Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1912-01-20
GOLD MEETS BRAINS.
Mrs. Knox's DfaWing-Room Place
 of Much Distinction.
SHE IS A CHARMING HOSTESS
Little Story Of the Sad Mistake Made By Woman Of Great Wealth In Her Efforts to Enter Wash
 ington Society.
By GEORGE CLINTON.


 Philander Chase Knox live in the ! same house they occupied when the | secretary was attorney general of the I United States It is huge house in ! the very heart of what is possibly the | most fashionable neighborhoed in | Washington, but 1t is differentiated i from all the other homes of wealth 1 t1ti u ffustt1fUu in the Capital City To l paraphrase. it would seem to be true that by their houses ye shall know I them, for the impression that one { gets after meeting with the secretary I and his wife is like the impression l that one gets from q glimpse of the | interior of their residence
 The Secretary and his wife are im- I mensely popular, albeit some of the ! newly rich. and some of those labor ! ing under the weight of lttle hliat ! authority believe that the cabinet of ficer and his wife are bit o}d-ftah- ! toned. The truth is that although they 9one from bittsburs tBc tratf ] center where things smell and smoEs Mr and Mrs. Knox are like unto te gentle people who lived in the daF of our great g1andlathers and greas grandmothers, and their home IS Ike unto them, lt is simple but eenH- inc in all its appointments. and pres l entday glitter is absent
 Where Riches and Brains Meet.
 Mrs. Knox enteftains a great deal and 1t is in her drawin9room that the rich and the politically powerful have an opportunity to meet poor people whose only recommendation is brains The rich and the politically powerful may have an uncomfortable quarter of an hour or SO because of this con. test with the reality of thingS intel ectual but they wouldn't foreeo the Knox hospitality. because to have their names on the standing visiting list Of the secretary and his family is an absolute mark of distinction It is said that Mrs. Philander Knox has reduced adaptability to a science She will talk Agassiz and Von Hum boldt to the man who drops in from Ire Cosmos club-the Washington home of the bologists-and then will turn pleasantly enough to discuss with a smile in her heart the beauty of heredity with the woman who thinks that her great-great- grand l father was a suler in George Wash. ington's army
 An extraordinarily rich woman set up her establishment in an extraordi. 1 narily magnificent residence She succeeded in getting into the swim. but there were certain ones in the ab- l solute)y desirable circles who had ;reidi l aloof After month or two the wo. l man oi riches called as newcomers l have the right to do. upon the wives or the cabinet ministers and the wives l of the justices of the Supreme courr. Mistake Of Mrs. Masnificence Now it happened that the billiant l wife of one of the justices, woman whose society Is sought for nothing | else so much as her personal charm l of character and conversation. was l the first worlan called upon to return
 the visit of the magnificent one of
 money, The wife of the Supreme court l justice had not been at home wher called upon. aud as result the two 1 women had never met
 | Mrs. Justice called There were l several others callers Mrs. Justice
 did not recognize the name of Mrs. Justice. and thinking she was just one of the ordinary ones she snubbed her and treated her with an indifference that was more than disdain One of 1 the other callers that afternoon said that the treatment Mrs. Justice re-
 ceived was insulting
 | Where three or four women are 1 gathered together we all know what
 happens to secret. The story went
 abroad and Mrs Magnifcence knew
 that she had to do something Tnyi-
 tations began to come in to Mrs Jus
 tice in pairs and sextets. She ac
 knowledged them, but in person went
 not Other Mrs. Justices and several
 Mrs Cabinet Officers heard of the treatment of their sister and they had
 gumption enough to declare that any
 woman aspiring to be a Washington
 hostess who would treat even hum-
 was treated was not of the right kind
 for the Capital City society.
 That is why Mrs. Magnificence
 gives dinners and receptions and
 parties to which many are invited
 and few come. '
 Secretary of the Treasury Franklin
 MacVeagh and Mrs. MacVeagh livs
 Ih what people call "the pink palace
 on Sixteenth street hill The resi-
 dence Is not palace but 1t is biz
 building nevertheless. more less or
 nate and with a peculiar pink flush
 on it's walls in certain lights. MT MacVeagh's nearest neighbor is M
 Jusserand. the French ambassador
 The secretary and the diplomat are
 close friends. for their tastes are
 akin, both being scholarly men much given to books and art