The Washington herald., 1918-10-06

sorts of money to find a house or
an apartment. but for anyone who
must make moderate salary do
double duty in the high cost of liv-
ing, there seems to be neither rooms
nor apartments that they can afford
to pay for, and as soon as any one
| moves out some one else moves in.
Lieut.. and Mrs. Albert Lincoln
Hoffman, the latter formerly Leta
Sullivan of Philadelphia. gave up
the College Park bungalow they oc-
cupied last summer. and immediate
| " the owners moved back in. Lieut..
Hoffman is detailed to represent the
War Department, with the detach-
ment of the French Foreign Legion
at present touring the country in
the interest OF the Liberty Loan, so
he is on the road for a while. Mrs.
| Hoffman went up to Philadelphia TO
spend a few days with her family
and is now the guest of Mr.. and
Mrs, Albert r. Shattuck at their
summer home in Lenox, Mass. She
| is expected back in Washington
| guest for a time of Senator and
Mrs. Peter Goelet Gerry. It seems
to me that / have heard that they
had taken a house in town for the
winter. but perhaps I only heard
that they intended to. Which is
not the same thing-not by a long
shot!
As for the inf1u Hza-it Is butting
into all sorts of plans. 1t seems to
me that every organization in town
is abandoning meetings II had
planned-the clubs are calling of all
sorts of gatherings-even liberty loan
meetings have gone into the discard.
Although ii IS announced that most
OF the open air meetings will take
place as usual-the big woman's lib
erty loan parade which had been
planned for yesterday, and which
Mrs. Wilson had been asked to lead,
was abandoned. and she was thus
saved the trouble OF either accept
ing the invitation or of making her
self unpopular by refusing. un-
derstand that Mrs. McAdoo did ac-
cept a similar invitation from Balti-
more. and that she and the Secre-
tary went thither yesterday to each.
after their separate fashion, take
part in the city's big liberty loan
demonstration.
But here in Washington. Just about
as one is dressed and ready TO go to
some meeting, one is telephoned that
it has been called off on account OF
the influenza Yesterday it was the
Garfield Hospital Auxiliary whose
monthly meeting was scheduled for
the Willard in the morning-but Mrs.
Logan called 1t Off Then the CO.
lumbia Country Club called Up and
! notified me that their very enjoyable
J saturday evening dances were called
of
In fact. about the only thing
can think of that wasn't abandoned
or postponed was the Anthony
! Leagues first meeting of the season,
which came off as per schedule at
the leagues headquarters. 20O7 Co.
! lumbia road, Wednesday night Mr..
Hilton Jackson gave a splendid talk
on the liberty loan. and the league
promptly bought a bond for itself.
and Or. Laura Brennon and Mrs.
| Nidney each presented II with one.
A synopsis OF the very creditable
| amount of work accomplished bv
Mrs. Anna Hundlev and Mrs. Nam
! cite Paul in Atlantic City during the
lsummer was presented. Mrs. Kon-
drop gave a partial report OF the
summers work. and Mrs. Snyder.
chairman OF the Red Cross Unit, re-
ported that she had arranged to have
the members of the league 10 meet
lat 1880 Connecticut avenue for sew
ing. each Wednesday.
Before I forget it-this influenza
! thing has quarantined all the can
! tonments near Washington, and Il
has Quarantined Walter Reed Hos
pital. The men out there who have
been simply flooded with visitors and
attentions are left to convaIesce
as best they can by themselves. II
has its advantages. of course. For
| unquestionably there were times
when they had a little too much COM
pany and attentions. But GONZALES
cling is very tedious business and It
| does seem as if some of the maya
zines that are accumulating in all
| our homes and littering up our tables
and our closet shelves might better
| be sent out there than boarded in
| our homes. What about it? 7 know
the hospital has tremendously in
creased its newspaper order and it's
dollars to doughnuts it would like
those magazines.
I Mrs l. Neuman. who has been
visiting relatives in Baltimore, is
back in her Washington home.
Miss Gertrude Strauss. of Pitts
burgh. has come to Washington for
the winter. She will make her home
here with relatives.
Mr.. and Mrs NJ. Stern made a fy-
ing visit to Philadelphia during the
past week. and were entertained there
by friends.
Miss Miriam Franc left town dur
! ing the past week to enter the IJni-
versity of Illinois at Urbana, Ill.
| Mr.. and Mrs. J. Brylawsh have been
visiting both in Philadelphia and New
| York during the past week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Y. Oettinger. who
have been visiting relatives in Wash
| ington during the past week, have re-
| turned to their home at Wilson, n.
| c.
Mrs. s. Ansorg of Chicago is the
house guest OF Mr.. and Mrs. S.
Kslisher in their Harvard street
home.
is spending the winter with friends In
Washington.
Mrs. B. Frank who has been the
house guest OF relatives here has gone
to her home in Baltimore.
After several months in Atlantic
! City and New York. Mrs. ]. L. Kappa
port has returned to Washington.
Miss Rhoda Mauntner has returned
| to her home in this city after enjoy
! ing a visit of several weeks with rel
atives in New York.
Mr.. and Mrs. ]. Kaufman having
spent a delightful summer at Vent