The Washington times., 1914-08-30
JEAN ELIOT@
LETTER

1me and mother. ! suppose you arc
a-most as glad yourself as / am And
think that Uncle Billy and Aunt
anie came on the same steamer Wasn't
great, OF course you will come down
nd visit me just as soon as YOU can
ct through telling the folks at home
bout everything,
This is the time when the debutantes
the approaching season usually begin
% occupy the attention of the social
world. Poor dears, it seems likely tney
Will have a sorry time this year and
many girl will doubtless postpone her
debut until a more propitious season.
hear though, that Anne O'Gorman
laughter Of Senator and Mrs. O'Gorman
will make her bow to society in spite of
the promise of a quiet year. There mas
been an O'Gorman bud each season for
four or five years. and mighty pretty
attractive girls they are.
Anne O'Gormsn was graduated from
the Visitation Convent at Georgetown
last June, with high honors winning.
think, the Loretta medal. given to the
most efficient and most popular girl in
The school. l don't believe many people
-
town Convent is or how many notable
wcr0en there are among its graduates.
Mrs. Logan Tucker. Dolly Logan that
was. the daughter of General and Mrs.
John A. Logan. was a Georgetown girl.
0!so Mrs. Arthur Dunn and Mrs. Jehn
r Williams, and her two daughters
who followed in her fclsteps.
Juliette Williams. now Mrs. Letter,
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loretta medal; Dorothy Williams was
vaietictorian of her class Sd took
medals in about a dozen subjects, Marie
Ray, nSE Mrs Maurice Vilsack, OF Pitts
hurgE, winning the Loretta medal that
year. Frances Dodge. Virginia Wallis,
Marie Fisher and dozen other promi-
nent girls are among the alumnae. or. if
mt graduates, received part of their
education at the famous old school.
They tell me Harriet Lane. daughter
If Senator and Mrs. Lane of Oregon.
will be a debutante this season. She
IL college girl and the sort you would
admire. Last winter she attended Gou-
cher College. in Baltimore. taking a
special course following her graduation
At the University of Oregon.
The Lanes have a house in Chew
Chase and have teen there all this
summer too Miss Lane is interested
In her garden and grows some of the
most beautiful loses I've ever seen.
OF course, her interest in them is nat
ural, for in Oregon, the Lanes have a
famous rose hedge. She favors the
climate here for rose growing. land
that is about alb. and she hopes 20
succeed in getting some rose hedges
planted. At least in the parks and
around the public buildings
Her father and the Secretary of the
Interior are cousins. I'm told. being
grandsons of Joseph Lane, who was ter
tritorial governor Of oregon and the
lfrst Senator from that State.
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Mrs. John B. Henderson is coming
Back to Washington in a few days.
She has spent some time at her Bar
Hsrhor place. She and her son and his
Etle daughter. Beatrice. are now mo-
toring to Washington. Mrs. Henderson
has so many personal business affairs
IN Washington that 1t is impossible for
her 10 remain away long at a time |
Right now her chief interest IL in the |
Congressional Club House, which is be- !
ing built largely through her generosity |
and almost entirely under her direction |
Some one who Just returned from !
Cape May was telling me that the !
cutest children they saw down there |
We're the little Harveycutter children. !
Seems II they have been down there |
with their mother all summer and |
they are the pets of the beach.
Indeed. the retiring Italian ambas- |
sador was delightful person He was |
quite democratic and seemed to enjoy |
getting out and mixing with people !
who did not know him Why one day |
] was going over toward Georgetown |
and he got m the car carrying an !
armful OF celery which undoubtedly |
he had bought on the street from one |
of his countrymen. and then another |
DAY / was passing down Pennsylvania |
avenue about noon time and he turn |
ed the corner and stopped in front Of |
one OF those numerous plate glass |
front quick lunch places where they |
make gridtIe cakes in the window.
5!e watched with rather amused look |
on his face for a while and then his !!
expression changcd and he looked |
like he would enjov some. He started |
- the place. hesitared and looked at |
his watch and then with one rather
wistfuI look at the cake man. walked |
rs pidly up the street
Another time l was downtown early |
and met him headed f0r the market
H often did the marketing. Just Ike |
M Bryan does.
had such a nice little chat with Ma
talie briggs the other day over the
phone She and her mother and grand
mother. Mrs. Eddy, and her Young
brother are al home again. and es-
tablished rs usual at the highlands
They went to Magnolia first. but found |
& rather unintcresting there. and then
they went up in the Berkshires for a |
visit. 1t was delightful there. Quite a |
few Washington folks were stopping
there, and then the motor parties were
coming and going all the time, and that
made IL Interesting. too. They were
then ioined by Houston Drigss who had |
been camping IN Vermont since carly !
H. the GUNNER. and they all went to
Ienox for the remainder OF n" time. !
JenoE was quite gay.
II does seem so good 10 have the folks |
back again. and II won't he long now
until the familiar faces and voices will
De ell around.
That attractive girl from Louisville. I
Ky, Helen Miller, is in town these
days visiting Mrs MoselIe c. Herndon
and Mildred Herndon. Midshipman Lin
ton Herndon, who is a second classrnan
at Annapolis now, returned TO Washi3g-