The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1911-02-02

Mrs. Edward H. Saxton, of Boston. and
Miss Caroline Comstock and Miss Anna
/ Fletcher, family relatives.
/ The festivities began Wednesday with
a linen shower, while the golden show
er, in the form of $1,000 contributed by
their five daughters, and many presents
from their friends marked their 5Oth
year of married life.
Maj. and Mrs. Saxton were married
in their home Jan. 10, 1851, at Ames-
bury, Mass.
The first military field mass ever cele-
| brated in Washington will be held by
the United Spanish War Veterans of
| the District of Columbia on Sunday.
May 2S, from 10 a. m. to 2 p. m, as a
part of their memorial services. These
will be held on the Monument Grounds,
better known to those who attended the
National Encampment in Washington
as Grand Army Place.
The Geographical Society of Paris has
| paid no official homage to Peary, be-
cause it has a rigid rule which compels
! the presentation of proof before official
recognition of a scientific achievement
can be made. The Secretary, Baron
Hulot, says: IF Peary wishes to bring
| nroof, the Society will receive it with
open arms But he also states that
sAiS PAoOA iiiS's uC eoiSiuSi'S'
The House Committee on Naval At
fairs has an urgent recommendation
made by President Taft and Secretary
of the Navy Meyer for legislation per-
manently abolishing the Bureau of
Equipment of the Navy Department.
Iowa, Colorado, Montana and New
York, up to the present writing, have
failed to elect United States Snators
and it does not look very much as if
they were going to get together for that
purpose.
= Archbishop John Ireland, of St Paul,
who was very proud to have been elect
ed Chaplain-in-Chief of the G. A r. a
few years ago, is very ill in Ann Arbor,
Mich.
There have been a number of sugges- |
tions as to whom shall become the "as-
sistant to the President in case the |
Office of Secretary to the President be |
abolished. Most men named will be |
lame ducks after the 4th of March |
and if Congress increases the salary of
the Secretary to the President from |
$4,000 to $4,000 year, then no man
who Is now serving in Congress is eligi-
BILE to the appointment at this time
There is a constitutional objection 10 a
lawmaker profiting in this way. So if |
Secretary Norton retires to take up his
duties and earn the princely salary with
the New York Insurance Company,
there will not be a Representative in
Congress who will profit by his leaving.
Mrs. Frances Folsom Cleveland was a
guest of William Williamson, Commits
'ioner of immigration at Ellis Island,
,ne day last week. She went over on
he Government ferry, and spent more
han an hour going over the buildings
and watching the immigrants land. The
Danish Minister, Count Moltke and his
were. also visiting Ellis Island
1t the same time, altho it is said they
md Mrs. Cleveland did not meet. There
S something remarkable in the aloof- I
ness of Mrs. Cleveland from those with
whom she associated when the wife of
President Cleveland and occupying the
White House. Mrs. Cleveland was al
ways very well liked, but she has never
seemed to care to visit Washington or
TO continue the friendships engendered
during her nearly eight years as the
wife of President Cleveland.
Mrs. Robert Gamble, wife of u. S.
Senator Gamble, of South Dakota,
thinks that needle work is sure cure
,or divorce. She thinks that knitting
md sewing keep a woman's mind occu-
pied when otherwise she might grow
and ill-tempered She is
Sept very busy, and avoids the perils
which often lead to the divorce court
She says that instead of getting yourself
n a white heat over your husbands
ross words, have a piece of embroidery
which you can easily take up and lay
way, and work in flower or leaf in
he interval Work is good for us all,
specially for women who have the mar
'ow cares of keeping a home in running ,
'rder. L always was interested in the {
eport that Mrs. Roosevelt never sat ,
die, but ever had at hand embroidery ,
'r some lace pattern or even a bit of
he dainty cambria work which our
liked
1t seems as tho about everything in .
he Thaw family must have been stolen +,
~ this time, including regulations and
ewels. Those who had a chance to see
n society here in Washington the
rhaws will remember those gorgeous
ewels. Thirty-five thousand dollars
worth Of them have disappeared and
annot be found.