The Washington times., 1915-12-19
Jean ELIoT~
LETTER

Wilson and Mrs. Gait are married anu
a-honeymooning, the most important
thing which looms on the horizon Is
Christmas, and Christmas festivities are
already in the air. With Mr.. and MRS
woodrow Wilson seeking to elude the
prying public in some quiet spot-and
nobody believes that they will return
before the first week in January-it Is
probable that Miss Margaret wilson
and Miss Bones will desert the White
House for the home of Mrs. McAdoo
or will slip away for short VISIT 10
Mrs Sayre. No Christmas stockings
will hang in the Executive MANSION
hut Old Santa will find a fine array
under the mantle in the home or the
Secretary of the Navy and Mrs. Dam
iels. They will not only have all the
boys with them, but Mrs. Daniels
motber and sisters as well, and all the
relatives they can gather about them.
Their Christmas house party is an an
nual event, and they never fail to hang
their stockings.
The Secretary Of War and Mrs. Lind
ley M. Garrison are going to pass
Chrfstrnas Day and all OF the week
following tn Atlantic City. returning 10
wast,tngton Just in time for their re-
ception New Year Day. The Secretary
of the Interior and Mrs. Lane will have
as company for the holidays. Just a
family party, though there are likely
to be some Publications for their young
son and daughter. The Burleson girls
are SO dated UP for parties of various
sorts that they have not made any
plans. but will spend Christmas Day
quietly at home with their parents.
The Secretary of Labor. William IL.
Wilson. and his family VIII pass the
day in the same manner but the At
torney General and Mrs. Gregory Will
have n house full. James two guests,
Miss Mary Taylor and Miss Mary
Bryan. will remain until January g.
Ralph Randolph, of Harvard. will visit
them and Immediately after Christmas
Cornelia Keasley, Of Austin. Tex. VIII
ioin the party. Humphrey r. Redneld
will come home from Amherst to DO
with his parents. the Secretary of Com
merce and Mrs. Redheld They arc
anticipating a honey. quiet time with
their children and grandchildren. FOR
their daughter. Mrs Charles Drury. is
coming on with her husband and family
to make a long visit.
So little Betty Muir and William
Waters, jr. are married! Tho child is
only eighteen and looks younger, the
bridegroom is not so very mucn oioef
and isn't yet through college. but tho
world seems to have the marrying pse
In It's bonnet these days. Betty as
YOU probably remember. is tho
daughter of Mrs. Louis e. McComaas
widow of Senator McComas, or mary
land, and Billy Waters is the son o.
Mr.. and Mrs. William Waters. OF Ta1'
Woods" near Charlottesville. Va Ine
Young people stole march ON theif
families and friends. slipped of to Har-
rlsonburg, Va, on Thanksgiving Eve
and were married. Nobody knows Jus'
why they chose to elope, for save on
the score Of age there was no oooecuon
to the match BY either family. Indeed.
II was quite understood that there wax
an engagement between them.
Betty-her full name is Elizabeth dar-
rison Muir--had been visiting her grand
mother. Mrs Harrison. at Charlottes-
vile and was the guestof Mrs. "ators,
senior, Just before the wedding occurred
Afterward the young people came to
Washington on their honeymoon, spent
a few days at the Willard. and then
paid short visit to former Con-
cressman and Mrs John T. Hull oil
Iowa, who are kinsfolk of Mr.. Waters
They will make their home with Mr.
and Mrs. Waters at Tall Woods,
The place is truly wonderful. set in
the midst of pine woods and other mag
nfcent timber, surrounded by delight
ful rose gardens and the house Is filled
with charming old furniture. Mrs. Nc
Comas who was Miss Hebe Harrison
comes Of a distinguished Virginia fam
ilv and was born at Brandon" her
grnndfather's historic estate on the
lanes river Betty is her only daughter
and she has one son. Peter Muir.
Mrs. McComas has recently arrived in
Washington from New York and Is al
the Grafton for a few days before go.
ing to Virginia to spend Christmas.
You can imag my delight. Susan
WREN I ran into Mrs. Baxter at Ruth
Testers coming-out tea. She-you prob
ably remember her better as 'Lillie
Duncan" for that Is Whit everybody
persists In calling her-is visiting heI
uncle. Gen. John NJ. Wilson. This is
her first visit here in FIVE years. mos,
~ which she passed In California with
whose husband, a lieutenant In the
Twelfth Infantry. is now stationed ir
Arizona Mrs. Baxter, will join then
there some time In January. when she
closes her visit here.
Mrs. Gillis, as Lillian Baxter. made
her debut in Washington the year that
Ruth Bliss, Maitland Marshall. Jrlia
Hevl. Dorothy Gatewood-dear ne
they are all married now-end the rest
OF them came out. She was married Al
the end of her first or second season
and has spent very little tine in Wash
ington since. She has one youngster.
John Mears has come to Washington
to live. So much l learn from a letter
frCr a Philadelphia friend, but where
he ia to make his home and just why he
is coming | have not been able to ascer,
tain. Anyway, he had some" farewell
~arty. 1t began with the Hutchinson's
dance in Philadelphia last Friday night
which lasted until about $50, then al
the girls in the party went home, ant
most of the men. John, however, KEEP