The Washington herald., 1918-04-21

cunning for you-welI, "whacher
goin' dor They're doing Il!
And IL Mrs. LongWorth herself
marks you for her own. you might
just as well say at once, Don't
shoot, lady. I'll come down." and
go down into your pocket or your
stocking ar wherever you keep it
For neither man nor woman can
resist that beautiful low voice of
hers-and 10 woman could resist the
glory of having bought a bond-One
at least--of Alice Roosevelt She
had a number OF Harry Collins man
nikins down here to give his Fash
ion Fete' for the benefit of the
permanent blind relief. selling at one
Of the hotels early in the week
and l understood she means TO work
right with them herself.
wish some one would interpret
for me the banner with strange
device that ornaments her front
door. II is one of those plate glass
doors with just enough white wood
work TO hold il together. over il
OF course floats the Star Spangled
Banner. But the perfectly plain
panel that curtains II has a lace
NOdA VI MS W VI htu INTO IL. IL IL
4 shield, on top Of which sits some
thing that looks like squirrel
with a bUshy tail. and the shield
Is Ornamented with three musical
nOtes-Quarters or eighths, ! for
get which, Now. is that really the
Longworth coat Of arms? or IS il
a device designed perhaps by Mr..
Longworth in gentle mockery of
y T.
ments, or is it something that Just
happened" so. with no significance
at all? Nobody TO whom I've put
the questions seems to know.
Mrs. McAdoo. you know. IL really
working very hard over this libcr-
ty bond drive. She takes her posi-
ton as head OF the national wo-
mans liberty loan committee quite
seriously. She went with her hus-
band to Philadelphia to help MN
launch the drive on the anniversary
OF our entry into the war. She
goes every day down to her office
in the Treasury and discusses the
national campaign-but still man
ages to find time to be Interested in
the local campaign-stops in every
day TO see how it is progressing,
and was present when the first bond
was auctioned by Irene Fenwick IN
frort of local campaign headqIar-
ters-and they're going to miss her
now that she's headed out to Ari-
zOna 10 join Secretary McAjon end
see what she can do to help him
out there. She has been speaking
in the interest Of the loan almest
every evening-and she is acQu:r-
ing facility, and now makes a very
clever. convincing little talk.
The loan drive" is certainly enlist
ing everybody. 1t has jeanette RAN
kin in its clutches. She has offered
her services TO the Liberty Loan cam
paign and is touring the State Of
Montana to speak in behalf OF the
third issue of the loan. She beEan
with a speech at Big Timber. Mort.
April Is, and will make addresses in
Montana towns and cities each day
during the week under the auspices
of the Montana Liberty Loan commit
tee.
1t has also enrolled her attractive
younger sister. Miss Edna Rankin.
who was recently her guest here for
while. She is a brisk. progressive,
and withal most attractive Young
woman. She has graduated from the
University of Montana, and from
Wellesley. and I understand, is
back at Wellesley now, taking a post
graduate course IN law. with a view
to eventually going into her brothers
law arm out in Montana. She says
she has no particular ambitions. But
they may develop when she sees some
thing that badly needs doing in Con-
gress, and no one else seems inclined
to tackle the Job. 1t has been pre-
dicted that about the time ReprCs-
sentative Jeanette graduates into
the Senate, little sister Edna will be
running for the House.
And the loan drive has also caught
Mrs. James Wadsworth-who is about
as far removed by tradition. POSITION.
and all her ideas of life from Edna
| Rankin as she is by geography. Just
Tor the moment, however, the Wlfe
of the senior Senator from Now York
| Is more interested in the soldier boys
who are coming to Washington TO give
| performance of You Know Ne Al,
which has Just finished a most sue
cessful weeks engagement in New
York. than she is even in the Liber-
ty Loan. The company is composed
entirely OF men OF the Twenty-sev-
enth Division, stationed at Spartans-
\ burg, s. c. They have written and
produced this farce. and are playing
all the parts. And they expect to
play IL presently in France behind
the lines for the delectation Of the
boys over there.
Mrs. wadsworth Is giving them
supper and dance tomorrow evening
after their performance. She will en-
tertain about 100 of them. Oh no.
not at her house in Sixteenth street.
At the new Hotrl Washington-its
first dance, by Il =.
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And Mrs, Me- lousy as she Is
with her work for Lhe loan. manages
to make time for a few other things
eCha has irfnra.fnd hAr-raf in thf