The Washington herald., 1919-01-05

chance to see a little Of the inside
OF the historic building while they
Nare still here. So the lower floor
OF the house will be open to visitors
as 1t used to be between IL and p
for a while anyhow.
The National American Woman
Suffrage Association is giving q tea
this afternoon from s until Z o'clock
at its headquarters in Rhode Island
avenue in compliment to Miss Ellen
Churchill Semple, Of Louisville. KY,
who is the guest of Mrs. v. Everit
Macy. Miss Semple will speak on
the scientific opportunities open to
women and the need to enfranchise
women as means Of granting them
fair field and removing existing
discrimination. Miss Semple is one
Of the most interesting figures in
the scientific world today. She has
been for the last year a member of
the bureau of inquiry appointed by
Col. House for the peace terms COM
mission, giving to the research work
Of the bureau her splendid 'knowl-
edge Of geographic conditions and
their effect on human development.
Miss Semple Is a graduate of Vassar
and has studied abroad. Since her
return to this country all of tho
time she has been willing to take
from original research has been in
demand for lectures and writing.
She has lectured at the University
of Chicago, Columbia University and
Oxford University, England. Three
months after her first book appear
ed, American History and Its Geo
graphic Conditions, the book was
placed on all Of this country's ships,
and its reading was made one of
the requirements for West Point ad-
mission. Both of her books are used
for texts in many universities in
this country and Great Britain. She
was awarded the Cullom gold medal
by the American Geographic So
ciety, previous awards of the medal
having been made to Amundsen,
Duke Abruzzi and Herman Wagner.
A few nights later-Friday, to be ac-
curate-the men Of the Warrior gave
a farewell dance in one of the armor-
les, and II it has not already weighed
anchor that picturesque little warship,
on which Washington has had SO
many good times since 1t arrived.
something over year and a half
ago, soon will.
1t was such hospitable little ves-
sell Admiral, Sir William Lowther
| Grant would have been popular in his
| own right; he has all the qualities
But when he brought over a particu-
| larly attractive wife, and she turned
n fn haN tbA sxrs. "a
that he himself has. and when, on the
plea that suitable houses were almost
impossible to obtain in Washington,
she obtained the unheard-of conces-
sion of being allowed to live on board
battleship in commission. and they
set up housekeeping on 1t. and enter
| tanned on ii, and behaved just like
other responsible members of society
on it-well. their conquest of Washing
ton was complete!
OF course, they broke the blow to
us gently. Lady Grant went about
\ the time the armistice was declared.
And Admiral Grant told his friends a
couple of weeks ago that he would be
going soon after the first of the year
but none the less they're going to be
| horribly missed. 1t was, of course,
the imminence OF sailing orders that
| FASTENED the wedding on Monday
and the fact that Assistant Secretary
Of the Navy Franklin Roosevelt, who
( was the brides godfather as well as
her cousin, was to sail on the 3lst,
and he was slated to give her away.
As for the young couple themselves
they will be sailing, too. after the
shortest possible honeymoon on this
side of the water.
| AS for the Roosevelts-Mrs. Roose-
welt went along with her husband who
has not been very well since his last
| trip abroad. early in the fall which
/ landed him here with one of the ear
liest cases of the influenza-no one
/ seems to be even guessing when he
will return. Mr.. Roosevelt has gone
| over to arrange for demobilizing the
navy-which sounds like something OF
a contract.
This business of demobilizing every
thing and everybody rather gets on
ones nerves at times. And it does
seem as II it was being done rather
! brutally. For insta nee, this from a
| private letter:
MY war work ceased abruptly. just