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MI-CAREME OVER, WASHINGTON RESUMES, SERIOUS WORK TUB camouflage ball on Wednes day night, which had all Washington nlqued to expec tancy, was well, camouflage. Espe etally the supper 1 Really It was the funniest supper erer served at a. big ball. They had It In the red room of the tHUard from 11 o'clock on, as little "On" and as little supper, for that matter, as pos sible. KVr from the moment that the hungry dancers began to storm down t the supper room boys with mega phones began crying raucously, "This way out! Tills way out! I" with marked emphasis on the last word. Supper consisted of Ice cream and cake war cake arid very little of It! and coffee. There's a Hooverized sup per menu for you! And by way of a distinct novelty it was served as a sort of basket ptcntc. . There were very few seats of any tort In the bis room, and those few moved back against the wall. No chance there for any pleasant little discussions over the supper table I So, very soon nftcr the few" chairs were occupied llttlo groups began to settle comfortably or uncomfortably on the floor. Down they went! Borne middle aged rcrsons of both sexes who had not In years taken so lowly, a seat: women In the daintiest of ball uowns. alongside of others In the most grotesque of costumes: soldiers In the newest of uniforms, some of them booted Hnd spurred trying to fold their long Ires Into short lengths nud keep clear of entanglements with perishable draperies". In the group nearest to me wero Gladys Hinckley In a stunning Chi nese costume, nnd Huth Wilson, Wlllard ballroom. One entered under a rather picturesque bridge, which Is in ordinary times the balcony across the north end of the room, and found oneself In the main street of a little Belgian village. Tables were ranged along the sidewalk and from the win dows and balconies of the cottages, which were the boxes, the guests looked out at the gayety of a village Benefit fdr Interned Prisoners Follows Camouflage Ball, at Which the President and Mrs. Wilson Were Guests Lenten Entertaining at the National Capital. consisting of Mr. and Mrs. Julian Boll- PaMi'nr ii,r.ii.i. ih. .iti- v.t. ,,n' Bones and Miss Bsnham Passing through to the smaller ball-i A. ,, .,.., , ,., room at the other end one found one self In a sort of midway, hung around with wonderful draperies, which some thought Egyptian, some called Nea politan, and others passed up as mere camouflage. Anyhow they were effect ive. There were' perhaps a dozen "funny little booths a Jazz art gallery; "Dia mond Mabel," which proved to be an exhibition of dyed fabrics for which Neighborhood House the ball was a benefit for Neighborhood House, one of the most deserving of Washington's settlement bouses Is famous; there was a naval camouflage booth, with a good looking Jacklo outslda acting as capper and Inviting everybody to "walk right In and see Edison's Invlslblo ship. We'll show !t to you for a considera tion!" There was n very, popular 8wat the iKalser and Win in Poster booth, with effigies of Huns taking the place of the familiar negro faces at which ono throws ball. Everybody wanted to swat the Kaiser. There was a Gypsy Lewis, fortune tiling booth, wherein Mrs. .lames Hamilton Lewis was enthioned as the gypsy queen. She makes a perfectly . i . t .... , . . hlnndly handsome as usual. In a get up Oriental In line and the green of old Ireland lu color, and n mixed As thev stepped from the elevator they were met by' lines of khaki clad soldiers presenting arms and escorted to their box through a sort of aisle of camoufieure members of Company B, Fortieth Engineers, which is now sta tioned at American University Camp, on the outskirts of Washington. The Presidential party entered to a fanfare of trumpets, and as they reached their box the band struck Into "The Star Spangled Banner," with, of course, everybody at attention. Then they subsided Into their clmlrs and set tled down td watch the fun at leisure. There was curiously little visiting of the Presidential box. It Is the first time 1 can remember seeing a White House party at a ball when they secmod to be there to' see rather than to be seen. It must have been some thing of a reUcf or was It, I wonder? After n llttie. lured by the sound of merriment In the Midway, they slipped quietly from their box and made their way thither, almost unuot'eed, and jostled and elbowed quite recklessly by the dangers. They patronized every thing and stopped there long enough to gTect a good Wllsonlan Senator's brought most of their dinner guests down to the nance wltn tnem. With that ball off Its mind Wash ington Is turning with equal zeal to tho next benefit, which Is of quite a different sort and for quits different beneficiaries. It Is to be a sale for tho benefit of Interned prisoners, British, French and Belgian, In Switzerland, and Mme. Hans Hulzer, wife of the Swiss Minister, will preside over It at the Swiss Legation. Art objects, leather goods, wood carvings, handicraft largely of the prisoners of war, will be sold there on Tuesday. Wednesday and Thursday of next week, The sate l.s to Le preceded by an Il lustrated lecture to be given on Mon day at Mrs. Henry Dlmock's, with a ylew to arousing Interest In these war prisoners and their condition and her debut two or three years ago; but this winter she has been training In Philadelphia for nursing service with tho Hed Cross, and Washington has seen llttlo of her. Her Mends seemed to think it a great Joko when she and her mother were both reported ns nursing "very competent cases of mumps," though probably they them selves didn't see It. And Miss Nash, who was rather run down by her win ter's training, has gone down for an Indefinite stay at Miami, Fla.. with Mrs. Derbyshire, one of her Phlladcl-1 plila friends. I As for Carl Vrooman, ho and Mrs. I Vrooman simply shut up shop a week or more ago and went down, to North Carolina for a stay of a month, he to I get over tho mumps, and sho to got generally rested up a bit. There Isn't I stunning one. with .her dark eyes and wife warmly. Mrs. Wilson sipped lem halr. and the costume Is terribly be- onad and the President saw the In coming to her. Which sho probably I visible ship, and yes, It will delight Knows. Most of the time one could 1 the world to know he swatted not get anywhere-ecir the door-of -her Kaiser! Then tho party slipped out I tfnt find T nlianArt It n'o nnA .f Hia I K. n Ik- e-ni.tL rl.i..t,.,.. bunch of uniforms. Over yonder was! ,... mni,or ti.B T , , , Tho,. .iu i .,,.. i,..,- v.!,. .,' " " ........... . - . . a, j a au tlOJ UIU MVfc J I l . tUtl n, J 11 t, lb evening I did get a glimpse of her i something that they came at all. It Is Ixiulso Delano, a fetching little French boy In n sort of nitflst's belted smock, and Lillian Hirney, her counterpart In feminine art student ntttre. with Mrs. Harold Walker, In an entirely conven tional evening gown, and another bunch of mixed uniforms. Squatted on the floor that way with the men of one's own party serving one had the feeling that some one should have spread shawls In caso the ground was damp, and one hoped to avoid ants and caterpillars and things. However, supper, Is after all a mere detail. Let's' get up to tho ballroom. Ileal they have kept their promise. One wouldn't kn?w tho familiar old studying absorbedly "Tommy" Txig.in's palm, while he seemed entirely satis fied with the situation. President's Partr Arrls-ee. Back in the Utile village street at 10:30, when the White House party arrived, there was u motley army In ail sorts of costumes, from straight evening dress to tho most wildly camouflaged Imaginings In the gaudiest possible colors. Of course, the entrance was alive with secret service men. as usual, when tho President and Mrs. Wilson arrived, bringing with them only a family party alsoN as usual Musical Notes and Gossip Continued from Third Page. by American composers. Ciluseppe Bam boschek will be at the pUno. Leopold Godowsky, who since the mid dle of January has been on a tour on the Pacific coast and In western Canada, will return to New York In time for his pianoforte recital at Aeolian Hall on Thursday evening. March 21, which Is to be given for the benefit of Tits Su.v To bacco Fund. The pianist will give an all Chopin programme. Prof. Leopold Auet. the celebrated tsacher of "master violinists." will give a vlelln recital In Carnegie Hall on Satur day afternoon, March 23. He will play a progiamme exclusively of old master pieces. Mme. Wanda Bugutzka Stein will be the pianist. cess Theatre on the afternoon of March 31. if memory serves, the first time that President Wilson has attended any thing so frivolous as a fancy dress ball. Probably his doing It last night was due to the fact that It was staged by n unit of his army. "Staged" Is tho right word, for it happens that the camou flage company that arranged the ball was recruited almost entirely from the big producing movie studios of Cali fornia and is made up of men who are experts at making something look like something quite different. Oh, beforo she gets quite out of sight. Mrs.i Wilson wore tho lovely i gray taffeta and tulle gown with sil ver embroideries and wide Jieavy sil ver lace bandings that has only been ecen once before tills season, at the Southern relief ball. She wore with It the same diamond tiara, which is distinctly more sumptuous than unl it thing else In the Jewelry, line that I UK-'' .HissssssssF the , umiiiiiiiHr.: u m aw ' .HkiBisssssHz ltl' NEViYornrR III ' HHrBHv SllHlllllllcS' Vv SWITZERLAND III S IB A second concert by th Salzedo Harp Ensemble, assisted by Gretai Torpadle, sevrano, will be given on th'e evening of March 22 at Aeolian Hall. This or ganization, which consists of Carlos Salzedo and six of his professional pupils, presents the hurp in a poly phonic form and Includes In Its pro gramme works of both classic and mod ern composers. Harold Bauer, pianist, and Pablo Casuals, cellist, will makfl a Joint ap pearance In Aeolian Hall Sunday after noon, 'March 24, playing a sonata pro gramme such as these two artists have made popular for several seasons. The young people's branch of the Edu cational Alliance. Stuve.ant and Ninth itrsets, will give 4 chamber music con cert this evening with a prosramme con tilnlngf selections from Mozart, Bach, Desthoven and TschalUowsky. Dr. Henry van Dyke, the former Am iLseador of the United States to ti'.e Netherlands, has accepted the position if honorary chairman of th New Sing ing Society, L. Camlllcrl conductor. The. society meets for rehearsal every Thursday evening In the auditorium of the High School of Commerce, at 105 West Sixty-fifth street, where about 1.000 people can be accommodated. These meetings have already, proved that they are a source of valuable recre ation and education to the men and omen who take advantage of the op rortu:iltlc they offer In musical education. Hildy Brown, assisted by L. T. druen fcrj at the piano, will give his last re:l!al of the present season In Car red Hall, Sunday afternoon. March 17. Features of tho Droirramme will be the Beethoven "Kreutzcr Sonata" and the Bruch O minor violin concerto. There will aho be compositions of Cramer, Arbos, Krelsler, Cul and Bazlnnl On the afternoon of March 27 the Philadelphia Orchestra, lA?oold Sto kowskl, conductor, will play in 'Jarneg'.e Hall, under tho auspices of the Society of tho Friends of Music. Tho pro-1 gramme Includes Bach's Concerto In C for three, claviers, with accompaniment of strings. The assisting artists will be Mme. Olga Samaroft and Messrs. Bauer and Oabrllowltsch. Vlotorla Boshlto's postponed piano re cital scheduled for March 1 at Aeolian Hall will be given Instead on Thurs-1 day evening. March 2S, In the same hall. At this recital Eugen Ysaye will play wltlt Miss Uonnko the "Kreutzer So- 1 nnH" anil a Knn it. lit T.nj!firl. V!s ' Boshko's solos will be by Chopin and Schumann. iAmbert Murphy, tenor, who was for cme years a member of the Metropoli tan Optra, will give his flrst New York re-'.tal, postponed from March 4, on1 Monday afternoon, March 18, In Aeolian Hall Clara Tasvolsky. copfralto, at her re cital st Aenllan Hall on the evening of Monday, March IS, will give a pro gramme of Russian songs and arias In the. original tongue. In the list Is the great contralto aria from Mouasargsky's "Khovanstchlna," 4 Herman Sandby, Danish violoncellist, "ill be heard In recital at Aeolian Hall. Tuday evening. Starch 19, when he "in render a programme of composi tion by Valentinl, Tschalkowsky, Si belius, Itlmsky-Korsakoff, Cul, Popper, and some Scandinavian folk songs ar ranged by himself. Ilya Schkolntk. vio linist, and Ia T. Gruenberg, pianist, will r!ai In the programme. Kmest Bloch Is Just completing the r of his Incidental music, for Rich ard Ordnskl's production of the old English play "Everyman." which will kav two performances at the Metro politan Opera House under the au n'.tM of the Society of theFrlsnds of Mtialo en the afternoons of Easter Mon day and the following Thursday, April 1 and 4. The musto will be played by the orchestra of the Metropolitan under the composer's baton. In tho "Everyman" score Mr. Bloch to hlghten the variety and color of thli vr chancing oleture of me llrval life Imagined by some nameless nonk four centuries or mors ago. Throughout It runs the religious nijesty, the sense of the Imminence of lty wh ch was so keenly felt by the mMlnral souL It la a theme 'which appeals with peculiar liveliness to a man of Mr. Bloch's gifts, and In treat tnr It he has freely utilized his talent for harraonlo and Instrumental coloring; On Wednesday. Jaroh 10, Elgai's "Dream of Qerontlus" will be sung by fit. Thomas's Festival Chorus and th church choir, T. Tertlus Noble direc tor, assisted by the choir of the Cathe- oral of Saint John the Divine, the new Wk Symphony Orchestra, Reed Miller, Madame Nevada Vten der Veer and Robert Maltland. It Is hoped that a large aum will thus be realised, which !!! be divided between the Red Cross, through Bt. Thomas's auxiliary and the war commission of the church. Trances Felton-Jones, harpsichord tUrtr, will give recital at the Prln- Carlos Salzedo, a New Yorker who served two years ago with the French army In the present war and after tun" months In a hospital near the present American base osu a longer cure In tho south of Franco returned to resume his musical profession In this country, brought with him as a novelty here rame songs of the trenches. There are el?ht of these choral fcongs, composed and firft performed by soldiers. Includ ing himself, which will be new to New York In their original form at the com ing spring concert of the Musical Art Society on March 19 In Carnegie Hall. Mr. Salzedo's "Four Choruses In sonata Forrrl," heard hitherto only for solo voice, arc not war songs, but rather the relaxations of a musician from the war. Maurice Ravel wrote of the France ot less troubled times In his "Three Chor uses," which are also to tie neara ior the flrst time here. The present cusis finds echo in a final battle piece by Florent Schmitt. a "Chant de Ouerre." Schmitt and Ravel were Prlv de Rome men In 1900 and 1901 ; the elder Schmitt won early success in Paris with a set ting of the 46th Psalm, and he copi posed "Le Palais Hante." after a text of Poe..and the "Tragedle de Salome," danced by Lole Fuller. Ravel has com posed operas. Including "L'Heure Es cacnole," sung at the Opera Comlqu;. and another after Hauptmnnn's "Sunken Bell." He, as Schmitt. Is best known here through his chamber music anu piano pieces. Palestrlna's "Stahat Mater." a work of nearly 400 "years ago. by the greatest master of Latin church' music, will u.t-iW head Dr. Frank Damrosch's programme, as It did 1n the Musical Art Society's opening season twenty-five years ago. Indeed his works sung In th last few years number seven other titles, two evening hymns to the Virgin, three responses In the mass, a motet and a doxology. BacJi's motet "Sing Ye" Is also restored After a quarter tentury, and from more recent hearing Bruck ner's "Ave Maria." Elgar's "The Shower," which won Im mediate repetition In 1916, Is among the llgher pieces, with the "Serenade" ; Brahms's "Where'er I Go." also Rim-Bky-Korsakoff's Russian i-nng "Farewell Carnival" and an old Netherlands "Hron of Thanks." The Musical Art Society maintains a chorus of seventy professional singers devoted primarily to performances of polyphonic mmle of the early church, mostly without accompaniment. A concert somewhat unusual Is an- nnunoed for Aeolian Hall on Saturday afternoon. March 30. when the Flon- lav Oimrtet. ths Trio de LuUee. Mme. Helen Stanley, Jacques Thltmud and Maurice Dumesnll will give a concert under the ausplcen of the American Friends of Musicians In France. of soldiers and kept them supplied with knitted garments; wo have given nearly $6,000,000 to war relief work and to the Liberty Loans; we have knitted garments for men on eighty eight American vessels; we have helped restore some of the devastated villages of France. . "In addition, the. organization has completed the restoration of the flrst of the villages In the devastated area which It Is to restore, tho village of Tllloloy In the Sommo district. Five hundred acres of land has been re claimed and sixty villagers placed on it." On top of that it Is rather discon certing tp have Miss Anno Morgan, who has been, down, hero as the house guest of the Nicholas Longworths, say "Don't bother about rebuilding vil lages. What they need Is food. Feed thrm; the rebuilding can wait." For there's no denying that Miss Morgan speaks with authority, and that is about what she said to a rather select company of women gathered in the drawing room of Mrs. Joseph LeJter's Dupont Circle house. One doesn't see a great deal of Mrs. I)ngworth these days, and when ono does see her one notices that she has changed almost past recognition. She N a thoroughly capable, buslncssltko looking person. Tho sleepy, heavy lidded eyes are wide open, the sugges tion of subtlety ds gone. Liko every one else, and as her father's daughter would be of necessity, she Is deep In war work, and eagerly questioning what Is tho most useful, practical, helpful thing she can do. Another youpg matron who, like Mrs. Vrooman, grew up In Washing ton and has all sorts of old family friendships and official connections and is In a quiet way establishing n sort of salon Is Mrs. Medllt McCormlck, wife of the Representative at 'Large from Illinois who, by tho way, has announced his candidacy for the Sen ate for the place of Senator James Hamilton Lewis, whose present term expires next year and daughter TTf tho late Mark Hanna, who was Sena tor fronOhlo at tho time of his death, and accounted McKlnley's closest friend, If not indeed bis maker politi cally. Baby afcCormlck Chrtstenefl. ThV McCormlcks. wlio have Col. Ste phen H. L. Slosum's New Hampshire avenue house this season, have been having a series of Sunday evening suppers, which have achieved a repu Both of them are often confused with Mrs. Harold McCormlck, wife of an. other cousin, who was Edith Hocks feller, daughter of J. D. Rockefeller. I have even seen pictures of Mrs. Stanley labelled ns "the oil kind's daughter." Mrs. James W. Wadsworth, wife ot tho very Junior senior Senator from New York, who as n daughter of the late' John Hay was a prominent Ad ministration girl of tho McKlnley regime, like Huth Hanna, bids fair also, to beenmo u prominent political host ess. (Both families seem to have coma out of Cleveland, by the way.) She ntid her husband are occupying tho John Hay house, at the corner of Six teenth and H streets, and when he la In town her brother, Clarence Hay, Uvea there, too. In fact. It Is family, headquarters. The Payne Whltneya stopped 'there early In tho week for day or two on their wny up front Thomasvllle, Jn., to their New Yorle hom4. Mrs. Whitney, you remember, was Helen Hay, nnother Washington girl of that period. Hail Tea nt White House. Another Interesting recent visitor has been Mrs. Ira Nelson jrofris, wlfa of the l.'nlted States Mlnlstor to Swe den, who came down Intending to stay not over n day, nml did stay nearly a week. Sho camo down on a night train for a luncheon that Mrs. Thomas V. Logan was giving for her, and she stayed on for several other luncheons anil dinners. Mn. .inmcs Hamilton Lewis, n Chlragoon, like herself, as, by the same token, Mrs. "Tommy" Logan Is, gavo her one of them, nnd sho lunched one day with a former secre tary of the Swedish Legation who happened to lf here on leave. But no, indeed! She couldn't possibly stay over Sunday. She simply must get back to New York. Why, she wus to sail rfin a fow days. So ehe couldn't accept invitations that were being showered on her. But Washington seemed to get her, as It docs everybody. Sho stayed first over Sunday to pay her rcsp'ectsv to , the President on Monday. He received her about C o'clock Monday afternoon. Mrs. Wilson was not present then, but she Invited Mrs. Morris to have to with her tho following afternoon, and of course Mrs. Morris stayed over for that, and finally It was Wednesday before sho actually got away. Havlng tcn with Mrs. Wilson is about tho only hospitality tho White Henise Is offering this whiter, you know, and tatlon as delightful llttlo functions to only small parties are invited to that which cards are greatly to be desired. I anywhere f mm ten or a dozen t A couple of weeks ago they turned one i twenty-five or thirty. They aro pleas- of them Into a christening party, at which their year-old son was the guest of honor, named ns his father was, for his great-grandfather, Joseph Medill, founder of the Chicago Tribune. Tho ceremony took place In tho afternoon I with only a small family party In at I tendance. Mrs. Stanley McCortnl'-k , (their husbani.s are cousins, I believe, and this Mrs. McCormlck was a Miss ' Katherine Dexter and she lives In New I York) was the baby's godmother, and 1 the godfathers were Frederick Bartlett 1 and Robert Appleton. McCormlclcs are sl ant little parties, in the Red Room as) a rule, with Miss Iienham pouring tea and Miss Hones assb-tlng. Mrs. Morris tells of coming over on. the same steamer with Mr. nnd Mrs. Michael Speransky! Who under th canopy- ? Yes, that's Just the way I felt; I didn't re.-ognlze them, cither. Prince and Princess Cantacuzeno, the latter formerly Julia Dent Grant. That's their family name, and that's about all the upheaval In Russia has left them by way of a cognomen. They came over recently to Join their chil dren, who have been on this side with Dent their I Thn two Mrs. I ways being mixed. They are all sorts their grandmother. Mrs. Fred l .hum, nnH hnth nf them are ardent Grant, and are now visiting j suffragettes, though Medill McCormlck i great-aunt. Mrs. Potter Palmer, at Os says he spent time and money con- prey Point, near Sarasota. Fla. The verting his wife to votes for women, Cantacubenes, or Speranskys, If tbev land are prominent In the councils of i prefer It. Joined the family purty down the National Suffrage A-KlntIon. there. News Notes of Society Continued from Second rag. ful concert last week at Carnegie Hall, wlien Mine. Galll-Curcl gave a recital, will otic more settle down to Its reg. ular routine, and on Wednesday Rubin stein I'nlt 15S will meet nt the Waldorf i for Its war relief work under the chair , manshlp of Mrs, J. Hudson Storer I n.. Citiinl.t' .ft.rnnsm rtlihinstAln will give a reception and dance to which all members are Invited. For those who prefer cards there will be games under the direction of Mrs. J Hudson Storer I for the benefit of war relief work. Any Infrton and Chicago, on Thursday after noon at the club headquarters, 13! East Nineteenth street Miss Synon has been doing her bit In Washington working wtlh Mrs. Wil liam Glbbs MrAdon on the woman's committee of the Liberty 1oan. She l now giving her time and efforts to pub licity work for the War Savings Stamps. The University Torum of America will devote Its meeting on Tuesday evening to grand opera. As usual the entertain ment will take plaeo at tho Washington Irvjnr Building and Dr. Alexander Cum- Sliest of a club member who Js In theiniing will lo chairman of the evenlnir. uniform of the army or navy will be The hostess will bn Mls9 Gladys I'alr heartily welcomed. banks. The musical programme will be The club's third evening concert of I rendered bv members of the New York the season will be Kivn at the Waldorf I Symphony Orchcatra and The Boston a moro Interesting nnd enercetlc j oil!) mation In official life than Mrs. Vrooman f Just as her husband Is a live wire In tho department, she Is ono socially MRS IRA NELSON MORRIS wire of 7e u.s. mwtr 70 sneoeN. not been very strong since her hus band's death, nnd has lived rather quietly with her mother. Mrs. Matthew Scott, who has a house up on Q street, nnd Mrs. Stovcnson has been actually on April 3. un this occasion tne cmo choral of ISO voices will b heard undor thn direction of William R. Chapman. The assisting artists will be Mies Lucy Gates and Hlpollto Lazaro, the Spanish tenor. and sociologically. She Is always and part of the time seriously, 111 for icady to give her time and money to j the greater part of the winter, so much any worth while movement, and has so that llttlo Miss Elizabeth Stevenson, beon actlvo In all sorts of war relief i who Is generally accounted os one of MRaT CARL. VROOMAN WIFE of ASSISTANT SECRETARY of AGRICULTURE by CUNBDINJ'T . i work this winter, and sho Is continually 1 doing tho most Interesting sort of cn 1 tertnlnlng. It seems to mo that more of tho people, wo are all engcr to meet nro constantly being entertained by tho season's debutantes, has had no formal coming out In tho city where her grandfather lived as Vice-President during Cleveland's second term. Mr. Scott, by the way, former presl have ever seen on" her, and sho car- sufferings. Mme. fiulzer, while of The Schola Cantorum of New York, Kurt 8chlndler conductor, will give Its second and last concert of the season st Carnegie' Hall on Tuesday evening. April 9. The programme wtll consist of American folk muslo. a Slavonic song cycle, favorite Russian fn)k songs and ballads and songs by Finland's greatest compojtre. ) " rled a big pinky purplo feather fan nnd wore orchids to match. I'm won dering whether sho Is going to talto up the fad for peacock feather fans that seems to have hit New York rather hard this winter. It was a curiously unofficial party for one that tho President elected to attend. I don't think there was a single member of the Cabinet pres ent. In fact tho only members of any Cabinet families that I saw wero the sailor sons of tho Secretary of tho Treasury and of tho Secretary of tho Navy young Joscphus Daniels and Robert Haze'.hurst McAdoo, both in uniform Entirely uncamouflaged. I believe tho De Mohrenschlldts were there Mme. de Mbhrenschlldt was Nona McAdoo, you remember but I didn't see them. The ball was of course preceded by Innumerable dinners. About the big gest and quite the smartest was the one given by Mr. and Mrs. Bernard liaructv whose guests Included the Knanlsh Ambassador and Mme, RJano, Senator and Mrs. Peter Goeletv-Gerry, course maintaining the proper nttltudo of neutrality, does not attempt to dis guise her humanitarian Interest In these lnternej, who are Switzerland's gues'ts, and for whom the greatly burdened little republic Is dolrs all It can. The American Legation at Berne Is taking an active part In their re lief, and Mrs. Pleasant Stovall, wlfo of the American Minister to Switzer land, Is president of the commission for tho salo to be held at Mme. Sui ter's. "You know," writes an officer In a nearby cantonment, who wanted awfully to get down for "the" ball, "one wouldn't mind half so much If It were anything serious or dignified, nut it is -so absurd and childish ot soldiers to behaving the measles,, so absolutely unsoldlerly, that one gets no sym pathy when one's company Is quaran tined for such an Infantile disease as -tnat." Which of course is perfectly true, though the measles Is no Joke, as the army medical department knows full well. But consider the case of. several well known grownups who have been Having ma niunrpa. aulas iaroiyn tho Vroomans than by almost any one dent-general of the D. A. R. and head else lu town. of tho organization's war service com- Of course, to a certain degTee this Is mlttee, has gone down to Join tho a heritage, and It Is equally true of her ! Vroomans In North Carolina; but be sister, Mrs. Charles Bromwell, and her j fore she left she gave this cheering ac couslns, Mr. and Mrs. Louts Stevenson I count of what the organization had ac and Miss Stevenson, who are also here ! compllshed In the way of war work: this winter. But. Mrs. Bromwell has "We have adopted whole companies GapL and Mrs. Perry Belmont, Mrs. George Vanderbtlt, Mrs. Joseph Letter, Mrs. Marshall Field, Mrs. Richard Nosh and her mother have both been Townsend, Mrs. Davis-Ireland, Major In that category, And to has Carl Auld, R. R. Summers, Samuel Piza, ' Vrooman, Assistant Secretary of Agri Ray Baker, Capt. Olllette, and Leon culture. Miss" Carolyn Nash, daughter de Waele of the Belgian Legation, of Medical Director Francis Nash of The Baruchs had token the, two large the navy, has been one of the popular boxes adjoining tho President's ana , surLi ox tns anax uia vy el flnos The Story of 'The Sun" 1 833 to 1 91 8 (ConMnued From Preceding Pag.) I rest with Richard Adams Locke. Even I If tho technical embellishments of the but the blue unicorn Is the unicorn of ' moon story were borrowed, still his Locke. i wus tho genius that bullded the great No man can say when the germ of ' temple, made flowers to bloom In the tho story first took ehspe. It might I lunar valleys and grow the fllmy have been designed at any time nfter I wings on the trspcrflHo-fcomo. His For the military and naval meet and ball to be held at the Madison Squall Garden for three days beginning Fri day, for the benefit of the Women's Oversea Hospitals, tho Governor nnd Mrs. Charles S. Whitman have accepted Invitations to be present. Gov. Whit man will review the troops taking part In the performance on Saturday, army day, This will afford him an opportu nity of seeing the drilling of picked men from every regiment In Greater New York, as well as the work of the Hoy ScouU, Girl Scouts and other organizations. Symphony Orchestra lowed by dancing. and will be fol- The New Standard Club. Miss Kdlth A. Relffert, president, meets to-murrow afternoon at the Hotel Astor. Tho pro gramme will Include "The Flog" by Miss Iaura Steele; an address on "Matriarchal Form of Government." by the club's honorary president, Mrs. Nellie B, Van Sllngerland, and "A Trip Through the Dickens Country," by Mrs. Ellen Kirk Downs. Mis Margaret Wtddemcr will be chairman of the day at the regular meeting to be held at (he Waldorf-Astoria Wednesday by the New York Rrown Ing Society. It will be the annual Elis abeth Barrett Browning day and the "Selfishness of Human Love Wben at Its Best" will be studied In the character of Marian Erie from "Aurora Lelnh." The monthly afternoon study elaas rwas conducted at the home of Mrs. George M Robinson, 1925 Seventh ave nue, on Wednesday. It was the 112th anniversary of the birth of Ellzaboth Barrett Browning, All friends of the president. Miss Flor ence Wier Gibson, will be pleased to learn that after an Illness of two months she will preside at the March meeting. Mrs. Mildred Manley Easton, presi dent of Life ai a Fine Art Club, will lecture before Its members at the meet ing on Wednesday afternoon at the Hotel Astor. In addition to an address by Mrs. Easton there will be a musical programme under the direction of Miss Marie Kuhr-Sclinelder. The club will have a "Win the War Meeting" on .March 27 at the residence of Mrs. Will iam R. Malone, 410 Rherslde Drive, when Mrs. Kaston will apeak on Mau lice Maeterlinck and democracy. Tho surgical dressings committee of the club will meet every Thursday after noon at tho horns of Mrs. 5. Frost. 397 Park place, Brooklyn, and the knitting unit will meet every Thursday evening st the horns of Mrs. E. I. Nuleen, 410 West 111th street. There was n. lirsn attendance of mem bers nnd guests at tho meeting on Fri day of thn New Yorkers, Mrs, Charles K. Mills president, which was held st the Hotel Atur. Patriotism pervaded the programme, which began with the singing of "Thn St.ir SpmiKlcd Banner" by t'larlsse fSclilnor, Juiompanied by Km ma II. Stemcit The other artist's were Miss Flora Hnrdln nnd Graham McNamce and Mlsa Amy Norton was th accompanist. The guests at the close of the exei clses were Entertained at tea In thj Palm Room by ths chairman, Mrs. Fran cis E, Hailley. The club will have Its business meeting on Friday afternoon nt the Hotel Astor. Hcrschcl laid the plans for his voyage to the Cape of Qood Hope, and that was a't least two years before It ap peared In Tub Sun. Was Nlcollett In Newi'ork then and did he and Locko lay their heads together across a table at the American Hotel and plan the great deceit? There was one head full of figures and the stars; another crammed with tho Imagination that brought forth tho flre-maltlng biped beavers and the fascinating If Indecorous human bats. If they rover met, more Is the pity. Whether they mot none can say. Oo to ask the ghosts of the American Hotel hnd you find It gone and In Its place the Woolworth Building, earth's spear levelled at the laughing moon. TOatroc buppined, the ajredj tnuit was the art that causea tne brick layer of Cherry street to Bit late be side his candle spelling out the rare story with Joyous labor. It must have been a reward to Locke, even to the last of his seventy years, to know that he had made people read news papers who never liad read them be fore, for that Is what he really ac complished by this huge, complex He. "From the epoch of the hoax," wrote Poe, "Tub Sun shone wlh unmitigated splendor, Its success firmly established the 'penny system' throughout the country, and (through Tub Sun) consequently we are In debted to the genius of Mr. Locke for one of the most fmportant steps ever yet taken In the pathway of human progress" The next regular meeting of the Con irrens of State-s Societies, Mrs. Thomas .1. Vivian president, will be held at tho Hotel Astor Thursday. The latest State to affiliate with the congress Is Kan sas, which la represented on the board of the congress by Mr. Homer A. Dunn. The Southland Singers announce their annual card party and tea for Saturday afternoon at S o'clock at the Coterie Club, 40 West Fifty-eighth street, The proceeds will be used for patrlotlo worlt. Tickets may be had rom Mrs. Harold J, Mitchell, 1140 Went Flfty-eventh streV The president of the club Is Mrre. Emma A. Dambmann. The Pen and Brush Club, of which Mies Ida M. Tarbell Is president, en tertatned Miss Mary Synon of Wash- At the home of the president. Miss M. Ileleif Hicks. 220 West Seventy-second street, tho New York City Colony of New England Women had Us last sn. lal afternoon of the season on Thurs day I 'in rent events ncru discussed by Marlon Grey Atnell and there was n travel talk by Miss Elizabeth Hicks, who took lier hearers on a tour to Constanti nople. Two dns each week are de voted to war relief work by the mem bers, nnd the Hed Cross unit of the col ony makes about a thousand surgical dressings each Tuesday. On Mondays wool l distributed and knitted garments returned. This particular work will be continued throughout the spring. Columbia College Gl Club sang n' the fifth and last of the muslcales o' the 'Beethoven Society, Jirmo. Frederick Tanlnl Tncliavia, president, given yes terday at tho Plaza, The solo artist was Mme, Christine. Tangenli.in. Thi music was followed by dancing. Thn new wnbers welcomed by N president Included Mrs Chester Will lams, Mrs, .1. A. Lawienre, Mrs. M. A Solomon, Mme Aymeal, Mm. Louis Frank, Miss Kdlth Sargeant, Miss Santa Hoffman, Miss Kim nor McLellan, John E. Ostor and Dr. A. C Burnett, v , . . . , v .v.. -