The Washington herald., 1911-01-29

~HE past fortnight has been fa-
nous for the beautiful cotillons.
the greater number of which
have been given in honor of Miss
Taft. There has never been season
when cotfllions were really the order of
create comment.
Almost every one of these beautiful af-
fairs has had Partisan favors. dainty
unique, and exquisite. to say nothing of
the value. The popular girl Of this season
for instance, Miss Taft, who has been a
guest at every one except the beautiful
one given by Mr.. and Mrs. Perry Belmont
last Monday evening-has a collection of
these baubles well worth seeing
To the oldest inhabitant all this means
a great deal, for it was but a few years
ago that the private bathrooms could be
counted upon the fingers of one hand.
with more fingers than bathrooms, and
the Bachelors cotillions We're the only
ones known Now, unless Washington
hostess has a ballroom, she thinks she
has no house at all in which to entertain
properly. And as for favors from Paris,
they are quite the rule and not the eNcep-
tion. except at the Bachelors cotillions,
where they are much more simple and
modest
The Ambassador from Germany and
Countess Won Bernstorff, who celebrated
the Kaiser's birthday by large recep-
tion to all ofticialdom, restored hos
pitable custom of former years, for sew
eral of their predecessors always COM
memorated the national fete day. The
occasion on Friday evening brought to-
gether a brilliant and distinguished COM
pany, participated in by every nation
represented in the diplomatic circle OF
Washington, with several hundred prom
inent American officials. their wives and
daughters That the Countess Won Bern
storff is fast taking a first place in the
ranks of diplomatic hosteSseS is apparent
to the least casual observer Of events in
Washington.
More recently Austria Hungary has
welded the baton in the graceful and
harmonious dance Of the nations, but the
serious and prolonged illness of its pop
ular chatelaine, the Baroness HenSelmul-
Ter. is clearing the way for a new leader.
And nowhere can better successor be
found for these gracious and accom-
plished women of many different lands
than in the present mistress of the
German Embassy. The Countess Won
Bernstorff, although born in New
York, less than fifty years ago. has
lived almost all her life abroad. COM
bining in a wonderful degree the keen
intelligence of the well-born American
with the social graces of the foreign
taught sirAa combination especially de
sirable in Washington. where the wife of
Il diplomat must share her husbands re-
sponshilities in a degree unknown in
any other branch of official life.
The business of diplomacy in society is
the promotion of agreeable relations
between individuals as we'll as nations
with the drawing-room as the field of
action Hence the Importance of a pop
ular embassy or legation
This same embassy will again he en-
fete this week when the Countess Won
Bernstorff and her young daughter will
give a dance in honor of Miss Taft-a
function that will again illustrate the
social tact of the ambaSSadress in MAX
ing the entertainment of the daughter
of the Executive something more than
an informal or casual event.
life in Washington. that is, socially
speaking The Riding Club was recently
formed under fashionable patronage, and
a huge hall leased for sport and exercise
after the order of the military drills at
Fort Myer. Very much after. it was, too
for the evolutiOnS of the cavalry. both as
regards men and horses, are equal to the
hest effort Buffalo Bill ever put on the
road.
The engagement just announced in New
York of Miss Gladys Glover to Mr. Rob
crt Armstrong Livingston. jr.. is of par
ti"ular interest to the old residents of
Washington who remember the marriage
Of the mother OF this hride-tO-ha Miss
Augusta Pattcn. TO REPRESENTATIVE John
Glover, of St. Louis. Mrs. Glover now
resides in New York, where her dauch-
ter's marriage Will take place in the
spring. Miss Glover is the niece of the
Misses Patten and of Mrs. Henry G Cor
bin, Of this city.