The Washington herald., 1911-04-23

" A WASHINGTON has had a Won
NM derful week of spring gayety
without spring weather. The
great army of D. A. r. has
had no chance to properly display their
beautiful out-of-doors spring costumes.
as the weather has been too cold and
discouraging for such frivolities as spring
clothes.
Many Of the visitors as well as the
residents defied the cold wind on last
Sunday and Joined in the Easter parade.
only to remain indoors since and do PEN
ance for their rashness in trying to get
rid of the bad colds. The city, from the
President and Mrs. Taft down. has paid
tribute to the women delegates here for
their annual election, which has been
facetiously but more or less truthrully
termed the disgraceful annual row. The
Daughters have been entertained at teas.
luncheons, dinners, and receptions every
day since. they arrived.
There have been during the week
number of interesting Easter brides.
many of whom chose Wednesday for their
wedding day, making busy day for pas
tors and florists. Engagements. too. are
rife, and each day may bring forth sur
prises from now until the summer exodus
takes the great flock of marriageables
from their winter haunts. It was first
a shock and then disappointment to So
Ciety that the May-Bacon wedding is now
definitely not TO be, as Washington So
ciety loves weddings Of that particular
kind, when the scene Of the courtship Is
Washington and its by-paths.
The Mays will all go abroad and be In
London for the coronation. They are
going over to see Col. Mays mother. Mrs.
de Courcy May, who makes her home
with her daughter, Lady Bagot, at the
latter's villa at Brighton. She is now
in her early nineties, venerable, but bright
and active and a very important men,
Der of the May family.
Society reveled in English rural life
in private theatricals on Friday evening
at the Playhouse, when Mrs. John Jay
White appeared as a rival to Mrs.
Barney-Hemmick as the author Of the
lyrics around which appropriate music
was written, the whole produced by
amateurs for the benefit Of a popular
charity, in which, singularly enough, Mrs.
Barney has always been deeply inter-
ested. The tickets were placed at the
eXtravagant price Of s. each, and in con-
sequence the Arts and Crafts School did
not reap so great benefit as was hoped
for. On the other hand, the Princeton
Triangle and the Baltimore Paint and
Powder clubs drew packed houses for
their performances on Tuesday and Fri
day afternoons, the latter for the benefit
of a beautiful charity which appeals TO
every one. the Christ Child Society.
And never was more beautiful, artis-
tic. and clever performance given. There
was no better evidence of the hit they
made with their Washington audience
than the shower of flowers the men re-
ceived from the upper boxes occupied by |
parties of young girls. And strangely !
enough, those who made the greatest hits |
and received the most flowers were the |
men who impersonated girls. And little |
wonder. for ii would have taken beautiful |
and clever girls indeed to have done the |
parts any better. One of the actors |
threw his banner to the upper left hand
box in exchange for some red roses, and |
one young woman in Washington has an |
interesting souvenir Of the visit of the |
Paint and Powder Club.
AS a rule, there is little to attract the |
butterflies of fashion in Washington after |
Easter, and this year will be no excep-
ton. But it will be none the less gay
and interesting, for the official people, |
who will remain well into the summer
from present Indications. will make |
everything quite as lively, IL not as bril-
liant, socially They are. many of them,
new to Washington life and therefore |
may find more to interest them than their
predecessors have found recently
Indications are that the President means
TO stay close to the scene of legislation,
for he appears to have made arrange
into the summer season, after his family
have become comfortably established in
their new summer quarters at Beverly
Everything points to long season here
in spite Of the great scurrying to foreign
shores next month of the fortunate ones
not held here by extra sessions of any,
thing
The President and Mrs. Taft have made