The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1917-03-18

dence reached completion. Mrs. Wal
ker was Elizabeth Dodge before her
marriage.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harrison Dodge also
own lot in Edgemoor, but so FAR
they have never built Mr.. Dodge is
superintendent of Mt. Vernon, and
they are all members of the famous
old Dodge family of Georgetown and
bethesda. Evermay, the William b.
Ormes' place in Georgetown; the old
Dodge house." at the corner of Tween
ty-eighth and Q streets, and the Nourse
place, opposite Friendship, are some
of the fine old homes which originally
belonged to various members of the
Dodge family.
Col. Clement A. F. Flagler is to sue
coed Major HeiberE / wonder II the
Flaglers will hate to leave Washing
ton as much as Washington hates to
zee them go.
No Doubt Mrs. Lewis Ia In Race
For ID. A. II. PresIdent-GeneraL.
You remember, Susan, my telling
you few weeks ago that Mrs. James
Hamilton Lewis was being put for
ward as the administration" candi-
date for President-General, D. A. r.
Well, my dear, that rumor raised all
sorts of ructions when it began to be
generally noised abroad. There were
three other candidates already in the
field, and each seemed to understand
that she was the administration can
didate-indeed, I'm told that one or
two Of them produced documents to
prove 1t. But as a circular letter was
sent out about that time, bearing un
mistakingly the administration
stamp, signed by Florence Fitch, land
you know she has been Mrs. Story's
right hand man" for nearly ten
years., announcing Mrs. Lewis candl-
dacy, and bespeaking for her the sup
port of all friends of the Story admin
isGation, there can be no earthly doubt
that she is in the race.
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She ought to make a strong candidate.
For as a wife of the Senator from Him
ois she probably will have a strong IL
linois following, which Mrs. Story did
not have: ard she ought to get the
vote Of the Solid South. as she Is a South
erner OF the Southerners. Yes, indeed.
born on a cotton plantation in southern
Georgia, Virginia father. South Carolina
mother, educated at home and when she
was big enough to go away to school"
sent to Charleston-where all good
Southerners go-uptil in the fullness of
time she was big enough to go abroad
for final finishing in music and the
languages.
Mrs. Lewis Becomes Interested
In PalmIstry While Abroad.
Her father, by the way. was DR..
George Baskerville Douglas, a Confed-
crate soldier and surgeon, who went
into the First Georgia regulars. and
fought his way through the civil war.
organizing hospitals as he went-at
Petersburg and City Point in Virginia.
and in Macon and Columbus, Georgia.
Her mother. helping in the care OF the
i'll and wounded, was one Of the heroic
women of the North and South" to
whose memory our fine new Red Cross
building Is dedicated.
As to her d. A r.. record. Mrs.
Lewis is a member of the Rebecca
Mott Chapter, OF Charleston. She be-
longs to the whole bilin'" of ances-
trail societies-the Huguenot Society
of South Carolina, the National So
ciety OF Colonial Danes, the Colonial
Governors Society-"and then some"
She has not held d. A. r. office, IS 1
understand IT, nor been promineT in
any of the recent congresses. But
she was devoted to the late Mrs. Fair
banks, one of the most loved presi-
dents-general the ID. A. r. ever had.
and served as her personal page dur
ing some OF the congresses over
which she presided.
During her years abroad Mrs.
Lewis became mnRh interest q
in palmistry. She studied II under
adopts OF the Orient, and in Hungary
and Bohemia, Russia, and Roumania,