Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-08-24
Bee Bureau,
Washington, AuR. q,

storm" Official hostesses who are
kept in town by the sitting" of con-
gress are quietly planning their sea-
sons festivities and the renovating
OF their houses. Some are moving,
as in the case of the secretary OF the
interior and Mrs. Lane. Their home
on Wyoming avenue, where they
have lived in modest contentment
for many years, even before the
house was thrust into the lime light
as cabinet home" is now almost
obscured by tall apartment hoxses
all about them. They are moving
several blocks to the westward on
the same street, where apartment
houses are of more exclusive char
actcr. broader, lower aud more of
the private home type. They will be
settled there by the middle Of Sep
TENDER. by the time Miss Nancy
Lane, the cabinet bud, returns from
her long visit in California.
The prince is expected 10 arrive
here on October |, but it is general
ly believed, as long as there is no Of
fetal announcement of the date yet
announced, that it will more than
likely be September so, the annivcr-
sary OF the arrival here in 1860, of
the grandfather of the prince, the
late King Edward VII, then Prince
Albert Edward.
The plan Of entertainment for the
present young prince will be much
in the same vein as was that for his
grandfather. He will no doubt be
a guest at the White House, like his
ancestor. There was a dinner party
for Prince Albert Edward at the
White House, one in the British le-
1 CATION (raised to an embassy in later
years. given by Lord Lyons, then
British minister, trip to Mt. Yer
non BY boat, several luncheons at
the White House and at the lega-
ton. The princes visit lasted five
days. The visit Of the present prince,
his grandson, who resembles him in
looks and boyish naturalness has a
strange resemblance in circum-
stances.
His hosts, President and Mrs. Will
son, are not strangers, for like those
distinguished hosts of g years ago,
,hey met their young guest IN his
own native land, in the royal palace.
The former hosts were President
lanes Buchanan and his beautiful
ind beloved niece. Harriet Lane,
afterwards Mrs, Eliot Johnston.
The first acquaintance Mr.. Buch-
man and Miss Lane had with Prince
Albert Edward was not official. tor
he was very young. Mr.. Buchanan
was United States minister at the
court of St. James, and Miss Lane
was with him as his hostess. She
made a wonderful success at court
and grew TO be favorite OF Queen
Victoria. No American representa-
tiyes sent to foreign posts ever COM
manded any greater respect or are"
forth more admiration than the
courtly and elegant James Buchan-
an and Harriet Lane. Perhaps the
personal acquaintance of the rulers
of the two lands, had something to
do with the consent of the one tor
his Grst.born and natural successor
10 visit the home of the other. The
British legation here in 1860 was the
great white stone mansion adjoining
the Metropolitan club on II street:
Il was the residence afterwards, OF
Gen. Horace Porter and is now en-
,arSed and augmented, and dong
duty as a fashionable and exclusive
apartment house. 1t was two docks
and around the corner from the.
White House. and the prince OF
Wales made one or more trips TO
the legation on each of the FIVE days
He was fond Of the minister. In his
hoy;sh enthusiasm and keen enjoy
,nent az his visit here in the quaint
land which might have been one OF
his own. he must have chaffed under
many formalities at the legation
which were not carried out as s1iie.-
ly in the White House, except as 10
The matter of the strip OF red carpet
unon which his royal feet trod on
enter;nr and leaving. 1t was car
r;ed about, a special detail OF attend, :,
ant, accompanying, and unrolieo
.,hen the prince arrived. 1t was de1t-
10 rolled up again, close upon ms
E..is 80 that no unroyal feet should
contaminate the surface OF ITS fosa'
Royalty Suffered.
II II recorded that the royai
a-;rc. suffered a keen disappointt"
,.ent In having no dancing with
the charming young peopsI;s OPS. w HON
he met In Washington. MISS mar,
Ret Lane was equally disappointea,
not to have a dance after the formal
.t.te dinner at the White House
hut her uncle, the president, while
he did not disapprove OF dancing
w.. unwilling to have such I'M
seeulv levity in the executive man
s;on and. as it was not his own
home. he felt obliged to MAINTAIN
the dignity Of his administration
nv following the precedent estao,
i;shed by his predecessors. ana
have only stately receptions in the
east room. That precedent was
broken wears ago in the BENJAMIN
harrison administration. President
H.rrison's household included sew
eraI Young people, his son-in-law
and daughter, Mr.. and Mrs. lanes
Robert Mckee, his son and daugh.
ter-in-law, Mr.. and Mrs. Russell
Harrison. the later one of beau
ties Of that administration, and the
presiding one, and the first Mrs.
Harrison's two nieces, Mrs. John
+. Parker and Mrs. Dinmick, now
the widow of that president. .,
The first dance known 10 the
White House was given by Mrs.
Mckee in the east room. lhe
president and Mrs. Harrison did
not receive the guests nor did they
appear during the evening. Dane
ING was not a part Of the enter