The sun., 1919-07-06
WASHINGTON, July 6.

ticularly gay and festive on
The nations birthday--but the Glorious
Fourth is usually rather a duh day in
Washington. This year 1t was-and
1t wasn't!
So far as social doings of any i'm
portance are concerned there wero
none. OF course the city was gay with
flags over every public building, and
from the windows of many private
homes Old Glory fioated. Every en-
bassy and legation in town ran out its
own national flag and the Stars and
Stripes, side by side, at sunrise, and
kept them out till sunset
And there was that great, gaunt,
bare flag pole on the White House.
One never gets over the shock Of
seeing the White House fiagless on the
Fourth when the homes of all the am
bassadors and ministers accredited to
Washington are wearing their colors
IN honor of our birthday. But three
times out of four the President is out
Of town on that day. and the flag does
hot float on the Executive Mansion I'M
less the President Is "in residence"
Probably the only time that rule has
been broken was last winter. at the
time of Theodore Roosevelt's death.
when President Wilson, then In
France, ordered the flag at half staff
in honor Of the great man who had
gone.
Last year the President was IL
Washington on the Fourth--and he
led that picturesque pilgrimage Of
newly emerging nationals down to the
tomb Of Washington, and there made
speech to them-which was Of
course intended to be heard around
the world" 1t was one Of those Won
derful stage settings that the Presi-
dents unerringly keen dramatic sense
Is always arranging. He has Bar
rie's Sentimental Tommy" left at the
post in that sort Of thing.
This year there was a tremendous
popular celebration-a Victory cele-
bration" centring around the returned
soldiers. with parades and floats and
great choruses trained by Prof. Dy-
kerifa singing pRans OF victory and
rejoicing, and the awarding Of medals
to every man and woman from the
District of Columbia who was "in the
service" and brass bands and fire.
works and every possible camoufage
to make a dry and safe and sane"
Fourth seem az glorious and Jubilant
. holiday as the old noisy, boisterous
when / was-a- boy" sort that most
men were regrefully telling their kid
dies about-regretful even though
their reason approves the modern way.
But it was distinctly popular cele-
bration, in which the official world
took little part. Congress. having
completed a goodly batch OF supply
bills, decided that with those ready
for the President to sign as soon as
he arrived 1t could afford to "call It a
day" and recessed Tuesday night until
next Monday.
Washington Is Marking Time.
AS a matter OF fact Washington is
very largely marking time, waiting for
the President to come back and to
see what is going to happen next
socially as we'll as politically.
II the President makes that swing
around the circle, putting his League
Of Nations up to the country-and OF
course Mrs. Wilson will go along-it
will be August before they really
settle down in the White House and
things begin to happen. So it's hey
for the shore or mountains, camp or
farm during July! and Washington
II needs must, in August.
AS to who is coming with the Presi-
dent and Mrs Wilson. 1t is generally
accepted that the French Ambassador
and Nine Jusserand are on the
George Washington.
Miss Margaret Wilson, who went
over last fall to sing for the soldiers
under the banner of the Y. NJ. c. A..
is on board, and so too Is Frances
Noyes, daughter of Mr.. and Mrs
Frank Brett Noyes. She went over
last summer two or three months be.
fore Miss Wilson. Eudora Clover who
went over with Frances Noyes, is due
back here about July IL, according tC
her sister Beatrice (Mrs. John Hol.
combe), whose husband, Col. Hol
combe, U. S. NJ. c., is now in Germany
Mrs. Holcombe, by the way, is still
up to her eyes in -canteen work. II
fact she says she's working harder
and so are all those who have stuck.
than at this time last year Hel
father, Admiral Richardson Glover, 1!
out on the ranch in California. where
they always used to spend their sum
mers. Her mother is at Deer Parl
with the baby-Baby Holcombe
mean OF course-until she can get GU
from under at the canteen and lool
after her offspring herself o.
rather until Eudora comes homo ant
she and her mother can Join the Ad
miral out on the coast.
Really they have done yeoman ser
vice, each in her own line, those tw'
Clover girls. Beatrice has been ant
still is hard at it in the canteen. Sh
says there seem TO be just as man.
soldiers passing through Washington
whose comfort has to be looked after
now as there were six months or yea
ago. And the force that does the worl
has been reduced almost to the van
fishing point. So many Of them wer
the wives and daughters of the dolla
a year war men. who are naturally n
longer in Washington. And some hav
dropped out, simply not realizing tina
the emergency continued even though
the war was over.
Eudora was a dollar a year man
herself down at the War College II
the intelligence service under her oil
playmate Sherman Miles. She was in
valuable as a translator, and tremen
dously popular among the little in