The Washington herald., 1918-04-28

Mrs Nash, Maj. Gen. and Mrs. Bar
nett, the Ormsby McCammons, the
Ord Prestons, George Oakley Totten,
of course CMaj. Totten he 10 now);
Mime. wichfeld and her family bride,
Nine. Marquisan; Gladys Hinckley.
the Graysons, the Langhornes, two
sets Of them, DR.. and Mrs. Cary Lang
horne. who was Miss Zaidee Gaff.
and Mai. and Mrs. Marshall Lang:
horne, from the American Legation
at The Hague, who are visiting the
others; Mrs. Francis Nash and Miss
, Caroline Nash, the Perry Belmonts,
Mrs. Blaine Elkins and Mrs. William
B. Hit, who was Miss Katherine
Elkins; Mrs. James Hamilton Lewis.
Mrs. Borden Hartman, William
Phelps Emo, Mrs. Charles Boughton
Wood, Ruth Wilson, Constance vau-
CLAIM and the Thomas Logans. These
are the backbone Of any horse show
crowd-with, of course, the diplomats
pretty nearly all Of them, except,
perhaps, the Jusserands, who are
many other things, but not in the
least-never for q moment-"horsey''
or sporty"
Lady Reading was In q box near
the President-and she's still enough
Of a stranger to be interesting and
interested-and the Countess di Gel
lere. Nine. Riano and Nine. da CANA
Lady Reading was . guest Of Col.
and Mrs. Cary Sanger. still regard
ed as ''of New York." though they
have had a house here for two or
three seasons. In fact, It was Q
queer tumble Of everybody from
everywhere. Mrs. Charles Bough-
1 aa-A u
when she isn't Of Washington. had
Mrs Stotesbury. Of Philadelphia, In
her box. Mrs. Archibald Barklie. of
Philadelphia, though she has been
in Washington this winter, like q
tinius and her daughters, Isabel and
Betty, and the Robert strawbridges.
from the Quaker City; and the
Tommy Logans had the prize cos
mopolitan bunch, which included
Princess Ghika, of Rumania and
Paris; the Jack Havemeyers. of New
York; Don Buenaventura Caro-, of
the Spanish Embassy. and Roger
Bayly. of Virginia.
On their first trip, last Tuesday,
the President and Mrs. Wilson had
the added thrill of an accident which
was sufficiently serious as it was, and
might easily have been fatal, when
one of the horses ran away with, and
dragged his jockey. They also had
the privilege of seeing the woman 5
ambulance corps of the Red Cross
in action. For one of the ambulances,
driven by society women, came out
and picked up the Jockey ard took
him off to the hospital in most
busincsslike fashion-an ambulance
driven by Mrs. Stoddard and Mrs.
Edgar Sisson.
Watching the latter at work took
me blackwell. quite a few years-to
the time when Mrs. Edgar Sisson was
| "Dickie'' Ladd in Chicago-one of the
prettiest slips of girlhood you would
ever hope to see-dark and slender,
with the prettiest eyes and hair and
wild rose coloring. No wonder Edgar
Sisson was crazy about her-all the
boys were. And he was a stocky,
fresh-cOlored young newspaper man.
/ just beginning a successful career,
when 'Dick" Ladd married him.
Since then he's been everything in a
newspaper way, and I believe left the
city editorship of the Chicago Trib-
une-which is some job. believe me
| 10 nelp out the Creel Dureau-help IL
possible to coordinate the ideas o:
newspaper men and the ideas of the
government officials. He's here in
Washington. of course-and "Dickie''
with him. and their fine young daugh-
| ter. Perhaps they don't call her
''Dickie" any more. It's a queer
name for a woman. of course-but
! it's one of those things that happen
! to defenseless babies. Her father was
n devoted admirer of Charles Dick
ems. as I remember It, and when his
baby was expected announced that 1t
was to be named Charles Dickens
Ladd. And the fact that 1t was not
; that sort of a baby didn't feaze him
/ in the least. 1t was named Charles
Dickens Ladd just the same. And it
added its quota to the thrills Of the
opening of the horse show.
/ Really. that horse show was worse
than a three-ring circus-or better,
| One is always divided. at a horse
show. between ones desire to see