Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1912-06-21
GO TO CONVENTION AS TO GAY PICNIC Roosevelts Among Those Who Garry Lunches from
 Chicago Hotels. SOCIETY OUT STRONG: Small Dinners Mark Nest Entertain-
 ments of Visitors to the
 Windy City.
SOCIETY OUT STRONG:

Tribune. Parties in gay attire, with servants in tcW carrying baskets of luncheon, formed a continuous pro cession, as they left the hotels. As mererly were preparing for an all day ssGs on at the Coliseum and the baskes COT aimed the lunches neces- saTy fer the midday meal.
 We toak luncheon, Mrs. Hender- son and I,' said Mrs. Lafayette Gleason, and ate it. But it wasn't enough. Besides I couldn't eat with any satisfaction with Lafayette up there on the sage. l was afraid he might forget his part. This is a good time to do your fasting for the year. It's recommended, isn't it, for certa ills? It was awfully exciting anii awfully tiring today. Give over my ticket? l should think not. I'm not going to miss a session.
 Many of the women expressed the conSrafy intention.
 "A fine experience to have had, ; said Mrs. Fremont Older of California. Numbers of the West Virginia dele : sation agreed With her.
 Many Women Exhausted.
 Mrs. William Bol3h told of the lunches and how exhausted many women became.
 "When this cruel war is over," she observed, pulling her hat on the mid .5fe of her head from the side, in which position it disclosed her fair hair. q mean to stay in Chicago for few days and rest.'
 She alone of the women came away from the opening sess on of the con- vention long befose. it was over.
 Right after that first solid vo,e fer Root," as she herself explained, q put on my hat and 'ducked. Isn't it too bad? But it doesR't mean by any means that Taft has the nomination.
 Il was si ting in the midst of a group of women who got So tense and enthusiastic l thought they were go- ingYtoa faint. They didn't know what they we're talking abcut-not the first thing about politics-but they had enough enthusiasm to carry them through.
 r. ly residents of Chicago, who were So exhausted when they get into the doorway that they didn't dream of waiting for their own mators but had a man hail the first taxi he could see. Did you not ce how tense the excitement. was all over the house? When any sort of unexpected little noise was made-anything, that is, that could De heard above the shout ing and general disturbance, people jumped and sat tense.
 Did you notice the men bringing pie to the women? A man ill the pness box supplied me with a lunch con. Some man, of Ch'cago, l think. who looked exteremly well to do, brought in a whcle cherry pie, and the women near me ate it. The sandwiches gave out"
 Rooseyelts Take Lunches.
 Among the basket lunches who sal jed forth from the Blackstone were MT. and Mts. Theodore Roosevelt Jr., MT. and Mrs. Hopkins Smith and the Misses Wilbcg, all from New York
 Mrs. Smiths visit is filled with mere than just an interest in the con vention She is one, of the former Chicagcans who had returned for the weeks events and her goings and comings therefore are ill the ma. ture of reunions. She was Miss Pauline Motion, daughter of the late Paul Morton.
 Mrs. Smith, Mrs. Roosevelt Jr., and the Misses Wilborg breakfasted to- gether at the Blackstone before rset- ting out with their lunch baskts for the convention hall, where other feminine representatives of the name of Morton were to be found in the crowd in Mrs. Joseph Cudahy Clean Mcwtom and Mrs. Sterling Morton tPreston Owsley)
 Mrs. Arthur Meeker gave one of the big dinners of the night for the Count ven Bernstloff, ambassador for Germany who has come on for the convention. Mrs. Meeker, who had been in attendance on the con- vention during the day, had ten guests at the dinner.
 Evening Dinner Groups Small
 MT. and Mrs. Harold Mccormick also had a dinner party at the Black ctouo of ,,;ohr ShaiY x,n..kx.s, x 1s.- .