The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-10-10
Signs of white House Season.
for Last Winter of Wilson
Regime.
WAsn1NnroN. Oct. 9.

Nh TO look as IL there might be
i in this last winter OF the
Wilson regime not merely a Wash
ington season. but White House sea-
son, In the social sense. The Presi-
Dent, no less than Mrs. Wilson, seems
to be taxing some interest in things
outside of his invalid chamber. He has
dipped his finger tentatively into the
merrily boiling pot of the political
campaign and seems rather TO like the
experience.
Mrs. Wilson is doing at least one OF
THE things that the mistress OF the
White House nearly always does. she
is sitting for her portrait. Seymour
stone, who painted first the Bakers
tho Secretary of War alone and the
rest OF the family in group; then
Mrs. Benedict Crowell and her chill
cren, and had a commission to do her
husband, then Assistant Secretary OF
Warts hard at work on Mrs. Wilson's
portrait, and It's Just possible that
there may be other commissions at
the White House for him. The por-
trait Of Mrs. Wilson Is nearing COM
pletion.
yice-President Marshall, like the rest
of the Cabinet Is out stumping Tor cox
and the league. Word comes that ne
xtopped long enough in that rather ardu-
Gus task TO celebrate last week his
silver wedding anniversary with Mrs
Marshall 1t recalls that at this time
last year they were rather peeved be-
cause they had to give up their pans
for celebrating their anniversary IN
order to 90 to New York and meet and
Il ine nd
the Belgians. And the latter also were
a wee bit upset, because it was also
their wedding anniversary and they
wanted to celebrate 1t together-and
here they were having to be received
with great ceremony and generally nave
the agony piled up high. Afterward
the two disgruntled pairs of would-oe
oelebrators realized that if they had
only known they could have got to-
gether and had a Joint celebration
which might have been rather fun.
Mr.. Colby Goes Speaking.
Secretary Colby, having got Mrs.
Colby and their girls settled in their *
street home, started out TO make ms
nrst campaign speech. carrying the war
into the enemy's country by tackling
Ohio. He was in Cleveland Thursday
night, about the same time that Secre-
tary Baker was invading New Eng
land, and making speeches at Danbury
and other Fairfield county towns. Mr.
Baker had better watch out It's up
in that neighborhood that Mrs. Har-
ding's people belong. Her mother was
born there Her grandparents died
there And the natives "allow as 1t
would scarcely be right for them to go
back on their own so they are quite
sure that because Of Mrs. Harding's
forebears having the foresghtedness TO
be born and die there the grand old state
Of Coz necticut Is quite safe for Harding.
Meanwhile Mrs. Baker has been en-
PERTAINING Mrs Frank Baker, her sister
sr-law, who is passing through Washing
ton from her home In New Jersey TO
--.--A VINE. Mrs. Frank Baker arrived last
Monday and has probably by now gone
On her way. Mrs. Baker herself Is not
doing any entertaining. She has not
gone into mourning for her mother who
cied recently after a long and trying Ill
ness but she Is keeping pretty quiet and
incidentally enjoying one of the most
ideal OF suburban homes. For Beauvoir,
which the Townsend Russells lent TO her
and her husband Is simply lovely these
warm October days.
You see the Russels are old friends
Mr.. Russell Is the brother of her par
tcuar college chun, at whose home she
visited and whose camping parties she
.oined when they were all still pretty
young, long before any Of them were
married. And the Russells were conven-
'ertly going abroad just at q time wher
the Bakers and their Georgetown land
lord had come to the parting of the
ways. So it really seemed providenta
for all concerned. The Russells were
delighted TO leave their place In sucl
good hands-they usually had to employ
q carctaker and caretakers are kittle-
cattle--aud the Bakers were deligted "a
have such an ideal solution of their
housing difficulties. OF course the Rus
sells may possibly come back and wan,
their home before the Fourth of March,
but II doesn't seem likely.
The housing situatlon--but that's a
subject that needs a whole volume to
Itself. No one is immune. II Is hitting
tho diplomats and home grown officials
about as hard a II Is the humblest little
war worker. The Bakers are probably
All right. though they may have to find
other quarters for little while before
tiley leave Washington. But the Hous-
Tons are I'D against IL. They have been
occupying 1908 New Hampshire avenue,
which was Mrs. Il. 7. Stotesbury's WASH
lrgton home when she was Mrs. Oliver
Cromwell Mrs. Stotesbury sold Il last
winter when she was buying another
house down on Massachusetts avenue for
her daughter, Mrs. Cromwell Brooks.
80" tA' hSW oWncTS want their mousse.
They want 70 live In IT, OF course they
arc not evlcting the Secretary OF the
treasury and his family but they are
ecopting must you go; here's your
hat attitude, which Is rather trying.
Turned Out of Their Homes.
Representative Kahn Of California,
one of tho veterans on the Republican
side OF the House. has been practically
turned out OF his apartment, which he
had occupied these dozen years. and
has been Obliged 10 find new quarters.
There are others, dozens OF them
Perhaps the most unhappy arc some
81 the junior members Of the Diplomo tic
Corps. Gen. Collardet Of the French
Embassy staff, who recently returned
from abroad has been at his wits end
70 find suitable quarters AT last &C
.counte he seemed to have finally located
AZ the Cairo. OF course. n good many
81 the members OF the Diplomatic Corps
are men of considerable private fortune.
but those who are not are IN a bad way
for their none too large salaries are paid
them IN European money. most Of which
Is way below par. and they have 70
spend II in good American dollars and
plenty Of them.
Just when tho annual shuttle was M
It's height and everybody was getting
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