Omaha daily bee., 1911-01-25

! There Is such distinct charm and whole
| souled air Of hospitality at White House
| functions that the pressure to be invited
to them Is greater than 1t ever has been
before. Whether these functions are
| smart enough to meet the social stand
ards Of Baroness Hengelmuller or not, they
| seem 20 give entire satisfaction to the
guests OF the president and Mrs. Taft.
What in particular surprises Washing
| ton. says the Washington correspondent OF
the Brooklyn Eagle, is that the president
and Mrs. Taft should venture to give an
elaborate buffet supper at these receptions.
! II IL served In the state dining room. and
| a supper for upward Of 1000 guests IL no
mean endeavor and must be costly withal.
| But food and beverages give a touch of
! hospitality nothing else can, and the in
novation OF the Tafts on this score Is very
popular in the capital. This Is the second
winter that this has been done It was
| the custom to offer refreshments early in
the days Of the republic but they were
given up when the guests at the White
House became numerous
Dancing at these receptions Is distinctly
novelty II was first arranged last win
| ter and now has become the regular thing.
The floor of the east room is very polished,
and the room makes, moreover, a most de-
/
beginning about II o'clock, When the marine
band Is moved from the atrium into the
east room. and the swinging OF the part
ners begins soon after Bandmaster Santle-
| mann starts some irresistible waltz.
When congress. at the last session. and
at the behest OF Senator La Toilette,
adopted an amendment to the railroad rate
law prohibiting the use of telephone and
! telegraph franks, nearly every member of
the house and senate was hit hard.
Since that time most of them have been
| compelled to resort to the mails, whereas,
in the past they were accustomed to tele-
graphing merry messages to their families
and friends on the slightest provocation, re-
ports the washington Times.
| There is one member of the United States
senate who has not curtailed his use of the
telephone wires because>of the prohibitory
legislation. That member in Senator Win
throp Murray c. re of Massachusetts, SEN
ator Crane is the long distance telephone
politician of the United states. Using the
mails is too slow a process to satisfy Mr..
| Crane
! When MIR. Crane happens to be in Boston
and thinks of something which might in
terest the president he gets into tele-
phone booth and sends his thoughts over
the wires. lie doesn't care how far away
he gets-he uses the telephone wire IL he
| can possibly get a connection. This habit
was the subject of comment in the senate
cloakroom recently when characteristics Of
| senators was under discussion.
Crane" said one Of his colleagues. SIS
one of the greatest coupon clippers in the
! United states senate. There is no man in
that body who receives more frequent divi-
| IanH - {g Ia
individual stakeholder in the American
| Telephone and Telegraph company. When
he gets into a telephone booth in Chicago
land talks to Washington for an hour he
can figure out that his next dividend check
will be increased just as much. Hence he
has got the long distance telephone habit,
| and while he spends more money on that
habit at the outset he gets 1t all back semi
annually"