The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1910-03-27
LEADERS OF SOCIETY
TAKE UP GARDENING

Especial Cable to Herald Republican. \
W. ASHINGTON, D. c., March 2s
w In the hopes that the
ground hogs spite has been
3foei"teu, washington women are turn
ne their attention to gardens. Per-
maps IL is not generally known that
society women care for gardens, but
ttney are as common as bali rooms in
washington and afford a charming
background for spring festivities.
although Mrs. Roosevelt took adj
vantage of the White house terraces
Ut entertainments, Mrs. Taft Will be
sHe Ilrst mistress of the White house
10 nave dinner parties in the terrace
gardens and TO place string bands i'm
the forest of Dutch orange trees,
race
Mr.. and Mrs. Larz Anderson have a
root garden which makes one believe
shat the days when the Florentines
IouSht in the streets have returned.
II Is an exact reproduction OF the log
ga IN an ancient palace off Lung ArnO,
where all sorts of protection was nee
essary against the flying missiles from
the street. 1t is so spacious that q
company of 100 can wander among the
IRE pots and ornamental vases and
statues and feel quite secluded. This
ROOT garden possesses a sentimental in
tefest for the young people of Wash
lngton, inasmuch as Ii was there that
the duke OF the Abruzzi met Miss Kath-
crime Elkins.
Mrs. Mary Scott Townsend, one of the
richest women in Washington has a
delightful garden, besides many porti-
Goes and a roof garden. There are
broad paths of marble with seats which
are duplicates of classic designs about
I Florenc- and Venice, and the paths are
0oounded by shrubbery, which remains
green throughout the winter. Rhod-
odendrons, ivy and jessamines trail
over soft tinted walls, dryads and
dainty
The venerable mansion famous as the
last Washington residence OF Daniel
webster, now the home of William Cor
coran Eustis, has the most beautiful
garden in Washington. Mrs. Eustis,
who is the daughter of Levi P. Morton,
former vice president, is lover of
flowers, and has planned some of the
most notable garden fetes the capitol
has seen in many years
Mrs. MacVeagh, wife of the secretary
of the treasury, has made the roof gar
oen of her home famous in her short
residence in Washington. 1t has log
Sla erect incl0sed by glass and is
perfectly heated There is a fountain.
goldfish and countless aquatic plants,
besides rare old furniture of the six
teenth century, with rugs and Oriental
weaVings for the floors and drapings.
X K
1.-THE wearing of a flower in the but
tonhole is a habit, not a fad" declared
Chalmers Wilson, the eminent New
Yorl. lawyer, the other day 1t would
appear to be the case with Speaker
Cannon. at any rate. A vivid red car
nation has become as much a part of
the distinguished speakers toilet as his
necktie or his collar button. Even dur
ing the recent struggle to retain his
seat Speaker Cannon appeared each
morning rosy and smiling with a fresh
bloom in his buttonhole. Whatever of
nervousness he may have felt within
was belied by his outward appearance.
On st. Patrick's day most of the con-
gressmen wore shamrocks in recogni-
tion of the Irish holiday, but like Kip
ling's red bull in a green field, the
same bright red carnation biased from
Mr.. CannOn'S lapel
Representative Mitchell E. Driscoll. of