The Washington herald., 1918-04-28

what Is going on in the ring and
paddock. and what-or who's in the
boxes. And the mischief Of 1t is that
since nobody stays put, one can't
ever feel that one has inspected
any one section thoroughly. And
here, in addition to the horses and
the people, one had to watch the
aeros. Every day they were there.
the best of the foreign aviators-Sully
in his little Avro, whirling like kit
ten chasing its tail one minute,
diving like a dolphin the next; Res
natl, in his big Italian Caproni. roar
ing along close overhead one min
ute. so far up in the blue the next
that one could scarce hear the beat
ing of his wings. Sometimes only
one in sight. sometimes two or three
or even four, ducking and diving
and playing tag or leap-frog or some
thing of the sort. It's a pity TO
be so stated with wonders that one
wonders at nothing.
One scarcely had eyes for the
beauty of it all-thc marvellous set
ting. l. seems rather a paradox to
! have the Washington Horse Show in
Virginia-but then, the Washington
Country Club. where the President
most frequently plays his golf. is in
Virginia-so why not? Anyhow, it
was in Virginia. at Arlington Park. at
| the far end of the Highway Bridge,
across the Potomac. And as one sat
there on the grandstand and nearly
twisted ones head off, watching the
| people and the horses and developed
crick in the neck trying to watch
! the aeros. one scarcely had eyes for
the wonderful panorama of Washing
ton that was spread out before one
lc splendid sweep of the river. pea
1ciing all blue and green and bronze
l the sunshine, from the War College
d the navy yard, up past the white
,iomed Capitol and the golden dome
/ OF the Library. the tall. white shaft
of the Monument and behind 1t the
| gracious loyeliness of the White
House-on up the river. past the care
| fully guarded hangers. down on the
Potomac Parkway, with the Pan
| American Building, Continental Hall
of the Daughters. the group of new
government buildings-Food Admins
tration, Council of National Defense.
Ordnance and, further up, crowning
the heights, Georgetown University.
All of them clothed in beauty as a
garment. the beauty Of Washington in
springtime. soft. delicate, feathery
green. and trees so covered with blos-
SONS that they were like great bou-
quets. Never have 1 seen so many
Towering trees anywhere as in Wash
ington. And over on the Virginia side,
Arlington itself. perfectly visible and
always beautiful. and Fort Myer with
! its tall skeleton radio towers. and to
bring one back to earth, in the imme-
| date foreground the establishment
of an enterprising pawnbroker who
| since pawnbrokers were legislated
| out of business has established him.
self on the Virginia side.
Eyah! I'm glad I'm alive, And as
one young thing said to me very seri-
ously. wouldn't 1t be perfectly awful
to die without seeing how all this mess
is going to be Strengthened out?"
One rather wondered why Lord
Reading didn't turn UP at the horse
show-Lady Reading was there, and
she was at the opening of those
wonderful pictures of the French
Sky Fighters - Fares paintings,
which have been on exhibition at
week. But Lord Reading did not
| show up at either. 1t developed aft
erwards that Lord Reading had run
| up to New York for a couple of
| days on business. Nothing was
said about it-nothing ever is, these
parlous times, when any official per-
sonage goes anywhere, till after
| they get back-untiI it was an
nounced Thursday that he had re-
! turned II and the dinners began
! again, just when it looked as il the
fury of dinner giving in behalf of
, Lord and Lady Reading was sub
siding.
The week started out as usual
with Gen. McLachlan giving one
at the Army and Navy Club on Mon
day-almost a stag party that was,
with only Lady Grant, wife of
Admiral Grant, of the British navy
comparative recent arrival-to
keep Lady Reading in countenance.
1t must have been a rather unfash-
ionably early dinner party, for they
all arrived at the tfeater for the
opening night of the Ian Hay-IIart-
ley Manners play. Getting To-