The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-10-07

Washington. October 6,-(Special)-Uh- doubtedly the principal social event m Washington the coming season will De the coming out of Miss Helen Tatt' daughter of the President, which l under stand has been fixed for Christmas week.
 Miss Helen is a most charming girl simple and unaffected but full of life ana spirits. She is very fond of dancing likes horseback riding and tennis, ana the fact that she will be formally III society will do much to enliven the sea son in the younger set in which she already is very popular.
 Her particular girl chums are Miss Sophie Johnston, the daughter of MT and Mrs James Marion Johnston; Coun- tess Louisa Alexander von Bernstorn, daughter of the German ambassador; Misses Jessie Krogstad, daughter of pr. and Mrs. Krogstad; Eudora Glover, daughter of Admiral and Mrs. Richard- son Clover, and Alice Whiting, daughter of Dr. and Mrs Guy Fairfax Whiting
 All the young people in society it may he said are preparing for an unusually brilliant season.
 
 By the time the social season is well advanced most Washington women who go in for horseback exercise will be riding astrde The spread of cross sad dle eauestrianism will be a marked fea- ture of Washington's outdoor lie this winter, and the damsels who but a few seasons back were thought bit hoy denish for assuming a masculine posi- tion on their mounts will now have the advantage of long practice over the girls who have at last decided to abandon the sidesaddle.
 When Miss Ruth Hanna, now Mrs. Medill Mccormick, of Chicago, daughter of the late Senator Hanna first rode up Connecticut avenue firmly astride hand some chestnut ten years ago all Wash ington gasped and Mss Hanna was voted just too "Western" for anything. Her daily ambles on horseback were attended by gaping throng who openly | argued for and against the straddle | bug riding for women. Some pronoun- | ced tAe new fad "sensible," but the ma- iority declared it entirely too radical to | be generally adopted, and Washington | fenininity went calmly on its side sad l dle way. ..,-1 -s | All that is changed now. For many years before athletic little Ruth | | the girls of the great west from those whose only mount was the patient burro | to those whose fathers owned famous stables, had been riding man fashion m the saddle. Little by little the west has 1 converted the east to its way of thinking that the side saddle for women should be abandoned both as unsafe and as un- comfortable s @
 The southern girl held out firmly for | 1f har anCeStrPSSlS. aS- serting that the position astride horse made a woman look awkward and un- feminine. The southern girl has been ! the hardest to convert. Even MISS May Howard. now Mrs Bloodorn,. the best l known woman rider in Washington SO ciety. made her famous test trip with the navy officers sitting the same sort ol saddle her Maryland grandmothers ano grand aunts had ridden a hundred years before. Yet Mrs. Bloodorn aomi.s 'ha' when playing polo she rides astride, anc that she finds that position quite as eas, and graceful as the side saddle seat She also thinks that a girl can learn tt ride far more easily if taught to si astrde her mount. Ms ~ |,
 Army officers have been among th' most enthusiastic and untirfng propor'
 gandists of the new riding movement The superior suavity of the cross saddi' | appeals to them. 'f The autumn golf season holds man! ailurements to President Taft and he ant
 the other members of the presioentia family will not come to the Whue Hous'
 for good until about the middle of Octo
 ber .
 The secretary of state will soon reliev
 the first assistant secretary, MT. Hunt
 ington Wilson, so that the latter wh has been at his post all. through tn
 heated term, may leave Washington TO
 vacation trip with Mrs. Wilson. Tn
 latter has been ranking official hostes here ever since the scattering or the ad ' ministration circles in Jmy. Tier mos important duty along this line was tn ], entertaining of the royal prince of China l When Prince Tsai Shun's brother wa < here In the spring as head ok fHs sksioa