The Washington herald., 1917-09-16

though small, somewhat repaid WASH
ington for the temporary loss OF the
japanese Mission while 1t pays visits
to other important cities.
The British chief justice. Lord
Reading, who. with Lady Reading, ar
rived during the week, also added a
new impetus to the declining enthusi-
astic entertainment of foreigners. and
1t is probable that many dignified
functions will be given in their honor.
Neither the Ambassador nor Lady
Spring Rice were in town when they
arrived. but will return to Washington
before the close of the month.
In the exodus OF society women to
France for war relief work Mrs. Bel
mont Tiffany. of 15S East Sixty-second
street, will sail shortly to supervise
the new Red Cross canteens for
American and French soldiers at the
front. Mrs. Tiffany. who was Miss
Anne Cameron, daughter OF Sir Rod
eric Cameron. had arranged to take
an active part in Red Cross work con-
nected with the National Horse Show
at Madison Square Garden on Novem-
ber 12-l6, the entire receipts of which
are to be given to the war charity,
but the Importance Of the work abroad
has necessitated a sudden change in
her plans.
And apropos of the canteens abroad,
and that line Of thought, the women
who send packages to their husbands.
brothers or sons might benefit by
hearing a request from one OF the
American boys-an electrical engineer
who is in France. The suggestion OF
Fels Naptha soap sounds rather outre
on first thought, but Mrs. Willis Chat
man Hawley. wife of Representative
Hawley. of Oregon. has Just had
letter from her son. Kenneth Hawley.
graduate OF the Boston Tech and
other schools and a gifted young cleo
trical engineer in the service of his
country. asking for the soap and lots
OF homemade candy. From soldering
and serving his country in uniform to
laundry work seems a terribly long
step, and yet the boys must perform
this task for themselves. The soap.
therefore. is a necessity. Mrs. Haw-
ley has already put up the package
and shipped it off, and perhaps some
time she will hear from it. The soap
" dS dCCOliHdlltu pN OF
stantaneous chocolate and some
sweets. Representative and Mrs. Haw-
ley have two sons on the other side
in the service of the army, and in
stead of repining. Mrs. Hawley is con-
stantly congratulating herself on the
subject, and would go herself were the
field open to her. Her parents were
both German. and her mother left Ba-
Varia haRarca ha fur 80
the German army and did not wish to
be further sacrificing. so she and her
husband came to America, and Amer
ican she became in everything but
birth. That is why Mrs. Hawley
grows eloquent when she tells of her
two boys on the other side.
Senator Frederick Hale has had
staying with him at the home of his
parents. Mr.. and Mrs. Eugene Hale,
in X street, Senator Frank Kellogg,
Of St. Paul, Mimi, a meeting as it
were Of the East and the West. Sem
ator and Mrs. Kellogg had the home
of Mr.. and Mrs. Charles ]. Bell, in
Connecticut avenue for the summer,
and later when Mrs. kellogg went
West, the two Senators formed a little
partnership at the Hale mansion. Sem
ator Hale Is solving the high cost of
living-thoush he always dimes at the
Metropolitan Club save for his break
fast which is served in his room-by
raising quite the best looking bean
crop about Washington. Rows of
beans winding up tall poles that would
almost turn Jack the Giant Killer
green with envy, form an admirable
feature in the side yard attached to
their residence. There is nothing
amateurish about them. and indeed
they are a product that would put a
professional farmer on his mettle.
The dinner given by Senator Philan-
der Knox for Viscount Ishii had a
historic setting in that the guests were
entertained in the loft room where,
as Secretary OF State, Mr.. Knox enter
tanned all the diplomats of the Old
World. while the New Year diplomatic
breakfast, the most brilliant of all
the official entertainments of Wash
inston-out-of-war on the social pro-
gram also took place there. Quite
natural looking to Viscount Ishii, was
the wonderful wisp of a tree hum
dreds of years old, which was pre-
sented to Mr.. Knox by the Emperor of
japan during an Official visit to that
country. The little tree had its first
transplanting before an American
audience when the Knoxs used it as
centerpiece at their annual dinner
10 the then President, Mr. Roosevelt
and Mrs. Roosevelt As IL was the
very Oldest and rarest of its kind
extant. it excited great admiration.
though indeed a rather dry looking
oecorauon. which had to be relped