The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1914-08-09
EAR SUSAN :.

curse, there is nothing brighter than having
trends at court and YOU seemed to be pos
essed of such. It's so splendid that you are
safe near Munich, with hopes of being allow
I'd to leave soon. ! know that you will find il
great comfort to have Mrs. Thomas Walsh
and Genevieve with you. Your last letter tell
ing of the devotion Of the wonderful man"
YOU met on the steamer going over smacks
IF romance to me. Is it possible that he is
The one who is going to make your sailing
for home an actuality? | am so anxious to
hear all about it!
Our hearts are heavy on this side.
We grieve with our President and his family
over their loss and we are sad because war is
raging on the other side.
Nearly everything of a social nature has
been cancelled on account of the death of
Mrs. Wilson. 1t is a wonderful thing to me
70 see how deeply everyone feels this.
There is not much being said. People just
seem to lower their voices when they men,
ron her name and say: I'm so sorry
Instinctively they know that she would
rather they would make no demonstration.
The usual Saturday night dances at the
Chevy Chase Club, the Washington Country
Club, the Lord Baltimore Country Club, and
several of the other clubs have been can
celed.
At Newport nearly everything has been
cancelled.
Mrs. Stuyvesant Fish has recalled her
invitations for the flower ball she was to
have given on the 18th, and Mrs. Oelrichs
has recalled the cards for the dinner she
was giving preceding the ball. At the White
Sulphur Springs, where Mrs. Wilson visited
AT Easter time, the ballroom has been closed,
and so on.
Mrs. Daniels, who has been quite i'll, is
much better In fact, she is able to be up
and about the house She is going away
some time soon, but it depends upon several
things. The Secretary is kept here and she
S waiting in hope that he may be able to
get away some time before very long.
given by the Potomac Boat Club Crew at
The clubhouse on the second and fourth
Saturdays of this month have been post
Poned. They will be given later.
Mrs. Colville Barclay, wife of the charge
, d'affaires of the British embassy, who has
been at Manchester-by-the-Se for several
weeks, probably will remain there for the
present. The charge returned to Washing
'on early in the week to open the embassy
Office here.
Mrs. Barclay has strong strain of Amer
ican blood in her veins. She is a grand
child of that c. Sanford, of New York. who
amassed huge fortune in building railroads
IN Argentine, where his name is still house
hold word.
Her father, Herbert Ward, is now best
known as particularly successful sculptor.
He makes his home in Paris. In the early
days he was one of the English soldiers of
ortune who accompanied the late Sir Henry
v. Stanley on his Emin Pasha relief expedi-
ION right across equatorial Africa, and COM
handed the rear guard.
The only survivor of that expedition to-
day, he has presented his large collection of
relics thereof, as well as his relics of David
Livingston and all his African curios, to the
Smithsonian Institution.
The British charge d'affaires, who has
been in this country since last August, is a
Younger brother and second heir Of Sir David
Barclay, of Pierston, in Ayrshire, the twelfth
holder of baronetcy created by Charles II
shortly after his restoration, in favor of
Robert Barclay, Baltic of Edinburgh.
The estate of Pierston has been in the
family since 1888, when it was granted to
David Barclay by King Robert Brice, in
charter still in existence.
Colvile Barclay greatly distinguished him.
self by diplomatic service of particularly deli
cate character in the Balkans before being
promoted to Washington, and was decorated
with the Victorian order by King Edward
VII.
If the subject were not so tragic in all
its bearings there would be something dis