The Washington times., 1913-11-23
! JEAN ELIOT%
S LETTER.


| saw charming little Ruth Hitchcock,
daughter of Senator and Mrs. Gilbert Hitch
cock, of Nebraska on F street one day this
week. She was busy shopping going from
store to store in her electric. Sne is one
of the daintiest looking and most gentle girls
| know. Last winter at one of the White
House receptons-the one for the Congress
sional folks, believe was standing near
when her father presented her to President
Taft. She was so charming and the Presi-
dent seemed to enjoy chatting with her and
I'll never forget the proud smile her father
wore as he stood by.
BY the bye, must not forget to add that
rumor has it that she is engaged. The lucky
mans name must reserve because do not
know it.
Have you heard how Congressman Peter
Goelet Gerry is? Of course suppose you
know that he is in New York critically i'll,
having been operated upon Friday for appen-
dicitis. He was taken i'll at Lake Delaware,
the Gerry country place, where he and Mrs
Gerry were spending the fall, and was rush.
ed Immediately to New York to a hospital
The very day that he was taken i'll Mrs.
Townsend, Mrs. Gerry's mother, you know,
was leaving for Cleveland, Ohio, to be with
her sister, Mrs. Charles HI. Strong, who was
in the Lakeside Hospital i'll with the same
ailnent. Just as Mrs. Townsend was about
to leave for the train she got the telegram
from Mathilde and she went to New York
instead.
When Pavlowa dances at the Belasco
Theater Monday afternoon, she will be made
to feel at home by two whole boxes full of
Russians for the Ambassador and Nine.
Bakhmeteff, who never fail to support the
artists of their own country who come visit
ing over here, have invited distinguished
guests to be with them, besides the embassy
staff.
A charming quartet of young girls whom
| have met for several weeks as 90 abort
the world, are Miss Lucy Burleson and Miss
Sidney Burleson, daughters of the Postmas-
ter General and Mrs. Burleson, and Miss
Phillis Moore and Miss Anna Moore, the
school girl daughters of the Counselor of the
State Department and Mrs. John Bassett
Moore. Miss Lucy Burleson, the elder
daughter of the Postmaster General, is al
George Washington University with her sis
ter, but has figured in several of the enter
tanments for Miss Jessie Wilson, thus get
ting her first peep into society with the girls
who are really and truly out.
One of the prettiest sights seen along
Connecticut avenue in long time, are the
little son and daughter of the British Am
bassador and Lady Spring-Rice, who go skip
ping along with their attendants, open
mouthed and open eyed over the wonders of
their new home, and the unfamiliar people
they meet. They have already made the
acquaintance of number of the children
who, with their nurses, frequent Dupont Cir
Gle.
Ruth Parker is about the luckiest girl in
town. Do you know she is one of the few
1OikS WHO are lnVllel 10 l1e
George Livingston house party for over
Thanksgiving?
| was talking to her one day last week,
just after she had returned from Warrenton,
Va, where she had been visiting for the
Horse Show. Since her return from Canada,
where she and her father had such splen-
did fishing trip, she has just been in and out
of town and believe she said she had onlv
been to the club twice, so you know she is
busy when she neglects that.
This Livingston house party is the thing
though. There are to be about forty-fve
guests, twenty from New York, about fifteen
from Baltimore and half dozen from Wash
ington. The Livingston country place is call
ed Rancocas and if is near Princeton, N. J.
Their stables and kennels are famous The
party is going up in a private car, | might
add, and you can imagine what it will add
to the Joy of the trip, yourself.
MANY Of he cot ora bocl,