The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1917-06-04
FOR NEW GENERALS OLIVE ORAB WORN
ARMY OFFICERS LAY ASIDE CIV.
ILiAN AND DRESS eARB DUR.
ING THE WAR.
CAPITAL SOCIETY FOLLOWS
Simplicity In Attire and In Entertain
ments Now the Rule-Mr. Balfour's
Whirlwind Game Of Tennis Amazes
the Spectators.
BY EDWARD 9. CLARK.

BY EDWARD 8. CLARK.
Washington.-The city is full of uni
forms, the army officers having put
on their olive garb some days ago,
dropping their civilian attire until the
end of the war. No army officer will
appear in full dress, except at White
House affair, In case there should be
one, from this time until hostilities
cease. Evening dress within few
months will be foregone by Washing
ton society, If the indications today
point Alright. t
Olive drab is not dress uniform. It
Is just between khaki and what Ia
called social Dress" 1t corresponds
In a way to the sack coat Of the ci-
william. At dinners, teas and receptions,
such Of them as they can attend, Uncle
Sans soldiers appear in their olive
drab. Society in war time follows the
army. Already civilians are appearing
at dinner parties in afternoon and even
In so-called morning dress.
Washington women are discussing
this dress matter, and already sim
plicity and even plainness of attire is
In evidence at affairs where usually
the ultimate extreme" Is in order.
Elaborate entertainments are being
foregone. Dinners in houses of social
note are now likely to be of three or
four courses instead Of six or eight
as formerly was the case. The coming
seriousness of the war is in the minds
Of Washingtonians.
Had to Dig Out the Uniforms.
1t was not until the British army Of
ficers arrived that the war department
issued its order to put all officers sta
toned in Washington in the service
uniform Of their country. There are
some major and brigadier generals and
colonies in this town who have been
here for years and who have worn
no uniform in all that time except
when appearing at an army or navy
reception at the White House, and
then their attire was the full dress Of
the service.
1t was simultaneously said that it
Is greatly to the credit Of these Off
GERS that when the order came out to
appear in olive drab they were found
to be possessed of such uniforms. One
brigadier general appeared in his Of
flee at nine o'clock in the morning af-
ter the issuing of the order, clad in
olive drab that had as many creases in
1t as centenarian's face. He admit
ted that 1t had been in his trunk for
six years, and that there had been no
time to press the plagued thing" be-
tween his receipt of the order and the
time that he had to appear at his war
department desk.
President Wilson Is keeping in phys
ical trim by playing'golf. He goes out
regularly every morning to one or the
other of the country clubs and makes
the Is holes in hundred or perhaps
a little less, and then comes back to
his administrative troubles. The pres
ident is no tennis player, fact which
Mr.. Balfour has perhaps inwardly re-
scented, because the English statesman
prefers tennis to diplomacy if any
preference in his case be possible.
Balfour Has Tennis Games.
Mr.. Balfour during his stay in
has had one or two oppor-
tunities to play his favorite game. At
the Chevy Chase club he undertook
two or three sets of tennis, and his
playing was witnessed by veranda
full of Westinghouse who could not
how man of his age
could play such whirlwind game.
Mr.. Balfour thinks that his activity
and general good health are due to
tennis. 1t is literally true that he
plays a sort of hurricane game.
Miss Margaret Wilson is singing for
the benefit of the Red Cross. She is
now en- tour through Ohio, Kentucky
and Missouri, singing publicly, in or.
der to earn money to be turned over
instantly to the Red Cross for the BEN
Eft of the soldiers and sailors of the
American army.
Fort Myer today is a big camp
ground, where tenting, or rather bar
'acking," are many hundreds of young
Americans trying to fit themselves to
become officers Of Americas new army.
had a thought that dur
ng the encampment at Fort Myer,
here might be chance for almost
Unlimited social diversions in the way
# teas, dances and great parties.
society made its mistake.
The young men at Fort Myer, many Of
whom are representatives of the we'll
Known families of Washington, are
about fifteen hours day and
ire sleeping away what is left of the
line. There Is precious little in the
way o! amusement at Fort Myer. The
men seem to find the work interesting,
Ind say that being interested is better