The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-03

tie Ienten season Will be given next
 Thursday, Friday and Saturday.
 Society will dance for charity at the
 New Willard, when the Junior league will
 present society kirmess for the benefit
 or the National Junior Republic. The
 kirmess itself, which is now being re-
 hearsed daily, will be a tuneful and col
 orful presentation of smart dances, end
 the 15O dancers have been selected from
 the best known of the younger set of this city. |
 The National Junior Republic, for which
 the flrmess is being planned, is one oi the establishments which followed the lead
 or the George Junior Republic at Free
 vile, N. Y, and is supported through the
 efforts of a board of trustees, of which the following are members: John L. Newbold Henry P. Blair, pr. Reginald Munson,
 Mrs. Archibald Hopkins, Mrs. Mary s. Lockwood, Miss Aline Solomon, G. Thomas | Dunlap Miss R. M Bradford, Mrs. George | Porter, Frank B. Moves, Clarence Moore, l Commissioners Johnston and Rudolph anL | Thomas Grant The Washington Junior l league is composed of nearly 100 prom- nent young women of Washington, all of l whom work to subscribe several thousand
 dollars yearly to this charity. Miss Rose
 M. Bradford is the president of the Junior l league. Other officers are Mrs. E. E. Jordan, first vice president; Miss Hemp 1 hill, second vice president Mrs. John
 Dunlop. third viee president Mrs. Louis | Lehr. treasurer: Miss Margaret Wood 1 ward corresponding secretary; Mrs. | Thomas Taliaferro, recording secretary | The executive committee of the Junior
 league comprises the officers and also Mrs. | Alexander Britton, Miss Edine Tisdel and
 Mrs George Wheeler.
 | The speaker of the House of Repre- l sentatives and Mrs. Champ Clark as they ride about in taXicabs or the still l more modest little herdics peculiar to | Washington's broad avenues, are splen-
 did examples of consistency. When | the SiXtieth Congress voted an up to date automobile and all its attendant expenses for the use of the speak CT of the House, the then leader of the minority, Representative Clark of Mis- souri, opposed with all his eloquence and his one vote That this political economist was not talking solely for Bowling Green is shown by the fact that the aforementioned automobile in which Uncle Joe Cannon, his only daughter and his friends were daily passengers, now stands unused and out
 of commission in the capitol garage. The present leader has not brought his
 pair of mules to Washington. He
 makes his daily journey from his Six
 teenth street house to Capitol Hill by
 street car. leaving even the taxi and
 the herdic for purely social purposes.
 A private car frequently at Mrs
 Clark's disposal is that of Mrs. John
 B. Henderson, wife of the former sena-
 tor from Missouri, and the social spon-
 sor of the Clarks in resident circles Mrs. Clark is even more democratic
 than her husband, is fully maintaining
 the dignity of her position, and al-
 though accepting few invitations she
 has rallied about her a serious, agree | L1 ,t,- l., H.. cc.- and the resident world.
 The taking possession of their new embassy in Washington by the Rus sian ambassador and Madame Bakhme- tieff with the selection of Newport as place of residence for the coming summer by the German embassy are significant happenings in diplomatic circles. The Russian ambassador and Madame Bakhmetieff are at last under their own roof tree on Farra1ut square, but not fully settled in tNe | renovated residence which was leased by them early in the winter, but is only free of workmen and decorators With the installation of the many household goods still unpacked, this house will be one of the best appointed in Washington. and bound to be cen. ter for all smart society. Madame Bakhmetieff, who since her girlhooe days as Miss Mamie Beale, a great Washington belle, has known the
 smart world of half a dozen capitals in returning to her native city is be. ing welcomed by every set and circl, of it's many sided society, to be uni formly popular with old and new i friends.
 The amba ssador and wife have n, | children. but in the young people of tn, capital claiming close kinship with tn, popular ambassadoress are MT. and Mrs. Edward Beale Mclean, MT. ant Mrs. Beale Bloomer, MT. and Mrs. John son Ward, all of whom have grown III in Washington. MT. Frederick H | Bugher of New York is a nephew O | Madame Bakhmetieff. as also is MT Walker Beale, the young son of Mrs Harriet Blaine Beale. the former wifi of Mr. Truxton Beale.