The Ogden standard. [volume] (Ogden City, Utah) 1902-1910, 1910-08-04

IN these days of telephone messages
and verbal Invitations. One hears ire
queutly of informal invitations" but
most people asreo there can be no
lntormal entertaining OF OF by the
cnte1 executive and family Hence
MISS Spiers will find her hourly care
necessary to Insure Mrs Taft always
being at home 10 receive the call of
the vile of an ambassador or minis
ter or possibly some other notable
visitor who may be calling BY appoint
meut
Also she viii be the responsible
party IN making the appointments. in
answering all preliminary questions
regarding the same. and in keeping
Mrs Taft informed as TO who wishes
10 call and in giving out information
on social aiIairS TO the representa-
tiyes of the press.
MISS Hagner formerly had regu-
lar hour for seeing the newspaper
women az the White bouse a custom
inaugurated by Mr.. Cortelyou, and
extremely useful TO both the society
writer. and the secretary. Miss Blech
however. prefers giving this informa-
tion by telephone. which Will probably
DC the method employed by Miss
Spiers. Tho latter Ike the present
secretary. is described as an accom-
plished linQulst, bnt has learned her
French and German entirely In Am.
erican schools aud largely in North
Carolina
From Navy Department.
Tho fact of Miss Splers being de-
tailed from the navy department for
thirty days from March 81. when she
takes up her new duties, is not regard
ed as reflecting on her ability TO dis
eharSe the same. but suggestive OF
Mrs. Taft's early departure from
Washington, when, following tho pre-
cedcnt OF last season. she will not
take her secretary with her Should
the proposed arrangement prove sat
iSfactory Miss Spiers viii be trans
ferred to the executive roof before
the opening Of the social season next
autumn at salary OF s. 800 per year.
as paid her predecessors.
Miss Blech. who resigns to become
the bride of Lieut. Richard Vain
wright Jr.. L. S. n, will continue with
Mrs. Taft until March 25. her mar
Tiage to take place In April. Miss
woman OF pleasing appearance. but a
blonde. tall and slender. She has n
large circle OF 3Siends In the southern
contingent OF resident society. and
during her Washington career has
lived at fashionable boarding house
on Massachusetts avenue
She Is extremely populer with her
lellow-boarders, and also with her fel-
low clerks in the navy department, as
shown by the sincere congratulations
that have been brought forth by the
announcement Of her selection for
this much-coveted place.
A young woman secretary in the
White house staff Is not an innoya-
ton of the last administration, AS
commonly supposed. The description
of Miss Hagner as the first social
secretary of the White house is as
accurate as that of the megaphone or
ators who point ont the statue OF the
great John Marshall as that of the
first chief justice of the United States.
During the Harrison administration a
brilliant woman from Indiana. Miss
Alice Sanger. filled this role. but oc
cupied a desk in the private office of
the then secretary 10 the president.
Major Halford. and not in the resi-
d -- -7~4'-" r' 'bc White House.
The social aspect OF the admins
tru,...i, a4tnoGsO quite as powerful
twenty years ago as today, found less
notice in the public prints, which pos
sioly accounts for the absence of Miss
Sanger'S biography from the social
history of the capital.-New York
Times.