| Show LEADERS LEA DERS OF SOCIETY SO CIE T Y TAKE UP GARDENING Special Cable to I ci D C March 26 WASHINGTON W v In the hopes that the tho I Ground hogs spite has been satiated Washington women are turn ing their attention to gardens Per haps hapa it is not generally known that society women care loT for gardens but l they y are as common as ball rooms In Washington and afford a charming background for spring festivities Although Mrs lira Roosevelt took ad vantage Vo tage of the White house terraces for for fOt entertainments entert Mrs Taft will be the th first mistress of af the White house 1 to have dinner parties In the terrace gardens and to place string bands In the tim forest of Dutch orange trees Which make malte a bower of or the second ter terrace terrace race Mr and Mrs Sirs Larz Lar Anderson have a i roof garden which makes one believe 1 that the days das when the Florentines fought In j the streets have returned j It Is an exact reproduction of or the lag log I gin Eia In an ancient palace off Lung Arno 1 where all sorts of protection was vas necessary necessary necessary essary against the flying missiles from p the street It Is so spacious that a at company compan of can wander among the fire fir pots and ornamental vases and L statues and feel quite secluded This root roOf garden possesses a sentimental In terest for the young oung people of ot Wash ington inasmuch as It was there that r the Juke duke of the Abruzzi met Miss Kath KatherIne Katherine erine ElkIns 4 1 Mrs Mary Scott Townsend one of ot the richest women In Washington has a delightful garden besides many man porticoes porticoes porticoes coes and a roof garden There are broad paths of af marble with seats which i are duplicates of or classic designs about lorene J and Venice and the paths are P pounded by bj shrubbery which remains green throughout the winter Rhod Rhododendrons Rhododendrons Ivy and trail over soft sott tinted walls dryads dr ads and dainty fountains The venerable mansion famous as the last Washington residence of Daniel DanielI I Webster now the home of a William Cor Corcoran Corcoran Corcoran coran Eustis has the most beautiful garden in Washington Mrs Eustis 1 who Is la the daughter of Levi Lev P Morton former vice president Is a lover of at a flowers lowers and has planned some of the most notable garden fetes the capitol has seen In many years Mrs MacVeagh wife of ot the secretary of or the treasury has made the roof root gar garden gardan garden den dan of her home famous in her short residence in Washington It has a log loggia gia gin effect by glass and is 1 perfectly heated There Is a fountain goldfish and countless aquatic plants besides rare old furniture of ot the six century with rugs and Oriental for the floors and The wearing of a flower In the but is a habit not a fad declared Si Chalmers Wilson the eminent New York lawyer the other day It would appear to be the case with Speaker I Cannon Cannan at any an rate A vivid red car carnation carnation carnation nation has become as much a part of the distinguished speakers toilet as his necktie or his collar button Even dur during durIng during ing the recent struggle to retain his seat Speaker Cannon appeared each morning rosy and smiling with a fresh bloom In his buttonhole Whatever of nervousness he may have felt within was belled belied by his outward appearance On St Patricks day most of the con congressmen congressmen congressmen gressmen wore shamrocks in recognition recognition recognition tion of the Irish holiday but like Kip lings red bull in a green field the tha same bright red carnation biased from Mr Cannons lapel Representative Mitchell E Driscoll of New York whose w ose Irish extraction is made apparent when he hC Is i excited by a decided brogue was conspicuous on St Patricks day da for not wearing a sham shamrock shamrock shamrock rock When asked by a colleague why he have one ane of the Irish flow flowers flowers ers era In his buttonhole he replied in Why WIlY the should I wear a sham shamrock shamrock shamrock rock Look at me face Uncle Joe Is not the only politician who Is partial to boutonnIeres Representative Re re Longworth is seldom seen without a carnatlan carnation In his buttonhole and Sereno E Payne and Champ Clark are two of the better known congress congressmen congressmen men who would as soon go without their cigars as without a floral lapel adornment Countess Moltke the wife of ot the Danish minister has learned by experience that It the easiest thing in the world to be the American chatelaine ch of ot a foreign lega tion in Washington for her plans are often thrown into confusion by the death of some cousin of at atthe the sovereign of the nation her husband represents The Tue countess has been busy for days recalling acceptances of in invitations Invitations invitations to entertainments to be given In New York Boston and Washington Before her marriage she was Miss Cornelia Carnella Thayer and a great society leader loader in Boston Even now the coun countess countess countess tess Is girlishly fond of ot social gayety but one thing after atter another has hap to keep her more or less in ex exclusion elusion Last Winter the fragile health of ot her young son made her decline many Invitations and restricted her in issuing several on her own account When this winter approached she In Intended Intended intended tended to make the Danish legation the center of great social activity but buta a of ot the king of Den Denmark Denmark Denmark mark died and upset all her plans When the number of the Danish royal connections Is estimated it seems al almost almast almost most mast useless for Countess Moltke to plan anything In the way of social en entertainment entertainment entertainment The Chinese legation Is attracting a great deal of ot attention in Washington this winter owing to the presence of ofa ofa a bride and four Oriental maids within its portals This in h i the first time Washington society has been privileged to witness a real Chinese honeymoon and It is of great interest ta to the sen sentimentally sentimentally sentimentally inclined In all Its Us details the romance of young Mr and Mrs Henry Chang son and of the Chinese minister has been char characteristically characteristically characteristically Oriental Mrs Mm Chang who Is only eighteen years old was before her marriage Miss Isabel Tang daughter of one of the foremost Chi Chinese Chinese Chinese nese statesmen She cannot remember a time when she did not know the young man who Is Le now her husband They The were betrothed In childhood chU hood but married only three months ago In contrast to the American honeymoon when the bride and groom give them themselves themselves themselves selves up to the pleasures of ot travel and andare andare andare are extensively feted by their friends the young Chinese couple with that obedience ta to their parents so strictly required In the Orient have returned to their studies Every morning young Mrs Chang meekly takes her place with the four younger girls of the household two of whom are her sis and two the tile sisters of her hus bus band and spends several hours in con conning conning ning fling the lessons assigned by the tutors wha call dally daily at the mansion of the minister Not to be outdone by his I bride young oung Henry Henr Chang who was I 5 S 3 S f i it S Si t i A r 4 Y s C V Sc I i ls 5 5 S I f y y S 5 5 SS I MISS ISABEL OSBORNE Miss Osborne will sing the solo of the offertory anthem at St Marks ca cathedral cathedral Cathedral thedral this morning Her voice is a high soprano of much sweet sweetness sweetness sweetness ness graduated only last June from Prince Princeton ton is taking special lectures at the Smithsonian institution and delving among the records of the agricultural department in which he learns of Im Improved Improved improved proved methods of farming and dairy dairyIng dairyIng Ing The two daughters of the minister are known by the American names of Alice Allce and Lily one fourteen and one fifteen years of age The Misses Tang the younger sisters of Mrs Henry Chang are the daughters of the special envoy who was sent to this country to thank the United States government on behalf of the Chinese empire for tor fortt Its tt It remission of the Boxer The envoy was so Impressed by b the th excellent educational advantages to be b had in this country that he made up ui his mind to educate his daughters here Despite their leaning toward Ameri American American can customs the ladies ladles of the Chang Chan household have not adopted American dress Mme Mine Chang whose family is h 1 among the tile most progressive of the old ald older er or Chinese nobility has never been sub subjected subjected subjected to the cruelty of The tiny feet of the Chang ladles ladies sport the most modish of ot Chinese slippers sll pers Their gloves are American made and an i iI the contrast between their gorgeous I flowered silk frocks and the gloves of ot r sober brown Is rather startling Ameri Amen American I can hair ribbons too adorn their con conS conventional conventional Chinese coiffures Each of ot ot r the five girls bride and all brushes a ra her hair down smooth and flat with witt I big bows of ribbon at the crown and anc I long tight plaits hanging dawn dorwn the th I back The style usually adopted by the th I Chinese women wom n has been modified to tc I suit their individual tastes Their fringes have been cut in a wedge I shape the shortest locks In front and anc I the longer ends left at either side of the temples Minister Chang Ch ng has transformed the mansion he has leased which was for formerly formerly formerly merly the home of Mrs Colton Calton The house has been decorated In accordance with the tastes of the new occupants and the wealth of rare and priceless Oriental porcelains ivories and carvings carvings carvings ings which h the minister has collected In his own country and In India The Chang family and especially the young girls of the household are very fond of the theatre and frequently occupy a box at one of ot the local playhouses where they make a picturesque party |
