The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-08-25
OF<N OF OFFICIALS MARKS WASHINGTON SUMMERS END

Congressional Club and wife Of Rep
resentative Towner Of Iowa, and Mrs.
James Hamilton Lewis, wife Of Sena-
tor Lewis Of Illinois, now In Illinois.
Both announce that they are going
home to stay until after election.
Senator Lewis's Political PlisAt.
Mrs. Towner Just before she went
gave her Congressional Clubs war
workers a sort OF surprise party in
the shape Of farewell luncheon. Poor
Mrs. Lewis has not been well enough
for some time to do any entertaining.
though she did make the efforts to
give a small luncheon for Mrs. Baker.
only half a dozen guests, just after
she returned to the hotel, from q hos
pital She said she was going out
to Chicago as soon as the doctors
thought she could stand the trip, and
last Monday she went.
Her husband. Just after announcing
that at the request Of the Administra-
paisn for reelection. at the further
request Of the Administration sud-
denly went abroad. leaving his cam
paign to take care Of itself. He Is being
opposed by a very aggressive young
politician. Medill Mccormick. at pres
ent representative at large from I'LL
nois.
Speaking Of hospitals am re-
minded that Nataline Dulles. Mrs.
Lansings attractive niece, after few
days visit with the Lansings at their
Eighteenth street residence. entered
Walter Reed Hospital last Monday to
take the training Of a nurse. or
course that Immediately gave rise to
renewal of the rumor current last
spring when she took course at the
Pennsylvania Hospital in Philadelphia
that she was planning to go abroad
with the Red Cross. But Mrs. Lam
sing averred on Monday. as she had
last spring. that her niece had no such
Intention.
Her sister, Eleanor Dulles. is al
ready overseas, as arc the Secretary
two sisters, the Misses Lansing. Miss
Eleanor went over Immediately after
graduating from Bryn Mawr a year
ago and has not been back since.
Washington scarcely knows Miss
Eleanor. Dulles; she has been here
very little. But Miss Nataline has
spent months at a time here with her
grandmother, Mrs. John w. Foster,
and the Lansings. and has been Mrs.
Lansing's right hand man" in all the
State Departments war work organ
Ization.
The Secretary Of State and Mrs.
Lansing came back, as predicted, in
time to receive the special mission
from Uruguay. headed by the Min
lister Of Foreign Affairs. DR.. Brun.
It arrived last Wednesday on the
Uruguayan cruiser Mo1tevideo at
Key West, and came the following
day to Washington. where Of course
1t was received with considerable
ceremony. A . military attache. Col
William Kelly, and a naval attache,
Lieutenant Commander A. N. Beu-
regard. were detailed to chaperon 1t
during It's stay in this country, and
the Secretary Of State and a cavalry
escort met 1t at the station and con-
Quoted 1t to the Gist Blair residence,
1641 Pennsylvania avenue. which has
been placed at its disposal.
A Ceremonious Arrival.
happened to be at the station just
as the train arrived from the South,
and never have I seen such pomp and
Circumstance greet the arrival of any
foreign mission; Secretary Lansing
was there to meet them, and First AS
sistant Secretary of State William
phil1ins q nd Third Assistant C.crat, -,
Breckenridge Long. and the Presi-
cents aid. Col. Clarence s. Ridley
There was a whole battalion Of infan-
try drawn up at attention in two long
lines stretching across the concourse
and waiting room to the street. where
two military bands played The Star
Spangied Banner" and the Uruguayan
anthem. 1t was really very imposing
and impressive. Neither Balfour nor