Evening star., 1916-08-27
Gossip for Society Folk.

An event Of interest to Washington
society and Americans in general took
place tho past week at Salem. Ind
when, during the Homecoming celebra-
ton in honor of the anniversary Of the
state, special tribute was paid to the
memory Of the late John Hay. states
man, diplomat and Itterateur. whose
charming home on Lafayette Square,
this city, the scene Of many brilliant
entertainments, is still maintained by
his daughter. Mrs. James Wadsworth.
wife Of tho Junior senator from New
York.
Tho tribute took tho form Of marker
on the little brick cottage which was
Mr. Hays birthplace and his home until
the early '4Os when the Hay family re-
moved to Illinois. This historic cot
taee was erected in 1925 and was known
as the Salem Grammar School. 1t was
later sold to Charles and Helen Hay,
and here. October 8. 1898; the distin-
guished writer was born. This county
In which Mr. Hay was born boasts of
being the birthplace Of three distin-
euished secretaries Of state. John w.
Foster, John Hay and Walter =.
Gresham, besides two cabinet members
who left their imprint on national af-
fairs. Col. Dick Thompson and Cyrus L.
Denham.
Mr. Walter G. Peter has recently
,oaned to the National Museum an in
terestinp collection Of pictures, fur-
niture, china, jewelry. manuscripts ano
letters. as we'll as other articles or MIS-
toric and personal interest famlilar 70
Washingtonians who enjoyed the iriend-
shin and hospitality Of his grandmoth-
er. Mrs. Britannia W. Kennon of Tudor
place, Georgetown. who was daugnteI
of Martha Custis. the granddaugnter OF
Mrs. Washington and her first HUSBAND
Daniel Parke Custis.
This collection contains letters from
Alexander Hamilton, Henry Knox and
George Washington Lafayette, son OF
MARQUIS de Lafayette, written to MRS
Washington on the death OF Gen. WASH
ington, besides other letters OF interest
Among the many articles OF artistic
merit there is a collection Of quaint
pewter, copper and iron cooking uten-
sils from the kitchen at Mount Vernon
CAPITAL society having clothed itself
in a series of warlike hats, coats and
gowns since the outbreak of the Euro
pean war, observing the strictest neu-
trality frequently in French gown, a
Russian toque and German coat, will
this winter assume more clrcumspect,
though not less brilliant, apparel in the
way of silks and brocades In ecclesi-
astical colors and designs.
These materials with Gothic arch
effects and the blues, ambers and reds
of the stained glass in cathedral win
have a fine background in the tapes
tried corridors and drawing rooms OF
Mrs. Edison Bradley, Mrs Perry Bel
mont, Mrs. Robert Patterson and other
chatelaines Of the fashionable west end
which is becoming known as the King
highway of the National Capital owing
to the number of white marble and
stone mansions.
A beach widowers' smoker is the
latest novelty in army social life, the
initial entertainment having been
given at the Douglas. Ariz., Country
Club early in the month. The guests
were the bachelor widowers now at
this progressive post.
Swimming parties were the newest
rage of last year indulged in to the
limit at every army post from coast to
coast. Ad interim came the popu-
larity of roof garden dinner parties, II
being generally conceded that the old
fashioned Welsh rabbit and card par
ties had long since palled as up-to-date
l.
parties are, of course, always in vogue
winter or summer. with a steady in
crease in favor particularly in the fal
western posts, where formerly life rar
at a woefully monotonous pace.
The navy, not to be outdone by the
army in point of novelty. has this sea
son introduced the novelty of house
| boat parties, with pronounced success
| The largest of these was entertained
| by Rear Admiral and Mrs. Walter
MacLean at the commandant's house
at the Norfolk navy yard, where ths
guests were those of Mr.. and Mrs Var
Lear Black of Baltimore. who hav'
spent the summer in their house boa
saunterings along the Atlantic coast.
! Nine. Bakhmeteff, wife of the Rus
| sian ambassador, is actively interest
| ing herself in the work of organizing
| a Russian bazaar to be held at one o
| the National Guard armories in New
| York at the Christmas season, wheI
| the proceeds will be turned over to tn,
| Russian-American Relief Association
| for war sufferers in Russia.
| This does not mean that she is sim.
| ply lending her name to the undertak.
| ing. but that she is actually going ir
| for sofe of the real hard work always
necessary to insure success. to any
undertaking. large or small.
Hard work of any kind never daunts
Nine. Bekhmeteff, as was finely DEM
onstrated at the time of the Russo.
Japanese war, when she went from one
hospital to another. not only assisting
with her wealth, but actually doing
the work of a volunteer nurse all dur
ing the war period. For this personal
work of nursing. many times under
dangerous circumstances. Nine. Bakh-
meter was decorated by the czar-
very splendid jeweled decoration of
which she is justly proud.
Another line in which her energetic
work has told in most unusual chan