The sun., 1918-07-28
Even theHotWave
Could Not Drive
the Women VOL
unteers Away
From the Duties
They Have AS
sumed at the Cap:
ital
WASHINGTON, July 81.
WASHINGTON may have known
" gayer summers - for in

" TASHINGTON may have known
M/ gayer summers - for in
w stance. there was last sum-
mer, when one after another, and fire.
ouenty overlapping one another. It
entertained as the nations guests that
series OF high commissions which be-
can in April with the arrival Of the
British. headed by Balfour. and the
French, with Viviani and dear old
Papa Joffre, and wound up in October
with Viscount Ishii and his gentlemen
from Japan-but II 1t has ever known
buster or more interesting summer
the Oldest inhabitant does not remem-
Der it.
The hot wave might have been ex-
rected to send every one Off who had
rot something very definite to keep
lin here, and it was interesting to
note how very few took their depar-
ture and in how few cases the whole
family seems to feel that 1t can get
Of at once.
Talk about a civil war breaking up,
families, l don't see how anything
could break them up more effectively
than this one has," said one of the
sub deb. class very seriously a day or
two ago.
She was considering the parents
who are at their country homes or at
the resort hotels without their daugh-
ters who simply can't get away"
from the particular form of war work
which is engaging their energies con-
sidering the mothers who are rushing
madly back and forth between Wash
ington. where their husbands are
grinding away, and perhaps the New
England coast or Long Island, where
their young children are deposited
with relatives or governesses, until
they feel themselves. as one woman
put 1t. mere human pendulums":
considering the husbands and fathers
who are regular week enders with
their families.
The particular case that was at the
moment worrying the aforementioned
sub deb. was that Of the Hoar girls,
Frances and Louisa. Their mother,
widow Of Rockwell Hoar. married Rep
resentative Gillett of Massachusetts a
couple Of years ago, and since Con-
gress elected to have it's vacation in
three day takes" at this time she has
gone up with him to their summer
nome at Nahant to stay until Con-
gress reconvenes in August But the
girls. both OF whom are serving Uncle
sam in the State Department. can't
get away just now. They will get
their vacation little later. quite prob
ebly Just about the time that their
mother and stepfather will have to get
hack.
Miss Mary Graham, daughter of
the Assistant Attorney General and
Mrs. Samuel Jordan Graham, has a
Job in the State Department in the
same division with the Hoar sisters,
end so has Mrs. Franklin Ellis (for-
merly Catherine McClintock), whose
husband is in France in the service.
Her parents. Mr.. and Mrs. A. CARR
son McClintock, have been in their
summer home at Bar Harbor for a
couple of weeks, but Mrs. Ellis can't
Leave her job. though she hopes to
Join them for her vacation in August.
Cabinet Daughters at Work.
Then there are the Burleson girls.
Lucy and Sydney, both of whom hav-
ing qualified as stenographers and
been duly appointed as yeowomen in
the navy are now attached to Rear Adj
miral Samuel McGowan's staff. Miss
Lucy Burleson began last February at
1850 a month, has had a raise of
u month since then, and is now
drawing all of $3.50.
Miss Sydney Burleson. who is much
newer to the work. Is presumably
still in the $3.50 class. Fortunately
neither of the girls has to squander
any large part of her wages on car
fare, as they live only few blocks
nom their Jobs. They look awfully
well in their starchy white. brass
buttoaed naval uniforms and stiff
little sailor hats. and seem to be thor
oughly enjoying life. Moreover, their
immediate boss Commander Francis
James Conner saws thew are doing