The Washington herald., 1918-05-12

Walsh was knitting during the entire
evening. Mrs. Marshall, who was in
the receiving line. left It at the end
81 the evening to have little chat
with Mrs. Walsh, who n one Of her
closest friends. Mrs. Lawrence Towns
end also visited her for quite q while.
I never saw such faithful receiving
party; they never left their posts un-
til the evening was over. As q rule
you can't find those who are supposed
to welcome you after the party is
well started.
It was nice to see Birch o. Mahaffey
again. He Is at least a major now,
but looks exactly the same as when he
was. stationed in Washington. He Ia
a dandy looking, manly chap and was
missed very much when he left here.
Mrs. Wrey. Farwell was there, hold
ing a small reception OF her own.
There was never a more popular girl
in Washington than Mrs. Farwell
when she was Virginia Schaffer and
then when her husband was stationed
at the Navy Yard. they were always
the center Of everything that was
going on in naval circles. DR.. Far
well Is abroad Just. now and she IL
staying with her mother, Mrs. White
But there were many familiar faces
that were not there; many OF the
men one used to always see and as
time goes by and more and more go
into the service. we will see fewer
and fewer of the Washington men.
Some Of the girls claim that they Just
don't know any Of the men when they
go to parties any more and that there
are strangers everywhere one goes.
The young men you meet the oftenest
are the French and British officers.
Lieut.. Sully. who has fascinated us all
with his stunts in the air, and the
handsome young Capt. Kingman, of
the British Embassy stan, were both
at the ball last Saturday.
Everybody is up to their eyes on
Red Cross work. or some form OF
war work. I saw Mrs. James Hamil-
ton Lewis the other day fastening to
serve at the canteen at the luncheon
hour. To a question as to what she
was doing that evening, she answered,
"Oh. it's that great big bridge tourna-
ment at Mrs. Dimock's tonight, you
know. Benefit? Yes, of course, but,
my dear, don't ask me what for. 1
don't know. I've. given up trying TO
what is for which. I've sold
tickets for it, and I'm going. and that's
about all can tell you. I don't re-
member what it's for" 1t was for an
Italian war relief. and very much
under the patronage of the Italian
Ambassador and the Countess Macchi
di Cellere, a huge affair and q huge
success. But one could scarcely blame
Mrs. Lewis for not remembering
which was for what" any more.
The benefit was for the Italian war
relief work. Will Irwin had talked
to Mrs. Dimock about what the ItaI-
ians have done in the war and aroused
her interest enough to cause her to
make several efforts to make hnoney
for them.
heard him talk again last Wednes-
day evening at the National American
Woman Suffrage headquarters In
Rhode Island avenue for the benefit
of the women's overseas hospitals.
He has been with five Of the fighting
armies. including the Huns. so has
an endless store of information that
is both interesting and valuable. He
drew for his audience a number OF
word pictures and he is a real artist
at that Some of the pictures were
not important or significant. but all
interesting beyond measure. Mrs.
Morris Evans and her daughter were
there, accompanied by two French Of
ficers. During the evening Mr.. Irwin
spoke Of the general qualities of the
various armies and said among other
things that the French were 1.-THE
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perfect human race" and that "thefr
army could fght like you know
The French officers seemed to be
greatly amused and when Mrs. Evans
remarked about what Mr.. Irwin hac
said. one of the Frenchmen said in an
amusing way, why not?'
1t did me good though to hear the
way Mr.. Irwin also spoke of the
British army. 1t seems so strange
to me that so many people seem per,
fectly willing to give the French all
the credit due them for their part-s
tremendous part it is too-in this
war. but seem to begrudge the Eng
lish any praise. Mr.. Irwin said thai
the British are 100 per cent brave anc
that the greatest events OF the wal
was the first battle of Ypres when the
first professional British army, "tht
contemptibles." only 10000 strong
possessing only rifles and one bi,
gun held that line against many times
heir number and hundreds of bis
SLns. while their country prepared
They held that line with lives, flesf
and blood. against guns, agains
fiends, while England trained a hug,
and magnificent army out Of civilians
I can't help wishing that every tow
in the country might have the oppor
tunity to get acquainted with the rep
resentatives of our allies, as Wash
ington has. We are learning SO muci
about other people and peoples, ant
unlearning so much that we ough
never to have learned;
Who remembers back to the tim,
when our hopeless school book
taught US to believe that England
was our inevitable, traditional, hered
itary enemy? That she was Jus
awaiting the chance to gobble US VI
and restore US to the colonial status
When we more or less believed ghos
stories about Cobdenclub gold cor.
rupting our politics, and suspecte,
that the man who disagreed with u
about tariff was an emissary o
Downing street? OF course, we didn'