The Washington times., 1915-12-19
JEAN ELIOTc|
LETTER

Wilson and Mrs. Gait are married and
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-t 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
but Old Santa will find fine array
under the mantle in the home or the
Secretary of the Navy and Mrs. Dan
lels. They will not only have all the
boys with them, but Mrs. Daniels
mother and sisters as well, and all the
relatives they can gather about tnem'
Their Christmas house party is an an
nual event, end they never fail to hans
their stockings.
7-ha aaor.Anav Of War ana Mrs. Lind;
lev M. Garrison are going to pass
CJl,I1atInaa Day and all Of the week
following IN Atlantic CITY, returning to
Woal,tnFto1 1ust 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
70 be some jollifcations for their young
son and daughter. The BurlesOn girls
are 40 dated up for parties of various
aorts that they have not made any
plains. but will spend Christmas Day
SrTffh noTGntS.
The secretary of Labor. william B.
wilson. and his family wf1l pass the
day in the same manner, but the At
torney General and Mrs. Gregory Will
have a house full. James two guests,
Miss Mary Taylor and Mss Mary
Bryan, will remain until January &
Ralph Randolph, of Harvard, will visit
them, and Immediately after Christmas
Cornelia Keasley, Of Austin, TEX, w1n
toin the party. Humphrey b. Redneld
will come home from Amherst to he
with his parents, the Secretary Of Com
merce and Mrs. Redheid They are
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 long visit.
So little Betty Muir and William
Waters, jr., are married. The chld Is
onIy eighteen and looks younger the
bridegroom is not 30 very much olaeE
and isn't yet through college. put the
world seems to have the marrying psS
In its bonnet these days. Betty a.
YOU probably remember. 10 the
daughter of Mrs Louis e. McComeA'
widow of Senator McComas, OF Mary
land, and Billy Waters is the son "a
Mr.. and Mrs william Waters. OF TAA
Woods" near Charlottesville, Va Inc
Young people stole q march ON thetr
families and friends. slipped on to Har-
risonburg, 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 Oo9ecuon
to the match by either family. Indeed.
II was quite understood that there wal
an engagement between them.
Betty-her full name Is Elizabeth HAr-
rison Muir-hsd been visiting her grand
mother, Mrs. Harrison, at CharlotteS-
VILE and was the Euestof Mrs. Waters,
senior, Just before the wedding occurred
Afterward the young people came %
Washington on their honeymoon, spent
a few days at the Willard, and then
paid a short visit to former Con-
gressrnan and Mrs. John T. Hull oi
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.
nificent timber, surrounded by delight
full 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" hel
grandfather's historic estate on the
James river. Betty is her only daughter
and she has one son. Peter Muir
Mrs. McComas has recently arrived ir
Washington from New York and Is a.
the Grafton for a few days before 60
ing to Virginia to spend Christmas
You can imagine my delight. Susan
VIXEN I ran into Mrs. Baxter at Rutl
Testers comiDg-out tea. She-you prob
ably remember her better as 'Lillie
Duncan" for that is whst everybody
persists in calling her-is visiting hel
uncle, Gen. John NJ. Wilson. This II
her first visit here in FIVE years. mos
Of which she passed In California will
her daughter, Mrs. George s. 'Sillis
whose husband, a lieutenant In the
Twelfth Infantry. is now stationed II
ARIZONA. Mrs. Baxter. will join then
there some. time in January. when SHIT
closes her visit here.
Mrs. Gillis as Lillian Baxter, made
her debut in Washington the year tha'
Ruth Bliss, Maitland Marshall, Julia
Heyl. Dorothy Gatewood-dear me
they are all married now-and the res
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.
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John Mears has come to Washington
to live. So much I learn from a lettel
frcm a Philadelphia friend, but whor,
he is to make his home and Just why h,
is coming have not been able to ascer
tain. Anyway, he had "some" farewell
~arty. 1t began with the HutchinsonI
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, kep