The Washington herald., 1918-11-24

in honor by Mrs. Marshal Field. Both
she and the secretary are looking
forward to meeting over therefor
of course they feel pretty confident
that they are going-Secretary Lam
sings two sisters. who went over
as Red Cross canteen workers over
year ogo, and who have had all
sorts OF thrilling experiences since.
You remember they were reported
in cable dispatches to have receiv-
ed the Croix de Guerre, for brav-
cry under FIRE, having remained at
one Of the towns-St. Eustache, as
I remember it-under German fire,
in order to minister to the wounded
and look after the comfort of the
fighting men. The Lanslngs. 1 be-
lieve never received any confirma-
ton OF that report. Mrs. Lansing
told me that Secretary Lansing had
received a cable from Capt. Tardieu,
about that time, telling him that
his sisters had both been cited,
and they were inclined to believe
that that was what had really hap
pened. rather than that they had
received the Croix de Guerre. Also
there is Mrs. Lansing's neice, Miss
Eleanor Dulles who has been over
as part OF a nursing outfit ever
since she graduated from Bryn
Mawr which, I believe, was in 1916.
So much for the Lansings, who are
pretty surely going over.
AS for the Secretary OF War and
the Secretary of Agriculture, neither
Mrs. Baker nor Mrs. Houston have,
so far as have heard, said whether
or not they expected to go-if their
husbands went. In both those fami
lies the question is complicated by
young children. In Mrs. Bakers
case, at least, it is further compli-
Gated by her own health. She has
been i'll ever since the middle of Oc-
tober. She started out TO motor to
Cleveland with a friend, to keep an
engagement to sing at a big liberty
loan rally there, but rushed back on
hearing. when she reached Pitts
burgh, that Mr.. Baker was arriving
from France. She reached Washing
ton i'll, and a week or ten days later,
when her doctor advised a hospital,
was taken out to Cleveland that she
might be under the care of her family
physician there if she had to be in a
hospital After a couple of weeks in
the Cleveland hospital she seemed to
be doing very nicely, and Secretary
Baker went out and brought her back
to Washington to convalesce in her
lovely Georgetown home. Things
went along swimmingly for a few
days, but last Thursday. when l
called up to inquire. l was told that
Mrs. Baker was not doing so well as
she should and was about to enter a
local hospital that afternoon. So that
If the party gets off very soon. 1t
scarcely seems probable that Mrs.
Baker will be well enough to go
along, even If she felt like leaving
the children, Betty and Peggy and
Jack. And she doesn't often leave
them for very long.
OF course there are all sorts Of sug-
gestions that Mrs. House and her
daughter Mrs. Auchincloss. both OF
whose husbands are already over, and
Mrs. Hoover and Mrs. Hurley. whose
husbands are on the way, are likely to
60 over. In fact 1t rather looks as II
a very goodly section of Washington
society was likely to transfer itself
to Paris within the next few weeks.
And most of those who are already
in France will probably flock to Paris
to be 'in" on the doin's. on hand one
remembers that Miss Margaret VIII
son is over there singing to the SOL