Evening star., 1919-09-21
About Well Known Society Folk

Mrs. Thomas F. Walsh, who went tc
! Boston for a short visit after leaving
Bar Harbor, where she spent the sum
ington home by the end Of the month
Undoubtedly the King and Queen OF
Belgium will recognize the VaS'
amount of work Mrs. Walsh has done
for the fatherless children of Belgium
and France and she will be anothe1
( American. woman to receive oeco-
ration from the hands of the queen
I 1t could not be otherwise. Mrs. Walsh
| turned her entire house over as
workshop, in which clothes were
made for the orphans. shipping vast
quantities to Belgium to be distributed
through the Salvation Army and the
| Red Cross. She collected the mate
rials. did much of the cutting herself
enlisted the aid of other women and
| when her friends failed her, hired
seamstresses to hurriedly get out the
| little garments to keep the chlldren
| clean and warm. Not only children,
| but women as well. and many old
| men. received from her bounty 1t is
| very doubtful if any other women In
| America made greater sacrifices or
/! made them more sensibly than did
| Mrs. Walsh all during the war. Here
1 mercies were unending, and even the
| greatest recognition possible would
seem pale compared to them.
Mrs Walsh worked for many
! months before other than her most
| intimate friends knew what big task
| she had undertaken, and only when
| her drawing room furniture was re-
| placed with knitting, sewing and
| pressing machines and dozens of
| hands were employed to rip up and
clean old clothing for making over;
| did they realize how wisely she had
| thought out her particular branch of
| work. No social engagements and no
pleasure of any kind ever came be-
| tween Mrs. Walsh and her mission.
| which was not completed until long
after the armistice was signed!
| Today the workrooms in the Walsh
home stand as the finest possible ex-
ample of what may be done in cloth
| ing the poor of a city or meeting the
emergency in stricken countries
Every famous man and woman to visit
Washington since her work started
has asked the privilege of visiting
her home and inspecting her wonder
full work, so it will not be strange to
have the King and Queen of Bel
gium also become visitors under her
roof to inspect the splendid work
shops which gave their shiverlng mt
/ tie subjects their good warm clothes.
Society women have found new
fad in mule racing, and likely no
sprightlier. event ever took place on
a race track than on Thursday at the
Duchess county On. " fair. when Mrs.
! j. Griswo old Webb drove her favorite
mule, Bonnie Annie. to victory and
Mrs Roland L. Redmond, driving Mrs.
| Vincent Astor's Black Joe. came In
a more than close second. Mrs. Astor
Twas to have driven her own mule, but
the illness of her mother, Mrs. Robert
P. Huntington. called her to the Ad-
irOndackS.
Mrs. William J. Boardman, who leased
took a summer home at Northern
Lights. at Pointe-a-Pic, =. G.. has
rented her charming Washington
house to the ambassador of Belgium
and Baroness de Cartier de March1ne
| for month or two, or until they Sc
bassy. Baron de Cartier brought his
bride directly to Washington from
New York, and while there can
| be no official entertaining done for them
until he presents his credentials as am
fmssador of Belgium. every one seems to
Richard H. Townsend, leader OF the
smart set, friend of Baron de Cartier,
has entertained them, and SO nave
| others.
It is in the Boardman home that Ba,
ron de- Cartier will entertain Cardinal
Mercier and members Of the suit accom-
nanyine King Albert and Queen Eliza
beth Of Belgium. 1t is the Boardman
re sidence to which President Tart aln
| Mrs. Taft went on arriving in Washing
| ton for the Taft Inauguration, and the
| former President has made it his home
nany times when visiting Washington
| indeed, it was in this now notable resi-
dence that the plan for forming the
! National Red Cross Society was con-
| ceived and carried out under the direc-
| ton of Mr.. Taft and Miss Mabel Board
man.
Princess Andre BoncompagnL for
merly Miss Margaret Draper. who was
| in Boston for time after burying
| her mother, Mrs. William F. Draper.
beside her father at Hopedale, Mass,
and then went on to points in the
Berkshires, is expected to come to
! Washington the LIST of October and.
| rumor has 1t, she will spend the first
| winter of mourning for her mother in
| the Draper residence on K street and
Connecticut avenue, \ where her mar
riage to Prince Boncompagni took
place. The degree of understanding,
the devout devotion and real COM
panionship between the princess and
her late mother has seldom peen seen
| in society. and is seldom II ever
eauaIed. Their entire lives were spent
! together they cultivated the same
| tastes for music, art, literature and
! even persons, and their first separation
came when. after her marriage, Prince
Andre took his bride back to Rome.
| That was in the autumn. and Mrs.
Draper Joined them in the winter and
died while staying with them in Rome.
| Another American woman. the wife
| of noted foreigner, who will come to
Washington is Mrs. Colin Campbell
| she will be accompanied by Col. Colin
| Campbell-who as Miss Nancy Letter
was married in the L. 2. Letter home
on Dupont Circle.
| The many beautiful days of the past
| few weeks. with just suggestion Of
autumn tang in the air have kept
| everybody outdoors as much as pos
! sible and the drives in the Speedway
| and Rock Creek Park have been
| thronged with people on foot and on
| horseback. The Riding and Hunt
| Club, the center for the riding set. is
planning a very delightful autumn
season with a series of fox hunts. A
pack Of hounds will be acquired be-
| fore very long, it is said. and the Sc
| lection Of a M. S. H. will be one of the
most important matters to come be-
| fore the board of governors Of the
| club at their next meeting.
Mr.. Mitchell Harrison has been