The Washington herald., 1918-12-29

Nineteen-eighteen. which came in to
martial music and the tramp OF
marching hosts. is going out to dance
music and the rhythm of dainty slip
pered feet 7 think l have never
known so many dances crowded into
so short = time as have kept the
young people on the go since the
middle OF the month, and will untn
after the first of the year. They have
been such pretty parties! And have
seen so many good-looking gowns, and
alas. SO many girls who ought to be
g5od looking-who really are good
looking when they wash their faces
looking old and haggard and hard be-
cause they had no discretion in the
matter of mekeupi Why will they
30 II?
II hurts to see a perfectly nice girl,
one that you know and like. in the
morning so powdered and painted, her
hair so tortured and twisted into an
elsborately artificial ''coiffure' that
she looks like a tenderloin lady.
heard a man commenting on one girl
at one of the big dances last week.
and what he said would have applied
equally to a score of others. You
know, used to think her such a pretty
girl. but tonight she looks so old, and
hard. She doesn't even look nice"
and just then as she came along,
Well she looks a lot better than she
did earlier in the evening, l guess il
must be that she has toned down a
bin, some Of the paint and powder she
had on when she came has got rubbed
or" Even the debutantes do it.
There has been a succession of
6ances-debutantes dances at first
and now benefit dances. and big pri-
vste balls. till you can't rest. And
Nas matter Of fact nobody vents to.
Each night has had its one big
6.snCe. and a dozen little ones. Just
RAINING through this past week-on
.Jbuday the Zaldivars. the Minister
- Salvador and his handsome Eng
ii,h wife-had one at the legation
- Miss Julia Zalvidar who had
made her debut at a tea during the
afeTnOOn. That was of course a
"yOung peoples dance" and all the
"nungeE-set were out in force to do
honor to the one diplomatic debu-
tahte OF the year.
That same night there was a
grtat big official dinner at the Will
laid. the Comptroller Of the Treas
ury and Mrs. John Shelton Williams
being the hosts. and the dinner be-
ing - sort Of official send-off to the
NlcAduos. All the cabinet who were
in nttown were there with their wives,
alnbeTs of the Federal Reserve
Rad with their wives. the assist
ant secretaries of the Treasury and
their wives. Mr.. McAdoo's chief as
sisi ants in the Railway Administra-
tiIu and their wives, head of the
War Trade Board, War Risk, Farm
LoPn-various bureaus of which Mr.
MeAdOO was -officio head And
lest but not least the new Secretary
Il the Treasury and Mrs. Carter
Glass.
II was his first appearance in his
new character at any big function
and Mrs. Carter Glass's first ap-
peaTance in Washington at all as a
Cabinet woman. She came I'D from
her Lynchburg home for that din
rer. and Immediately returned 20
IL. taking Mr.. Glass with her to
spend Christmas at home with
their two daughters-their thoughts
ranging far afield with their two
sons. who are both overseas. one
in Germany with the troops, the
other in Paris with the peace mis-
sion, having been recently recalled
from the front. where he was in
active service until the fighting
ceased and stationed in Paris as
an aide to Col House. 1 believe
Mrs. Glass and the girls expect to
come to Washington in January.
and perhaps take a house-though
Secretary Glass has heretofore been
living at a hotel. maintaining his
home at Lynchburg. and having
Mrs. Glass and their daughters here
whenever the. spirit moved them.