The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-07-09
News From the
White House

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White House
President and Mrs. Taft left Wash
ington on Wednesday for Beverly. The
president will return in about a fort
night and there is hope that Mrs.
Taft will not permit him to bear the
social burden all alone. For with
congress sitting, the theater of ameni-
ties must continue to be in Washing
ton, no matter how high the tempera-
may mount.
Latin American diplomats are arriv-
on every ship out much of the Of
fetal entertaining for them has been
transferred from Washington to Bev-
erly. Etiquette requires A visitor of
distinction to pay his respects to the
chief executive and he must follow the
wanderings of h la magistrate. Sew
mighty men from Central and
South America arrived in Washington
THIS week. and after receiving a well
from Mr.. Barrett. representing
bureau Of Latin republics. and
Knox. departed thankfully for the
north shore of Massachusetts. where
they can gracefully combine business
pleasure. The state banquet
scheduled for Tuesday of this week
was deferred until after the president
returns from his outing in Beverly.
Except for these ceremonial calls of
tne ~Southrons to return Mr.. Knox's
visit in the spring, Washington is de-
serted by the foreigners. but only for
the nonce. All of the more important
embassies and legations will have a
representative here while congress sits
n some of the diplomats with i'm
matters to watch will remain
SO near that a wire will bring them
70 the scene of action in a few hours.
Inc japanese ambassador and his
VIE, Nlscountess Chinda, will spend
the summer near Grafton. w. Va,
the charge d'affaires of the Ital-
embassy is finding recreation and
rest IN Atlantic City. The German
ambassador. Count Won Bernstorff.
was In Baltimore all through the CON,
Vention and will remain in Washing
Ton until he sails for Hamburg about
the middle of this month. The Rus
sian AMBASSADOR and Nine. Bahkem-
ten nave departed for Newport, but
the agent and the councillor
are still in the embassy.
Weddings.
scores of guests went to the De
frltsch-Anderson wedding in Cincin-
ildti n as many went to New Or
leans despite floods and heat to wit
ness ne nuptials of the only niece
ana god daughter of the Chief Justice
Eo"ard Douglas White, Miss Sidney
Lee Brousseau, and Henry Simms
The union meant the alliance
OF tour prominent families of the
south. Lees, Simms, Hardin and
White. No
Baseball a Compensation.
among the compensations which
washington offers the summer citizens
IN aadltlon to the eXhilaration of at
tending the session in congress is the
nasepall game. Every one knows that
the president and vice president are
r%ooters of inextinguishable enthusiasm
nut few know that Mrs. Taft and Mrs.
sherman share this admiration for the
Hatlonal sport. Since her health be-
came too fragile Mrs. Taft is no lon
ger strong enough to endure the ex-
cltement and fatigue attending a game
IN person. but her interest has NOT
tagged. Those who We're near the
PRESIDENT the other day when he Ma
tionals were making such a record in
me local park. heard the president
after he had clapped himself weak
shouted with the best, saw to his
young son. Charlie. who was behav-
IKE a Comanche on the war path.
run IN that drug store and phone the
score to your mother"
AS a convention city other than
those OF the national character to
choose candidates for the presidency.
washington has an unequalled record
wen during the frizzling DAYS of .Julv
ana august there are learned societies
ur pHiiantroplc ones who find it con-
Nenlent to hold their sessions here II
will be in September the scene of ths
great congress of Catholic charities
calied by the board of American arch
plshops and which will be attended
by hundreds of delegates from every
state and land possession under the
nag. On Monday there began there
the second session of the summer
school for Catholic teaching nuns.
More than sixty different orders will
be represented and nearly 1000 mem
pers VIII attend. The president of the
merly of ST. Paul seminary. Prom
Catholics of the city will enter
tain the sisters extensively. Mrs.
Ihomas H.. Carter. widow of the for
mer senator from Montana. will give
them a picnic at Mount Vernon and
VIII be among the assistants at the
reception which President and Mrs.
Taft will give for them about the mid
oie OF July. Mrs. Montgomery, sister
OF Mrs. edward Douglas White, wife
of the chief justice. will take them on
a picnic to the Great Falls of the
Potomac.
A Convention City.
A convention which will bring manv
prominent Washingtonians home
much in advance of the season will be
that held the first week of September
at the Continental hall, the fifteenth
congress on hygiene and de-
biography. Mrs. Russell T. Sage. Mrs.
n. II. Hartman. Andrew Carnegie.
John D.. Rockefeller, John Hays Ham
mond. Cyrus Mccormick, James H.
Patten Of Chicago and Colonel Hig-
slnson or Boston are among the many
celebrities who are personally inter
and have contributed large sums
and many of whom will be deleRates.
Mrs. Joseph Medill Mccormick. for
merly Ruth Hanna is the chairman
OF the executive committee and will
open her Washington home the last
week OF August. Young Mrs. McCor-
mick is as deeply engrossed in prac-
philanthropy as her husband is
In politics. She has just completed
an apartment house where working
can get excellent quarters. four
heat and light. for SIS a
A cafe in connection gives
food at a minimum price.
Mrs. Mccormick has been experimenf.