The Washington times., 1914-06-28
\ JEAN ELIOT@
9 LETTER.

Next morning, however, bright and early,
she disappeared, and, after being gone
long time, came back with about bushel of
dsisies-and very red and fevered brow.
Daddy" she said, please take these to
Mary and tell her I'm doin my best to be
her flower girl"
Indeed, | hope you get chance to do
some swimming while you are in the other
country. But speaking of swimming makes
me think of two things. | was chatting with
Edith Oracle, and she was telling me of sew
eral little swimming parties she had organ
lied recently. One day she and several
other girls padded up the Potomac in
canoe and found good place and went in
swimming. Another time they went down
to Chesapeake Beach and went in. You
know Edith is an expert swimmer. She
swan across the Hudson and made a re-
markably long swim from Westchester, L. l.,
one time.
And while we are speaking of swimming
| also recall what the wife of a young army
officer said to me recently. She had read a
story in the paper saying that General Villa
had purchased $1,000 porcelain bathtub.
She said she hoped he would either drown
the war in it or himself, for she did not want
her husband to have to 90 down there this
weather.
So you think you'll have to learn to
smoke, Susan. Well, suppose it is more
general among the women folk on the other
side of the water, but there is really nothing
extraordinary about the combination of
lady and a cigarette even here. The day Of
the suffrage parade saw a very well-known
society woman standing on a balcony over
looking Pennsylvania avenue and smoking
away for dear life. She was particularly no
ticeeble because she was so good looking and
so we'll gowned-she had large red rose on
her coat, too. Then, the other day, passing
down Massachusetts avenue | saw several
ladies come out of one of the big houses and
one-she was the owner of the house and
one of the social arbiters of Washington, if
there be such tfing-entered an open vic
toria and rode off down Massachusetts ave-
nue., cigarette agow and looking as il
she were enjoying herself thoroughly. One
woman know even goes so far as to smoke
"makin's" and carry them around in her
stocking. Isn't that shocking? On the other
hand, though, you often hear it said that the
girls in Washington all smoke, it has been
my experience that that is untrue. Of all
the girls know here there are not more than
a scant half-dozen who smoke, or, atany rate
who use more than an occasional cigarette,
for joke, or to set some disapproving man
by the ears
In nv mail this morning was a card
announcing the marriage of our old friend,
Fred Small, and Miss Maude Louise Os-
wald, in New York, on June 2. You remem-
Der Fred, know, and the perfectly beauti-
full sketches he used to make. He has not
lived in Washington for about five years,
having been in New York making good with
his pen and brush. The announcement vas
not a surprise at all because weeks and
weeks ago / had letter from Fred telling
me of the approaching wedding, but he
failed to tell me the little lady's name.
Seems to me that the Diplomatic Corps
produces genius more often than any other
circle of Washington society. Here is Jorge
Godoy, son of the former Mexican Charge and
Nine Godoy, who were here so long and
were so we'll liked, presenting an interesting
little book, Smiling Sobbing Sonnets." 1t
is full of delightful things of all sorts I'll
have to mail you copy.
1t was only short time ago that tho Coun-
tess de Chambrun sent her book to her pub
fishers while the returning Italian ambassa-
dor is a recognized playwright and author
and then A. Washington Pezet, son of the
minister of Peru, is busy writing second
play.
Guess who dropped in to say good after
noon the other day? One William Conrad
Mills. He has been out in Phoenix Ariz,
for the last year connected with the Arizona
School of Music. Of course, you remember
his beautiful tenor voice when he was in