Show American Wives Aid Foreign I I Special to The jI v WASHINGTON April 9 Politics 1 is playing a big part in official 1 society in the national capital at the present time the congressional women having taken up the tho gauntlet in their g drawing rooms just as determinedly as their husbands on the House floor door The women of If Washington have long been F noted for their familiarity with the political game and the Cannon fight I with all Its Us attendant issues has roused I them to fever hoat During the speakers recent struggle for tot supremacy the members and diplo diplomats diplomats diplomats mats galleries were ere crowded with c beautifully gowned women who not only showed the keenest Interest in the ther r i proceedings but In their Intelligent dis discussion discussion I of at the situation displayed a sur surprisingly j accurate grasp of both sides of the question When night sessions were vere being held It was a common oc occurrence occurrence occurrence currence for dinner parties to be broken up In order that the guests might flock fiock to the Capitol to watch t proceedings Mrs Nicholas Longworth was one of ofa ofa I Ia a number n who refused to allow any en engagement engagement engagement to prevent her attendance for forI I a part at least of every session during I the ho thickest of the fight and she and her friends seldom left the gallery at night until the House adjourned Mrs Chauncey Depew Mrs Eugene Hale HIe Mrs Robert H Hitt and Miss Mabel Boardman are others whose drawing rooms became political poll salons during the recent excitement Mrs Hale holds a reputation for being b Ing better In Informed Informed informed formed in political history than any I other woman of her generation Mrs La LaFollette LaFollette LaFollette Follette wife of the senator from Wis Wisconsin Wisconsin cousin both talks and writes with great Intelligence on political questions She and her daughter Miss Fola LaFollette who has been on the stage for several years year are ardent suffragists and are prominent workers in several Washing ton Equal Suffrage leagues Mrs Champ Clark wife of the leader of f the Democrats Is almost as well versed vert ed in political poll affairs as her illus lUus illustrious Illustrious husband Until very recently the wives of in insurgents Insurgents insurgents and those of ot the regulars tactfully ignored their husbands dif differences differences differences in opinion and kept up the appearance In society of being the best of friends However at several recep during the last few days the bit bitterness bitterness of the political poll has been evidenced even in the receiving rec lines where wives oft of o the regulars acted as hostesses host Upon the occasion sion referred r to the wives of prominent insurgent members received more or less decided snubs at the hands of the women of the other side intended no doubt to tomake tomake tomake make the former feel fe the unpopularity of the cause espoused by their hus hue husbands husbands bands At first the slights were not pro pronounced flounced so the insurgent women in hl hla ina hia a a counsel of war decided to ignore th the theco co and refused to be ostracized from society In any such fashIon However How flow However ever at one reception only a few fw days clays ago the women in the receiving line de deliberately deliberately turned their backs upon wife of a well weli known Insurgent who had called to pay her respects This has promoted much speculation among so society clety women as to what the outcome will be Only time will telL Another American girl will soon soon ar arrive arrive rive live in Washington to preside over the social destinies of a foreign govern governments governments ments official residence when Senor RIano tha th new minister from Spain arrives with the fair fall senora who was waa Miss Alice Allce Ward an American and for fora a long time a resident of Washington Senora Riano is the granddaughter of Mrs John S Ward with whom she made her home prior to her marriage to Senor Riano in 1902 Senora Biano will be the sixth American woman now presiding over a foreign legation jn In Washington Count von Bernstorff the German ambassador and M lI Jules Juss the French ambassador are both wedded to Americans as are Count Moltke the Danish minister Count de Buisseret the Belgian minis minister minister ter and Jonkheer F Loudon the Netherlands minister The Countess von Bernstorff was Miss Jeanne of the New NewYork NewYorK NewYork York family of that name The ease with which the members of the kaisers family have adapted themselves to the social life of Washington and the im fm immense Immense mense popularity they have attained is a refutation of stern Count Bis marcks theory that a foreign wife could not possibly help a German diplo diplomat diplomat diplomat mat Mme was Miss Elise EUse Rich Richards Richards Richards ards daughter of an American banker in Paris her native city Mme Jus popularity has grown steadily and no one in diplomatic circles has a wider circle of admiring friends than she The military of tho the French embassy Count de do Chambrun likewise has an American wife She was Miss Longworth of ot Cincinnati sister of or Representative Longworth One of ot the most fascinating of for foreign foreign I eign households Is that of Count Carl Moltke the Danish envoy who was married several years ears ago to Miss Cor Cornelia Cornelia Cornella nelia nella Thayer daughter of Mr and a nd Mrs Nathaniel Thayer of Boston Miss I Thayer had borne a prominent part In Inthe inthe inthe the smartest of the young sets of Bos Boston Boston Boston ton and she speedily established her herself herself self as a social favorite in her husbands hus husbands husbands bands circle at Copenhagen With the advent of the the Danish lega legation legation legation tion took on a social significance it had hac hadnot hadnot not enjoyed for many years for Count Coun predecessor was a bachelor which necessarily limited his ties tics more or less lessA lessA lessA A beautiful diplomatic hostess who is counted as a Washington girl giri Is Mme Loudon wife the Netherlands minis minister minister minister ter who was as Miss Lydia Eustis daughter of the former senator from Louisiana For two seasons the minis minister minister ter and Mme Loudon have enjoyed enJo ed a constantly increasing popularity Miss KInen Mme niece has also been a member of the household this winter and has bas been much feted by her contemporaries In Washington society Mme sister is the wife of ot Josef Hofmann the musician The wife of the Belgian minister Count de do Buisseret was an army girl Miss Caroline Story daughter of Gen I I eral John P Story retired She was one of the greatest belles in army anc and residential circles a few years ye rs ago ane and was warmly welcomed when Count de do deBuisseret Buisseret was sent to represent the Belgian crown in this country I When Senator S Gore the blind senator from Oklahoma astonishes the Senate by quoting from memory long columns of figures in support of an argument he wins great applause but few of his listeners know that his wife gathered the he figures and repeated them to him bUn till they were Imprinted upon his mem memory memory ory In the widest sense Senator Gore Goro Goros Is s what his wife makes him She reads to 0 him for several hours a day both home and nd foreign news She goes over dry statistics financial and consular reports in fact everything included in ina Ina ina a days news and imparts It to her husband As a result she has come to know life Ufe and especially political life Ufe above all other things In spite of all tills this tl Is Mrs Gore Is decidedly opposed to womans suffrage |