The Washington herald., 1918-04-14

easy to entertain informally IN
! honor OF Miss Oglesby-no problem
| there at all.
Really. Mrs. Mccormick is entire
/ ly sincere. They are not giving any
| big parties this winter. Their en-
| tertaining is all of the Quietest and
most informal. Mostly it has taken
the form of a series of perfectly
delightful Sunday night suppers.
which everybody that goes to them
enjoys immensely. And all the most
interesting people who come to
! Washington go.
Mrs. Mccormick is knee deep in
/ war work. She is greatly interested
in the Girl Scouts. 1t was she who
I introduced the party at the White
House the other day when Mrs.
/ Wilson gave the badge of the gold
Ell eaglet to Miss Ruth Colman, of
/ this city-the highest honor the or
saniZation has to give to a girl who
had previously won twentr 1.-TWO
! other honors in it. For the rest Mrs.
4 Mccormick tends to her knitting
! IiiteTally-takes il with her most of
the places she goes. and works
/ busily while she talks or listens
She is a leader in the councils of
? suffrage. She was an interested
spectator from the press gallery
/ of the House when suffrage went
( VVeRthe top there, and undoubtedly
( viii be when it comes up in the
Senate. She is one of the most in
! tcrcsting looking women in WASH
! iU-t tnn-slight and dark-almost
! s"..!Iy-not of the "pretty-pret
ity' ;ype. but of the keenly intelli-
/ Gtn, George Eliot type. always
( well dressed but in the quietest,
most unobtrusive of styles.
! Another hostess of the younger mar
| ried set. who faces the same prob
| lem of entertaining the notabiIities
| whom it would naturally fall TO her
lot to entertain. without making
| functions of her hospitalities. is
Mrs. James Wadsworth. jr.. wife of
the senior Senator from New York.
She is Perhaps a year or two older
than Mrs. Mccormick. but identified
with the same Washington set and
| period. Her father, John Hay. was
like Senator Hanna, one of the pow
ers of the official world in McKinIey's
time They both have inherited ira
ditions OF patriotism. as well as po-
sition and considerable of this world $
goods. And Mrs. Wadsworth rs as
prominent in the antisuffrage move
ment as Mrs. Mccormick is i'm the
suffrage movement. Each. be it ad-
! mitted, has taken her cue from her
husband. Mr.. Mccormick says Gtat
he converted his wife to suffrage, at
the expense of considerable time and
money. Senator Wadsworth may not
have converted his to antisuffrage,
but certainly has probably strength
ened her in il. His own point of view
is entirely well known. and it is gem
orally expected that. though he may
realize that it is risking his political
career, since New York has given lis
women the vote, he will vote against
the suffrage amendment when II
comes to vote in the Senate. Mrs.
Wadsworth watched the vote in the
House from the gallery. and was deep
ly disappointed at the result. [ know,
because l sat near her, and watched
her take her medicine
She, too, is knee deep in war work
and she also knits. Her organization
opposed to woman suffrage has ITS
headquarters on X street, only a step
from the John Hay house. which is
now Mrs Wadsworths home. and ITS
knitting club meets regularly.
Another ardently patriotic young
person, who is presumably of the anti
suffrage faith, since she has been
brought up in it. is Mrs. Lansing s
niece, Miss Nataline Dulles. who
spends much of her time in Wash
ington. Mrs. Lansing, you know. is
a leading anti, as her father-and
Miss Dulles grandfather-the late
Gen. John w. Foster was One of
their leading bits of campaign litela-
ture was a letter written by that old
gentleman.
Miss Dulles is one of the altogether
incest girls in Washington, and one
of the incest looking. She has been
her aunt's chief aid in all her war
work. srent a good part of her days
playing shop girl down at the Band
box Mrs. Lansing's war shop. dur
ing the month that it was open, and
has been an invaluable assistant both
in Mrs. Lansing's Y. w. c. A. work
and in her State Department war
work. where Mrs. Lansing spends so
much of her time, that her friends are
beginning to realize that without a
definite engagement it is almost hope
less to look for her at her home in
Eighteenth street during working
hours" Just lately Miss Dulles has
gone to Philadelphia to study nursing
i'm one of the hospitals. The assump-
tion was that she was planning to go
abroad, where Mr., Lansing's two sis-