The Washington herald., 1918-04-07

very MISUNDERSTANDING TO say
nothing Of a grist of lesser events
and individuals have carried Easter
week on with a rush. For once II Is
''Plaee-not aux DANES, but-a feg-
lize.' for the Archbishop was more
interesting than even the brides.
He arrived Saturday night, and
was the guest over Sunday of Bishop
Harding Of Washington diocese and
on Monday went to the British En-
bassy for u couple OF days, before
going ON to Baltimore on Wednesday.
He had rather strenuous time while
he was here. Sunday he took part in
three services. and spoke in three Diff
ferent churches, giving the ringing
war message Of a militant church to
large congregations in each.
Monday he participated in a tree
planting In the Cathedral, Close in
the morning, and officiated at the
christening OF two small British sub
Jects, the infant son OF the counselor
OF the British Embassy, and Mrs.
Colville Barclay, and the baby daugh-
ter Of the Hon. John Lyon and Mrs.
Lyon temporarily attached"-Coh no,
don't mean to one another. 1t is to
be hoped that that is a permanent
ceremony took place at Bethlehem
Chapel OF the Cathedral Of SIS. Peter
and Paul Lady Crawford, Frank L.
Polk Of the State Department. and
Mr.. Thomas Beaumont Hohler Of the
Embassy stood sponsors for little
Robert Barclay; and Lady Maud Mac
lntosh. as proxy for Lady Spring
Rice. with Owen Smith were spon-
sors for tiny Ann Lyon. The Arch
bishop was received by the president
in the afternoon. dined at the White
House in the evening, and afterwards
was the honor guest at a great recep-
-tion at CorCoran Gallery in the even
ing. when it is estimated he shook
hands with about SIX thousand guests
Tuesdsy he made the opening pray
er at the Senate. was the honor guest
at q luncheon given for him by the
Bishop of Washington, went to Mount
Vernon and did his whole duty by
NashingtOn-the whole duty Of every
distinguished foreigner who comes
here Is to lay a wreath on the tomb
Of the Father Of his COuntry-and
was the guest OF honor at the first
formal dinner which the new British
ambassador has given in the rem
ovated British Embassy. EXCEPT
that he is likely TO find things equal
ly strenuous all along the line one
would think that he must have been
glad to get away Wednesday morn
iuE.
While he was here he was probably
in everybody's mind constantly as
sociated with the President and the
British Ambasscdor-three figures
almost equally eminent, but so very
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cold gray PFcsidcnt-the alert, wiry
bundle of intelligent energy who is
the British Amhassador-the big vital.
smiling. fighting. churchman, rosy.
benign, what the middle class Eng
lish call "a fine fgger of a man."
On Easter Sunday it seemed to me
that every one l met who was not
discussing the camOufiaging of the
clock which had been accomplished
overnight, was discussing the Arch
bishop. And scarcely one who men
TONED him did not wonder If the
President went to any one of his three
services" He did not
The White House passed the
quietest Easter Sunday fmGgin-
able There was not single guest
in the house. Even Miss Margaret
Wilson was from home. There was
no one in that big house hut the
President and Mrs. Wilson. and pre-
sumably Miss Bones. Mrs Wilson
went over to early service at St
Johns. just across the square. She
and her husband went together to his
church-the Central Presbyterian-for-
the II O'Clock service. In the after
noon they took long motor ride out
into the suburb They spent the
evening quietly at hme
Nor did the President 20 to the
great reception for Archbishop
Lang on Monday evening. He re
ceived" him in the afternoon. and
he had him and his hosts the Brit
ish Ambassador and the Countess of
Reading. to dinner. '.informaIIy"-
IN" 'Only other guest being the
bishop of WashinEtOu-in the even
ing. 1t was a small intimate dim
ner. and probably as informal as a
dinner could be with the President
and Mrs Wilson as hosts and the
British Ambassador and A visiting
oignitary of tn" Church of England
- guests. Probably the etiquette
"i the situation forbade-since the
Archbishop was certainly not the
nations guest as the visiting mis-
Stons, Tor whom the President turn
% out last summer. were-but there
were those who thought it would
have been a gracious and hospitable
thing for the President to have
= ~ShOwn up at some one of the arch
bishops parties"
The reception was a huge, and
rather uncomfortable affair. Those
Of Us who stood in line for in
terminable ages working our way
slowly up to where the guest of the
evening stood rosy and smiling and
apparently as fresh at the end as at
the beginning were sure that the
probably exaggerated estimate of
5000 should have been 10000 As a
matter of fact. at the biggest White
House reception that I ever attend
Cd i'm the neighborhood of $500 by
actual count went down the line.
and scarcely think Monday nights
crowd was any bigger. And it was
most interesting.
There was the Archbishop himself,
ih his purple coat and black satin
bTeeches and gathered black silk
stockings and fine bucEIed shoes. with
Brig. Gen. Charles {. McCawley. L.
:. NJ G.. making the presentations.
and Henry White. former Ambassador
20 France. and Charles G. Glover.
banker and president of the board of
trustees, iianking the line. A little
farther along there were the British
Ambassador and the Countess of