Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-03-26
Gossip Of Society.

An interesting story is being told
about or rather in connection with. Miss
Mabel Boardman. Mrs. William R. Harr.
a member Of the Congressional Club. had
a visitor recently who hailed from an OBJ
scure town in the west. Mrs. Harr. as
all Washingtonians do when friends
come to town, took her visitor sightsee-
ing Among other things seen were
some of the many handsome homes Of
the capital AS they drove around the
corner of 18th and P streets Mrs. Harr
turned to her friend and said:
This is where Mabel Boardman
lives"
The visitor. Mrs Harr says. opened her
eyes. likewise her mouth, and. with a
gasp, said
oh do you know her we'll enough to
call her by her first name'
1t was explained to the visitor that
many persons in Washington feel that
they may call Miss Boardman by her
first name, so much respect, as Mrs.
Harr told her friend, is felt for this IN
firing worker in the cause of humanity.
When one woman shook hands With
President and Mrs Wilson at the White
House musical the other night she
found that she had finished a round of
handshaking with Presidents which
has extended to every one of them since
the time when Mr.. Pierce was Presi-
dent She is Mrs SilaS Casey, the
widow of Rear Admiral Casey, L. S. y.
The Highlands the old Nourse
homestead opposite Friendship. where
Dolly Madison used to frequently visit,
is about to bloom forth in its spring
beauty. and the big box bushes. plant
ed from little sprigs of box given
Miss Nourse by President Thomas JEFF
ferson, are beginning to show the ten
der green of new shoots.
The wistaria, by the way, at High
lands is probably the finest in the Dis
trict and when it is In bloom artists
like mushrooms pop up from all quar-
tiers. and it is no new experience for
the family residing in the house to
about the grounds, where a good look
at the wonderful purple blossomed vine
may be seen. At a spring exhibit at
the Corcoran Art Gallery one year,
of the back gallery of the Highlands,
glorifled by the wistaria.
Mrs. Delos Blodgett, away on trip
to the sunny south. did not let her
friends forget her. for from her orange
grove in Florida big boxes filled with
oranges have found their way back to
Washington. and many hreakfa ST
ia BILE has for its chief topic of CONVEX
sation the sweetness of Mrs. Blodgett s
oranges and her kindness in sending
them. Mrs. Blodgett is. by the way
one of those who are following the now
fashionable fad of gardening or near
gardening. She has room only for a
tiny garden here. and what space there
is is to he taken by the loveliest of
garden furniture a lure to spend
the spring days in the open
At the side of her home on ! 9Th
street. which she purchased from for
mer Senator Foraker. is a little strip
of green, and in front of this. to screen
it from the street. Mrs. Blodgett is to
have a hedge. and behind the hedge a
ia BILE. benches and bird bath. all of
the snowiest of white marble, and
here there will be tea parties and after
dinner smokes when the weather per-
mts Mrs. Blodgett and Miss Mona to
invite their friends to share with them
their charming little outdoor room.
Mrs. Champ Clark. wife of the Speak
congressman during the present inter
esting debates going on in the House
of Representatives by coming prepared
to listen to the speeches without inter
ruption or any danger of losing a good
seat in the gallery by going out to
luncheon. The ladies do not go down
to the restaurant when they get hun
CRY. but send for the walters to bring
them something. or else they prepare
themselves lunches before leaving
home, and swap titbits with each
other, just as do girls at school AT the
lunch hour.
Also they take their tatting for be
| it known tatting has taken the place
Of knitting this season. and. moreover
| il is for home consumption and not for
lany of the war sufferers.