Evening star., 1915-02-07

nome w euileSQaN OF Mrs. Daniels. IN
which Secretary
Told of Daniels figured
Busy Day. anent the GONG @
away of Mr.. and Mrs. Frances b. Sayre
Just after their wedding at the White
House. and the ingenious ways in which
newspaper reporters tried to find out
, where they had gone, When it was dis
covered that the Dolphin had been put
under sailing orders and was docked in
the river it was thought it had been put
at the disposal of the honeymooners, but
when Mrs. Daniels and her boys came
down and boarded the Secretary's yacht
it was Immediately concluded that Single
Oak, the Secretary5s home. had been
turned over to them, and so all night the
telephone was kept busy, reporters try
ing to locate the bridal couple there
About , o'clock in the morning the phone
rang and the Secrtary answered, where
upon a woman'S voice said, rs that you,
Jessie? This is your mother,> the Secre
tary promptly replied, NO. this isn't
Jessie. and besides, I know Mrs. Wilson's
voice, and also. besides. I am a news
paper man myself, and so goodbye"
j.
The seed catalogue is abroad in the
land, and in spite of sleet and snow and
all other dis
After Winter Will agreeable attri-
butes of winter,
Come Rose Time. plans for spring
are being discussed in the drawing rooms
of official and residential society among
the women who have gardens, and es-
pecially those who go in for rose culture.
Mrs. Rixey, wife of the surgeon general
of the navy, retired. is one of the garden
enthusiasts. Mrs. RiXey has two gardens,
for she and DIR. Rixey have two country
places, one at or near RiNey station, on
the Great Falls road over in Virginia, and
the other near Manassas. Both are with
in motoring distance of Washington, and
both are equally dear to their owners,
who, like many others. find that the time
they spend in the country the time they
enjoy most. Mrs. Rixey has a rose gar
den over at her place across the river,
and she and some other guests at a sena-
tors home the other afternoon were deep
in a discussion of roses and the merits of
various supplies thereof.
Mrs. Thomas F. Walsh is another
Washington woman who dearly loves
garden, and she bought piece of land,
an adjoining lot back Of the Walsh place,
Massachusetts avenue, now the home of
built herself garden, inclosing it with
a high brick wall to avoid the eyes of the
curious.
Here after Mr. Walsh died she used to
spend her morning hours. working
among her flowers, and the vacant city
lot, which could boast nothing but weeds
before she rescued it, now is mass of
shrubs and Towering plants, and since
she has taken up her abode at the head
of Connecticut avenue has become play
ri
Mrs. John A. Stephens, wife of Rep
resentative Stephens of Texas, has a
collection of Indian
a COLLECTION OF baskets that is per-
p,,1xo4 haps the most COM
prehensive collection
to be found east of the Rockies. Mrs.
Stephens was born in Oregon and
knows the Indians, their ways and their
handiwork well, and she even is IA
maliar with some of their dialects.
Baskets are not the only things that
Mrs. Stephens collects. but they are
the chief. but whether it be baskets or
what not, each and every object has
been selected because it personally ap-
pealed to her With her baskets. each
one mas history, Whlcn Mrs. stephens
knows by heart. and among them all
perhaps the most interesting is the
Navajo wedding basket, a small, shall
low basket, which has running around
it band of brown. with pyramidlike
figures Oh either side. The brown
band. however, does not quite meet
The bride to be who weaves it, never
makes the mistake of bringing the
circle together, because the supersti-
tion among her people is that if the
band comes together. her child, should
she have one, would be born without
a soul
The brown band typifies the center of
the earth and the black on either side
the mountains and the valleys above
and below the earth.
Another basket has stripes of green,
red. white and yellow. denoting the
four winds. and a triangle representing
the rainbow. the whole supposed to
represent the Corn Goddess. In her
home not far from the Capitol, where
her husband has served nine consecu-
tive sessions in the House, Mrs.
Stephens has baskets everywhere, but
also she has many lovely pieces of
old mahogany, old mirrors and old
Paisley shawls. Mrs. Stephens loves
old things and she also loves old peo-
pie, so she says.
While senators wax eloquent over the