Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-03-07
Gossip of Society.

Nine. Da CANA. wife of the Brazilian
ambassador, has solved the problem oil
keeping ornamental
A Tale nf Two shrub b cry trees
green and good tic
UIceH ATceS. look upon. She has
two very handsome specimens ffanking
either side of the well appointed front
door of the embassy on Massachusetts
avenue.
They are tail. about five feet. nicely
pointed at the top and altogether sym
metrical, as they rise from their at
tractive, ornate. cream porcelain Jars
and above all they are IS green as the
Emerald Isle after shower. They are
artificial They do not fade. nor get
brown or shed their leaves in the as
tressing way that real shrubs do Nine.
da Cana is being congratulated by her
friends on her cleverness.
Mrs Miller. wife of Representative
Miller of Michigan. though not official
ly known, 80
Knows All to speak. as
one of wash
About Her Horses. ineton.s expert
horsewomen. is nevertheless iloer'
that can give many points to some OF
those who figure each year in the morse
shows and on the bride paths.
Mrs Miller cannot only ride. she can
corral her horse, rope him herself. throw
him and then saddle and ride him. ana
after she has gone through the aforesaid
nreliminaries. it is some riding that she
accomplishes. She and her horse do not
hesitate for any more pleasantr1es, tnes
simply go like the wind across the
prairies. for it is in the far west mat
Mrs. Miller learned to ride, and has had
most of the sport of her expert horseman-
ship. She was brought up in South Da-
kota. and the riding ring there Is the
broad expanse of prairie, mile on mile,
and the horse eats up the miles till ne
is worn out. and then Mrs. Miller ex-
plains that the thing to do is to whip MN
into going farther and faster till ne drops
After that the wild pony. which had TO
be lassoed in the beginning. will not only
be saddled when and how you wish, but
will eat out of your hand. Wild west
show with bucking bronchoes has no
thrills for Mrs. Miller, for she has been
there herself many, many times.
Mrs Miller, who is as spirited as the
inyigorating air of her own dear west,
is one of the congressional ladies VINO IS
in favor of solving some way OF curta1l-
ing the task OF making tne Iouiiu VI VI
fetal calls. for she frankly admits she IS
too fond of the open to spend each and
every afternoon driving about making
calls To jump into her motor and be
whisked out to the club for a round OF
golf is much more to her liking.
Mrs Miller has accompanied her hus-
band on two trips to the Philippines. and
is keenly interested in the development OF
the people and the islands. When she
made the first trip. right after the Span
ish-American war, many OF the Filipino
natives had nothing but a mat to sit on
and bowl to eat from, she says, but on
her return trip. twelve years after, she
found steam laundries and many other
modern industries in full swing. Mrs.
Miller is one of the several women from
America whom the Sultan of Sulu COM
plimented by offering strings OF pearls
Washington has had a glimpse dur
ing the past week Of some Of those
who are to make
Already the season. so far
Husting Story. concerned next
winter A number of the newly elected
senator's and representatives and their