The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-11-06
Especial to rhe mines pispatch. ]

w Il. ~, ANpNSlIlpel
With eyes on the political campaign.
which so resembles a horse race that !
one frequently hears the two great |
parties spoken of as steeds being rid
den to victory, and ears strained tn |
hear the lightest Republican note OF
encouragement, the official world is
tense with excitement. The Cabinet
and other men who can be spared from
the department work OF the hour. TOOK
to the hastings as ducks to water
cases left behind, tried final house
settling as an antidote for their pent.
up anxiety over the mighty. problem
of whether the administration their
under or vindicated at the polls next
| Tuesday. This concern, be 1t observed
in passing. is not so much matter
of loyalty to the policies of the Presi-
] which it proudly calls home.
1t may also be tritely observed that
some of those most anxious to con.
glad to come to Washington in the
first place Prominent among these
may be mentioned Senator and Mrs
| Root. who chafed under the social
ital early and late during the formers
regime as Secretary OF War In tho
original Roosevelt Cabinet. and only
began to tolerate certain phases OF
So-called freedom III the socldi-otAciai
life when about to resume their old
existence in New York. Strangely
enough. Mrs. Root did not ind the
metropolis SO attractive as before her
experience in Washington. and she
had thorough change Of heart to,
ward the latter city ere. she returned
as the premier hostess In the second
4 Roosevelt Cabinet. Many pleasures
with an International flavor, including
triumphal trip through Mexico and
South America came to her as Mrs
Secretary of State. 1t was. there
fore, with keen satisfaction that she
assumed the duties OF senatorial
hostess and settled down to the full
enjoyment of six years with the
friends she had made In the over
tapping circles of cosmopolitan Wash
ington.
Justly proud and foreigners frankl,
appreciative. has a society UNDUE
among the large cities OF the United
States. 1t is KINGDOM divided into
seven distinct, though strongly inter
dents wife the ex-ofticio queen O
them ali. The first realm Is that Of
the Cabinet, in which the wife Of thu
Secretary Of State Is the e great mo @
the life tenure in office Of it's mem
bers, is virtually accorded secont
ipiace on society's roster In this cir
Gle the ruler Is the wife OF the Chie
Justice Fuller, the daughter. who wa wa.
acting chatelaine of his nome; IN
place Is now vacant pending the ap
pointment of successor 70 ME. hui ..si
and tout le monde Is on mb ehe tb nuf fo rtu
& for information as 10 VINO the ioi l'u
Mrs. George Dewey, wife, Of tn.
only full-fedged admiral IN the unlte'
States Navy, dominates the rea am q q
i state occasions to Mrs, J. Frankiil
V Bell. in Difference to the fact ina
4 the latter's husband is chief OF stat
Of an older branch OF the ulieeu s0i
= vice"
. Baroness Hengelmueller Won lien
sryar wife of the ambassador tfror
II Austro Hungary, is arbiter OF 1enllnlH
affairs in the picturesque Ain, c on1e =
known oea1y 81 e this 5n real there hay
been before, but no one Of then, wa
: SO reared in the atmosphere Of tn
) chancery as the beautiful Aust 70
II Polish countess, who, WIN nep r fnS
= band, will lead the procession OF TOT lrl
eign diplomats and their respect ~
! encourages, paying court to MISS 20
lumbia on New Years Day, l9ll. H "a
she been destined from slrihoSou ~
sition to which she succeeded N u Z,
late spring by tho retirement OF tll
Italian, ambassador, whose wife wa
: then doyenne OF tho corps by rea th
~ OF his seniority u .SCiN'NN
lcapital, tho early training of Barol
= ess Hengelmueller could not nay
been better devised. After spendln
u the late spring abroad, she returns
to America with her young daushte
in July and rejoined the ambassade
for a round OF gaiety at Bar Harpo
From there she went to LenoX for q
autumn, and Is expected to arrive
y Washington for the winter, as 500
as she has sufficiently recovered fro
the illness which though not s.
; rious cast positive shadow on n
regular fall visit to New York,
The congressional Is a dual real
dominated jointly by the wife Of Z
presiding officer of the United stat
Senate, and the wife, or as In the "a
Congress. by the daughter OF Y
Speaker of the House Of Represent
tives. Owing to- the illness whi'
almost cost her her life during 7
|past summer. society Will not expe
Mrs. Sherman to keep the pace : :
set for herself since assuming. :
duties of leadership In the senator4
coteris But what the Vice-Pr siden
wife felieved OF on TINS score y
new leader of social affairs In q.