The Cordova daily times., 1922-02-27

| "Aof1lN1 OlN, FoD. ll - LOTuS
 and ladies of the capitals mansions
 are encountering difficulties in their
 efforts to suppress judicious yawns,
 born of fatigue, in the wake of the most strenuous social season Wash
 ington has ever known.
 Four months high temperature so-
 cial fever has now developed a sud den case of social doldrums. Not i that the round of functions has les
 sened perceptlbly, but that the func- tions themselves fail to function with their former fund of finesse
 Milady trips behind the palm plant
 and hidden by it's fronds gives way to titan yawn and then hastens back
 to her guests, few noting that her | winsome smile is more histrionic
 than sincere. The men, poor fellows, have risen
 to noble heights in their endeavors
 to "see this thing through" and they
 are to be found night after night at
 luncheon and tea and tete-a-tete in seemingly endless succession, living
 up to their vows. chatting with de-
 mure mademoiselles or with the el-
 derly matrons who grace the pie turesque assemblages that hold forth
 every day and night in every Elm
 bassy, Legation, delegation and in the homes of the elite.
 None had thought the Conference
 last so long. None had thought | their healthy stocks of celler goods
 would be called upon to last so long And thus those more generous hosts dispensed of their liquid treasure long before the round of gaieties had come to an end. There is no longer the attraction at their receptions that there was want to be in the days ! before New Year loomed. They ! have been socially shelved, and in their places now entertain the lords and ladies who dealt out their eX- hilarating beverages frugally.
 | The tedium that has settled itself
 down upon Washington is being over ridden with characteristic American resourcefulness. American ladies who are called upon to entertain foreign I dienitaries and their wives on oc- casion after occasion do so with that winning air and pleasantly that Ell ropeans marvel upon. Though the
 "air" may be more or less dramatic waver, and the foreign ladies and gentlement can detect no flaw in the performance that nightly is staged in Washington. The whole situation has been reduced to telepathic un- derstanding and as a consequence hostesses think twice these latter days before sending out invitations to unsuspecting victims Mercy is at
 last creeping into that mercliess es- tate--Lno aflStOcTdcv.
 Preceiving folk are quick to under stand that the question flung back
 and forth in almost every mansion household-by the madame from her | boudoir to the master in lis sutdy- is. My dear when do you suppose OFT guests will decide to go home?"
 The answer is inevitably. "Let us
 hope they go soon, my dear. Duced- ly jolly folk they are. b't damnably | boring-what?"
 Nobility never before graced the
 national canital as jt has charmed it
 these past four months. Princes and
 princesses, titled statesmen, elegant
 ladies, distinguished delegates, am
 bassadors and ministers frequent the
 city anl lend added color to it's grant
 ed charm Hostesses and aspiring hostesses were not slow to take ad- vantage of the occasion. Matrons
 have vied with one another to enter tain the deboniar gentlemen and
 their dainty escorts. Engravers are
 still doing a rushing business.
 1 Leading caracansaries have not en- joyed quiet evening since Novem-
 Der il their bathrooms and aiming
 rooms having been dated up for
 weeks in advance. Every delegate | entertained first at luncheon then at
 dinner and then at formal evenings l each of the other delegations. then
 each of the delegates individually,
 and then on down through the entire
 Diplomatic Corps. The Senators had
 their turn, too, and presided over l countless functions.