The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-11-21

EEH REAT EXPECTATIONS"
should be the title OF the
most interesting chapter in
the annals Of society now being
written.
The stork that is lowering bver
the home Of Congressman and Mrs.
Nicholas Longworth has an engage.
nent' early in the New Year down
at Biltmore House, where the Hon
CRADLE John Francis Amherst Cecil
and Mrs. Cecil are making their
home. And when Mrs. Charles s..
Bromwell was IN Washington q few
weeks ago she told her friends that
q new arrival was expected In the
family Of her sonln-law and daugh-
ter, Captain and Mrs. Sidney r.
Bailey, some time in February.
Not in many moons has society
been SO interested and excited as
by the word that, after having been
married for eighteen years, the
LOngworths were preparing. to wei.
come their first baby. Ever since
Mrs. LOngworth returned to Wash.
ington and began taking few of
her. close friends into her confidence
the town has been buzzing with the
news which broke in the papers
this morning; and the tales which
are told Of its effect on people who
know the Longworths most inti--
mately are amusing in the extreme.
One man gave an exhibition of
how to torture your wife by
making his spouse guess as to the
most startling piece of news she
could conceive: and she replied
with you win" when he told her
after she had suggested elbpements
In high places, divorces between
particularly devoted couples and
all manner of intriguing things.
Mrs. Hare Lppincott, having
learned the news at a dinner party,
Is said to have telephoned Mrs.
Borden Hartman at o'clock in
the morning and there Is even q
story to the effect that q friend
long distanced Mrs. Hiram Johnson
In California to tell herr. the
startling news.
EeudaI Preparations Being
Made AT BiItmOre House.
Down at Biltnlore House prepare
ti0ns almost feudal in character
are being made for the arrival Of
an heir-or heiress-to the vast
acres. Mr.. and Mrs. Cecil have
taken an apartment at 2400 Six
teenth street for the season AMI
are expected to spend part Of the
winter in washington, but their
friends are all convinced that they
will return to Biltmore House for
the great event.
1t was there that Mrs. Cecil,
formerly Miss Cornelia Vanderbilt,
was born herself, there she made
her debut and there her marriage
to Mr.. Cecil took place in the early
spring. She inherited Fillmore
House from her father, the late
George w. Vanderbilt, and her has-
band is helping her in the manage
ment Of the great estate. Mrs.
Vanderbilt is building a sort Of
dover house, for herself not far
away-but that, after all, is an
other story.
Captain Sidney Bailey, r.. NJ, who
was naval attache Of the British
embassy at the time Of his marriage
to pretty Mildred Bromwell, Is.
now on sea duty and Mrs. Bailey
has had a house in Edinboro for
q few months in order to be near
the home port If her husbands
ship, but the. captains tour Of sea
duty is up on January is and after
that he will probably be stationed
ashore. Mrs. Cromwell, who sailed
for Europe recently, expects to visit
her daughter before going to
Cannes for the winter.
A baby already here to become
"either a little radical or a little
conservative presumably a radi-
calls the little girl born recently
to Miss Elsie Hill and her husband,
Professor Albert heavitt, and called
Elsie Hill Leavitt for her husband.
Miss Hill, a charter member of
the Lucy Stone League in spirit
If not in fact, is widely known as
an organizer for the Women's
Party, and prefers to retain her
own name rather than take her
husbands.
The son, Robert La Toilette SUI
cher, born to Mr., and Mrs. Ralph
Sucher, seems also destined to poll.