The sun., 1918-07-28

struggle are being sent here to be
patched up there will be plenty Of
material to work upon without going
across and adding to the general clut-
ter over there.
There be those who sigh for the
pleasant times that were when Mrs.
Wadsworth's present aims and ambi-
tions are mentioned. for ten or a
dozen years ago that was one of the
incest houses in all Washington to go
to- The Wads~orth Thursday even
ings were famous. They were brill
liant if informal to the extent of not
being invitation affairs. Mr.. and Mrs.
Wadsworth were at home Thursday
evenings, and all their friends were
welcome. There was corking good
music for dancing for those that
wanted to dance. There were card
tables for those who preferred their
bridge, or whatever.
There was more music for those to
whom music did not necessarily mean
dancing. There was conversation,
plenty of it, not merely intelligent but
witty. and there We're eshmentS,
both liquid and solid. In fact there
was satisfaction for every taste in
those Wadsworth Thursday evenings;
but alas, they seem to have gone for
ever.
/ One of the Lucky Wives.
Young Mrs. Thomas Blagden, who
was Ethel Noyes. is one, of those whom
the war has brought back home with
,t,t linz al nrr.ti ion,
from her husband She was one Of
WashinEton's undisputed bellies when
some three years ago she married
| Thomas BlaGden. Jr, son of Col.
Thomas Hayden, whose place out on
Spring road was one Of Washington $
show suburban homes, particularly on
account of the deer which were to be
seen grazing in the grounds, some
| times crowding down at the great gate
| and demanding a little friendly atten-
ton from the passers by and some
times scampering off in pretty panic
at some overstrenuous motor horn.
The wedding was ono of the i'm
portant affairs of that season, occur
| ing at st. Johns within two or three
weeks of her brothers marriage to
Alexandra Ewing, daughter of Thorn
as Ewing of New York. at that time
| Commissioner Of Patents. There was
wall of dismay when two of the
most popular girls in Washington.
marrying into we'll known Washing
ton families, were none the less trans
lated to New York. For both Of the
young husbands were established in
business there.
Now Lieut.. Newbold Noyes is In
France and Mrs. Noyes is with her
parents at their summer home at
Sorrento Me. But Ethel Blagden
Is back here in Washington. her hus-
band being connected with Bethlehem
Steel and stationed here as its repre-
sentative. The young people have
been living with her parents, Mr., and
Mrs. Frank Brett Noyes, in town. and
have gone out with them to their sum-
mer home, Alden Farm, near Sligo, Nd
So that Mrs. Blagden is one of the
rarely fortunate and can do her war
work side by side with her husband
doing his. without foregoing the COM
fort of getting out of town or the Joy
OF being with her parents.
| Her sister, Frances Noyes, Is an
other of the fortunate ones who are
able to do their bit-and feel that II
Is worth doing-from their own fire.
side-phew! what word to use in
this sort OF weather! She Is trans
lating for the intelligence department
of the army. Sara Price Collier-she
and her mother have been here all
winter-is presumably doing the same
thing for the French high commits
sion. know she is helping them out
in some way, and II is most probably
that. for she speaks French like a
native.
!, ] suppose Miss Louise Delano when