Evening star., 1916-11-26
Picked Up Here and There.
Continued from Sixth Page)

been the stock subjects of converse
! tion the past week.
Sisters Under says the Seattle Times,
| ~. but politics.
| tAe ohlA. Kipling said that
| "the coloneIs lady and Julia O'Grady
! were sisters under the skin,' truism
| fully demonstrated this past week.
| when the relationship was more promi-
nently noticed as the women of all
| classes. meeting on equal ground,
| worked together heart and soul. or
| with a divergence of opinion. loyalty
paid allegiance each to her own con-
viction.
The Seattle women are waking up to
the fact that politics is the greatest
( game in the world. and IL they would
| be interesting they must be familiar
with current issues.
1t has been said that every big prof.
ect was whipped into shape in the
drawing room of some clever woman.
Anyway, their support at the polls was
unusually heavy this year, showing
that in politics the women have taken
their stand.
AS rule. intelligence was used in
voting. yet many of the women plunged
into the contest wholly unprepared,
and number of ludicrous situations
were observed. 4 much travelled wom-
an. up to date in nearly everything
| except politics, at the instigation of her
husband went to the polls in her pre-
cinct to cast her vote. Failing TO find
| lust what she wanted she said after
ward: Il just voted for everything.'
Another. at the primaries, in refer
ring to the long list of judges names
from which to make a selection, said ::
Il didn't know any of them. any
Jingle. which l found useful as child
IN deciding question. 1t was: My
mother told me to take this one,' at
the same time pointing a word to a
name"
prominent woman of Seattle. one
of the old-fashioned type. averse to
womens suffrage. said last week: Il
think at some time the pendulum sig
nifying votes for women will swing.
and the apathy of the Washington
women in regard to it will be noticea-
BILE"
Coincident with the opening of the
opera season was the reopening of the
Astor residence. at No.
AStor Home $40 5th avenue, New
York. and its restoration
eoPeAS. to the place which it oc-
cupied several years ago as a social
center. The house was agiow with
gave a dinner there before the opera
for Mrs. Astor's debutante sister, Miss
Alice F. Huntington, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Robert P Huntington. Two
nights later "eight-forty" saws the New
York Herald. as the house was termed
in former days again a center of
animation on even greater scale when
Mrs. Astor gave dinner for eighty
seven members Of the immigration com
nIlttee her Of
Commerce. all prominent in sociologi-
cal work throughout the country. Many
other parties will be given there, in
cludfng one January 4 for Miss Hunt
tngton.
] heard of a christening in far-away
California the other day, saws Boston
Post c o ri pondent,
Christened in which is certain to in
n.,.e terest social Boston,
A"' that of tiny Ruth Ellen
Patton. daughter Of Lieut.. George
Smith Patton, U. S. A.. and Mrs Patton
Mrs. Patton. doubtless you remember,
was Beatrice Aver of Commonwealth
avenue and Prides Crossing, daughter
of the Frederick Ayers. Mrs. Patton
has been paying visit to her hus-
panu 1amlly ana TOOK advantage OF
that occasion for the necessary cere-
mony in behalf of her small daughter
/ do not know from whom the infant
receives her first name, but the middle
name, Ellen, is in honor of Mrs. Aver
who. you remember, was Ellen Fan
ming.
December 4, the date for the first
dance given by the Richmond German
Club this sea
Buds to Bow at son, is the most
Richmond German Hi'poi Tan eseh-