The Washington herald., 1918-11-10

ate up to the day or his death; Mrs.
Longworth, T. RS daughter. 'fPrin-
cess Alice" OF only a few years
ago, the young lady of the White
House and the most discussed and
fiattered and entertained young wom-
an in the country. II not in the
vorld-that any one of them would
undoubtedly be received with acclaim
as First Lady of the Congressional
set. Mrs. Giilet has two young
daughters-Misses Frances and LOU
lisa Hoar-both debutantes of recent
seasons. and both at present en-
rolled among Uncle Sans war work.
ers-as "dollar-a-year' men, l be-
Ileve-in the State Department Al
together it's a most interesting sit
uation.
Speaker Clark. meanwhile, will have
/, held down the Speakership-and Mrs.
Clark the position of ranking Con-
gressional hostess-eight years longer
than anyone else. believe. with
the sole exception of Uncle Joe Can
non, who was Speaker of the House
for ten years. during which time his
daughter, Miss Helen Cannon, did the
honors as the first lady of the Con-
gressional circle.
Mentioning the two Hosr girls be-
ing in the State Department, reminded
me of the two Burleson girls in the
Navy Department-though 1t is case
like the old song of zone few away
and then there was one" And OF
Lucy Burleson's marriage just week
ago. 1t was really very small we'd
ding so far as the party at the church
was concerned-and very select
Really, almost no one outside of the
President and Mrs. Wilson, the Cabi-
net circle and a few other officials,
like the Champ Clsrks, with whom
the Burlesons have been closely asso-
ciated for years. a few of Lucy's in
innate girl friends, schoolmates and
such. and members of her family and
Ensign Grimes.
There we're rather more invited to
the reception at the house, though
that was announced as a small re-
ception before it happened-and as a
brilliant one afterwards-in a COM
munique which the Burlesons sent out
to the newspapers anent the death in
the service in France of Maj Israel
Putnam, who was. it appears, their
kinsman. They wished the world in
formed that they had not at the time
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Maj. Putnam's untimely end. And of
course the world was informed.
Miss Lucy and her ensign-or rath-
er Ensign and Mrs. Charles Greene
Grimes-spent the first few days of
their honeymoon ut White Sulphur
Springs, where Mrs. Grimes was char
acterized as about the most radiant
bride that the resort had ever seen.
They are due back in Washington
next week, when it Is reported they
will probably go to housekeeping al
most Immediately. as they have their
eye on an apartment. They are lucky
to have found one.
One assumes from that announce
ment that Mrs. Grimes is giving up
ter yeowoman's job in the Navy De-
partment. She is for the present de
tached' from il. her young husband
being officially ION leave" There is
no announcement as yet as to
whether the detachment is temporary
or permanent
And speaking OF "detachments,"
there have been few men given such
a send-ofr on being detached from
their jobs as was Admiral Leigh c.
Palmer. who has been chief Of the
Bureau OF Navigation for the last
two or three years, and has been
pleading tearfully for more than a
year for an assignment at sea, where
he might feel that he was taking an
active part in the greatest war that
has ever been waged. AS a matter of
fact he was taking an active part in
IT and was so valuable where he was,
directing the recruiting which in the
space OF eighteen months expanded
the personnel of the navy from less
than 100000 to more than 10000, that
Secretary Daniels turned a deaf ear
to his plea.
At last, however, he got his as
signment and the officers of his bu-
reau gave him the joIliest possible
dinner at the Army and Navy Club,
with all sorts of trimmings in the
shape Of menu cards painted by
Henry Standardization l used to
know years ago in Chicago before
he besApe famous. but whom l have
not yet run into in Washington,
though he is now an officer in the
Bureau Of Navigation-and music by
naval celebrities suitable to the occa-
sion: and movies" OF his own career
In which he was given d chance to
see himself as others see hIm-from
the old days when he was at An
napolis, and a Junior lieutenant.
known to his mates as Elsie" Palm
er Chis initials being L. CD. an aide
at the White House under Taft, right
down to the present. And who do
you suppose told me about It? Who.
but Wells Hawks-yes, indeed, the
same Wells Hawks who Travelled with
a circus and who most of his friends
believes was born "on Broadway and
probably would prefer to die there
who after a rather varied and al
ways interesting carter. is now Lieut.
Wells Hawks, U. S. N. attached to
the Bureau of Navigation-of other
things than seagoing hacks.
There is of course no announce
nent Of what Admiral Palmer's new
duty is-mereIy that he has been
given very important assignment
af1oat. That is about as much as
is ever given out at present con-
cerning any naval officer. He has
already gone. Mrs. Palmer went to
New York to see him off, and
brought back with her her sister-in-
law. Mrs. Draper. wife Of Lieut.,
Draper, U. S. N, who also has an
assignment aflost. So the two wives
are to spend the winter together
here, consoling one another for the
absence Of their respective hus-
bands.
Admiral Palmer is not the only
one who has had a glorious send
off recently. Mr.. Nordvall of the
special Swedish Mission here gave a
brilliant dinner Tuesday night by way