Evening star., 1915-06-06
Gossip Of Society.


Mr. and Mrs. Peter Goalet Gerry have
| brought back to Washington with
them as q SOU
Mrs. Gerry Catches venir of their
a Big Tarpon. in Florida ida
| waters a mammoth tarpop which Mrs.
Gerry caught. The fish is five feet
| long. and Mrs. Richard Townsend. Mrs
Gerry's mother. is having it prepared
| by a taxidermist and mounted, to keep
| as a souvenir of her daughters fish,
ing prowess.
Mrs Gerry has long had a reputation
for being an excellent horsewoman, but
no one ever knew that she was such
good flsherwoman. The tarpon Is
one of the big game fishes Of the world
and much skill is necessary to land it.
4
An amusing story is being told OF
Amusing Story financier. as
of Mr.. Vanderlip. recsnt weeks
stay in Washington. During one OF
the busiest days of the pan-American
financial conference, when he was oc-
cupied from o'clock in the morning
until midnight with talks with the ia
nous men from Argentina with whom
he was associated in the conference.
a boy PACED him at the Shoreham Ho-
tel, from lobby to lobby, in his room,
tho barber shop, the restaurants and
the parlors. without success.
Finally the boy came into the bar OF
the hotel. where some Of the younger
men were chatting and idly slipping re-
freshments, and called Mr.. Vanderllp
name at the top of his voice again and
again, finally asking several OF the
least busy looking people II any OF
them were Mr.. Vanderlip. The idea OF
Mr.. Vanderlip idling away his time IN
and they burst into roar of laughter
Mr.. Vanderlip, in fact. was so much
occupied while in Washington that
some of the country's big men came
here in a special train to get ten
minute heart-to-heart talk with him.
There is a possibility that there will
be a scarcity of homemade grape juice
Mrs. Barnett Makes ington the
Her Own Grape Juice. winter At
least the many frier1s of Mrs George
Barnett, wife of the major general COM
mandant of the Marine Corps, are run
ming that risk, they laughingly tell
her, because of her intention to go to
California late in the summer, with her
two daughters.
Mrs. Barnett has a very beautiful. old
oINo a
Manor, In Virginia, which she intends
to open next week and where she Will
spend the early summer. II mas peeH
her custom in days gone by personally
to superintend the manufacture 0.
crane Juice in the late summer az
Wakefield Manor, and well she may be
proud Of 1t, according to those VINO
have been fortunate enough TO sample
it. At her delightful teas at her nome
at the marine barracks Mrs. Barney
tells every one who takes sample OF
the crane Juice that by doing SO tney
compliment her. She is more proud OF
the compliment to the grape juice tnan
she is Of praise of her tea. whicn is
served in Canton china, carrieo Dach IN
and forth by a real Japanese maid, IN
native costume. Every one who mas
tasted this homemade grape juice Is
hoptne that Mrs. Barnett Will either
get back from California with ner
daughters in time r.. to .so snperirn'smt erin mot 20
west until after the grape juice Is SAFE
ly made.
The news Of the approaching return
tn washington of Miss Mona McAdoo.
daugh ter Of
wo.b;no+nn Girls the Secretary
of the Treas
Endure Hardships. ury. and Miss
Katherine Britton. daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. Alexander Britton, Is not q sur
prise to those who have known OF their
recent letters home. or to those VINO
know something Of the work OF nov
ices in hospitals. Exalted, as all the
brave women are who have gone abroad
in the hope of being of service to hu-
manity in this war. by nursing the
wounded, some Of the hardships Of the
nursing life at the front have been
brought home to them in q way that all
novitiates experience. With nursing, like
many other professions, one Is obliged
to BEGIN at the foot Of the ladder. even
to scrubbing floors. This seems unro-
mantle, but is highly practical and very
necessary. although 1t Is too hard work
for many young girls.
Miss McAdoo and Miss Br1tton have
not been alone among young women
we'll known in Washington. in the
great sacrifices they have made in the
effort to be OF service to humanity.
Among the we'll known Washington
women who answered the call of help
for the wounded and dying are Mrs.
Garrett, daughter Of Mrs. Benjamin F.
Warder. who was with her husband in
France. the latter having diplomatic
post of assistance under Ambassador
Herrick. before Mr.. Sharp succeeded
Mr. Herrick at Paris and Bordeaux.
Mrs clifford Pinchot went abroad to
Join Lady Allan Johnstone in hospital
work in Flanders. The two daughters
Of Mrs. Christian Hemmick are busily
employed in relief work, the elder, Mrs.
Hippolyte Dreyfuss, having been In
charge Of one of the numerous small
hospitals supported by private French
capital, while her sister. Miss Natalie
Barney. has done clerical work for the
relief committees abroad.
There seems a disposition this sum-