The Washington herald., 1918-10-20

nouncing his list OF ushers as yet
for the masculine contingent of q
wedding party is like railroad
timetable nowadays, subject to
change without notice."
1 haven't heard whether the Post
! master Generals pretty daughter
means to remain one OF Uncle Sans s
yeowomen after her marriage. 1 sup
, pose she enlisted like every one
else for a definite term, or for the
period of the war, but I know she
was out riding one day recently dur
ing what seemed to me 'office hours. "
She ought to like the place, for ap-
parently it was while holding down
her job in Admiral McGown's office
| that she met her fate. All that any
! one seems to know of young Grimes
is that he's an ensign, attached for
the present to the pay corps. His pa
rents, Mr.. and Mrs. Edward Grimes.
of Dayton, Ohio, are to come on for
the wedding. of course.
1t seems rather a pity that Miss
Lucy can't have a good old-fashioned
Cabinet wedding, with all the trim
mings, and all the world and his wife
there to wish her Joy. For few Cabi-
net brides have been better known.
Her father having been in Congress
! for years before he entered the Cabinet
she has practically grown up In
Washington, and everybody knows
her. And the Burleson house is cer-
tainly well adapted to such a function.
1t is one of those big roomy old
fashioned houses of what used to be
called the exclusive West End OF
| the civil war and reconstruction Pc
riods, like Washington Square in New
York, or Rittenhouse Square in Phila-
delphia- Nineteen one F street"
where the Burlesons have lived for
several years was the old home of Mr..
and Mrs. William Carroll. parents OF
the Countess Esterhazy. and OF such
ante-bellum leaders of Washington
society as Mrs. Dix Bolles and Gen.
S. S. Carroll.
More recently, in fact Just before
the Burlesons took ii. II was occupied
by the former minister from the
Netherlands, Jonkheer Loudon. and
Nine. Loudon. and during their oc-
cuFancy was much frequented by the
ultra smart official set. and by the
diplomatic circle, and by the many
music lovers in whom the Loudons
found kindred spirits. In fact in its
sixty odd years of dignified existence
it has contributed not a little to the
social history OF the National Capital
Close on the heels OF the surprise
of the announcement of that engage
ment-and to a good part of Wash
lnSton society II was a surprise-came
the excitement of Germany's unex-
pectedly prompt answer to the Presi-
dents new world-famous three ques-
uons. From the hour last Saturday
night when the newsies came in
screaming clamor through the dark
with word that Germany accepted the
Presidents terms, reaching the out
lying residential sections long after
good citizens were I'm bed. with their
shrieks of Extra, Extra and, of
course gone before the startled sleeper
could rally his senses to buy a paper
and find out what the shouting was
all about-through to the golden eve
ming two days later when they again
shrieked the Presidents answer.
there were two days of restless ten
sion.
The rather brisk recent interchange
of notes between the United States
and Germany has brought into the
limelight Mr.. Frederick Oederlin, of
the Swiss Legation, who has figured
since last November on the diplomatic
list as Commercial adviser tempo
rarily attached, who is apparently
charge d'affaires of the legation. The
most recent diplomatic list published
by the State Department carries DIR.
Carl Paul Hubscher as charge. since
the departure last June of Mr.. Sulzer
on visit home. 1t also carries one
Mr.. Emile Fontanel who arrived in
July. as attache.
But DR.. Hubscher has since then
gone TO Switzerland on leave. part
business, part pleasure, as diplomatic
leaves usually are. Apparently Mr..
Fontanel has gone, too, since Mr.
Oederlin. of the Temporarily attached
staff, seems to be running the legation
and as charge has had to deliver the
last two German notes, and 10 recaiva
the Presidents reply for forwarding
to Germany.
He is holding down the Swiss Le-
gatlon' modest brick house on
hlllyer place, which does not in the
Ieast suggest the home of diplomacy.
The Suffers by the same token b.va
not llVed there, but had the William
Bailey Lamar house at 1915 Massa-
o'Ni0V ldSA season and have
rented it again for this. In fact none
of the regular legation star lived
there. 1t seems to have been uaed
simply as the office of the legation
And Mr.. Oederlin is a brisk businass-
ike young man who suggests Tho
commercial adviser very much more
than the diplomat His forehead
seems to be rather crowding ont bis
halr' and he wears glasses and a neat
blond mustache. He meets Won core
daily and simply, shakes hands and
asks what he can do for you-tust- III .
a perfectly good American business
man.
He claims to be 3s, and pretty near-
~ looks the part. There are a few
younger diplomats, and a whole Iot
who are older. He doesn't see WIN
you want to know-why the mere fact
OF his being Germany's special deIiv-
cry messenger at this tuncture should
make him of any great interest but
ne doesn't mind telling you that he's
really not a diplomat at all. but on
engineer, born in Zurich and grad
uated from its university, He sner+
four years in England in the emnIov
OF a British firm, and then went to
Canada-the Cobalt silver rnjnes-ren-
resenting British interests as a me-