Show A YOUNG WOXASS REIGN Young Senators Vies Who Will Be Prominent The Loaders All Sunshiny Women in Superb Health This is the era of the young woman and of young womens opportunities And now this is the young womans administration The coming four years is remarkable at the start for the youthfulness youth-fulness of the leaders and many of the new women Of course Mrs Cleveland is young Everybody knows that she was hardly more than a school girl when she was wedded in the Blue room Although it is nearly seven years since then that makes no matter in the mind of the public pub-lic who have an idea perhaps that the years stand stIll for presidents wives or that at any rate they never grow older J I d r 4 j I I f a MRS HORTENSE WHITE I because they are courted and feted and flattered till life hasnt a wrinkle anywhere any-where bigger than a crumpled rose leaf I would make I And then such n coterie of young women as surround her and will second I her There are three women in the cabinet cabi-net who are under thirty years old and one who isnt much over it Mrs Bissell is the youngest married woman being about Z She has superb health talent i and what is quite a comfort to a woman I in Washington societya good memory In most ways Mrs Bissell represents the ideal qualifications for a cabinet woman aside from her lack of knowledge of official of-ficial Washington life But she seems to have settled down to an antecourse in Washington life I and by next seasons opening Mrs Bissell will be ready to face Washington with not many tremors She has everything every-thing in her favor The first thing that strikes one about Mrs Bissell is the strong vitality When she enters a room there is an expression on every ones face of either envy or pleasure at the sight of such a strong hearty looking woman I you didnt know who it was and that she is thoroughly American you would wonder from what Scotch hearth she had come She looks as i she had vitality sufficient for a dozen women Then there is Mrs Lamont who is about thirty and looks several years younger than she is Mrs Lamont likes nothing better than to gather around her a group of girls and debutantes And she doesnt suffer by comparison in the least Her laugh is infectious and the girl who can withstand it hasnt come under Mrs Laments influence yet She is just a girl with the rest of them She isnt girlish to be when in the sense many women try the curtains of forty and fifty bagin to close around them I is natural and there are people who declare Mrs Lamont will never grow old The young girls who are fond of her can hardly realize that three small Miss Laments call her mother Like Mrs Bissell she enjoys good health and has a breezy way that is a tonic to tired and nervous people She seems always goodnatured and can find a very bright side to anything she turns around in her hand And Mrs Hoke Smith is only thirty In love at fifteen engaged for five years married at twenty and now but thirty Until very lately Mrs Smith retained the slender svelte figure for which sho has been noted and envied among her companions Mra Smith has always had more or less care on her shoulder owing to the long invalid years ol her mother when she was her constant companion But she appears very young in looks as well as tastes The fourth member of the cabinet set is Miss Herbert who of course is a young woman and would be called only a girl i o I I 1t were not that her manners were anything I any-thing but girlish With all these young women in the official family it will be strange i the entire I en-tire youthful element in Washington doesnt take the lead and run things on a junior plan I THE 3IATRONLY ELEMENT Indeed it will be a great four years for them if they make the most of tho opportunity oppor-tunity Probably never before has the young woman had such a chance I has always been accepted without question that it was the fate of presidents wives to reach the White Honse too far along in years to enjoy to the full the sweets of the position So it has been with cabinet ministers wives minlters They have mostly been elderly women or when a stray young Woman did appear in the coterie she found herself almost alone This time it I tho elderly woman who finds herself in the working minority Mrs Greshamof course can tbe counted on to figure with much vivacity The Martin household will have a sort of a movable head sometimes one of the young wives of the three sons and sometimes some-times a maiden sister of the secretary of agriculture who is in middle life That leaves Mrs Carlisle and Mrs Olney to represent the very matronly element Mrs Carlisle never hesitates to announce that she has been in politics for fifty years years11R LINDSEY OF KENTUCKY But the cabinet hasnt all the youth There are many new senators wives and some of the younger congressmens wives who have not been here are going to figure fig-ure next winter The wife of Senator Lindsey who succeeded suc-ceeded Mr Carlisle as senator from Kentucky Ken-tucky is a very young woman and beside be-side her tall large husband looks even slighter and more youthful than she really is Eleanor Holmes Lindsey is the second wife of the senator She does not look a day over Z and probably isnt Before she had been here a week she had I captured the friendship and admiration of everyone who had watched her or had a word with her She isnt handsome according to many authorities but there is something about her that is inexplicable inex-plicable and makes people like to watch Lt 1 i S MRS JANET GEARY her She is a thoroughly accomplished young woman with every social acquirement acquire-ment She is a diplomatic woman Her voice is especially soft and trainante Her conversation is one of her great charms and with her wide education isnt limited to any one range of subjects She belongs to an old family and is a member of the Daughters of the Revolution Revolu-tion among whom she Is held in particular particu-lar esteem She is witty and has all of a Kentucky womans love for a beautiful horse She rides as easily as all women do from the Blue Grass country and next season will be a figure on her favorite Khaleda a fine Hambletonian which she will bring to the capital from her home She is very fond of Washington life and without the least effort on her part there has already come about her a set of young people who recognize the social quali ties that made her a leader in her Kentucky Ken-tucky home She will be n valuable member of the young womans set and as Mrs Lindseys mother Mrs Holmes who is a marvelously beautiful and accomplished ac-complished woman will be with her next winter and aid her the Lindsey home will be a social center MRS GEARY AND HER JAPANESE COOK California has two young women who while they may not entertain lavishly will be heard of a great deal One i Mrs White wife of the new Senator Stephen White and the other is Mrs Geary wife of Congressman Geary who is now serving his second term Mrs Gear will have a house next year and as Mr Geary is a great favorite favor-ite and likes to entertain there will be many quiet affairs that will be very pop 4 5 5 t Iiii 4rk i tr 1I1I1f N S M ELEANOR LINDSAY ular on account of Mrs Geary as well as the congressman She will bring to Washington what will be a curiosity in the line of cooks I is a real Japanese gentleman who for very good remuneration remunera-tion condescends to officiate in the Geary kitchen as cook Mrs Geary is her husbands chum and whatever interests him finds sympathy from her She is wiser and cleverer than nine out of every ten men and thoroughly thorough-ly posted on everything in the national line She is one of the best politicians in California and Mr Geary relies on her judgment when ho wont take that of a man Yet she is the most womanly kind of a woman and mother of five lively small children to whom she is devoted She has spent three months here this winter is a favorite with men and women both and draws about her only the brightest raconteurs and cleverest people She is also under 30 A SPANISH BEAUTY Mrs White is quite a beauty and will probably make a hit in her own home next winter She is very young and sort of a cosmopolitan within her own country Generally she referred to as a Spanish beauty but the warm blood that comes and goes under the rich olive complexion is French Mrs White was born in North Carolina educated in a Philadelphia Philadel-phia convent and has always lived in California while her father was French and her mother of Irish descent Out of this combination has come a pair of rich black eyes that are thoroughly Spanish Mrs White is a devout Catholic There are any number of other young women all below thirtyfive most of them about thirty and many of them still younger > who demonstrate what an administration can bsat is blessed with young women such ok these II CONSTANCE HENES Wf |