The Washington herald., 1918-08-18

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a train well filled with passengers that
had stopped at Terra Gotta station.
The bodies OF thirty-two Of the
a ton OF the best dried milk to relieve
the milk shortage in France. The
milk is distributed to the wounded.
allied soldiers, little French children
and tubercular patients. While Nine.
Ferdinand Foch. wife OF the COM
mander Of the allied armies, heads
the French committee, the milk Is dis
tributed by Princesse de Polk. her first
aid. Princess de Ligna and Baronne
de Beauverfer are working on the
French committee with them.
The feature OF the evening Is TO be
the second out-of-door performance
in this country of the 'Noh" (what-
ever that may meam drama, the
Hawks Well" in which Michio
Itow. the dancer, is the star. The
performance is given under the d.
worth, and John Murray Anderson.
''The Hawks Well" it appears, was
adapted from the japanese by WILL
lam Butler Yeats especially for Michio
Itow. The combination, or collabora-
ton, OF an Irish poet of Yeats cali
ber with a japanese dancer OF any
character. sounds a bit weird but is
none the less interesting for that.
THE Hawks Well is described as
quite new to America. there having
been only two previous performances
in this country. 1t Is recommended,
however as having been done in Eng
land for a war philanthropy, at the
fnUTo hn1rgn 30 rd TuIf L.
don, before a distinguished audience
which included the Dowager Queen
Alexandra. 1t Is relief to know
that while the play is to be given
after the Japanese manner by she
picturesque. with three mimic play
ers, trio of japanese musicians. and
chorus. the lines will be delivered
in English" The program, moreover.
Is to include legendary dances OF Ja-
pan, japanese music on primitive in
struments. and songs by Matsuyama,
tenor of the Imperial Theater Of To-
kyo-and Japanese music and settings
are guaranteed as historically accu-
rate as are the masks and costumes
1t all sounds interesting-but n bit
bewildering to an ignoramus like me,
who Is not a good buffer.
To get back for a minute to White
Sulphur. and everyday Americans,
Of course about the most looked for
arrival. mot yet, but soon," is the
new minister's wife, who was Alice
Wilson. and the latest White House
bride-usually accounted the fifteenth.
She is expected there by the end OF
this week or early next. and Of course
will be made much of, with Mrs. Nc
Adoo waiting to introduce her.
There Is. however, some question SIS
to whether she is the fifteenth White
House bride, for there are traditions
OF one or two weddings not officially
recorded. One OF these was rather
amusing. 1t tells of union soldier
who eIoped with the girl Of his heart
from Mount Sidney, Va. He engaged
a Baptist minister and whisked him
off to the White House. There he Ca
joled the attendants to let him into
the state parlors. It was not an un-
heard of privilege in Lincoln't time.
There were only a few others in
them at the time. and before they
realized what was up the Baptist
clergyman had his elopers half mar
ried. No one had the, heart to inter-
fere at that stage of he game. And
the soldier and his bride departed
happy in the consciousness that they
had achieved their hearts desire and
had actually been married in the
White House.
It is said that that was the only
White House wedding for which there
was a smaller party assembled than
the one which witnessed the marriage
of the Presidents niece the other
Aou TnniAanfalIv ha - a.,
that was the first wartime wedding in
the Executive Mansion-for 1t is sup
posed to have taken place in 1862.
However, that Is a mere tradition.
No one seems very sure of II, and Of
ficially 1t is not counted in the list
of White House weddings, to which
the present administration has added
three. thereby breaking the record
for any one regime.
Speaking OF weddings, I am assured
that the announcement OF Lieut.. J.. c.
Edgerton and Miss Mary Olive Robi-
nette, carried in an evening paper a
day or two ago, was bit premature
It's another case of not yet, but soon.
They are to be married next Tuesday
at o'clock, and one wonders who will
carry the air mail that day. for Lieut..
Edgerton. who is the son of James A.
Edgerton, of 1916 Park road, was
washington's first airplane mail pilot.
He successfully inaugurated the serv-
ice in a record flight from Philadel-
phia to Washington on May Is, pilot
ing the plane which brought hundreds
of historic letters from New York and
Philadelphia. to President Wilson and
other high government officials.
And he has the rather remarkable
record OF having since then made
daily trips between New York and
Washington, without single acci-
dent. and without once getting lost.
Several times he has run Into storms
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