The Washington times., 1913-11-30
USAN DEAR:


- and then, too, | am so tired out
from our long walk of yesterday. But, of
course, you don't know about our latest fad,
the walking habit. Helen Taft says if is
the finest thing she has taken up since re-
turning to Washington to be the guest of
Mrs. Lloyd w. Bowers and Martina Bowers
for her Thanksgiving vacation. Yesterday,
Helen Taft, Martha Bowers, Margaret Brit
ton, and a whole bunch of us started out in
automobiles, carrying our luncheon along
and after leaving the good things in old
off like soldiers, miles and miles beyond on
the old Military road. After we returned to
the mill and ate up everything in sight, we
again took up the march and walked into
Washington. My, but it was fine!
The walking fad has brought deep pink
roses to the cheeks Of all the debutantes,
who take sponge, just like regular track
runner, after they get home and then an ab-
scfute rest for two hours And there you
are! Ready to dance until o'clock the next
morning. and not lag a single step. Mar
garet Britton has the cutest little rig or
walking costume you ever saw-red-top leg
gings, short skirt and norfolk piped in red,
all of which she tops off with Tam o'Shan-
ter cap. Why, the girls that went to the c.
c. Glover, jr., dinner last night started off
like lot of four-year-olds.
Palm-leaf fans are all the rage now. The
dainty, scented, contraptions of ivory san
dlewood feathers, and lace are out of it.
At the Noel House ball Thanksgiving
night palm-leaf fans came into their own, and
the other useless, but pretty, fans were put
aside.
AS the evening progressed and the
dancing became fast and furious and every
one was tanning with hands, handkerchefS,
some one sent out a waiter for real fans"
Pretty soon in he came with whole stack
of great big, round ones, and it was too
funny for words 10 see the dewagers and
debutantes dressed in brocadeS, velvets, and
shimmering satins, sparkling with jewels,
waving to and fro-not gently eithcr-oId-
fashioned palm-leaf fans as big as the har-
vest moon.
saw Esther Denny at the Noel Ball, too
II was the first time had seen her in
girl she was when you knew her in Cali
fornia last year.
noticed one particularly charming look
ing girl at the Noel House ball whom
wanted to meet, but didn't. Except that her
name was Helen, ! do not know who she
could be, but she made real impression.
She was quite tail brunette and wore her
hair parted, simply, in the middle, and about
her was an air of real, true ariStoCracy.
Her gown was just suited to her style. 1t
was of ivory white velvet, slightly draped.
She will be belle, and imagine from a
conversation ! overheard that Helen" is to
be debutante this season.
This reminds me to tell you that the
dansant is to be given at the PLAYHOUSE on
the afternoon of Monday, December p, for
the Working Boys Home. Remember what
a dandy time we had at the dance for that
ldSl "IlllCl lilS SOlllilllllCC III
charge includes Mrs. Walter Wilcox, Mrs.
Victor Cushman, Mrs. Walter Tuckerman,
Mrs. Chapman, Mrs Cary Langhorne, Mrs.
Preston Gibson, Mrs. Upshur Moorhead, Mrs.
Darlington Moore, Mrs Arthur Lee, the
Misses Mackay Smith, Julia Whiting, and
Mary McCauley.
Isn't that splendid committee: know
that they alone can make it a success and
everyone is asked to keep the date open
for the afternoon.
Laura Harlan, by the way is one of the
most accomplished of all the gentlewomen
who have recently started out as bread win
ners. She is highly educated, splendid
musician, and has official society so at her
finger tips that she has never been known
to make one of those horrid bulls for
which social secretaries at one time became
famous. However, the incest thing that
can tell you. about her winters plan is that
she is social secretary and chaperon for
Mona McAdoo, daughter of the Secretary
of the Treasury, and for charming Helen
WalcOtt dauphter of the Secretary of the