Show PHASES r OF r LIFE I IN W I GT Society Much Interested in the I Plans of General and Mrs Irs Adna R It Chalice Chaffee GERMAN EMBASSY The tea oo Expect Much From Miss lIss Helen lIetcH Cannon Canaan Daughter of Uncle Joe Joc Cannon COli Special Correspondence Corre Washington Dec MArmy society of oC the national capital 1 Is la particularly Interested Int In the plans plane of or Oell and Mrs Adna It H Chaffee who doubt doubtless doubtless less le ll entertain much during the pres present ent ant season As tho lima head of the tho army to tu which position Iw ho succeeds on the tho of or January Oen homo home will doubtless ll be he the time social rendezvous of or thin the army het ket n as 1111 both hoth the general and Mrs Chaffee hospitably I I In III Inclined tuned They established hed hedIn In one ono of or the most spacious fash fashionable houses In Ira the tile dt cIt city where their dr drawing Ing room Is IR tilled tiled willi articles old anti and curious collected on ou their extensive travels Crimson oll silk ern crape c is le hung haft over the walls wit ami the Is II of or carved teak wood lees of or Chinese armor Philippine a mats and baskets curious things from and other distant Island tare lire here flere und and there bearing mute mule witness s to ion flen Jell military service lerI Quaint and queer ur pieces of chum IU as a well ns as rough but elegant specimens of or the tho art and other CIS of tho time past aio Interspersed with In RI Indian dian blankets of or birch bark unit and woven soven grass trimmed with wampum end and por pOl quills Mrs Mis III Chaffee Tins has a II wide vide nr once ance in III Washington bids bid fair to 10 bo ho boa bea a 1 most meat III 01 t popular In III Manila when the general K nerol tars WIH In ht command there she left lert undone to tu males her home a delightful meeting for rOl forthe the their lie wits was II most lime N l o A sail In II the charming luu min hospi hospitalities she offered When 1 m ny sr I Haron Baran von van us its lIllor to the United he hI granted permission to the baroness s to refurnish I the German embassy at ut Washington tun According to 10 her own awn taste tc and pleas the tar The home hume of or tin the kaisers representative here hero which Is owned by thin tho German government IM Is a n h and und dignified mansion nn avenue hut hat under this the direction of ot Herr Horr von who Is a n bachelor It II was 1111 rather dingy somber and amul uncle gant So the baroness who hu Is III n II wo mini mien of uC artistic tem temperament std and ox cx taste has lute thoroughly overhaul overhauled ed cd tho the mansion non lon redecorating and re 11 refurnishing furnishing It throughout ami and making It II one oils of o the thin most attractive and amid elo ele guilt Interiors l R In the till r city I It y Much lush 1 of oC the furniture and amid of tho the and apartments of or th thin embassy Is III oriental having keen been personally selected by b the baroness R In la India when hoer her husband was German minister at ut Calcutta The fill collection of or oriental rugs IH Is perhaps p tho Ihl ha most mORt to be lie seen Hrell In Ills thU country A hostess ho le M from fron whom much In time the way wity 11 of ur entertainment n lent Is promised ell Is IR Miss Altus II II Helen Cannon the daughter cf cr SI Cannon nas To 10 begot begin with Mies Cannon knows Washington society thoroughly and likes It Then rhen she ins hns insa n a home the having rented anti taken possession ell 1011 of ut to tho Iho e leJ house on Vermont avenue which Is III H admirably lilted fitted for Cor entertain entertainment meat ment The Ille suit stilt of or roots rooms on lime tho ground 1 How anus U Is large enough to In l hold n a great number of n guests and the th dining room was tens planned for big bl dinner parties Ml Mies s ulnas Cannon will her sister Mr MI MrK MII K I 1 K x 1 Le Ie Huell with her this winter suite to share the burden hurden of nodal duties clues i As A M the thin feminine bend liend 11 nd of 01 the speak speakers ers os household Miss Alice lI Y Cannon yanks janks next t lit til the tho th ladles of or the lie presidents family which Includes the cabinet taking Oer the granules dames chi im es nf or the limn foreign legations maul thin tho wives nf of supreme lOUt court Judges and menthols of o That Thill a IL young unmarried woman fwd and n a 1 her very ven attractive tIe tive one nun nt mil that should socially outrank then hem Is III not nt at all to the liking of oC cor tats ambitious women In pl senatorial clr cir d ThU Ihl Is III the Ilene first time One In Iii ninny many years rues Hint Gill the household hu of the has figured In social Mm fau liens nn Oil exception should he hI made In III the tho til cane ruse nf or H uil er Homier sot sou for tor although he ho and Ills hiM IH wife oc III occupied small apartments cents nt sit one of the thin lesser hotels every week w ek Mrs Irl lieu lien delson held a n regular afternoon re te reception I Ip 11 mid occasionally nn evening e ening entertainment of some sane waft taA nA given SH and nud Mrs hII Heed Reed never attempted to In tl do III anything In Ili n II social wily way 11 although Mr Mu h Heed wan n II great diner out taut and was teas In ht demand by h those who sought clever deI people for Cor their dinners dimmers II 11 Neither did and Mrs Ir Crisp Speaker and Mrs en rn entertained hut hilt little during daring the tho six years lint Mr u h Carlisle was speaker To rte his hl rinse close friends Joe JUI Cannon confuses that hull sometimes his hI chafed chairs tinder lie of or the hies of or nf of the lee house holm hOlt o of oC rep und almost M wishes hes himself hinted bark on 1111 iii the lilt Door where less Ices of or solemn dignity Is III expected If tr t r old only hoot hands In jre over oer the thC house he lie wild said limo Iho other day with much I f I might limn ho hll jolt job with I store mor to In myself and In Ill n a manner more num to tho thle breth MI 1111 on Oil the lie This frank lIlon mode made to 1 OV of or Indiana and Hull dull of ur I leu II who ho had hal climbed up UI to the speakers dusk dock at al the close or of n II avery very ef trying tr day dBY In the house hou o to 10 otter offer words word of or congratulation It Its no use uie u e he exclaimed J I cant do da myself justice Ju In talking when 1 I am on compelled by b custom to keep my hands still I am fin ill nt nl taro coco when I J try to tu strike a II dignified attitude one hand resting on the tile book of or rules und and tho the other oth r leaning On the gavel fravel I glee give more thought to controlling my hands than I 1 do to what hat I J nm am trying to my rely Anent the recent talk In Washington of ot of opposition to the nomination of or President Roosevelt by lIy the Republican national convention Senator Benator Cullom tells a story Itry connected with the Ih opposition ion tion to the of o President Lincoln In III ISO ml I which He lie tits lit II the present enl situation I remember f said Senator Cullom when Mr Ir Lincoln was a II candidate for tor re reelection I t came nI to Washington a little later Infer In III the tho year than wn was In ir or wits wan ut utu round around u Congress for ten dl s It seemed to mo too there thero was wall tremendous opposition to Lincoln so much so 10 In fact that as liS Lincoln a being from the same lIme town taws and always admiring him bu n when 1 I went to tell him goodby godby Y 1 I paid calif Mr Ir do 1111 you ou Ocr ever allow anybody to talk tn to you about yourself Yes Yee hy do 10 you ou ask met me ho ha hasold sold Nell W II I J said I don dont know much about presidents president amid ami teas a n little doubt doubtful tel ful whether you ou would allow It Itlie IL lie III I and said Certainly whereupon 1 l said cald I want to tell you OU pome sonic I r have observed Ho hIo told lold mo mn to 10 sit down dOlln nod as M I Idid InY did I FO 10 r mi I l went scant on nn to say s nY I I r had been around Washington ten days It deems to 10 me lime I Bald naM that everybody Is III you ou Ho Ito replied that ho he think It was quite II Ill us its bad ns as tint I found round he hI I 1111 perfectly familiar with willi tho limn shun situa situation I thou lion I went hune and when the eon con camo came on ou ns as will be recalled there urns no opposition to him Now Note 1 I do 10 not hear that sort soil of talk about hout President Roosevelt In Congress anti It will bo he taunt found that when hell the time comes there will he be no opposition to the Iho nomination Inn lion of or tho president Ire |