The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-04-23
SOCIETY IN WASHINGTON
BY CONSTANCE CARRUTHERs

Washington, April 22.-(Special )-Presi- dent Taft and Mrs. Taft celebrated their silver wedding on Tuesday. The occa- sion was one of the most pleasant of the social functions of the season. All the members of the Taft family and many relatives and friends were the guests of the chief magistrate and lady of the White House. President Taft de- clned many invitations that the date might be kept for their wedding anni- versary celebratios.
 The President shares Mrs. Taft's fond ness for music and the drama. They have been frequent attendants at the the atre during the season. During recent engagement of Robert Mantell and Marie Booth Russell in Shakespearean plays President Taft and Mrs. Taft and Miss Helen Taft occupied the presidential box almost every evening. The series of mu- steals which Mrs. Taft arranged for the White House for the season has been quite feature of the entertainments. It was the novel ideas of the President that prompted the White House reception to the new senators who have entered the Senate chamber at the extra session. Mrs Taft has been entertaining as her guest at the White House Mrs. Eckstein of Cincinnati, who has been a friend of the Taft family for several years.
 Though Mrs. Taft has not openly joined the movement against the use of orchids and other high priced flowers for social affairs, she is assisting it greatly by the decorati she insists on at her recep- tions. The wife of the President is great lover of spring flowers, and, in fact, throughout the year prefers native blossoms to the exotics. At her largest dinners this season there always was an abundance of white lilies with dainty garlands of arbitus.
 Miss Helen Taft continues to be one of the most feted debutants the White House has ever had. One of the recent pleasant entertainments in her honor was that given by MT. and Mrs. John w.. Foster, in which Miss Katherine Hill. daughter of Ambassador to France David Jayne Hill and Mrs. Hill. shared the honors of the evening.
 Mrs. Taft attended musical recently given by Mrs. Norman Williams at her Sixteenth street residence, when Mme I.ipkowska, the Russian singer, and Mile Detier, violinst, presented a delightful programme
 Miss Louise Cromwell. daughter of Mrs. Oliver Cromwell, has given up the pros- pect of spending the coronation season in London as a guest of Lord and Lady
  engagement to Walter B. Brooks, Jr., of Baltimore, announced by Mrs. Cromwell, is one of the recent events in Washing ton society
 Miss Cromwell is regarded as one of the prettiest girls in Washington She was presented to society last winter. She was one of Miss Vivian Goulds bridal attend ants and later entertained Catherine Lady Decies and her daughter, the Hon. Mrs. Wilkinson, here.
 | MT. Brooks is a son of MT. and Mrs. | Walter B. Brooks of Baltimore, who have one of the most beautiful country places in the Green Spring valley. He is a member of the Green Spring Valley Hunt club, the most. popular organization of it's kind in the state. His sister, Miss Frances Brooks, made her debut in Bal- ! timore about the time Miss Cromwell
 was presented in Washington. His grand father, Chauncey Brooks, maintained one of the most pretentious homes in Druid
 Hill park, Baltimore.
 United States military affairs will be
 well represented in London public gath
 erings during the summer. Besides Gen.
 Fred D. Grant, who will go as chief oi
 stan to special ambassador for the coro-
 nation, John Hays Hammond, a number | of army officers will take part in the Lon- don horse show.
 The officers who will participate in the show in June have arrived at Fort MyeI with their thoroughbreds, which wer% the gifts of various rich Americans whc are interested in the affair. The officers who are in training at the fort are Lieut. Gordon Johnson of Fort Riley, Kan.
 Capt. Guy V. Henry of West Pon. Lieut.. E. S. Graham and Capt. Georg'