The Washington herald., 1918-12-15


very well known and socially we'll
connected young-ofncers were to be
stationed In Paris during the confer
ence. Capt. Marshall Field. of the
artillery. has left his battery In Lux
embourg, and viii act as liaison officer
between peace commissioners and Gen.
Harts, commander of the Americans
| in the Paris region.
Ensign William Gibbs McAdoo jr..
OF the Air Service. has been at
tached to the press section of the
peace commission: and Mai. Powell
Glass. son of the newly appointed
Secretary of the Treasury, has been
assigned to the peace commission.
whose Offices adjoin Maxim's. Mai
! Glass has been on the staff of the
Eighteenth Division. Ensign McAdoo.
naval ayiation.- had previously been
serving as naval aid to Col House.
There certainly are advantages about
having a Cabinet officer for a father!
Apropos OF the general interest in
what the women of the peace mission
were taking over with them. little Mrs.
Walter Penfield made the most perti-
nent comments 1T was while she was
experimenting the monthly sale at
the, Bsndbox. the State Departments
little war shop last week, and the
heaps of worn-out finery, tumbled
evening dresses, ETC., rather gave point
to 1t. We'll. 1 don't see any rea-
son for getting excited, about what
they're taking over with them. 1t
seems to me the really thrilling in
formation along that line will be as
10 what they all bring back" Con-
sidering that they are all presumably
beyond the reach of the tariff, and
may bring what they choose, duty
free, l believe could get a few thrills
out OF that myself For every one
that comes over tells the same story
about the shops in London and Paris
having never been more attractive
than they are right now after the four
I and-a-half years of devastating war.
, ] am told, by the way. that Mr..
Richard Crane. Secretary Lansing's
confidential secretary, received be-
tween sixty and seventy applications
from women who wanted to go over
as Mrs. Lansing's maid-women who
were quite out of the maid class, or
secretary, or Mr.. Lansing's secretary.
or his secretaTy's secretary unto the
third and fourth generation Anything
at all, any sort of a job. whether
they were equipped for 1t or not. which
gave them a chance TO get over on
/ that ship.
One of the most discussed bits of
news of the week has been the word
! that the Barnetts are on their way
/ home-Maj. Gen. George Barnett, Gen.
and Mrs. George Barnett, the COM
mandant of the Marine Corps and his
very attractive wife. They are so
well on their way home that they are
expected here Monday. Gen. Barnett
went overseas about the first of Oc-
tober to make an inspection of the
marines in France. II was about the
time that the influenza was raging.
and Gen. Barnett was taken quite Sc
riously Ill on board ship and landed
in France only to be taken to the
hospital at BTest. with a well devel-
Oped case OF pneumonia.
Mrs. Barnett secured permission to
join him, evoking considerable envious
and sarcastic comment, because the
difficulty of getting such permission
was so great that by the time she
went Gen Barnett was on the high
road to recovery. Very soon after
she got there the armistice was signed.
and there was considerable amused
discussion of Mrs. Barnett's always
managing to be on the ground when
things began to happen (Which by the
way is also Gen. Barnett's reputationO
Apparently she had secured a front
seat at the show.
Meanwhile, while waiting for IL to
begin, she had gone down over all the
late battle fronts. Theoretically she
was going to see those in which the
maTines-'her boys"-had been en-
gagged. But that meant about all
there were. She took a carload of