The Washington times., 1913-11-30
! JEAN ELIOT@
@ LETTER

winter the Cabinet women are going to ask
young girls and women from the Senate
and House set to help them out, and there
is TO be return to the old-fashioned tea
table, which you know is just as cozy as cah
be, and for which there never was, really
and truly, a substitute. hope they will ask
me to pour, sometimes; just love it, and
perhaps if you come on, as you promised to
do, they will ask you, too.
But apropos of the Cabinet. / must tell
you about the funny thing which one of
cutest little "debs' said to the Secretary
of the Navy at the White House wedding.
My, but he laughed uproariously over it.
But he is so gallant that he never would
have told had not some of the girls over
heard It. She was just one of tine cunning
est, wlsest looking little things you ever saw
i am not going to tell you her name-and
she thought she must show off a little to
the Secretary and entertain him upon topics
along his line. So she looked in his face,
and, with great air of gravity said: We'll,
Mr.. Secretary, see you are determined to
make your department success and have
ordered couple of doughnuts''
"Doughnuts," quoth the Secretary with
his eyes wide open, and then he smiled
until you could hear him for several feet
around and then, regaining his usual grav-
ity, he heard her say, she hoped they would
be good ones. Of course, the dear little
thing had seen it in the paper, and read it
in hurry, and somehow even the Secretary
saw how she might have read doughnuts in
stead of dreadnaughts.
Now, Susan, don't allow anything to in
tcrfere with your getting here for the Char
ity Ball for the benefit of the Chidren's Hos
pital on January 5. 1t is just bound to be
the most brilliant affair given here this win
ter, and it will be such a fine send-off for
you. All the debutantes will be there and
everybody else, as for that. The President
and Mrs. Wilson will have boxes, and their
two daughters, Margaret Wilson and Eleanor
Wilson, will, of course, be there with them.
Mrs. E. I. Stotesbury, who was one time
Mrs. Oliver Cromwell, has taken box be-
cause she always was interested in this par
ticular charity, and Madame da Cana, wife
of the Brazilian ambassador, WHO wore the
charming costume at the Wilson-Sayre we'd
ding which | described for you, has taken
one, and there are some others taken. 1t
means so much to get in on the list of box
holders that suppose the end of next week
will not find one left.
If your friend wants one, tell her to send
her check to Mrs. Lloyd w. Bowers, chair
oFt tlo> >hon 80 nt,1
dancing is certain to be we'll managed, be-
cause George Howard is chairman of the
floor committee, and he is going to have all
the nice beaux in town on the committee
with him, so VIC will have a lot of men to
dance with.
My, but it Jared us when the President
announced that the New Year reception is
off for 1914, especially those of us who have
been used to standing in the Blue Room and
flirting with the officers and diplomats as
they passed down the line. But, of course
it just had to go. However, whole lot OF
nice new diplomats who were breaking thci.
neckS to get here TO greet the President, will
take another start, and that Just in time to
reach here for the diplomatic reception on
January e.
have heard that the President and Mrs.
Wilson and their household, including Miss
Bones and DR.. Grayosn, of course, will take
run down to Panama and back, over the
Christmas holiday.
Indeed, there is going to be a splendid
group of debutantes this season, after all
At first it did not seem SO, but now that the
little butterflies are beginning to step for
ward and spread their wings as it were it is
most encouraging. There is little Helen
Walcott, for instance. Where would one
find more interesting little lady? She
stands in a class with Mona McAdoo, for,
like the the daughter of the Secretary of the
Treasury, she has the responsibility of pre-
siding as head of her fathers house Her
father is the secretary of the Smithsonian,
position of international Importance from
scientific standpoint, and of supreme social