The Washington times., 1922-09-10


rolled up his sleeves and pitched
into his work. It was Laboring
Day for him. The little house
party that had perhaps been col
lected with possible Mayflower
trip in mind-Miss Abigail Hard
ing. the President sister. from
Marion: Mrs. william H. Boyd.
Mrs. Harding's cousin. from Kan
sas City. and Mr.. and Mrs. James
Wood. Of Marion. were there
stayed contentedly ut the White
House. II they did anything In
particular no one knew It. They
don't even seem to have under
taken q theater party. And on
Tuesday they scattered-to their
separate homes. Miss Harding
seems to have been here about ten
days altogether-the longest visit
she has made since her brother
came to the White House.
HE vice President and Mrs.
Coolidge are not likely to get
back to Washington for another
week or ten days. They were in
st. Paul early in the week, the
guests Of Senator and Mrs. Frank
Kellogg theoretically. although
Senator Kellogg wasn't able to get
home to entertain them as things
were rather balled up in the Sem
ate. just about then. So Mrs.
Kellogg had to do the honors alone
when the Vice President came to
open a fair which is an annual one
in Minnesota, and is located mid
way between Minneapolis and st.
Paul, as the best way Of COM
promising jealousies. By now the
Coolidges after a short stay ut
South FAILS. N. D., should be on
their way to Boston, where they
will spend few days before re-
turning to Washington.
But after that the Cabinet will
be pretty well assembled in Wash
ington. Secretary DENLY. who
has been away for several months.
combining an official tour Of in.
spection with a pleasure trip with
the famous Annapolis class of 81,
is due here by Monday at the lat
est. Indeed they seemed to ex-
pect him by the end of the week
Just past. Mrs. DENLY and the
children will not come on to Wash
ington with him just now, but
are stopping Of for a fortnight at
their home in Detroit expecting to
return to Washington later in the
month. Later in the month, too,
about, the 25th, Secretary and Mrs.
Hughes are due back, from their
Brazilian trip. I am not quite
clear whether they return to Gray.
stone-the Armat place, where
they have spent the last two sum-
mers with all Rock Creek Park as
their front yard-or whether they
will return at once to their winter
home on Eighteenth street, up
next door to the Gillette. PresurE-
ably Mrs. Hughes will go almost
at once up to Toronto. and as
sure herself that all is well with
Miss Elizabeth, their youngest
daughter who is an invalid, poor
child.
TGIE Acting Secretary Of the
i Navy. Colonel Roosevelt. re-
verts to merely Assistant Secretary
Of the Navy with the return Of Sec
retary DENLY, and no longer sits in
ut the Cabinet meetings. Mrs.
Roosevelt came back with him
from Oyster Bay. where he spent
the Labor Day weekend. She cx-
poets to be in Washington for the
next two weeks, when she will 20
back to the children at Oyster Bay,
and presumably bring them down
soon for the winter, unless there 10
anything in that fearsome rumor
about running Colonel Roosevelt
for lieutenant governor of New
York. They seem to have come
down from their mountain fastness
at West Dover, N. H., to the Roose-
welt family headquarters at Oyster
Bay; and Mrs. Roosevelt says that
the story that they were planning
to build at West Dover 10 a mis-
take. They have bought the cot
tage which they have rented for
several seasons and will fit it up
and develop the ground that goes
with 1t to their liking. But they
aren't planning building anew.
Acting Secretary Of State William
Phillips Is back from North Bever-
ly, where he joined Mrs. Phillips
and the children at Highover. their
summer home there. Though he
has taken Beauvoir, at the upper
end Of Woodley road, Mrs. Phillips
will probably not come down to
Washington till we'll into October.
You, know there Is q brand new
little daughter in that family who