The National tribune., 1910-02-10

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| ladies are very pretty, and have the
most charming manners. and are cx-
quisite dressers. Washington, officially
and otherwise. impediately fen I'm love
with them.
1t is said that Mrs Franklin Mac
| Veagh wife of the Secretary of the
| Treasury, has one of the finest collec-
tions of glass and china that can be
found outside of a National museum
When President Taft was guest at
dinner in the MacVeagh home a few
nights ago he drank from a set of crys-
tai that originally belonged to King
Charles | of England The set consists
| of glasses of six different sizes Each
piece is of the purest crystal and is
marked Caro-, Rex" with the royal
crown cut above and underneath the
! figures 1876" the date when the set
was presented to King Charles by the
citizens of Glasgow The glasses are
of the tumbler rather than of the COB
| let style. and, as President Taft re-
marked. it would seem that dinners
| Charles l. so far as the wine courses
| are concerned, since then. as now, six
different glasses usually satisfied the
diner Mrs. MacNeagh bought the set
from 4 big London dealer several years
ago, but she never has told how much
II cost ntf. IlS history IS well known,
for up to the year 1850 it was the prop
erty of one of the big ducal families in
England. The need of ready money
for the impoverished ducaI Golfers
caused its sale, but since that time it
has changed hands only once or twice
before passing into the possession of
Mrs. MacNeagh. A close record has
been kept of the wanderings of every
piece in the set.
Some time ago there was an adyer
tisement in all the papers of the coun-
try for one Wilson Sherman. who was
sought as heir to his fathers Dropertv
He was found in Augusta. Me. and is
now making arrangements to take DOS
session of his property, which is of con-
siderable value. He was employed as
correspondence clerk in publishing
house in Augusta. The father of VIII
son Sherman was a General in the
Union army, and lost leg in battle.
and for that cause was retired at a
comparatively early age. He died about
80 years ago, and his wife died only a
few months later. The son had left
home, and they had been all these
years trying to find him. There is a
large sum of money represented by
real estate in the North coming to him,
and there are no other heirs. These
Shermans were in no way related 10
Gen. VIM. T. Sherman.
Not many know that Mrs. Christv.
wife of Howard Chandler Christy. is |
the original Christy girl, and was
resident of Washington. She was n |
Miss Maybelle Thompson. and her carly
education was obtained in Washington |
About II years ago, at dance, the |
famous artist met her and Immediately |
fell in love with her, and she also with |
him. She Immediately became his
model and very shortly afterwards his |
wife. 1t is stated that since their mar
riage she is the only model that her !
husband has used in his drawings and |
sketches. Nobody who has ever seen
the model. however, would scarcely he |
ieVe that the pictures We're drawn from |
her. Mrs. Christy was rather pretty !
woman with naughty carriage of the |
head, and that's about all there is to |
her. There is a little fool story told |
about them that after they We're fully |
satisfied that each was in love with |
the other each suggested to the other |
that they study each other very thoroly, |
as each seemed to think that possibly |
they were not in love with each other
after all Mrs. Christy feared that her |
husband was in love with her only as
4 model and the husband feared that !
Mrs. Christy was only, in love with himN
as Il leHiohS man. AS IL matter OIL 1dct, |
it doesn't look as if either ever had |
been in love with the other.
President Taft, clad in sweater and |
soft slouch hat, sauntered into the Ma
tiOral Press Club a few evenings ago. |
and had q jolly half hour with the |
newspaper correspondents, who had re-
ceived tip from Capt Archibald Butts |
the Presidents Army Aid. who was
hi eli,
previous to the breaking out of the
Spanish-American War. The President
complained to the correspondents that |
he found the White House pretty lone
ly sometimes, as nobody ever dropped"
in; that he never had the pleasure CT |
unexpectedly meeting Il friend, as his
time was so taken up that it was pee
eSSary 20 make engagements with |
everyone to meet them. From the
Presidents remarks it would seem that
this is about the only fault he has to
find with life in the White House. The
President loves his kind and likes to
have healthy-spirited people about. and |
he would like to know that such pco-
pie could come without being prac-
tically ordered to come as an invita-
tion to the White House has come to
be considered. The President sat down
TO dinner with the correspondents, and |
partook of the customary afternoon
smack" which is served at the Press
Club. He registered. and was given
clean page upon which to write his
name, and that page was then prohib-
tied to anybody else. and will be pre-
served by the club as a souvenir of the
Presidents visit.
Former Secretary of State Richard |
Olney, who has been i'll in the hospital |
in Boston, has returned to his office.
He underwent an operation a few |
weeks ago.
Judge Moody, one of the Associate !
Justices of the Supreme Court, who has |
been ill in Boston for many months of
inf1ammatory rheumatism, is now said |
to be on his way to recovery.
Mail addressed to the Hon. VIM. |
T. Sherman, Washington, d. c. was |
delivered one day last week to the Vice |
President at the Capitol. At recent |
meeting of citizens in Faneuil Hall. |
Boston, memorial was adopted pro-
testing against the high prices of food |
and pleading for remedial legislation.
The meeting was presided over by |
Max Mitchell, who. intending to ad-