Evening star., 1922-02-19
Tales of We'll Known Folk
In Social and Political Life
Mrs. Harding Always Remembering Sick Friends.
Wallace Rose at Carnival-Mrs Stans6eld Oh
tains Rare Antiques-More Signs of Spring

Mrs. Han ding is establishing many
claims to pre-eminence in her eXalt-
ed role, but she has several which
never reach public knowledge. This
is her inde efatigable zeal in learning
Of illness or bereavementS in the OFF,
ial set and in her own large circle
G friends. While almost all of her
predecessors have been content TO
send Il line of coincidence or syInpa thy
lin the event of grief. and of con-
graduation on those happier family
occasions, the present mistress OF the
White House says 1t with flowers
as well as in well chosen phrases.
Those of the official set whom she
has known intimately. like Mrs.
Charles Curtis. wife of the senator
from Kansas, whose fragile health
has been 40 long Il matter OF soiici-
Jude to her family, receive pleasant I
line and cluster of flowers seVerai /
times a month. and when times are
especially festive at the White Hous"
':,s many times week. Mrs Harding
never bestows the doubtful compii-
ment of sending to sick rooms flow
ers which already have wasted their
sweetness on the White House amen
tiles, but when she is giving a large
order for decorations she inciuues
some for her friends. Many birth,
Gays and anniversaries are narkeu
hy flowers from the White House
cnnservatcrieS. and. in the case OF
t.istant friends, sometimes MOWERS
which permit mailing 90 days IN ad-
vance
Miss Mary Wallace. daughter of
the Secretary of Agriculture. Will be
We'll represented in name, II not bS
her actual presence. in the anhuai
rose festival at Portland. ore. for
which preparations are ALREADY IN
progress The Mary Wallace, one OF
The last productions of the late DR..
Walter van Vliet, the most eminent
roSarian OF which this country boasts,
has been nominated among the best
OF the newer varieties of roses and
featured this spring in Portland.
Miss Mary Wallace of the flower
kingdom is a gold medal rose al
ready. having secured the first award
from the Society of Growers on the
Pacific coast and from the American
Rose Society last year in Philadel-
phia. 1t will no doubt in time be in
troduced into Washington gardens.
where its profuson of bloom. soft
ness of color and beauty of outline
will give xfront rank. DR.. Van
Silver Moon, and one which now
bears his name. but which gained
wide popularity under Daybreak,
have challenged the best of the
French. British and Irish horticultur-
lists Another lovely rose which had
come from DR.. Van Vliet is called the
Clara Barton and its cultivation will
soon he assumed as an emblem by
the Womans Party in token of its
endorsement of the life and achieve
llents of the founder of the American
Red Cross and her services on the
battlefields of the civil war.
Mrs Robert Nelson Stanfield. who
has been visiting her home in Port
land. Ore. for three weeks. is return
ing to Washington Tuesday and will
take up the interrupted thread of So
cial amenity. Mrs Stanfield was call
I'd west by the illness of her father.
Nlr Hill. but he is happily much bet
Ter and is able to be a bout. The wife
ri the Oregon senator has resided in