Omaha daily bee., 1920-01-11
Society | S
Gay Minus
Wilson's
Nebraskans Take Promi-
nent Parts In Best So
cial Affairs at the
Capital
Bee Bureau,
Washington, Jan. 10.

VTYHATEVER Of an official So
w cial season Washington will
w have this year is now on,
While there will be no social affairs
in the White House this winter, the
other officials and their families OF
the government will be active to
some extent. This leaves great
field for the smart resident society.
(which has grown in amazing pro-
portions since the beginning OF the
Roosevelt first administration. for
it was in that regime that smart
and wealthy New Workers, Bos-
tonians and Philadelphians were at
tracted to Washington, who had
scarcely known it existed, previous
ly. 1t was during that. time that
the greater number of several mil
lion-dollar homes were erected for
fashionables to occupy few months
each winter. And more have been
attracted each year since, until
Washington is almost real me
| tropolis.
Mr.. Carter Glass, secretary of the
treasury will transfer himself to
the senate as soon as the president
can spare him. And then the next
to go, though not yet announced.
is the secretary of state, Mr.. Ian
sing, appointed first to the State
department by Mr.. Roosevelt, as
counsellor, and promoted to secre'
tary of state by President Wilson.
Coming events Of greater or less
| Importance more than frequently
cast their shadows before, over So
ciety's teacup, and the teacup gos-
| sip asserts positively that Mr..
Lansing will retire as soon as sue
cessors to the other two cabinet
members are appointed.
It is we'll known among their
closest friends that he would have
retired from the cabinet long ere
this, had it not been for the presi-
dents breakdown in health. The tea
cups further decree that Frank
Lyon Polk, first counselor of the
State department, in which he sue
ceeded Mr.. Lansing, and now "un-
| der secretary of state" a position
created for him, as the counselor
ship was created for Mr.. Lansing,
/ will be- the next secretary of state.
All this is very pleasant to society
since, if society must lose Mrs.
Lansing, Mrs. Polk will be gratis
flying and pleasing successor to her.
She has just returned from Paris
where she went with Mr.. Polk, who
there also, succeeded Mr.. Lansing
at the peace table.
Nearly all of the cabinet hos
tesses observed their Wednesday
afternoon at home this week. Mrs.
Marshall while not in the cabinet
circle, is of it, also was at home.
There were fairly good rumber of
callers, but the rpep' has all gone
out of cabinet, calling, as it was in
the days past. Mrs. Lansing, Mrs.
Lane, (who is more or less of an
tinvalid) and Mrs. Houston clearly
announced a week ago that they
had decided not to return any calls.
Gradually they took it back" with
regard. first to diplomatic calls, and
then SO far as their husbands COM
mittees in congress- were con-
cerned. But that has not restored
the inhospitable feeling which the
first announcement created In
fact it has, if anything, made it
worse. So the toothsome dishes
of the tea table, most of it, is left
over for another time, for con-
gressional women will not accept
that sort of half and half program.
This is a precedent not before
known in American society, and,
with the White House affairs absent
from the social calendar of 1920,
and some of the leading hostesses in
official society willing to receive
calls, but not make them, there is
not great incentive for gayety.
Mrs. Marshall, wife of the vice presi-
dent, and Mrs. Daniels and Mrs.
Baker came out frankly and an
nounced they found no difficulty in
returning their calls and would make
no change in their social ethics. The
others have made no sta.ement one
way or another. and the understand
ing is that they will follow the ex-
ample of Mrs. Marshall.
Nebraskans.
Charles Saunders, who came on
for the holidays and spent Christmas
with his mother and sister, Mrs. Al
win Saunders and Mrs. Russell Har-
rison, in Norfolk with Mrs. Harri-
sons daughter, Mrs. Harry Will
hams, spent the following week in
Washington with his mother and
sister He started for Omaha last
Saturday night and went right on to
Lincoln, where the constitutional
convention is meeting, and of which
he is member. William Henry
Harrison Sd, who was here with
his mother for few weeks. return
ed to Omaha for the holidays and
will remain there indefinitely.
Miss Eunice Ensor of Omaha, who
was in Washington as war worker
associated with Mrs. Susie Root
Rhodes in the Fairgrounds associa-
ton. has returned to Washington
and is one of the high-salaried
women in the after-war service. She
is now with the vocational guidance
bureau. Her brother. an aviator
during the war. is also in that bu-
reau. Miss Ensor returned to De-
troit last winter to her old work in
pageantry, and was there until this
winter. when she was induced to
come, back to Washington.
DR.. Robert L. S. Straetton United
States navy spent the holidays with
his wife and children in. the home of