The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-10-26

More than one hundred Washington
D. CD society women are backing the
project to establish a school of house
keeping in Washington. Preliminary
work will be started at once by the
Lousekeepers' Alliance Of Washington.
Among those interested are Mrs. Har-
ey W. Wiley, Mrs. La Toilette, Mrs
Ienry T. Rainey, Mrs. W. c. Wood
ard and Mrs. Richard Wainwright.
The primary object is to take negro
iris from out of town and make com
etent houspkeepers out of them.
on. That's the duchess all over. She is as
full of Initiative as she is of fun and
though she won't try waltzing on 1t her
self she will delight In seeing Manchester
and her friends at the performance All
the "happeIs" here and their 'knuts" are
struggling to do staircase waltzIng grace
fully. I hear at the Duke of Beaufort s
there were one or two nasty accidents
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this did not In the least deter the victims
from starting afresh when they recovered
Dancing remains the burning passion of
the more popular. Even the Queen now
| dances twc-steps, so the next thing we
eXT ect to see is her majesty at the tango.
Princess Pat had private tutor some
time ago to show her the way of the
tango, as she said she would feel very
out of IT. If she did not know all about
II When she went back to Canada. Women
here like tango-teas, for they give such
opportunities of showing off smart millin-
cry and delightful frocks all frivol and
| furbelows, that are lost at an after
noon gathering. And just because the
men have not the trouble of changing
their morning clothes they like them, too
and turn up in quite decent numbers
Maxwell Is Social Lion
| One OF the special lions of the mo-
ment IN society is w. b. Maxwell, who
mas more invitations than he knows
what to do with. from duchesses down
wards. This is more or less the case
always, but especially so since he has
! had his last book, "The Devils Gar
den,' banned. He puts on as much airs
as member of the royal family and
gives people who hunt lions, with
whom they have no acquaintances the
snubs they deserve. A certain ambit-
ious hostess who was pinin4 for his
London-possibly to hear them argue
went to hard-up little old Irish peer
ess who is admitted everywhere, ana
told her If she could get the two great
men to come to stay a few days at a
house party she might name her price
for the favor The gold tempted and
! the peeress set about the task If Max
Weli is stand-offish with the pushers
ne is delightful to his friends The
peeress made a clean breast of the case
ana tney both were conyulsed with
laughter. "Of course, I'll go for you
| he said. provided l can take NV wife
with me. For l should need her support
TO stand the company. But how about
| the Bishop? Won't 1t be difficult9n
Not only did it prove difficult, but
impossible. His grace declined to be
turned into money-making concern
| But the little old lady did not do badly.
not to SPEAK of all the fun she and
Maxwell got out of the affair.
Lady Pagets in Poor Health
Lady tArthur) Paget Is In poor health
| and has been told to be very quiet for
4 some time. Her friends say she Is suf-
| fering from the effects of the poor SAN
itary condition of the Royal hospital
one of the worst of the many unsan
itary houses in the Emerald isle When
the Pagets went there they found but
one bathroom and that primitive ar
ransement in which there was no per-
manent supply of hot water She has
never been quite herself since the lift
accident of years ago in which she
broke both legs. From that day Lady
Paget has never entered lift the very
sight OF which gives her cold shiver
down her back, she says. To the ton
OF the highest building she will trudge
rather than venture to enter one She
Is so slight that General Paget or one
of her sons Will pick her up In his arms
and take her upstairs. saw her. as
she passed through town on her way
abroad not long ago, looking anything
but well.