The Washington times., 1914-07-26
JEAN ELIOT%
LETTER

went on the stage and Jessie opened dress
making establishment. She has made a sue
cess of it, too, owing largely, think, to the
fact that she depends on her talents and
excellent work for her clientele rather than
on the fact that she was a society girl with
a lot of influential friends.
Good looking Jack Fremont is also visit
ing his mother, convalescing, they say, from
a quite serious illness.
If had as pretty a name as Jane May
hew Bell, don't believe I'd be in any hurry
to change it, but that is what the charming
little daughter of the John Hughes Bells
has done. Her engagement to Frederick
Wesley Harvey, of Philadelphia was an
nounced some time ago. Her mother and
father had given their consent although they
thought she was young enough to wait
little, and it was all arranged that they
should be married in the fall, when, behold
the young people decided that waiting was
an unnecessary bore, walked off and were
married quietly. The Bells are very fond of
Fred, and Jane is the apple of their eye, so
it didn't take long to win their forgiveness.
Fred is in business with his father in Phila-
delphia-doing splendidly, too-and that is
where Mr.. and Mrs. Frederick Wesley Har-
vey will live.
The John Davidsons have gone to the
country for the summer, leaving Nellie,
Thomas and Sidney to hold forth in the
street house. 1t is lovely big place, nice
and cool, and Nellie is having the time of
her life playing at keeping house. | guess
there is good deal of real work about it at
times, for they have dispensed with a maid,
but Nellie always manages to be fresh, cool,
pretty as a picture and ready for tennis,
dancing or any sort of good time. In the
fall they expect to take an apartment some
where in town.
Do you remember Lawrence Janney, the
very good-looking Georgetown boy, who
used to be an instructor at Western High
School, when some of our crowd were going
there-more years ago than care to men,
ton? He is back in Washington on bus-
ness trip and is staying at the Shoreham for
a little while. He migrated to Boston some
time ago, married Boston girl,.a Miss Law
ton, | think, and has had tremendous sue
cess as a patent attorney. wonder if he
has any recollection of the adoring crowd of
school girls who used to hang on his words
and tremble at his frown.
The Attorney General expects to leave
town about the first of August, for a months
vacation, probably spent on a camping trip.
Rumor is doing her best to connect his name
with little Lucy Burlesons, but, as is the
way of rumors, believe it is made out of
whole cloth. Mr.. McReynolds laughs at the
idea and says, while he is devoted to Lucy,
he wishes her better luck than to marry a
man old enough to be her father. He is
very, very fond of both the Burleson girls,
seeks their society when they are here and
is always doing some nice little thing for
them, but his affection is, | am sure, purely
paternal or big-brotherly in character and
impartially divided between the two.
My dear, you should see Binks. You
remember how pItlfulV thin his hair was
when you were here? Well, it looked
'curiouser and curiouser" as time went on
until some one suggested remedy, some
wonderful stuff that is put on with blower
Binks yowls pitifuly every time it is applied,
but hair is growing like grass and never
look at him without thinking of the clown
in the old fairy play "Superba," who applied
hair restorer to the back of statue of Venus
and, to my intense astonishment and delight,
raised fur rug
| caught a fleeting glimpse of Dorothy
McCombs the other day. Very cunning she
looked, too, in a white gown with some sort
of a shade hat. 1t is almost impossible for
her friends here to ever see her, for her
visits are both feeting and, as rule, unex-
pected. Mr.. McCombs makes a number of
flying business trips, and Dorothy usually
takes the opportunity to run down for visit
with her mother However, the minute
Billy" returns she fits home and as she
Saws "can't he Dried Iooea n o-ou,bo-