The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-07-07

in their home in h street. and will
PROBABLY remain there all summer,
except for occasional week end trips
to their country home AZ Valley Forge
President Roosevelt always man.
aged to get his Summer White House"
established at Oyster Bay before the
great and glorious Fourth arrived
President Taft even though 1t did hap
pen once or twice in his regime that
Congress was in session over the
Fourth. managed to join his family at
Beverly for the day, And Congress. if
it was in session, was loud il its self
pity and had its trunks packed, its
mileage secured and reservations made
ana was strainng at the leash days
before the gavel fell.
Nowadays it is learning to accept an
ali Year .tSsion as practically in
evitable. and to take the situation
philosophically. To be sure, it had this
year planned a recesG-!t wanted one
for perfectly obvious reasons-out APP
parent.y without any real expectation
of getting II, and had made no real
plans or preparations for leaving town.
Early in the week Speaker Clark ad-
m!tted, apparently quite unrutfcd, that
he feared the plan for a recess had
rather gone a-glimmering. There
seemed great deal of business that
could not well he neglected or de-
fcrred.
In fact the Glorious Fourth found
/ the legislative branch of the Govern
ment very much on the job. the execu-
tive branch no further from the White
House than Mount Vernon and only
the Judicial branch able to indulge in
such Injuries as vacations. Every last
member of the Supreme Court is off
at a considerable distance. | believe.
! most of them in New England.
As for the diplomatic circle. it was
practically intact. The only head Of
n diplomatic mission, So far as know.
! who has LETT Washington simply be-
/ cause II is summer is Ambassador da
Cana, and he comes back from Heron
Hall, near Long Branch, quite fire.
quentiy to see how things are going.
Ambassador Ndon of thu Argentine
Is Just back from nearly six months
in his own country on diplomatic bust
ness; with the added distinction of
/ being his nations High Commissioner
rs well as its Ambassador, That's the
latest thing in diplomats, one who is
rot merely l.. +. and NJ. T.. as the
! diplomatic list puts it, but II. c. as
Well
DR.. Haldivar of Salvador has also
gone home on diplomatic business,
taking with him his debutante daugh-
ter for a little visit among her rela-
tivcs in her own land, and leaving his
wife in New England for the summer.
DR. Sulzcr the Swiss Minister, de-
cidod that he had better go home and
, talk things over since cables are more
or less uncertain, and his responsible
tiles AS representative of Germany's
interests hero are grave and delicate.
His wife and boys are up in New Eng
land for the summer, and Or. Carl
! Hubscher is keeping the legation open
here.
Memorial From Japan.
Mime. IIubscher, who was Elizabeth
I SchOcpf Of Cincinnati, is not thinking
Of going away at all she moved out
TO Chevy Chase early in the spring,
has delightful house there and is
so very much interested in her gar
dens-hoth flower and kitchen gardens
she has-that there arc moments when
she tells you about them, even before
she has shown you the baby's newest
| tooth, 1t must be owned that these
occasions are usually when the baby
is asleep,
The Japanese Ambassador and Wis
countess lShii were away on the
Fourth, but only because the Ambas-
sador had made an official engagement,
which had the plan for the celebration
at Mount Vernon, including as 1t did