The New York herald., 1922-04-02

as far as> they've got with her-if the
State DepsN tment We're not announcing
il almost the same breath with their
departure thA William Phillips. now
United States h Ainister at The Hague
win take Mr.. FfesN cher's place as Under
Secretary OF Stat.''. ana that Allen
Dulles, a nephew ol the Robert Ian
sings. who has been Atationed at Con-
stantinople. is returning TO take the
place at the head of the dh vision OF Near
Eastern Affairs, vacated py warren
Delano Robbins-which means that
Washington Is preparing warm well
come for two very popular young
couples.
Mrs, LansinG's Mother III.
The Lansings are OF course delighted
that their young relatives are to be sta
toned here for while Mrs. Lansing
has been going around very little or
late, as her mother, Mrs. john w. Fos-
ter. has been seriously ILL., And Mrs.
Foster has reached an age where
serious illness is truly serious matter
Mr.. and Mrs Phillips are old friends.
They and their three little children
were here during a good part OF the
Wilson administration, Mr.. Philips
having been invited to reenter the
diplomatic service, from which ne had
retired and help out in the Stale De-
partment, where he was at first Ihlru
Assistant Secretary of State, and later
First Assistant Secretary of Stale, Pc
fore he was ultimately sent over TO be
Minister to Holland. succeeding John
Garrett. who had resigned and reufeu
from the service.
Mrs. Phillips was Caroline Astor
10 pue .poorq Iolsy 9ul 10 ,uolA1Lq
course well known in New orki Whi,a :,
tbe Drayton end OF her family was Wen
known in Philadelphia. Mr.. Phillips IS
n Bostonian and brother-in-law OF
Mayor Andrew Peters of that city. Dur
ing much Of their residence mere the
Phillips family lived at Woodley, one
OF the loveliest of suburban homes OUT
on Woodley road. and owned by MI.
Peters. Toward the end OF their stay
Woodley had been sold and they hao
an apartment al Wardman Park Inn
Mr.. and Mrs. Robbins have not as yet
made any definite announcement as TO
their sailing They are saying they ex-
pect to sail in April. Meanwhile every
body is giving them farewell parties
and they themselves are giving (. L. =.
parties and they are caught in per-
feet whirl of entertaining and being en-
tertained. Mrs. Robbins even stayed
at home last Tuesday afternoon to give
some OF her friends a chance to make
a farewell call. and has announced that
she will be at home again next Tues
day, which is about as far as she has
announced any plans. 1t seems almost
too bad that they should be going over
seas when they are just about getting
comfortably settled in their house out
on Twenty-eighth street. for they joined
the smart little official colony over In
Georgetown along with the Robert
Wood Blisses, the Celesias (the secre-
tatry OF the Italian Embassy and his
attractive wife, VINO was a Miss Err
hart Of New York;, Mrs. George Bar
nett and others The Robbinses, II
memory serves bought their house out
there and presumably will not entirely
dismantle 1t. So there probably will be
one most attractive house for rent out
that way.
Busy Days for Mrs. Harding.
/ heard Mrs. Harding tell an inquir-
Eg soul the other day that while there
was of course a lot of fun and interest
in being First Lady of the Land there
was a lot of work about being mistress
OF the White House, if you happened
to have been brought up with any sense
of housewifely responsibility. Mrs. Har-
ding is emphatically the sort who runs
her own house, plans her own meals
and knows pretty well about the details
of her own menage. I'm told that be-
fore they were in the White House II
was a matter of course that there
should be one or two. or even three or
four extra at luncheon and dinner,
practically every day in the week But
woman who Is in way to know told
me not long ago that the Hardings had
not sat down to any meals but break