The Washington herald., 1918-04-21

glad hand for everybody-and
stalwart and complaisant arm for
some of the pretty young girls. With
n budding young beauty on. or under
each arm. an envious youth in uni
form declared that John was hav-
ing the time of his young-not too
young, (Which was sheer Jealousy, of
cOurse)-life. 1t did seem a pity that
a man has only two arms on such
occasions.
Oh. nonsense! no scandal at all.
With several hundred old ladies of
both sexes looking on. he was very
l. Oroughly chaperoned. Even II
wise man had not long since dis
covered the safety in numbers.
1t was quite the most brilliant presi-
dent generals reception | have ever
seen. and borrowing the Pan American
Building for it was an inspiration. For
n there Is one place i'm Washington
that is not suited to n reception II ~
Continental Memorial Hall; and II
there is one place in Washington that
has every other place beaten to a
fragile as the setting for stately
function. It is its next door neighbor
the home of the Pan American Union
There must have been not far from
200 daughters-with their daughters.
and in some instances their mothers,
not TO mention their sisters and the1r
cousins and their aunts-swarminS rID
that splendid wide stairway on the
northern side OF the building in a
solid mass that seemed to move as
little as IL glacier, but which. like the
glacier. eventually made considerable
progress. Also there was quite n
sprinkling of sons. SO that when they
lad gone down the line and emerged
into the great Hall of the America 4"
the reception resolved itself into
dance
Everybody danced-(from Gen. Bar
nett with his two stars ornamenting
the blue OF the marines and Gen.
Squier with his two stars on the "olive
drab"-which is neither olive nor drab
of the army, down to the youngest
second lieutenant to whom even a
single bar is denied. and plenty OF high
privates. not to mention drU.es OF
feckless civilians)-danCed regardless
OF size. shape, or actual condition OF
pulchritude of their partners. While
droveS of foreign war missionaries, in
horizon blue. or soft distance gray, or
dusty and all trimmed up with croix
de queries, and other outward and
SiEllS VI NdlOE, looked on en-
vious. For TO them dancing Is for
bidden,' "defendu'-any other word
YOU please but "verbotRn'-durIng The
war ] even caught dear old Mary
LockwOOd-no apologies needed; she
has reached the age where she's proud
OF tt-doing a quaint little dance with
one of the young girls. Mrs. Lock-
wood, II / mistake mott is the sole
surviving founder of the d. A r.
and the last congress elected her non
orary chaplain general for life.
Mrs. Guernsey had receiving with
her Nine. Jusserand. Mrs. Baker,
| Mrs. Burleson. Mrs. Daniels, Mrs
Benson, Mrs. Barnett CWives OF the
| admiral in charge of naval opera
tiOns, and of the general command
ant OF the marines, respectively
Mrs. Matthew Scott, a former presi-
dent general. and a group of ma
| tional officers. With Nine. Jusserand
it is a case OF the spirit being will
| ing but the flesh weak. She looked
lovely in a gown of grayish green
chiffon pailleted with steel and Jet,
and she began bravely. but she Is
not strong and she could not stick
out that interminable throng. After
| an hour or so she went home. But
the daughters didn't go home-not
\ they. Their staying powers are the
| wonder and admiration of their
! friends. They stayed, and danced
and talked, and talked and danced
For once they could do the talking
| They didn't have to listen. There
were no addresses. no nothing, once
| they got past the line.
No. indeed, Mrs. Baker didn't sing
I
| know, at the formal opening exer-
cises, for which the President was
| on the program and didn't show
up to the great disgruntlement of
the Daughters. I'd be willing to bet
that Mrs. Baker danced, If she was
not completely played out by the