New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-06-13

Through a Winter of Terrible
Strain All Have Kept the Air OF
Washington Composed--The
Wife of Count Won Bern
storff the Only Absentee.

Of the great bazaars. plays, musicals
etc. planned for the soldiers OF thels
countries, or even allow their names
70 be used SIS patronesses. The French
Ambassador and Nine. Jusserand were
particularly careful in this way ana
the British Ambassador and Lady
spring-Ricc were likewise so.
Knitting bees were formed, sewing
circles gotten up and both occupations
were conducive to the activity OF tho
tongue as we'll as the fingers. Amer
can society women were thelr lhSN-
gators and their workers ana they
used every polite method oil hlcnlng
American dollars from coplous pochets
for the war-stricken countries. APP
parently, foreign women were slt'lhg
by with idle hands. They took no part
in the various meetings except some
times 20 look in for few moments
They told no hard luck tales OF the
soldiers in the trenches and the WIDOWS
and orphans at home. The American
press did that for them.
Il was through the medium OF local
charities that the chief instructors ID
this school OF diplomacy found a way
10 return the favors heaped upon their
own countrymen. They took an inter-
est in everything local. Nine. Jusser-
and went TO the home Of the Litue
Sisters of the Poor. donned great
bingham apron and helped cook ana
serve food to the feeble old inmates.
She went often to St. Roses Industrial
School and instructed and bought the
articles made there. She made II the
fashion for society women 70 nave GER
tain classes OF fine sewing done there
and for society girls TO learn cooking
and the household arts from the SIS
ters-all to help the institution along:
When they gave a tea or an at home
Nine. Jusserand poured" and other
wise graced the occasion.
At one of the Diet Kitchens which
devotcs itself exclusively TO the well
fare of infants you may ind Lady
Spring Rice most any day. ofsetting BY
her work for the helpless little mites
there the work done by American
women for the British soldiers at the
front She studies American methods
in the nursery, and Is not only gra-
cious student, but a worker, lifting up
and caring for the babies. feeding.
bathing and dres ing them and gem
erously giving botl of time and money.
On one of her trips 70 this big nursery
last winter she found music machine
grinding out the merrlest ragtime. IN
terspersed now and then with a classic.
Mrs. Edward Beale Mclean. she who
was EVELYN Walsh. daughter of the
late Thomas +. Walsh. of Colorado.
had been there, and finding things a
bit dreary. as the rain and snow beat
about the windows and door. she
hopped in her limousine and visiting
a music store brought the wonderful
music machine back with her. She IS
BY marriage the niece of Nine. Bakh-
metef. wife of the Russian Ambassa-
dor, and Lady Spring-Rice smiled
broadly as it doomed out the American
ragtime. with due respect TO the neu-
traity of the country.
Those who entertained these foreign
women ceased 10 fear unpleasant out
breaks after the first or second eX-
perence, and they learned that con-.
versationalists were gently led from the
paths of discussion by adroltly turn
ing the subject upon things strictly
American.
This week will witness the general
breaking up of the unique school, with
its distinguished instructors and
scarcely less distinguished pupils, and
probably nowhere else in the world
has such a scene been witnessed, such
able work been carried on. Both the
President and the Secretary of State
know this and are ready to mark up
the papers"
Nine. Riano, wife Of the Spanish
Ambassador; Nine. da Cana, wife OF
the Brazilian Ambassador; Sonora de
Suarez-Mujica, wife Of the Chilian Am
bassador, and Nine Romulo S. Naon,
wife of the Argentine Ambassador,
form a unique group of neutral diplo-
matists, whose task has been equally
delicate with that Of the wives Of the
ambassadors of warning nations,
though, of course, they were saved the
heartaches.