The Washington herald., 1917-10-07

Bowers. daughter of the solicitor gem
eral in the Taft administration, and
Mrs. Lloyd w. Bowers. is also closely
allied with all the social interests of
the Capital. Mr.. Taft has leased 1903
Twenty-second street. Their presence
will probably bring Prof. and Mrs.
Taft from New Haven to visit them
here, and the winter season will find
the representatives of a large number
of descendants or representatives OF
the families of Presidents of the past
in Washington. The Taft, Roosevelt,
Harrison. Garfield, Grant and Lincoln
administrations will all be reflected In
the various new commissions or promi-
nently Identified in war work of some
kind during the next twelve months.
Mrs. James Mcmillan. who has re-
turned from her summer place. Eagle
Head, Manchester, Mass, will have
not only her granddaughter. Mrs.
Grace Mcmillan Gibson. with her. but
also her son-in-law and daughter. Sir
John Lane and Lady Harrington (Amy
McMillan), whose wedding at Man
chester. on October u, 1908, was a no.
table event. Sir John and Lady Har-
rington arrived on the same ship
which brought safely to port Mr..
Francis Bowes Sayre, the son-in-law
OF the President Sir John has been
in most active duty since the war be-
gun, giving invaluable service to his
country, while Lady Harrington. too.
has lent every effort to war work in
Great Britain.
Another lease which brings to the
minds OF society folk some really
thrilling times. is that OF the Bellamy
Storer house at the corner OF Rhode
Island avenue and Seventeenth street
to Mr.. and Mrs. Frank A. Wander
lip. The Storer house had been rent
ed by Vice President and Mrs. Theo-
dore Roosevelt as their official resi-
dence and they were about to take
possession when the terrible death of
President Mckinley sent them into
the White House. That was in the
days of the Dear Marie" corre-
spOndence between Col. Roosevelt
and Mrs. Storer, and before Church
and State. as 1t were. split upon the
rock of veracity. The Storer house,
which is really quite a modest one,
was once the home of Mr.. and Mrs.
Elihu Root, when the former was
Secretary Of War, and who, finding
the residence too small, took a more
commodious one in Jackson place.
1t too, was once the French Embassy
in the days when NJ. Cambon was
Ambassador, and one recalls with
something almost like a shudder the
walls of the front hall and the stair
ways hung in Turkey Red calico,
while something equally unpreten-
tious and terrible covered the dining
room walls where such personages
~ the late Mr.. and Mrs. L. 2. Letter
dfned in state with the Ambassador
Since the French flag waved proudly
over it the house has been remodel
ed, and Mr.. and Mrs. Vanderllp, who
will be the near neighbors of Mr.. and
Mrs. Clifford Pinchot. and Mr.. and
Mrs. Bradlee. of Boston. will find it
a comfortable and convenient place
notwithstanding the move by some
Cabinet women early In the Wilson
administration to do away with or
terribly curtail official calling. it is
not that desire now which sets
Cabinet women against the custom
which had almost outgrown human
endurance. 1t is a real desire to bear
their share Of the burdens Of pre-
paredness, and from Mrs. Wilson, and