The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-03-18
CABINET PLAYING
THINKING PART i'm
SOCIAL ACTIVITIES
Mrs. Wallace Hostess
at Annual A1naryl1is
ExhibitiO n.

TTNQUEsTioJABLY the most
amazing. and the most anus
Ing, thing which happened IN some
time was the publication o. an
alleged bootlegger's list" which
the gentleman in question claims
is nothing but . list Of prospects
to whom he hopes to sell autpmo-
biIes.
Washington blinked wisely &C
this and wondered why the am
bilious salesman had apparently
not tried to sell an automobile to
anyone ION the HILL" which Ii
Washingtonese for Congress, or to
any<member Of the Presidents Of
fetal family. Also Il wondered
why. the raid having been made
on Saturday, March 3, It was not
until Monday, March II, that the
authorities allowed the list to
be published. Possibly q charitable
desire to relieve the supervening
duIlness when the President and
Vice President and 90 many others
Of the men higher up were ont of
town that there seemed to be but
few lions left In the WashingtOn
social and official zoo. 4
still. Washington seems to Be
getting along very well without
them. The Vice President ana
Mrs. Coolidge passed through town
on Tuesday night on their way to
their home at Northampton, Mass.
having spent 9 fortnight at Wiz.
ginia Hot Springs winding up with
4 day at Randolph Macon College
at Lynchburg. where the Vice
President was the featured speaker
at q Founders Day celebration.
They stopped or IN washington
long enough TO have dinner with
q few friends. and then went on
their way rejoicing IN the pros
pect Of q long summer vacation
while the Senate ceases from
troubling.
THE cabinet members who re-
main in Washington don't
seem TO be doing anything very
startling either In the way OF
entertaining or OF being enter
tanned. Mrs. Wallace. wife Of the
Secretary OF Agriculture, gave her
annual amaryiiis party on Wednes.
day morning. There are two
big flower shows each year in
the department greenhouses--the
chrysanthemum show in the fan
and the amaryllis show in the
spring. And It has been the Gus
tom OF late years to open these
with something Of pomp and cere-
mory-or rather to precede their
opening to the public with q
private view at which the wife OF
the Secretary Of Agriculture re-
ceives official invited guests, and
the superintendent OF the green
houses ana his assistants are on
hand to make personal expIana-
ton Of the special points Of the
exhibits.
The flowers are lovely, ana the
1000 plants were at their beau
tiful best and freshest. Mrs.
Wallace had her daughter, Miss
Mary Wallace, receiving with her.
and most Of the Cabinet women
and a good many Of the ladies Of
the diplomatic corps as well as q
number Of other official women
came to enjoy their fresh fra
GRANGE before the hoi-polloi took
the bloom off.
Secretary Wallace was not in
evidence-and believe had
already started on a long inspec-
ton trip throughout the West.
Mrs. Wallace Is planning to spend
most Of the summer abroad. She
will sail in June. ana will take
her youngest daughter, Miss Ruth
Wallace, q student at Goucher
College, with her. Miss Mary, the
other unmarried daughter-and
naturally the one that Washing
ton knows best: a vassar grad.
uate and very active in the vassar
alumnae-spent most Of last sum-
mer travelling through Europe
with q party Of friends. She ap-
parently has no summer plans.
I have an idea that Mrs. Wal
lace and Miss Ruth are planning
to go over on the maiden trip OF
the reconstructed Leviathan. which
should be ready to make II in