The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-07-07

a Philadelphia hospital last winter?
suspect she is one Of those who
are Just crazy to CO." and the family
are holding her back because she's
really pretty young. / believe they
won't let you go unless you're at least
90 years old, have no near kinsmen
in the service, are perfectly sound and
healthy and able and willing to pay
your own expenses.
1t was rather n surprise to me to
learn that Dorothy McCombs-Doro-
thy Williams that was-was over there.
II any one had asked me I should
have said she was in Washington
though l hadn't seen her recently
living with her parents, Col. and Mrs.
John r. Williams. But 1t develops
that she went over with Ethel Harri-
man-what is her last name, now, her
married name?-oh, yes, Mrs. Henry
Potter Russell. They went over to-
gether to help Mrs. Vincent Astor with
her canteen, and have been hard at 1t
ever since.
Mrs. McCombs is the middle one OF
the three Williams girls, younger than
Mrs. Letter (Juliet) and older than
Frances (Mrs. John Pitney). She as
tonished us all a few years ago when
she started around the world with the
Leiters-the time they chartered the
Gould yacht and took a party-and
then called 1t Off when she got to
London, and married, "all Of a sud
den, just like that" William B. Nc
Combs.
The Letters, by the way, have opened
their summer home. Edgewater. at
Manchester, on the Massachusetts,
North Shore, and have Col. and Mrs.
Williams and believe, Frances Pit
ley and the baby with them, so that
Dorothy McCombs is about the only
member of the family who is not there.
They have loaned their big town
house on Dupont Circle to group of
British officers for the summer. !
don't quite know who all are there, but
! understand that the party includes
Gen. Headam, Gen. Trotter. Col. PAX
enham, Col Symon, Col Giles and
Lieut.. Trotter, all Of the British mis-
sion.
Change in British Mission.
And, by the way, did say last week
that Arthur Willert was detached from
the mission? He has been with it as
Lord Northcliffe's personal representa-
! tive-you know he came over here as
representative of the Northcliffe pub
locations. Washington correspondent Of
| the London Times, &c.-and has been
practically its executive head, though
of course Lord Reading Is High Com
missioner as well as Ambassador l
was astonished when Mrs. Willert told
me just before she went up to New
England for the summer that Mr.. Will
lert was going with her for a couple
of weeks, the first vacation he had had
in several years, and when he came
back would be detached from the mis-
sion and resume his newspaper work.
| To resume, I knew that Eudora
| Glover. Rear Admiral Richardson
| Clovers daughter. was going over
shortly. In fact l believe she has al
ready gone. I know she got her pass
ports n while ago. She is an accom-
plished linguist and she has been
working for Uncle Sam for some time
past-one Of the few dollar year
men" in petticoats-as n translator In
the intelligence service of the army
down at the War College. I under
stand that she is to be attached to
! headquarters over there in a similar
| capacity.
And | knew Elizabeth Howry, Judge
Howry,s daughter, was going to take
over her lovely fresh voice, under
orders of the Y. NJ. c. A, and give
the boys a treat" She has sung under
/ Y. NJ. c. a. auspices in most Of the
cantonments and worked like a
trooper to amuse the boys, so she
has fairly earned the qualification OF
her souls desire.
But it was news to me that the
two Denys girls Gwendolyn and Dor
: othy, daughters OF the Rev. F. Ward
Leslie Cameron, and that clever Bush
I Brown girl whose name I never can
remember. Henry *. Browns
daughter, sculptor and president OF
the Arts Club, he is.
And | didn't know that Elizabeth
/ Decide had gone over with the Misses
McCammon, Major McCammon's sis
tiers. In fact I'd quite forgotten that
! they had gone over until ! was told
/ that Elizabeth went with them. They
/ tell me she's working eight hours a
day-union hours-making surgical
/ dressings.
All these girls have been active in
/ Red Cross and canteen work. or
! something of the sort here. They
have fairly won their spurs; all the
girls admit that even though they are
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