The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-07-14

assuming and unexacting man who
ever held official position in Washing
| ton-and one OF the most lovable. AL
ready he fits in beautifully, and is q
most useful member of the social
1 structure. who can always he trusted
TO help out dinner company being
quite the right person to invite to
meet any guest, however distinguished.
He's a godsend to hostesscs
| Hut Mrs. Taft-well, n woman is
always a little different. isn't she?
And for a former mistress of the
| White House, n mistress moreover
| who aspired to and achieved a record
for a brilliant social regime. TO come
hack to Washington and live in COM
parative obscurity-isn't it going to he
| rather a difficult situation? 1t is one
that Washington has not been called
upon TO meet since, so far as I know,
the day Of Dolly Madison. And 1t IL
hardly probable that Mrs. Taft will
repeat Dolly Madison's remarkable So
cial performance.
For one thing she is not in very
good health, and Miss Taft, who never
did have any social ambitions and has
in the five years since here father left
the white House created entirely new
interests for herself and made herself a
very desirable position. with every
promise Of an interesting and useful
career at Bryn Mawr, is not likely
to be able to be here very much Of
the time. Mr.. Taft has taken an apart
| ment in one OF the new apartment
buildings up on Washington Heights
| at 2o29 Connecticut avenue. Just above
the Highlands and will undoubtedly
settle down there in the fall quite
contentedly. with his work on tho
Labor Arbitration Board To keep him
busy and happy in the sense Of USE
funcss.
He will find many old friends here
and he IL the sort who will make many
new ones. But Mrs. Taft will find her
old circle badly scattered, some OF her
particular friends dead, some away
from Washington, and of course her
Cabinet circle non-existent, And
Washington. which has received for
mer White House chatelaines with
open arms and showered them with
attentions when they have come for
brief visits. may not have time and
energy 10 maintain the attitude in
definitely.
| To be sure. there are III" Robert
Tafts, Mrs. Tafts son and daughter
And there are Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas
Bowers-Mrs Robert Taft's brother
. and sis:erin- law-who will be an in
terest and a connection here for her.
Little Mrs. Robert Taft. who vas
Martha Bowers, has been here all win
ter. and has been active in Red Cross
work and, as she always was. in get
ting together with the Girl Scouts.
She and her sister law, formerly
Edith HELEN. daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs Ben HELEN of this city and ono
OF the bellies of the Taft regime, have
taken r. cottage together at Spring
Lake, y. j.. for the summer and settled
down there with the babies. their hus-
bands planning to join them for week
ends whenever they can get away.
Mrs. Taft, senior is spending tha
!. summer at Murray Bay, where the
/, family always used TO go until Nh
/. Taft became President and had to seek
e a summer home within the borders Of
= the United States The Roardmans--
< Mrs. William H. and Miss Mabel
= Boardman Of Red Cross fame-are
{ there too, having built a cottage, and
= are renting their big place. Windycliffe,
at Manchester. to the Dennis Upsons
} Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph II. Choate. Jr.,
/. | OF Ne" 10TH are also bI Iuf murray
| Bay summer colony. and undoubtedly
{ former President Taft will manage IN
spend part at least OF the summer
r there with his wife and daughter and
enjoy the golfinE on the course. OF
which he used to be particularly fond.
Rumaninn Orphans Aided.
The Eumanian benefit especially
for the Rumanian war orphans. last
Tuesday brought out mdWinter
. crowd OF celebrities The stars of the
occasion were Marguerite Sylva-now
Mrs. Bernard Smith, wife Of Capt.
Smith, L. s. NJ. G., who is on duty
overseas-Andre Polah and Paul Bley-
u den.
Miss Margaret Wilson Is patroness
for the American Committee for the
Relief of the Rumanian War Orphans
i and entertained box party at the
y benefit. Major Lvius Tieusanu, tho
l. very picturesque dashing, bemedalef
. and one armed acting military attache
of the Rumanian Legation, seemed to
lie the moving spirit. He had in his
box Mr.. and Mrs Samuel Humphreys
OF Philadelphia and Miss Humphreys,
and they figured prominently in his
9 entertaining before and after tho
g event.
: He gave a big dinner at the Shore
= ham that night. with Marguerite
n sylvia and Miss Margaret Wilson as
r Joint honor guests, following II ny
g with dance at the root garden OF
g the Arlington. at which were many ad-
a ditional guests, including members Of
Q all the missions now in Washington.
d Also he gave luncheons and teas for
the artists OF that occasion, including
y Lieut. Stoica of the legation, who
!" sang the national hmm OF Rumania
= effectively at the concert,
n There was really n good deal Of en-
y tertaining for several days Centring
j. around Nine, Sylvd--NhiCh sounds so
&c much better than Mrs. Smth-and
3 Mr.. and Mrs. Theodore Boynton. whose
X house guest she was. Princess Ghika
J. of Paris and Rumania, the picturesque
n sister OF Nine. Zaldivar, whom she has
II been visiting at the legation of SAL
II vador pretty much all winter, was
q very much to the fore also, rather en-
% phasizing the fact that she registered
"a as "of Rumania and Paris" though
" heretofore tho Paris" has seemed
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