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Mrs George Barnett. and though It
was announced that she was unable
70 attend, she did 60. against the ad-
vice OF her family and physician,
with the result that she was much
sicker afterwards and probably had
to stay in longer than she would
nave had to do otherwise.
Another good lady who Is struggling
with a cold-and consequent hoarsensss
Is Mrs. Champ Clark. called her up
the other day to ind out IL she was
going to be at home that afternoon,
and make a little talk. She has been
doing that every Wednesday lately
and the little talks have been very
well worth while. She says frankly
that she likes to talk, and claims to
have been suppressed so long that she
has to let out and enjoy herself occa-
sionally. She laughed impishly, how
ever, when inquired. curiously, who'd
been doing the suppressing, and ask
Cd Haven't you noticed it?''
However. she was too hoarse to talk
that afternoon. Next Wednesday?
Well possibly, IL I can't get anybody
else. But I'm trying to pull on a
big stunt for next Wednesday (yes, she
used just those words)-I have asked
Mrs. Stotesbury to come over and
talk for me. and hope she will. She's
home from Palm Backbone in Phil
adelphia, mean-and she's constant
ly coming over here, SO I have hopes
OF getting her; but of course I know
she's in great demand, and she may
not be able to come"
Mrs Stotesbury is, as Mrs Clark
says constantly coming to Washing
ton. She has kept a suite, and a
most attractive one, at the Shore
nam all winter. so there has been no
question Of her getting suitable ac-
commodation-and occasionally when
she has needed 1t herself for a few
days she has very generously loaned
to friends-sometimes saving
their lives"
Another interesting woman who has
been at the Shoreham of and on
bretty much all winter is Lady Lis
ter-haye. She has come and gone,
and sometimes Sir John has been
"ANA AAGA anu sometimes ne naSn I,
but on the whole she has spent a
good part Of the winter in Wash
tngton, and she has given any num-
Der of smart little dinners and lunch
cons. and made herself generally
popular in the city where her family
lived for several generations. She
was a Miss Hznaga, and the old
hZnaCa residence down near the
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District of Columbia.
A big old house it was. of yellow
ish brick, that stood next to the
old B. & o. station, and only a
couple of blocks west Of the present
Union Station Originally it must
rave had beautiful grounds, and
rather elaborateIy laid out gardens,
Tor as first remember IL some ten
or fifteen years ago, II stood gaunt
and dismantled in the midst Of dying
box hedges that once bordered well
sept paths. 1t was terribly down
at the heels. None of the family had
occupied it for years, though at that
time l believe that there were still
lznaEas in Washington. l am not
sure whether it is still standing or
rot If it is, it must have given Lady
Lister-Kaye the shivers.
She like everybody else, had her
pet war charity. and lost no oppor-
tunity to ride her hobby-easy enough
when one is told that her hobby is
Elotors-the London Motor TRANSPORT
volunteers. to be accurate. It Is an
organization to look after the men
as they come home from the front, on
leave, some Of them half sick, some
recovering from wounds, but weak,
all OF them strangers in London, with
perhaps considerable back pay in
their pockets. and easy prey of the
human yultures who are watching
for such victims, and ready to svoop
down on them as they step from the
train.
The Motor Transport Volunteers are
organized to save them; to have mo-
tors at the stations, and responsible
persons to direct them to decent
houses. where they will be fairly
treated, and helped to sane ways Of
spending their time and their money,
Motors are there to take them and
the drivers Of them are the sort of
PERSONS whose interest In them Is
likely to be helpful rather than harm
ful, and to land them at a Y. NJ. C.
~ nut or church controlled insti-
tuition, or government owned hotel
rather than in some low dive run by
a band OF cutthroats. Clerks, drivers.
ana all others needed in the operation
OF the transports were, when the