The Washington times., 1914-06-21
THE WASHINGTON TINES: SUNDAY: JUNE e 1914
JEAN ELIOT%
b LETTER.

four aueens-even in q poker hand I'm
afraid too, you'll miss all the suffragette
excitement With the ice broken by Mr. As
quith's meeting their delegation, you'll
probably reach London in time TO attend
garden party given by King George in honor
Of Mrs. Psnkhurst.
While | was sitting here scratching away
as hard as | knew how with my pen the
telephone rang and had long chat with
Mary McCauley. She tells me that Mr.. and
Mrs. Edward McCauley announce the en-
gagement of their daughter, Mary Morris,
to Lieut. Herbert S. Howard, u. S. N.
Isn't that exciting? I've thought Mary
was engaged for some time, but she would
not own up. Now every one knows it and
all are so glad. Mary is so popular and
ever since she came out year or two ago,
has been the most sought after of all the
girls in her set. She is so thoroughly agree
able, likable, and pretty.
Lieutenant Howard is the son of Mr.
and Mrs. Clarence o. Howard, of Buffalo,
and has been stationed in Washington for
about year. He is member Of the Metro
politan and several other clubs and very
well known in service circles.
Mary is spending the early summer at
the Chevy Chase lodge with her parents,
but later in the summer she will 60 up north
to visit
Susan, I'm going to tell you a pretty
story. Think of il sometimes when you feel
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Some of the incest people know came
TO Washington in the early spring from De-
troit to make their home. II rained the lay
of their arrival and the next and the next
Then the next week it kept right on raining
you know how they felt-well, one moln-
ing when the elements had started in the
usual way, as though it was something new,
there was ringing of their doorbell and
box handed in looking suspiciously like the
kind the florists send out. Sure enough, on
opening it they found the loveliest of spring
flowers and this sentiment:
at is not raining rain today,
It's raining daffodils."
They forgot to be blue then, and they
looked out on the rain and guess they saw
in every drop flowers on the hills. And the
flowers were never more wonderful than this
spring. So much for the power of sugges-
ton, my dear little wanderer, and the sweet
thoughtfulness of somebody.
was talking to Mrs. Albert l.. Mills the
other day, and I'm so glad to be able to tell
you that she is getting real well again. She
told me that her son and daughter-in-law
are leaving for the Philippines on July for
a three-year stay. Of course, it is splendid
for them to 60 down there, but it seems too
bad for them to have TO leave Fort Ogle-
thorp, Ga, where they were so delightfully."-
situated, living next door to Lieut.. Chester
Mills brother-in-law and sister, Lieut. and
Mrs. Emil P. Laurson. Don't you remember
| told YOU that Brigadier General and Mrs.
Mills went down to Fort Oglethorpe Christ
mas and spent the holidays with their chill
dren? Right now Lieutenant and Mrs. Laur-
son are out in Denver.
Lieutenant Mills has been transferred
from the Eleventh Cavalry, to which Lieu
tenant Laurson is also attached, and will
,oIn the Seventh Cavalry at Fort Mckinley,
which is near Manila and one Of the most
desirable posts in the islands. Ii IS their
first visit there, too.
Mrs William Wallace, wife OF the new
Assistant Attorney General, has been spend
ing few days at the Shoreham looking the
ground over as it were. Next winter tine
Wallaces expect to take house here, and
the lady, who already has friends at court
and is very charming somebody, will doubt
less be popular addition to official society.
Roses are all over the place Susan, my
dear and the garden is a JOY Crimson ram
blers are in their glory, and the new ham,
mock hangs in bower. have never seen
the pink runners as beautiful as they are
this wear I've great bunch on my desk
right now which | wish ! could wireless to
YOU. Also, lilies are at their best now, the
kind that grow outdoors in great clumps,
that shine like stars in the dusk and are so
fragrant.
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