The Washington herald., 1919-01-26

mittee. and naturally he was, being
rather pointed out to the few who
| didn't know him. When l saw him
he was dancing with a pretty wom-
an whom l did not know. ! did not
happen to see Mrs. Logan. but don't
| doubt that she was there. She al
ways is. They had a box. and they
had been having a dinner party
| which was to come on to the bali.
One could not but sympathize with
a man who mmented-"Tommy
Logan certainly does make some of
US look like pikers!" But on the
whole there are times when being
a piker is rather desirable. 1t
seems only the other day that Tom
my Logan was, regarded simply as
a live" young newspaper man. Then
he went out to Chicago and came
home with a bride, who was said to
be wealthy And his fellow news
paper men said. she must be-from
! the way they are living" They
lived, and have ever since, at the
| willard, and entertained a great
deal, and very lavishly.
| When ne went abroad with Hurley
in November, was the first | had
heard of his being confidential man"
TO the head of the Shipping Board
though was assured that he had
been in that position since the be-
ginning of the Shipping Board. Be-
ing confidential man" seems to be
his long suit and certainly it seems
to have paid.
People also were flocking around the
box where Walter Penfeld and pretty
little Mrs. Penfield were seated, when
they were not on the floor. to inquire
and to congratulate. For it had just
been announced that Mr.. Penfield,
who has been legal adviser to half Of
the Latin n-American embassies and le-
cations, had been appointed special
adviser on international law TO the
delegates at the Peace Conference Of
little Panama-and they were about
to "go over
Mr.. Lefevre, of the Panama Legation
had told me about It several days-or,
rather. nights-befoTe, and being keen
for Mrs. Penfield and desiring to know
all about 1t at once, ! quite forgot
that II WAS rather late, and routed
the lady out of bed to hear their
plans And. do you know, she actual
ly made believe she liked being routed
out of bed. She said they really
hadn't any plans; they had only just
returned from New York, and Mr..
Penfield had some loose ends of busi-
ness here to be looked after first. 1t
would take a little while to make the
| necessary arrangements, but they
were going over very soon, She didn't
know Just when-two or three weeks
probably-but for her part she was 60
ing 70 see that they were packed and
! ready: and then sit on he" trunks and
waltz Do you blame herf
| And then-with all that wonder
! full trip ahead of her-she remem-
bered that it was getting around to
/ the end of the month. and that the
little war shop of the State Depart
ment Relief Association had its
monthly sale on the first Friday
afternoon and Saturday in February,
and asked me please not to forget
4 the Bandbox. That's what l call de-
| votion to duty-remembering in all
| the excitement of finding that you
are going to get over to Paris for
the Peace Conference that you have
| undertaken to run a little salvage
shops monthly sales. The sales
have netted quite a goodly sum for
the association, and Mrs. Penfield
has been very constantly on duty
while they were on-and what must
be even more of an undertaking has
been very faithful about keeping
after those who might possibly con-
tribute to the stock. OF course, not
Mrs. Penfield alone-there are half
, a dozen women who help run those
sales, but she has been in charge
and has taken the responsibility
quite seriously. They're going to
miss her horribly, when she goes.
That welcome home ball was Curl
Gus In one thing. and that was the
absence of American officialdom
Mrs. Gregory. who was in the receiv-
ing line. was the only one Of the
Cabinet women l saw there-and she
is soon to cease to be a Cabinet wo-
man. Mrs. Phillips, who had a box.
had turned II over to Mrs. Samuel
Tucker and her daughter-a most at
tractive pair who are comparatively
new to Washington. They had had
brilliant dinner party and brought
some of it to the ball.
The Vice President and Mrs. Mar
shall, who had opened both the
charity ball ten days earlier and the
Russian ball of the preceding week,
were not there. Earlier in the day
Mr.. Marshall had answered a question
as to whether they were going with
laughing mot tonight. I'm danced
out; I've been to too many balls late
ly." And I remembered Mrs, Mar
shalfs telling that she had asked him
when he thought It would be lovely
to have qOYoe yoipp girl in THAR hoy