The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-03-04

that Secretary and Mrs. Hughes
have dispensed with the trained
nurse who was. with the little
gdrl for 50 long. Little Miss
Hughes IL shining monument
toa revolutionary discovery made
by q young Canadian physician;
ana now that she is home again,
after being treated successfully
alta sanitarium in Toronto, her
mother doesn't want to let the
child out OF her sight.
WHAT thrilling thing this set
ting out upon q journey must
be to Mrs. Harding Ito go back a
bit! Just think. 1t has been over
six months since she set foot out
side the door Of the White House.
Fur the last two or three weeks
she has tried to get downstairs
either for luncheon or dinner every
day, the President taking the other
r1Hal with her In their private
apartments upstairs. But her
horizon has been bounded by the
White House walls for six long
uannths.
Moreover, until she received the
group Of newspaper women who
cover White House activities last
week, she had seen no one but her
intimate friends and then never
more than two or three at a time.
Indeed. she confessed to her
friends,of the press the other day
that her knees were shaking as she
greeted them. although she wasn't
afraid OF any one of them.
OF Mrs. Harding shows any signs
0f her desperate struggle for life.
itsis in this tremulousness Of the
knees and slight weakness Of her
NDice. For she looks extremely
wsll, she's as keenly interested in
knan, women and events as ever
Just now she's backing the move
ment TO establish a Federal insti-
tuition for women prisoners just as
hard AZ her physicians will let
her-aud her sense of humor is as
lively as ever.
THE dinner at the White House
on Thursday evening was
: family party''-the Presidents
official famiIy-but it was a red
letter event for all that. since it
was the first festivity of the sort
In which Mrs. Harding has taken
part since last summer. The
guests were limited to the Cabinet
officers and their wiyes-the Vice
President and Mrs. Coolidge being
grouped. Of course as Cabineteers.
The party was by way Of being
a-farewell hospitality before the
Administration circle broke up for
ita proposed holiday and was more
enecifically in compliment to the
rtring Secretary OF the Interior
anu Mrs. Fan. VINO win be miss
fnE when the Cabinet comes to-
gsfber again.
1secretary and Mrs. Fall expect
t6sieave Washington next Thurs
d9E and win go direct 20 their
home in Three Rivers. Nm. Mrs.
Jack Fail and her children, who
have been visiting the Falls, win
80 back with him; and Mrs. C. C.
Chase. daughter OF Secretary and
Mrs Fan. viii accompany them
as far as her home in Ell Paso.
Tex. She and her children have.
been staying here since Novem-
Der.
Mrs Fall is having a number
Of parties given for her prior to
her departure. but insists that
they are for Eau revoir" and not
farewell. Having lived so long
In Washington she and the Sec
rotary have come to feel that 1t
o. q second home and they are
booking forward to being here as
frequent visitors. If not as part
time residents.
-
IN honor Of Major Paul Hender.
son, Second Assistant Post
master General, end Mrs. Hender-
son, Mrs. C.. A. CamaIier enter
fiined at dinner last evening at
lie Paradis. The other guests
were Mr.. and Mrs. H. c. Smith,
Mr.. and Mrs. w. w. Spaid and
Mr.. and Mrs. Robert Nettleton.
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