The New York herald., 1922-07-09

They were to have gone to Princeton,
where the Vice-President was to take
part in the burning of the towns mort
gage-or rather its celebration of the
paying of Of long standing debt Tho
vice-President was to speak, and Mrs.
Coolidge was going along to listen and
applaud. The boys. too. believe. Then
they Were going to Raritan to spend the
week end with the Frelinghuysens am
not clear whether they were to stay over
the Fourth or not. But when Mrs. Coo
lidge heard that Mrs. Frellnghuysen had
broken her ankle at tennis she decided
that she was having trouble enough
without having houseful of guests on
led hands and called Off that part of
the program.
vice-Presfdent's Birthday.
The Vice. Presiien went and did his
duty by Princeton-and then came back
to Washington. But Mrs. Coolidge
stayed right here, and she and the Vice.
President spent the Fourth--which was
the Vice-President's birthday, his fftieth
lin their quarters at the Willard.
Even the fact that It was his birth
day. and that. moreover. their two boys
were with them (and in the good old un-
safe insane days the Fourth was es-
lea was expected and entitled to whoop
things up) did not move them to any
thing like celebration. Mr.. Coolidge
ate his birthday dinner strictly en-
famille, and. perhaps It's part Of the
Puritan New England temperament
which is his birthright. there was no
special frivolous relaxation to mark the
day as different from any other day.
The Secretary of State and Mrs.
Hughes spent the Fourth in town quietly
out at Graystone. The Secretary of
Commerce and Mrs. Hoover were also
in town and equally quiescent. So were
the Secretary OF the Interior and Mrs.
Fail and the Postmaster General and
Mrs. Work. The latter, did have little
dinner party on July 8, celebrating. not
the eve of the nations birthday, but the
anniversary Of the Postmaster Generals
the sixty-second. He had spent the day
at his desk as usual. hard at 1t. DR..
Hubert Work has the reputation Of liv-
ing UP to his name, but he can play on
occasions, too.
The others Of the Cabinet-and most
of the assistant secretaries unto the
second and third generation-were out
Of town. Apparently none of them was
in the Presidential party. AS originally
announced the party was to have in
Siuucu ocSicteIy WechS ana Attorney
General Daugherty. At least they were
to have. been at Marion with him But
as 1t turned out Secretary Weeks decided
to spend the weekend and the week that
followed. up on his wonderful farm"
Mount Prospect. Lancaster, N. H., with
Mrs. Weeks. who went up there a fort
night ago and Is settled there for the
summer. Attorney General Daugherty
left Washington ahead of the Presiden-
tial party and went right through to
Columbus. He was taking Mrs. Daugh-
erty to their home there. She had been
at Johns Hopkins Hospital at Baltimore
for the last five months And at various
sanitariums for months before that
under treatment for a disease of the
joints. fancy she Is long way from
well, but 1t was reported that she was
greatly improved--well enogh to go
home. for while at any rate. And Mr..
Daugherty went over for her and took
her out to Columbus. He himself stayed
on until after the President and Mrs.
Harding had made their visit there on
Thursday and attended the dinner given
in their honor.
Passed Fourth In Pittsburxh.
Secretary Mellon was out Of town. but
he got back on Wednesday. He spent
the Fourth quietly in his home town.
Pittsburgh. where his daughter. Miss
Ailsa. Joined him. coming from South
| ampton, where she had been visiting her
cousins, Mr.. and Mrs Edward Mellon,
and attending the Ellsworth -McFadden
wedding there Secretary Mellon seay,s