The Washington herald., 1918-06-09

as do very considerable royalties
from the sale of her song records.
She pays her own personal expenses.
Whenever she has been anywhere
near one of the cantonments. she has
gone out Of her way to sing to the
boys in camp. And the boys have
liked it. tremendously-much better
than they would like to hear Tetraz-
zini. or. CALI -Curci, or Geraldine Far
rar, or Mary Garden. She may not
have their voices; but she II the
Presidents daughter. and in her own
right . sweet. gracious. attractive
looking woman, and q rarely intelh-
gent one. !, for one, am for Mar
saret Wilson, and for her strong!
Just the other day when she was
at Camp Lee, nearly home, and prob
ably tired, she was told that for some
reason q certain regiment could not
come to the Y. N. c. A. to hear her
sing. II seems to me that they were
quarantined, but I'm not quite clear
as to that But she said, IAN right,
IL they can't come to me, I'll 20
to them. And she did, and gave them
little private concert all to them
selves. Is 1t any wonder she was
cheered to the echo?
Another woman that I'm for. and
for good and Strong. is Mrs. Lam
sing. She's one of the busiest war
workers in town-and she has few
social and personal duties to attend
to. But she's never too busy to be
friendly and courteous and helpful.
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exclusive to come to the telephone.
Her butler does not say. who is
it, please?' He says, You wish to
speak to Mrs. Lansing? Hold the
phone. please" And in a minute, II
Mrs. Lansing Is in. you get her voice
answering you.
This last week she has been in
New York-she and the Secretary. and
her nephew. Capt. John Foster Dulles
and his wife. Miss Nataline Dulles,
home from a nurses training course
in Philadelphia. has been in the
Eighteenth street houses with Mrs.
Foster. Mrs. Lansing's mother. Miss
Dulles is likely to stay a couple of
weeks before going UP to her home
in New York State. Eventually they
will all go to Henderson Harbor,
though II is rather uncertain Just
which OF them can get of and when
This week. by the way, there is to
be revival OF the Bandbox, the
little war shop that Mrs. Lansing ran
for while in the early spring. 1t
is to be at 1723 H street, the head
quarters Of the State Departments
war relief committee this time. 1t Is
to be opened on Friday afternoon and
all day Saturday. for the sale of some
articles left over from the February
sale and for quite a few that have
been collected since. Mrs. Lansing
will be assisted by Mrs. Wilbur Carr,
Mrs John w. Davis. Mrs. Charles
Denby. and Mrs. Walter Penfeld.
To return to our brides our out
of-town brides. There is that Baker
Vanderbilt wedding next Wednesday.
the whole country is interested in
that, of course. even IL the whole
country can't flock up to Lenox -
see II solemnized at Homewood. the
brides country estate there. Funny
thing about that engagement. one OF
my gossips said to me nearly a year
and a half ago. II hear Ray Baker
| is going to marrp Mrs. Vanderbilt
what do you know about it?" And
i, having Mrs. George Vanderbilt, our
only Washington Mrs. Vanderbilt. VIZ
my mind, couldn't see 1t at all. and
said frankly that 1 didn't believe it.
l had certainly never seen them pay
/ the slightest attention to one another
Mrs. Alfred Vanderbilt has not often
been in Washington, at least not since
she became Mrs. Vanderbilt.
1t is understood here that the wed