The Washington herald., 1918-08-25
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luton.
whereupon many Of the landlords
are threatening . cut In service, or q
failure OF heat or hot water. where
tenants won't pay an increased
rental. whereupon tenants are be-
ing advised that II their leases imply
an agreement TO supply heat or hot
water or Janitor service Il viii be
within their power to buy coal. and
hire the janitor service and deduct
the cost from the amount Of thelr
rent. Altosether II iooks a. II all the
hostilities this coming winter would
not be on French soil or from the
trenches.
To return 70 our muttons-meanins
other peoples matrimonial plans.
There IL yet another congressional en-
gagement recently announced-that
Of Miss Helen Browne. daughter OF
Representative and Mrs. Edward =.
Browne. Of Wisconsin. and Flying
Cadet Louis Rowe. No date is set for
this wedding. either, but II VIII de-
pend somewhat on when Mr.. Rowe
qualities az an aviator and gets his
commission. Representative Browne
has been here for three or four terms
which. Of course, means twice as
many years, but his daughter Is nat
urally not 50 well known as Mr.. Cam
mons granddaughter. who has almost
grown up in Washington's official
set The Brownies have q pleasant
home out in CLEVELAND Park, and pre-
sumably they at least will not have
any reason for borrowing a house for
their danghter's wedding when It
comes 6ff.
with almost everybody headed
homeward IL is interesting 70 note
that q few are Just starting out.
There is Miss Jane Gregory, for in
stance. who has gone off on what
sounds like most delightful trip,
with q party Of friends which In
cludes the two Beach girls, daugh-
ters OF ~ and Mrs. Morgan Beach,
out Rockville way. with whom Jane
Gregory has been staying since Mrs.
Gregory went home TO Texas early in
the summer to be with her mother,
who IL In very frail health. Miss
Gregory's party IL to motor to Mil
ton, n. H. and from there she ex-
poets to go TO Montreal for a little
visit, and then come back for a
months stay with Mr.. and Mrs Will
lam Clark at their summer home in
New York State.
Just what Miss Gregory has done
about her Job with the Food Admin
istraton, ] don't know. She was, of
course, entitled to some vacation, but
hardly to the six weeks that such a
trip as she plans will take. But /
don't believe she has given up her
position. There are those Belgian or
phans to be provided for, you know
so she has probably merely gotten a
leave OF absence.
Also among the recent departures
one notes that Of Mrs Horace Towner,
president OF the Congressional Club,
and Wife of Representative Towner.
OF Iowa, and Mrs. James Hamilton
Lewis. wife OF Senator Lewis, of nIi-
nois. now in Illinois. Both of these
women announce that they are going
home TO stay until after election-and
one strongly suspects that they are
going to watch their. husbands fences
both being candidates for re-elec-
ton.
Mrs. Towner Just before she went
gave Ter Congressional Clubs war
workers a sort Of surprise party in the
shape OF farewell luncheon. Poor
Mrs. Lewis has not been well enough
for some time to do any entertaining,
though she did make the effort to give
small luncheon for Mr.. Baker-onIy
half a dozen guests-just after she re-
turned to the hotel from the hos
pital. She told me that she was
going out to Chicago as soon as
the doctors thought she could
stand the trip-and last Monday
she went. You know her husband,
just after announcing that at the
request of the administration he
had decided to make the cam
paign for reelection. also at the
request OF the administration sud
denly went abroad, leaving his
campaign to take care OF itself.
AS he is being opposed by a very
aggressive young politician one
Aedin Mccormick, who has the
habit Of bringing home what he
goes out after. at present Repre-
sentative at large from Illinois
perhaps II seemed wise to have
Mrs. Lewis on the ground where
she could see any undue sagging
OF her husbands fences. Though
as q matter OF fact Mrs. Lewis
does not impress one as in the least
q politician, and she is personally
on the best terms with the whole
Mccormick tribe. Certainly one
hopes that she will not have any
thing much to worry her. for she
Is very much run down, and her
friends are inclined to think she
ieft the hospital rather too soon.
Speaking OF hospitals, am re-
minded that Nataline Dulles. Mrs.
Lansing's attractive niece, after a
few days visit with the Lansinr's
at their Eighteenth street residence
entered Walter Reed hospital last
Monday to take their rather severe
training as nurse. or course. that
immediately gave rise to a renewal
or the rumor current last spring when
she took course at the Pennsylvania
Hospital In Philadelphia, that she was
planning to go abroad with the Red
Cross. But Mrs. Lansing assured
me. Monday, as she had last spring
that her niece had no such intention,
In fact as the Walter Reed course is
rather a long and severe one, Mrs.
Lansing says that by the time Nat
aline has finished 1t the war will be
over so that any nursing Of soldiers
she does she is likely to do right
there at Walter Reed.
Her sister. Eleanor Dulles is already
overseas-as are the Secretary's two
sisters, the Misses Lansing. Miss
Eleanor went over Immediately after
graduating from Bryn Mawr a year
ago. and has not been back since
and presumably the family think one
daughter over there is enough. As
for Washington-it scarcely knows
Miss Eleanor Dulles, she has been
here very little. But Miss Nataline
has spent months at a time here with
her grandmother. Mrs. John w Fos-