The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-12-08
Failure of Cabinet
WonentoResune
Their Before the
War DaysActivi-
ty Gives Younger
Folk a Chance
WASHINGTON. December Z.

-, Washington citizens and one
dignifed gray pussy cat crowded
the Union Station Tuesday night to
say ,"Good-by" to the President. and
incidentally to few others who were
about to entrain on the first stage Of
their Journey to Paris. No, Cicely.
was not the gray pussy cat, though 1
did wear that gray bolivia coat and
my gray furs. There was another. 1t
had slipped through the guards at the
entrance to the Presidents private
waiting room, and waited just inside
the door-"all same like mel" But
had borrowed a police badge for the
occasion and pussy hadn't.
1t was sheer luck my being there,
] had thought Of going but had not
wanted to wait around indefinitely the
whole evening. And 1t never Is an
nounced Just when a Presidential
party will set forth. 1t simplities the
work Of the secret service not to do
90! Calling up Mrs. Lansing to wish
her bon voyage" / caught her Just
waiting for their motor to take them
to the station. She confirmed casually
my own suspicion that the party was
going to New York on the Presidents
train and wero to rendezvous at the
station any time after 10. Incidentally
she ASSUMED me she would read these
letters every week while she was away
TO And out what was really going on In
Washington.
Troops Form n Human Lane.
FASTENED to the station. slipped
through and lined myself up alongside
Of Major Pullman, our Chief of Police.
who is an old friend, just before they
all arrived. Details of soldiers and
sailors were on duty and as the party
passed through the doors several hum
dred stalwart figures in khaki and in
blue formed human lane through
which the Chief Executive, the First
Lady and her secretary, Miss Edith
Benham, whose father was Rear
Admiral, passed. Those were the only
three who set forth actually from the
White House on this momentous Jour-
ney.
Mrs. Wilson was wearing a coat suit
OF dark blue, which she has often worn
around the Washington streets. a
semi-fitting coat with deep cuffs and
wide rolling collar of sealskin, and a
well cut skirt. not too short. with seal
skin bands edging the side panels.
She wore with this a small black hat
with little pointed wings OF the aero
plane variety, sticking out at one side
and toward the back. She also was
wearing a lovely single orchid = and
a wide SMILE
Miss Benham was so completely
done up in a caracul coat that 1t was
hard to see what she had on under
meath, and Mrs. Lansing, who was
racing the platform for ten or fifteen
minutes while the others were en-
training, was swathed in sealskin.
Diplomats I'm Other Cars.
There were other cars reserved for
the Presidents guests from the diplo-
matte circle, the French and italian
Ambassadors and their families, with
presumably such aids and secretaries
as they deemed necessary, and yet
Others for the American members of
ahe party-the Secretary of State and
t1ISs l4duSlllB, tHo <tlHDdSSduOE 10 81.
Jan1es's and Mrs. Davis, Secretary
Baker, Mr.. Tumulty-the two latter
went to New York with the President,
though they did not sail with him
and Henry White, former Ambassador
and now peace delegate.
Washington, at least the part of the
population OF the national capital that
counts, or thinks it does, turned out
10 hear the Presidents message be-
fore the two houses of Congress last
Monday. Mrs. Wilson, with a large
party Of Bollings. was in the front
feats of the Executive gallery. Mrs
McAdoo came down and Joined them
sitting next to her stepmother. She
was most attractive in a tailored suit
Of golden brown. with golden brown
furs that might have been mink, and
a little fur toque.
Nearly the entire group of Cabinet
GERS" were in that little gallery--Mrs.
Marshall, Mrs. Lansing and her most
intimate friend, Mrs. John W. Davis
Mrs. Daniels, Mrs. Lane, Mrs. Red
field, Mrs. Houston, Miss Agnes Hart
Wilson, whose mother has been too
much OF an invalid to go anywhere
and Jane Gregory, and Sydney Burle-
son, who came in together, apparently
representing their mothers.
In the opposite gallery across the
length OF the chamber is the Speaker Is
family pew" but Mrs. Clark had so
many guests that she herself was
crowded out. She was looking par
'ticularly web and had on a most be-
coming hat, a small round toque with
a black satin crown and dahlias in
dark red and purplish tones laid fiat
around it, and she was wearing a
graceful loose wrap of black satin
with a slight conventional embroidery
design.
To return to Mrs. Clark-she il re-
Stunning her before the war" Wednes-
days. She was at home informally
last Wednesday and is the first Of the
official women to get back onto hel
before the war" social basis. "Cabi-
net" days, suspended during the war
seem doomed. 1t was a nice friendl
democratic sort Of an institution. Blu
haven't found any one OF them read,
10 commit herself as to taking I'D the
burden again, and 1t certainly was .
burden. Most of the official wopner
would not have had time for 1t even
II they had had the inclination. The,
are still knee deep in war work. for
the aftermath requires scarcely less o
EFFORT than did active warfare, and
Is much harder to keep the forces to