The Washington times., 1914-03-15

retary McAdoo was announced!
You can bet was. But I'm prepared for a
third one now and fourth one, too, for that
matter If Miss Margaret announces her en-
xagement and Miss Helen Bones, too--for
YOU know we all really consider her one of
the family will say to myself and every
one else: 1T is just what expected
This is the marriage administration. |
suppose before the other three years of the
regime is out Miss McAdoo, the little Misses
Burleson (tfey will be old enough them, and
everybody who comes within ten feet of the
White House will be engaged. Thank good
ness, I've been there often.
Saturday evening of next week is the
date for the entertainment at the Riding and
Hunt Club and, rather think, you are right,
Susan, when you ask if it is to be Society
Circus" There will be jumping and fancy
riding and all those things and all the men,
bers are as busy as they can be rehearsing.
But, speaking of circuses, let me tell you
q cunning story heard the other day which
President Wilson told at the Cabinet dinner
the Attorney General gave recently for the
President and Mrs. Wilson.
Seems as if there was family in which
there were several little boys and, for some
reason or other their standing with their
mother was little below par, as punish
ment she refused to allow them to 60 to the
circus, which was in town that day. Know
ing her young sons very we'll, the mother
sent them t. bed and hid their clothes. They
went to bed all right, but not to sleep. They
talked the situation over and planned At
circus time a procession of small boys filed
INTO the circus grounds in their "nighties"
Their names were Wilson, and one is the
President of the United States today.
Doris Holt left Washington Thursday
morning for her home in New Hampshire
She stopped in Philadelphia for two days, in
New York for day, and is now in Boston,
I guess, thinking about catching that train
for Manchester and home We all hated to
have her 60 and miss her, but all .,ood things
must end.
This reminds me. Did you know that
Belle Wilson, of Manchester, NJ H., was in
Washington visiting some folks at Congress
Hall? saw her recently when was calling
at Smiths.
Susan, do you remember "The Leaven-
worth Case" and how we sat up till o'clock
one morning, with a shawl over the transom,
to finish it? Well, | met the author, Anna
Katherine Green, who in private life is Mrs.
Rohlfs, at tea party the other day, and we
had the incest chat She told me what she
considered was the most interestin. thing
that had ever happened in connection with
one of her books. 1t seems there was girl
who had devoted suitor and he was to call
one evening, when she had an inking the
fatal question would be popped and every
thing definitely settled. Meanwhile, how
ever, she started to read The Leavenwortn
Case" and when the young man arrived, she
was so interested she sent word she was i'll
ard went on with the book. Afterward, on
thinking ii over, she deciueu that, if she
didn't care more for the man than that, she
had better not marry him, so she sent him
on his way, and now, she is married to an
ouer HAL anu tlley are ueVOteO PAIR. MTS.
Rohlfs says she is particularly proud of her
unconscious matchmaking She is a funny
little old lady with charming voice and
taste for clothes of a by-gone fashion, and
my dear, she wears a regular chignon.
saw several very interesting foreign
guests at the Grafton Hotel early in the
week. Mr.. and Mrs. A. Spencer Watts, of
Sydney Australia, who | rather think are
newlyweds, and Sir Charles and Lady Tupper
and their interesting son, Reginald Upper, of
Vancouver, B. G.
ran IN to see Dorothy Peake before |
came home to write to you this afternoon.
She has just returned from New York, where
she learned some dandy new dance steps
Some of the very latest maxixe steps are
wonderful for beauty and grace You ought
to see Dorothy and Jack Bowen dance them
together Jack Bowen, or Dancing Jack"
as he is known in New York and Atlantic
City, is in town and was in the studio when
/ dropped in. He and Dorothy will do ex-