The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-09-14

| to be greatly addicted to pink, "just
plain, old fashioned pink" One of the
unusual tales related here is that of
President Taft's daughter studying
with mixed amazement and amuse-
ment windowful of wonderful glow
ing pink stationery, with q legend ad-
vising the public that this was the
real. genuine Helen pink" and WIS
exactly what the Presidents daughter
used for her personal and intimate
CT correspondence. The girl was terri
bly,, even painfully, interested. until
she saw the funny side of it and ap-
pc aled to another loiterer at the win
dow with, Did you ever in your life
see anything like It? Could you have
dreamed it?"
And they laughed together. 1t was
simply one of the series of crimes
against good taste that irreverent
shopkeepers ara always putting ON the
White House.
May Open the Anderson Home.
There is a plausible story floating
around Washington to the effect that
the Larz Andersons' big house on
Massachusetts avenue is to serve as a
sort of overflow headquarters for the
distinguished members of the Belgian
suite whom the White House cannot
well accommodate. 1t is said that
while the Larz Andersons are to be
away and the house closed for much
of the winter they will come down
from Weld, their estate near Boston
purposely to open it up for their Bel
gian guests. In his diplomatic days
Larz Anderson was at one time the
United States Minister to Belgium and
there is a certain special "tendresse'
for the Belgians credited to him and
| his wife.
Mrs. Anderson is one of the few
American women who have been the
personal guest 81 Queen Elizabeth
having visited her in Brussels during
the early days of the war. She lost
most of her baggage en- route so that
she had to appear at dinner in hel
Red Cross uniform and the Belgian
Queen had to supply most of the ordi
nary toilet necessaries from her own
1t is told that when Mrs. Anderson
was leaving she found all the things
she had been using packed in a beauti
full travelling bag in the automobile
that was conveying her to the station
"a graceful gift from a most graciou:
lady and of course a cherished souve
mir for Mrs. Larz Anderson.
1t was in the Larz Anderson house
that the Belgian High Commission
was housed when it was here two
years ago. with the present Minister
1t its head.
There is disposition on the part Of
those who remember King Albert,
previous visit to bark back to it, with
well, when he was here befor,
he" That after all Is no criterion
of what he will do this time, for wher
. he was here before he was not King Of
the Belgians but merely PrinceAlbert
travelling as Count Rethey and with
several lives between him and the
throne. Whereas. now he is Belgium't
hero King, and probably the mos
popular and picturesque monarch ex'
| tant
Cardinal Mercier, who has arrived in
the United States, will be making his
official visit soon after the King and
| Queen. 1t would be hard to say which
makes the stronger appeal to the i'm.
agination of the hero worshipper.
Baron de Cartier de Marchienne
who is returning as Ambassador desig.
nate, brings with him a bride to be
chatelaine of his embassy, an Amer
lean woman who is known to bt
wealthy and who has established g
reputation as a picturesque and orig.
inal woman among the social leaders
of New York and Newport. They will
be established at the embassy or
Massachusetts, avenue and he will
doubtless have been recognized as Am.
bassador before his King arrives