Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-03-27

TN keeping step with Father
Time, she had come to the
Autumn-leaf stage of the road,
4 where common sense serves
as compensation for grlhooo
vanished charm. But, all the same
he wanted to take singing les
sons. She let out this ambitlon
he instant she met up with late.
INST woman who. in her turn, had
followed the Oscar Wilde epigram to
ne comfortable point of not caring a
hang for mans admiration which she
wasn't getting-which, we are tolo,
sters, means a state of entire con-
snt.
~Hello, Mary Louise. Do you know
1T a good singing teacher? m THINK
ing of taking lessons"
IL Mary Louise did. she failed to
name one. She merely registered sur
prise, while the other explained.
s'Of course. l know, as well as you
10, that 1 have no voice, but I've
cot a doctor who prescribes daily
exercises for my vocal chords.
tried plain hollering at first, but the
next apartment mistook it for an
sos. and came armed for bur
glars. so I have to have an excuse.
if people know I am taking vocal
lessons, all they can say is that there
is no more tune in me than a lawn
mower, which l know already.
Which shows that there is one
woman in this town, anyhow, who
can hear herself as others hear her
and bear it tokefully.
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IF you are acquainted with the plas.
ter First Ladies" over al the
Museum, you have doubtless noticed
that the faces are all as like as but
tons on a card, while, by contrast,
each head is individually dressed in
the period of that magic time when
its original was a White House first
lady in the flesh. You understand,
of course, the difficulty in securing
''likenesses'' of old-time presidential
wives. and for that reason it was con-
sidered best to make every occupant
of the glass case by one model-that
of Cordelia, daughter of King Lear,
done by the sculptor, Pierce r. Con
nelly. AS to the historically dressed
heads-Mrs. O'keefe knows all about
that. which she ought to, seeing she
dressed those heads herself. For, in
her girlhood, this well known club
woman was an assistant to her
mother, Madame Prandi, fashion
able French hairdresser, who taught
her the artistic intricacies of curls,
puffs and braids.
She will tell you, to begin with,
that we owe the conception of this
exhibit to Mrs. Julian James, who
amused her mother one rainy day,
when she was not well, by dressing
up in some of the beautiful costumes
OF her grandmother contained in
trunk her mother had fallen heir to.
She and her mother then decided to
add to the trunk their own most beau
tiful gowns, bringing the collection to
date, three generations. Paul Beck
with of the National Museum, sug-
gested that the costumes be placed
there, in the historical collection. Later
they were placed on exhibition and
friends of Mrs. James became interest
ed and promised to give or loan cos
tunes worn by leading women Of by
gone days.
Mrs Eliza Pinckney's dress was the
first, then Mrs. Taft's. Mrs. Harriet
Lane johnson gave her wedding
dress Mrs. Rose Gouverneur Hoes,
granddaughter of President Monroe,
promised precious heirlooms of the
white House and her family. She
has been, and is still, an indefatigable
worker and in charge Of the work to.
day. This brought the idea of
white House Ladies'" and the gath
ering of the costumes has been one