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Companion piece" to the party they
had ten days ago for their neice,
Mary Custis Lee, who was presented
with Miss Dulany. There are several
dinners that night, notably the one
following Peggy Martins debut and
one the Charles Coles fuckers are
giving at the Chevy Chase Club for
probable that the young people from
both parties will take in the dance
before the evening is over
Eagenia HeIeombe
Will Pour Tea.
in addition to the Christmas Day
festivities already mentioned, Eu-
genia Holcombe is having a small
tea for Miss Tucker; and on Friday
there are a number of parties. lead
ing off with Mr.. and Mrs. Paul John
sons tea dance for their young son
and daughter in the afternoon. Mr..
and Mrs. i. T. Mann are having q
dance in the evening for Peggy Mann
and her young brother; then there's
the second Of the Junior League par
ties and the Youngs' cotillion-Mr.
and Mrs. John Hervey Young-begin-
ming at midnight That's arranged
for Elizabeth Hervey Young, who is
home from college, and her guest,
Aileen Dowsett. of Honolulu. The
Blodgetts are having a dinner: Mr..
and Mrs, Henry T. Oxnard are enter
taining-also a dinner-for Adeline
and Nadine Oxnard and Mr.. and Mrs.
John Davidson. for Anne Dulany, all.
take it. before the Junior League
party. On Saturday there seems to
be only one big party, but that's a
singularly promising" one, Mr.. and
| Mrs. John T. Bakers dance at Grass
lands for their granddaughter, Eliza
beth Baker Kemp.
Mrs. Train Home After
Seven Years In Italy.
| Mrs. Russell Train (Errol Brown)
| is one Of our Christmas visitors. She
has but recently come back to this
country after seven years in Italy
her husband having been made naval
| attache at our embassy in Rome
Commander Train is now on sea duty
I believe with headquarters In Bos-
| ton and Mrs. Train has taken an
| apartment there for the winter to be
near him. At present. however. she's
! with her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. George
| Whitfield Brown, at their home in
Connecticut avenue for good long
visit and she has her two boys with
| her.
Enrol Brown always was an ex-
| ceedingly popular girl, she has a way
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Christmas at the White House ?
Well for days toys for the White
touse kiddies" have been arriving at
the Executive Mansion, gifts from
members Of the Wilson family, from
iriends and admirers of the Prssi-
lent But IL looks now as though
they'd have to be forwarded to the
Sayre children-Frsncis, Eleanor and
Woodrow Wilson--and little Ellen
Wilson McAdoo.
President Wilson was keen to have
= good oldfashioned Christmas, with
his daughters and his grandchildren
about him: but Admiral Grayson la
Inclined to fear that so large a gath
ering might entail too much excite
ment for his petient-and Admiral
Grayson is the doctor.
Rumor would have IL that, although
Mrs. McAdoo will not be here for the
holidays, Mrs Sayre Is coming. But
I'm inclined to doubt this and to be-
lieve that she'll spend Christmas with
her husband and children. Miss Mar
Earet Wilson will be at the White
House, but unless Dr. Grayson re-
lents there11 be no merry house party.
In any event. IL will be far different
celebration from last year, when the
President and Mrs. Wilson had their
Christmas dinner with the boys of the
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of keeping her friends and she Ia
certainly being made much of now
that she is back home again. She's
glad to be home, too, although she
really had a wonderful time in Rome.
She was a great favorite with the
Thomas Nelson Pages. so vas a great
deal at our embassy and the Romans
quite took her to their hearts
Apropos OF American girls who are
coming home after an absence abroad.
I've just heard that Frances Colds
borough. Mrs. William p. Stead, is on
her way to Washington to spend the
winter with, her mother Mrs. Edmund
X. Goldsborough. She's been in Eng
land for the last 'hye years and she's
leaving her husband and her small
son over there as hostages for her
return The Rev. Mr.. Stead. you
know. was formerly in our consular
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ChristnaA Festivities
At the White H00se.

For many years the Yuletide hoii-
day has been a season of great activ-
ity at the White House With their
brood of boys and girls, the Roose-
velts always had a riotously good
time at Christmas, and the Tafts usu-
ally had the White House filled with
eollegs boys and girls. friends of
their sons and Of their daughter,
Helen rsft. Mr.. Wilson and his fam
. lily spent the FIRST Christmas after he
became President at Pas Christian
Miss. One year the holiday season
was saddened by the death of the
President's FIRST wife. Another year
he was hoaeymooning in White Sui
phur Springs. w. Va. with the pres
Ont Mrs Wilson, and last year. Of
course, they y7were abroad.
But there. have been three merry
ing the present Administration, and
the coming festival will be happy
oncS even ff quietly celebrated, for
the President is obviously on the
mend.
= The Wilson's Christmas when il Il.
spent at the White House, always
connects krsens and garlanos, and
q mammoth Christmas tree VITA law
5sh gifts fo- al :be family ari the
White HOUSE stan, BON ofnc' al and
domestic And always there has
been a White House baby" to queen
IT over the assemblage. First 1t was
little Josephine Howe. the Presidents
Grandniece. whose mother, then Mrs.
Howe Cothran, is now remarked and
lives in Chicago. Then along came
the Sayre babies and Mrs. McAdCo's
little daughter; and this year there 5
a. new Sayre baby to take part in rhe
festfvities-if DR.. Grayson permits.
A monster turkey the gift of South
rrimble, sometime Clerk of the House.
whose poultry is famed throughout
tho South, is always the piece de
resistance OF the White House
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Christmas dinner. And soon after he
took office President Wilson estsb-
lished the pleasant custom OF pre-
senting each member OF the White
House stan with his-or her-Christ-
mas turkey. Another pretty custom
which Is never forgotten is the dis
tribution of gifts among the children
who live in Virginia along the road
to the Washington Country Club,
where the President and Mrs. Wilson
used to play golf almost every day
during the first years of their mar
riaRe. Despite their preoccupation
with matters of great moment last
year they remembered to 'play j
Santa Claus" to their little friends,
sending word from across the water
that the gifts we're to be purchased
and distributed as usual. And GER
tainly the children will not be over
looked this year.
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CAPITAL Looks Forward to
Gay Christmas Holidays; White
House to Celebrate Quietly

/ EAH SUSAN:
Merry Christmas The old greeting on
for Of for the home from
for the noble few who Will home moreand families
VI three years .'-..
In Washington it's going be particularly jolly holiday
specially for folk
night
ebutans will have place their
he lads and asses home from school and
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MarSAAllS Going to
Indiana fer Holidays.

Indiana fer Helidxys-
The Vice President and Mrs Mar
shall, with their small foster son,
Morrison Marshall, for whom they
make Christmas," will spend the
holidays with Mrs. William Line
Elder, in Indianapolis. They started
West yesterday, and expect to be gone
until after New Yer. There will be a
Christmas tree, with all the "trim-
mings" for the little lad, who has
grown very close to Mr.. and Mrs.
Marshalrs hearts; and Mrs. Marshall
confessed that half her pleasure in
going home to Indianapolis was to
show off her little son.
The Secretary of State and Mrs.
Lansing are leaving town on Christ
mas Eve to spend Christmas with his
sisters, the Misses Emma and Kate
Lansing, at Watertown, N. Y, and
expect to be back the following Sat
urday. Mrs. Lansing's mother, Mrs.
John w. Foster, is remaining at her
Washington home and will have her
grandchildren, Mr.. and Mrs. John
Foster Dulles, now residents of Wash
ington, and Mataline Dulles, to help
her celebrate the holiday. Miss Dulles
Is taking the nurses training course
at Walter Reed Hospital 1t is prob
able that Mrs. Fosters daughter, Mrs
A. NJ. Dulles, and Miss Eleanor Dulles
will also spend Christmas with her.
The retiring Secretary Of the Treas
ury and Mrs. Carter Glass will go to
their home in Lynchburg. Va, for
the holiday season and will have their
whole family together for the frs,
time in three years. Augusta Glass
viii accompany them. Their sons and
daughtersin-law. Mr.. and Mrs. Carter
Glass, jr., and Mr.. and Mrs. Powell
Glass live in Lynchburg; and they ex-
pect their other daughter, Mrs. John
Guerrant Boatwright, and her husband
to be with them at least for Christ
mas Day, their first since their mar.
riage. The Boatwrights are living in
Danville, Va.
The rest of the~Cabinet families ex.
pect to spend Christmas in Washing
ton. The Secretary Of War and Mrs
Baker always have a children's
Christmas, with their youngsters
Betty, Jack and Peggy-as the bright
particular stars of the occasion, and
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the celebration will be the merrier
this year from the fact that Secretary
and Mrs. Baker have just returned
from a three weeks absence in Pan
anna. Mrs. Bakers brother, Ralph
Leopold, will probably come from
New York to stay with them, and
there's a possibility tha: another
brother. Capt Leroy Leopold, will
get back from the Yosemite, where
he was when last heard from, in time
to spend Christmas with them. He's
now out of the service. by the way.
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Attorney General and
Wife To Stay Here.


Wife To Stay Here.
The Attorney General and Mrs.
A. Mitchell Palmer expect to be
holiday celebration for their small
daughter, Mary Dixon Palmer.
Their niece, Mary Dixon Ferris, who
has been with them for several weeks,
has gone to her grandfather's home,
the old Dixon homestead on the East
ern Shore Of Maryland. for the holi-
days, but will probably come back to
visit the Palmers~ later. Last year
Mr.. and Mrs. Palmer had cele-
bration for the various ramifications
of their family, twenty-three guests
sitting down to their Christmas din
ner. 49,
The Postmaster General and Mrs.
Burleson are childless for the nonce.
their only unmarried daughter, Sidney
Burleson, being with the American
Minister to Sweden and Mrs. Ira Nell
son Morris in Stockholm, to remain
until late in January. They'll have
rather a lonely Christmas, as Mr.
Burleson cannot get away from his
duties for a holiday visit to either
of the other girls, Mrs. Richard Van
wyck Negley or Mrs. Charles Greene
Grimes, having just spent Thanks
giving In san AnlOnIc, itA-' van Siic
Neplevs and Mrs. Burleson won't
leave her husband.
The Secretary OF the Interior and
Mrs. Lane are planning the auietest
sort of a Christmas, and so are the
Secretary of Labor and Mrs. Wilson
The Lanes have their daughter. Nan
cy Lane, with them, of course, but
their son, Franklin X. Lane, jr., is In
California The three Wilson girls
Agnes Hart Wilson, Mary Wilson. and
Jessie Wilson, are at home, but none
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Celebrations at the various embas-
sizes and Legations give a cosmopoli-
tan touch to Christmas in Washing
ton. The French Ambassador and
Nine. Jusserand and the Spanish Am
bassador and Nine. de Riano always
entertain their embassy people at din
ner on Christmas Eve. Usually
there's a dinner at the British en-
bassy, with a Christmas tree party
for the children in the afternoon, but
probably not this year. as the am
bassador maintains a bachelor estab-
lishment and the women and chill
dren connected with the embassy are
conspicuously few. And family" din
ners-the official family" which in
cludes usually a number Of lonely
bachelor secretaries-are in order
either on Christmas Eve or Christmas
Day at most of the embassies and le-
cations in Washington.
Country Home Ball
Will BE Merriext.
The Christmas festivities will reach
their climax at the Children's Country
Home ball, an annual event and al
ways one of the merriest as we'll as
perhaps the "smartest' of the whole
SriSt of charity balls.
About every other person one runs
into is someone home for the holiday
season, Washington men who have
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Fancies, Fads,
And Foibles of
Capital Society

service, but several years sso he took
orders in the Church Of Enplsnt-
which means. ! presume. that the
Steads will make England their per-
manent home Just now, however, he
Is taking some sort OF course AT
Oxford and Mrs. stead has seired
upon her this opportunity 20 pay a
visit home. Hasn't she, by the way.
a sister who is married 10 an Eng
nshman and lives abroad
Msr~ Chrstsss
Vstsaay Ntsiter>-
Mrs. Carl Nrooman Ia back after de-
voting over year 20 relief work over
seas, and, with Mr.. Nrooman. who
went 90 New York 20 meet her. Is at
the Shoreham. They're TO spend
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HOuStons' Party to BE
Held After Christmas.

The Houstons' Christmas party. by
the way, isn't to convene until after
Christmas--if one may be permitted
an Irishism. Their son is due to-
morrow to remain until after the
New Year. but their guests, class
mates of young Houston at Harvard.
aren't coming until later. in time to
take part in the post-Christmas fes-
tivities.
The Irish standard., 1919-04-19
FATHER DRUMM APPOINTED
BISHOP OF DEs MONIES.
Leader Of Missionary Band Succeeds
Archbishop Bowling.

Rome, Marcn 29.-Rev. Thomas
Drumm, rector of st. Patrick's church.
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, has been appoint
ed Bishop of Des Moines in success
sion to Most Rev. A. M. Bowling, D.
D., who was installed on March 25th
as Archbishop of st. Paul, MINI.
Father Drumm was born at Fore,
West Meath County, Ireland, July IL,
1871. He came to. this country as a
young man and settled at Wayerly,
Iowa, with an uncle. He graduated
from Dubuque College in 1893 and pur.
sued his theological course at the
Grand Seminary, Montreal, being or
dained priest December 81, 1901. =.
Shortly after his ordination he was
appointed assistant to Rev. L. Burns
of Rockville, Iowa. In September,
1908, he was appointed to the mission
band and began active duties in that
capacity after spending a year at
the Catholic University. Upon the
resignation OF Rev. E. j. Dougherty,
who is now a pastor at Oelwein, Faith
er Drumm succeeded him as superior
of the band. He directed the mission
band until he was appointed pastor Of
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Powers, Whose Sovereignty Has Been Recognized, Hs
Weaker Characterization as to 'Recognitions"

a fuller measure of self-government;
"all they want is to be let alone"
The phrase has become familiar nearer
home. When the. new Czecho. Slovak
nation in Bohemia, Moravia, Hungary,
Corinthia, Bukowina, and elsewhere
has been duly established, what will
be said If the 100000 "loyalists" OF
Bohemia people who possess much
of the cou4try's wealth-follow the
example set by an Irish minority less
than half their extent proportionately,
and probably less than one-fifth of
their actual number, and demand Eek
clusion" as the only alternative to the
existing arrangement-with threats of
rebellion and preparations therefor to
emphasize and enforce their ultima.
tum?" Does the existence of $780,.
900 "loyalists' 40 per cent of the en-.
tire population-within its borders
preclude Bohemia from recognition as
a nation? II So, why has Bohenia's
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|PAPAL SECRETARY
OF STATE GIVES
PRESS INTERVIEW

Constantinople, where, if any change
of regime should occur, Santa Sophia
must by all rights be restored to Cath
Ole worship under the Oriental, and
not the Latin Rite.
Holy Places to Pope.
In connection with the Zionist
claims, to which Cardinal Gasparri
made reference an interesting, but
somewhat bewildering, statement was
made to representative of the Paris
Petit Parisien by Professor Sylvan
Levi, who had just been giving evil
dence before the Council of Ten about
a Jewish State in Palestine. In the
course Of his talk about the future
Jewish State, the Professor said that
the Holy Places would be assigned to
the Pope.
What is meant by this is not exact
ly clear, and it would seem to be
worth while to keep this statement in
mind. 1t may very possibly mean that
the guardianship of the Holy Places
in Palestine, meaning, of course, the
Christian Holy Places, is to be vested
in the Holy See, a decision that would.
give considerable satisfaction to Cath.
olics in every part of the world. There
is, however, another application, and
it is recalled for what it may be worth.
It has been said, by certain political
persohages, that the Holy Father
might find in the guardianship of the
Holy Places in Palestine some COM
pensation for whatever concessions he
might feel called upon to make with
regard to Rome. There. may possibly
be more in Professor Lewis state
! ment than appears on the surface.
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distinct and free nationality been
recognized" by Great Britain? If
not, how can Ireland's demand for the
rights and liberties necessary to her
existence as a nation be denied?
England's recent "recognitions" of
new nations" has disposed for all
time of the false plea that ireland is
not nation" l wish the Czecho.
Slovaks we'll; I hope they will win
full measure of freedom, and retain
it. They have rendered an inestim.
able service to our own national
cause; and much more can be said
about the circumstances under which
they secured recognition" from the
Government who have sent Viscount
French to impose military dictator
ship on Ireland at the points of 10000
bayonets rather than pay just and
simple tribute at their own doors tt
President Wilson's principles.-Catho
lie Press.
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that saw Ireland's population under
British rule decrease from 6,514,47S
Gin 1851 to 4.39O,217 Tin 191D-a de,
cline Of more than SO per cent. b.
hemia is one of the most prosperous
countries in Europe; but the Czechs
are-and NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. They
demand a fuller measure of self-gov-
eminent. When conscripted into the
Austro-Hungarian army, they deserted
or surrendered, by the hundred thou.
sand; and this action of theirs is the
warrant for their recognition" as a
free and distinct nation by the British
Government!
Mixed Races.
There is another complication con
nected with the Czecho-Slovak ques
ton. Bohemia's population of 1900,
600 is sixty per cent. Czech and AZ
per cent. Germanic. The Bohemians
of German race are "loyalists." They
number 2,720,O00. They do not claim
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st. Patrick's church at Cedar Rapids,
January Is, 1915.
U. s. SOLDIER PILGRIMS.
Will Visit Grotto Of Our Lady OF
Lourdes During Holy


Week.
During Holy Week there will be
from all over France pilgrimages to
Lourdes by soldiers, no matter of.
what nationality and whether they be
i'll or WELL
ut would be proper" writes Arch
bishop Dougherty of Philadelphia, '.for
our Catholics in this country to write
to their soldier relatives. now in
France, advising them of these PHI
grimages."
Thousands of the faithful in this
diocese have husbands, sons or broth.
ers or others near of kin who will be
among those who will journey to the
hallowed shrine of Our Lady at
Lourdes, and it is to be confidently
expected that they will communicate
with their relatives overseas, urging
the presentation Of prayers Of thanks
giving, reparation and petition. It
should be kept in mind, however, that
letters should be mailed without delay
so that they will reach their destini-
ton in France before Holy Week,
which will begin on Sunday, April IL.
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Catholic Press Cablegram.,


Rome, April Ills Eminence, Car
dinal Gasparri, Papal Secretary OF
State, receiving special representa-
tive of the Petit Parisien, made nota-
BILE statement on current political af-
fairs. He said that the Pope is close,
ly following the proceedings of the
Peace Conference, and that the Holy
Father is most anxious about the
spread of Bolshevism through Central
Europe, consequent upon the destruc'
ton of the Austro-Hungarian Empire
He had authorized the Apostolic Nun.
clio, Msgr. Valfre di Bono, to retire
to Prague in case the situation in
Vienna should become serious.
Jugo-slavia.
Regarding Jugo-Slavia, the Carolina
considers that the Croats and the Slo
venes might be given autonomy, pos
sibly Under republican form of gov
eminent.
His Eminence again expressed tn
utmost good will towards France, AM
his hopes for the restoration of diplo
matte relations between that countr.
and the Vatican, whereunto Franc
should approach the Holy See directl,
and openly.
~ Zionist Claims =
The Cardinal said that the Zionis
claims to the Holy Land were natural
lily causing anxiety, in the face Q
which international control might b
the best solution.
Santa Sophia.
His Eminence' brought the intervie,
to close with a special reference
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Eamonn, or Edward De Valera,
President of the Irish Republic, is one
of the most popular and picturesque
leaders Ireland has produced since the
days of Robert Emmett. He is the de-
light and the darling of the Irish Re-
publicans and especially of Young
Ireland: No wonder. In him are per-
sonif1ed passionate patriotism, noble
courage, and an intense attachment
to the religion of st. Patrick, Brigid
and Columbkille. A halo of romance
surrounds his brief but brilliant career
as professor, soldier for. Erin and ma
tional leader. Eamonn typifles Ire
lands age-long fight for freedom, civil
and religious.
1t was the rising of that historic
Easter week, 1916, in Ireland, that
first brought Mr.. De Lavera into the
fierce limelight that beats upon a
national leader. AS Commandant of
the Ringsend District he distinguished
himself no less by his chiyalry
than by Lis bravery and military
skill. after practically weeks fight
ing against enormous odds, he sur
rendered only because he thought he
could save mems lives. After the sur
render, the Commandant turned to the
British officers and said: "Shoot me
II you will, but arrange for my men, -
He would have been shot too, but for
the fact that he was born in New York
City. Tried by a drumhead courtmar-
tial De Valera was sentenced to death.
The sentence was afterward committed
to penal servitude for life.
He was pardoned about year later,
just in time to stand for East Glare
on the Irish Republic platform, The
election was the most historic fought
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De Valera Ire1and's Leader

/. S".s
in Ireland since the days when the
great O'Connell as champion of Cath
Ollie Emancipation ran for the same
county. De valera's easy victory gave
a great impetus to the Republic party,
besides startling easy-going English
men, who, with characteristic compla-
cence, if not stupidity, fancied that
"half-Home Rule for three-quarters
of ireland" must settle forever the
Irish problem. He has never taken
his seat in the British Parliament,
and never will, for the obvious rea-
son that in doing so he would be rec
ognizing the usurped authority of an
alien assembly to authority for Ire
land. Besides, his party maintains
that Parliamentarianism has been NOR
ally and materially disastrous to their
country. England, Sim Feiners right
ly hold, has given nothing to Ireland
until convinced that the Irish can get
[ it without her leave or that 1t. is in
her interest to grant it. Agitation at
Westminster accomplished nothing
agitation III ireland, something, Faced
today by militant and enraged Irish
opinion, England would consent to give
Ireland Colonial or Dominion Home
Rule" something that before 1916
seemed as far off as st. Tbs Eve.
Last May De Valera and most OF
his prominent supporters were seized
at midnight, deported to England, and
imprisoned. They were charged with
completely in German plot" q
charge they emphatically denied. The
trial they demanded was refused them
For the last three years Eamonn haf
spent two-thirds of his time in Brit
ish prisons; Patriots Colleges, the
Irish call them. Lord Wimborne, who