The Washington times., 1914-07-19
THE WASHINGTON TINES SUNDAY. JULY 10; 1914. -
JEAN ELIOT%
5 LETTER.


lams, Miss Patten and Mrs Blair have been
playing together all spring, at least once
week, and have had some very fine times.
They are all expert players and it is difficult
to find any one enough in their class" to
fill the place of an absentee.
Colonel and Mrs. Williams have been
threatening all spring to open the Letter
place on the Potomac, but have been putting
it off from day to day as the cool weather
continued and they were comfortable IN
their R street home. Now they have just
about given up the idea, as the colonel ex-
poets to leave the first of August for Panama,
where he will join Mr.. and Mrs Letter and
make the trip through the Panama canal
with them.
The Letters will touch at San Diego on
their homeward way, to COAL and there is
some talk of their sending the kiddies di-
rectly home, to stay with Mrs. Williams.
Atlantic City is at its gayest and full OF
pretty girls but they tell me that the Wash
ington lasses are the bellies of the ball and
take the palm for grace and beauty. Marie
Sims is at Galen Hall, Calie Hoke Smith
Brighton and the Marlborough -Blenheim
claims Dorothy Owen, Pauline Stone, Mar
ion Trumbull, Helen and Lillian Hendrick,
Margaret McChord, Edyth Howard, Olga
and Marguerite Pilson, Edith Koon, Clare
Pulleyn, and Dorothy Dunn, who are among
the many pretty girls attending Washington
schools Little Grace Rose, of Baltimore,
who visits here constantly, and Alice Pres
ton, the mayor of Baltimore's daughter, are
also among the most popular of the younger
set There are boys, too, galore. Tilghman
Hendrick, John Bulkley, Calf Mccormick,
Douglass Cornwefl, Winchester Lockwood,
and dozen others from the Capital, as we'll
as the scions of fine old Philadelphia and
New York families, who find our Washing
ton girls alluring. Here's luck to Cupid, and
may the autumn see the blossoming of the
usual crop of summer romances.
Pretty little Mrs. Stubs journeyed to Nor
folk week or two ago to speak in the in
terests of women's suffrage and made very
decided impression there. Norfolk boasts a
strong suffragist contingent, who received
her with open arms, and for some time after
her visit she was the chief topic of converse
of praise. but her vivid and charming person
ality was what really turned the trick.
For a Southern city Norfolk is unusually
pro-suffrage, and, being small place, inter
est is raised to high pitch. Lots of the
younger navy women are active in the cam
paign. Mrs. G. l. P Stone, wife of Lieu
tenant Commander Stone, executive officer
of the receiving ship Franklin, is an ardent
suffragist and so is Mrs Maxfed wife OF
Lieut.. Louis Maxfield. of the same station
She was formerly Hattie Page, reigning
Norfolk belle and one of the famous beauties
of Virginia. And she is as lovely as ever.
Speaking of Kathryn Stone reminds me
that she will probably spend next winter here
Lieutenant Commander, or, rather, Com
mander Stone, for he rates an immediate
promotion, will be ordered to sea shortly
and Kathryn and the kiddies are planning tc
make Washington their headquarters during
his absence. You know Loring Stone is &
son of Mrs Brinton Stone. He was rasec
in Washington and after his marriage wa!
stationed here for two years, so it will bt
rather in the nature of homecoming TO
Kathryn, though her real home is on th'
West coast. She is perfect dear, has
wonderful faculty for making friends, ant
will be distinct acquisition to navy circle
here. | only wish Loring were going to b.
with her.
You remember Marian H. Gates that swee
little girl whom we used to meet ct the Whit
House receptions when you were here