waste our thea
ter, GU actors, and actresses, and our
playwr.shts on such depressing and suS-
Ees-ivc subjects.
No craving, 1 think. exists among
dhe theater-goinS public to see problem
plays, and If II does exist. il Is a NOR
bid craving which ought not TO be graft
ned"
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MISCHA ELMAN.
VlOLINIST TO PLAY
AT THE COLUMBIA
MlScha Elman, Called the Boy
Prodigy" Is Heralded AS a Mas
fer of the Instrument.

Mischa Gilman, the young Russian
viOlinist. who is considered the great
est sensation" since the DAYS of Joa-
chin and Sarasate, Will give his only
recital i'm Washington tomorrow after
noon at 40 al the Columbia Theater.
Iieralded as a boy prodigy, Mischa FL
man, at the age Of eighteen, Is estab-
lished as one OF the great masters Of
the violin, sharing the consideration OF
the music world today with KrcisIcr
while me is regarded as an ole EuU
compcer Of PaSauini and Sarasate OF a
generation gone by.