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| life, lived in an apartment or. Wyom-
ing avenue. They have no children.
In Mrs. Curtis Dwight Wilbur, wife
of the Secretary of the Navy. Mime
sofa claims another daughter in the
| august circle or cabinet women.
Mrs. Wilbur was before her marriage
Miss Olive Doolittle of ST. Paul.
which as Mrs. Kelloggs present home.
But she visits there only occasion
ally now and ceased to make that
her permanent home Immediately
after her marriage to the then prose-
cutting attorney of Los Angeles in
1898. The Secretary of the Navy and
Mrs. Wilbur have been residents of
the Capital little more than a year
and they have become quite familiar
with its many sided life.
Mrs. Wilbur, like Mrs. Kellogg. Mrs.
Weeks and Mrs. Warren, has all the
general obligations of the cabinet
hostess, with additional special duties
toward the naval contingent. This
Winter she has received the graceful
aid of the only daughter, Miss Edna
Wilbur, who gave up her ambition for
a collegiate career and has assumed
part of the social burden. Miss Will
bur sailed for Europe a month ago
and will spend six months abroad.
The Secretary OF the Navy at pres
ent resides on N street near Eight
eenth, and he and all his family at
tend the Congregational Church on
Tenth and G streets, which is also
the place of worship both of the
President and the Vice President. Be-
sides Miss Edna Wilbur, there are
four sons in the family of the Secre-
tary of the Navy.
DR.. Hubert Work, the Secretary of
the Interior, has been more than
three years in the Cabinet, and for
two of these Mrs. Work was a much
appreciated member of the executive
social circle. She died in Washing
| ton in May, 1924, and was buried in
state from the east room of the White
House. The Postmaster General has
two married sons. both physicians
| like himself, but in active practice.
| 1t seemed impossible for either
'daughter-in-law to come to Washing
ton, so this division of the executive
set Is unrepresented in the social
way. The head of the Interior De-
| partment is a Presbyterian and at
tends the Church of the Covenant.
Mrs. Jardine Not a Stranger Here.
/ Mrs. William NJ. Jardine, wife of
the retiring head Of the Kansas State
College of Agriculture, who has be-
come the successor of Mr.. Howard
Gore, Governor of West Virginia,
though known to a smaller circle
| than Mrs. kellogg and Mrs. Warren,
has, nevertheless, many friends in
Washington. DIR. Jardine was a mem
| Der of the National Research Coun-
Gil during the World War and the
meetings of it's executive committee
| frequently brought him to Washing
/ ton. Quite frequently Mrs. Jardine
was with him and, of course,
both became well acquainted with
the Food Administrator and Mrs.
Herbert Hoover. Both Dr. Jardine
and his wife passed their early life
in Utah, and Mrs. Jardine claims it
as the place of her nativity. Dr.
Jardine was born in Oneida County,
in Senator Borah's State. but his par
ents, William and Rebecca Johnson
Jardine, went to Utah in his child
hood. Mrs. Jardine was Miss Effie
Nebeker and she was a student at
| the Agricultural College at Logan,
| Utah, at the same time as was her
| husband, the distinguished cerealist,
or agronomist, as he writes himself
in official biographies.
| The romance thus happily begun
over farm problems was continued
through the State Normal School,
where they graduated. The marriage
followed at once, in 1906, and young
Jardine received an appointment on
| the staff of teachers in his alma mater
| in Logan. Two years later his foot
was planted securely on the ladder
| of advancement when he was made
! United States cereaIist for dry land
| investigation for that section Mean
time he moved to Kansas, of which
| State he Is now q citizen, and from
minor posts. on the PROFESSIONAL STAFF
he had become Its president Mrs.
Jardine wA0 conspicuously gracious