The Washington times., 1914-09-27

Here's Helen Heyls new picture.
Isn't it attractive? Just think, SatUr-
day next is the day set for her wedding
| hope it will be as lovely a day as
today. Helen looks awfully well these
days. ! met her the other afternoon.
walking with Monte Fox. She had on
a smart blue gown and a black velvet
hat, and seemed to be having such 4
good time.
Ruth Bliss writes me that she ax-
poets 10 come home in time for the we'd
ding. She is having a wonderful time
in Wheeling. and says it is a most
attractive place.
1 see the McAdoos very often these
days either driving toward or away
I from the Treasury Department. Mrs.
McAdoo is wearing mourning. of course,
but it is not the heavy variety. and 1t
is extremely becoming. They have u
machine. but seem to prefer driving,
and 1 believe Mrs. McAdoo goes to
meet the Secretary nearly every day.
Apropos of Eleanor WiIson-maybe it
isn't SO apropos after all, but anyway
ii is good yarn-I heard story the
other day about the Presidents grand
father than tickled me. 1t seems,
though born in Virginia, he spent thirty
Years It Steubenvlle. Ohio, where he
owned and edited a newspaper. Later
he went TO Pittsburgh as editor and pub
Usher OF the Pennsylvania Advocate.
Many stories are told of Editor Wilson .
! terSe and sometimes cauStic comments.
He served one term in the Ohio legiS-
, lature. where he conceived a strong
antlpathy for one Samuel Medary. and.
on one occasion, his paper remarked,
sam Medary's friends claim for him
. the merit of having been born in Ohio.
| So was my dog. Towser."
The Interesting sequel to this is that
! Samuel Medary became governor of
Ohio, and one Of James Wilson's sons
married his daughter
Edith Oracle tells me that she has set
up a dog. fine outstanding English
bull, with an undershot jaw and bow
legs-they say bow legs are a sign of
intelligence. He has a fine new collar
inscribed My Name Is Simon I'eter.
/ am Edith Temple Gracie's dos and
! We live at 15Z7 Sixteenth street" Also
he was one OF the most popular mem
bers of the house party his mistress at
tended last week. Edith says she be-
lieves strongly in the love me, love m :
dog" attitude, always has. in fact; and
that one of her earliest rccolleCuons Is
OF Delnp ASKED, WIN neT TlOlDeT, 10
visit i'll Newport aud refusing to 20
unless she could take her cat and her
canary. That visit proved rather dis
aStrous. as the cat insisted on slipping
into the room Of a fellow visitor. who
proceeded to faint and then go into hys-
teriCS Simon Peter, however. Is a
well hammered beIstie. charming com
panIon on house party. with only one
fault. that OF being too demonstratively
aftcCtionate
Mrs. Clayton is back in town closing
up her apartment here. as she and
Judge Clayton will make their home
in Montgomery, Ma, in the future.
Mrs Clayton says il Grieves her to
think Of leaving Washington for good
and know her friends-and they ar"
lceiou-arr NOR" than rrievcd. There
has been a continuous round of partIe.
given III her hOm"r and sine and Judgr
clayton hr,' spending this week end
with Mr. and Mrs Richard johnson at
their place in Maryland. The Judge
expects to 90 HON" the first of October,
but Mrs. Clayton will stay on some
time longer, making a round of visits.
Notably she Will stop with Mrs. Ollie
James They are great friends. both
kentucky women, which Is a strong
bond of sympathy between them. Mrs.
Clayton tells me she spent over TWO
months in Kentucky this summer with
her mother and had royal good time
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wonder il you ever saw Katherine
White. ! think she Is one of the pr,t-
test of the younger girls i'll all Wash
Ington. She is granddaughter of Ger.
Horatio Gates Gibson the oldest living
graduate OF West Point. and with her
mother Mrs. Frank Hollis White.
makes her home with him. She had a
wonderful summer. visiting on Long
Island and at West Point, and stopped
over in Baltimore for the Star-Spangled
Banner celebration EN- route home.
MIS- Madison. wife OF Lieutenant
Comma ndcr Madison. is back in town.
She certainly is q tremendously popular
person. The other evening at the Army
and Navy club every other person whn
came. into tho room stopped to- sneak
10 her and she waS surrounded the en-
tire evening.
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