New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1922-08-27
Quiet Affairs
Mark Summer.
AT w Ilite House
Mrs. Harding En,criains
Many Friends as presi-
dent Finds Relief i'm
Ausoing in Washington
Diplomats Leave City
Departure of the Secretary
and Mrs. Hughes Brings
Loneliness Into Cabinet
specsay Dtspatcs 10 me Triburs

ton cannot be termed deserted with the
President in the White House and Con-
gress In session, and yet, comparative
~ speaking, Washington Irving might
find food fer another Sleepy Hollow
story,
Life in the White House is always
interesting, IL not exciting, and though
the outer world is given to understand
that nothing is being done" there is
yet much intimate life going on there,
The Pres lent entertaining his politi-
cal friends and Mrs. Harding having in
quito informally her intimate woman
friends. Sometimes it Is to luncheon;
again tasy are there for dinner. and
quito frequently for tea Mrs. Harry
New, wife of Senator New. of Indiana,
Is frequent visitor. rs arc other
women Of the Senate, and occasionally
no catches a glimpse OF the White
House limousine travelling through the
marks and special driveways in and
shout the capital. Sometimes it is the
White House family taking ride. and
again IL is some friend OF the family.
Mrs. Harding had none of her women
friends with her in the House gallery
a week ago TO hear the Presidents
speech, but instead a White House aid
and few other men. She looked ex
eeedinggy handsome in midsummer
costume of white foulard silk with a
dainty but large design in dark blue
trailing over it, and the whole COM
bined with dark blue georgette just the
tone of the pattern on the white silk
hats becoming, and certainly she was
not mistaken in selecting the one to
he worn with this gown, FOR it was in
deed fitting. The gracefully upturned
brim, like the crown Of the hat, was of
bluc tatfcta, and instead of white lin
1ng there was Just q narrow band of
white on the edge of the brim, the
same cdging being given the smart
looking cockade at one side.
Though the day was sweltering, Mrs
Harding, whose gloves have become a
feature of her toilet, were of spotless
hitc-finished kid. elbow length and fit
ting as il they were actually nodded
on the hand and arm. About her throat
Ars. Harding wore the broad black vel
vet band or collar which is also an
other distinguishing mark of her toilet
Of course, the two latter touches or &c
eessories sound exceedingly formal, but
instead of sweltering with the heat
Mrs. Harding sat throughout the
speech as cool and calm as possible
and showing no signs of either fatigue
VI -lSdSs Inc HllSL &JHQV OF Lne Lana
is one of the best and most carefully
.gEoemcd women who ever has eraced
the White House, every detail of her
costume being well chosen, becomingly
fashioned and possessing a smart dig
atty quite, fitting to her position.
Mrs. Longworth's Costumes
Are Marked by Character
IN the House gallery was Mrs. Mich
| h tf,h hc- i<zy,. y
something strikingly characteristic in
her toilets, generally leaning to the
picturesque, and on that day she wore
simple white gown, cut with round
neck. There was absolutely nothing
ornamental about Mrs. Longworth's
costume, and when she lifted her
broad~brimmed hat to lay it on the
seat beside her one might have pic
tufed himself locking again at The
Alice Roosevelt who as slim school
girl came to hold sway at the White
House in her fathers administration.
Her yellow brown hair was simply, all
mcst carelcssly. dressed, and to COM
plete the vision backward her brother,
Theodore Roosevelt, just now Acting
Secretary of the Navy, came in and sat
beside her.
Mrs. John r. Mitchell, wife Of Mr..
Mitchell, of the Federal Reserve
Bosrd, who was in the gallery, wore
an exceedingly simple dress of white
wolfe with stripes Of pink and lavender
running iengthwisc. Tho bodice was
quite simply arranged also, but giving
sAsmart air to the costume was q long
string of green jade beads, with a
sport hat of Jade green turned up at
becoming angle and trimmed with a
straw bow in a darker shade of green.
Mrs. James r. Mann, who was with
Mrs. Mitehel~-as hostess--wore a
modish costume of white Canton crepe
and filet lace, with black horsehaiY
braid hat simply trimmed. IA WON
ans toilet--at least not a Washington
woman's toilet~-is never complete with
out beads Mrs. Mann wore long string
of pink corals.
The departure of the Secretary OF
state and Mrs. Hughes for Brazil left
She Cabinet exceedingly lonesome, sc
Iar as womankind goes, and, indeed
except for the sometimes presence ia
Washington of Mrs. Herbert Hoover, il
would be an Eveless Eden. There was
something pleasantly reassuring in the
departure of Mrs Hughes Thursday
no far as the health Of her Young
daughter, Elizabeth Hughes, is con-
cerned, for had she not been much
better her mother would not have left
her, not even to take part in the i'm
posing opening of the Brazilian Cen.
tenuial Exposition in Rio de Janeiro
Miss Hughes is still in Canada, and
4 IS said Is getting on we'll. Mrs
Hoover, in her handsome home on s
Street but a few doors removed from,
that of former President Woodrow
Wilson, is taking care of her own and
her husbands friends from time to
time, but making no outward show OF
hospitality.
The Minister OF the Serbs, Croats
and Sloyenes, DR.. Slavko Y. Grouiteh,
left Washington Thursday for Dublin,
n. H., where he will join Nine
Gronitch at the home of Mr.. Franklin
MacNcagh, former Secretary of the
Treasury, who has an estate at that
place. Nine. Grouitch was the guest of
Miss Martha Goldman at Newport be-
fore going to BOSTON and Dublin. an d
after she and her husband completed
heir visit there they will be guests
of Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Macyeagh al
Monadnock, n. II. Mr.. Franklin Mae
Veaeh's place is, perhaps, the most in
tesesting of the two, and among other
features are many fine trees which
were planted by Presidents, Cabinet
members, diplomats, Senators and
other men who have made history.
These historic trees lend great inter-
est 20 the place.
Washington Is Stripped
or ALI Ambassadors
There ii not diplomat III Washing
ton with the rank OF ambassador.
though Sir Auckland Geddes Is ex-
1teetcd TO make hurried trip to the