Show I I l SENATE IS Star Performers Were as Smothered 4 t R1lAYiIUG AN CNCORE ENGAGE I 1 I ENT or 1n Flowers a White Muslined the Opening Graduate Day as a J Bride > M n t CORn BSPOKD NCB TIll nUN = W Washington D C March 12 There has bc na grand shuffling of the cards 1 S and a dealing over again socially speaking during tho past week Every 1 body seems to he I busy getting ready to lie doing something else since the ex tinguishment of Congress The air Is f white with the flutter of p p c cards R and brisk with the echoes of au i rcvoln Representatives and their families are graudally beeping homewards i home-wards not that there Isnt a goodly supply still left on hand enough for Immediate J consumtlon or rather for 4 Immediate grip since grips the rage The encore engagement of the Senate Sen-ate has given a new fillip to things t One of the gala Anxious days of the social season was that to Seo w hen the debu Apostle Smoot tantc solons were t bworn In The star performers were as smothered In flowers flow-ers as a bride or a white musllnod graduate Senator McCreary of Kentucky II Ken-tucky was ensconced at his desk behind l be-hind a breastwork of blossoms A I superb basket of red roses came from fi i his wife who has been 111 for some weeks with rheumatism at Hot Springs Senator 31cCrcary la one of thc dozen men of tho present Senate who have at some time filled the gubernatorial chair Senator Smoot too was among those pelted with posies There was more craning of fair necks In the gallery gal-lery 1 at this much mooted gentleman I than at any of the newly sworn One pretty Rlrl overhead not only came near losing her hat In her too strenuous rubbering at the gentleman from Utah but her own personal balancce was preserved only by friendly clutches upon the tall of her coat Two Smoot partisans from Utah handsome young fellows In the gallery grew so earnest In the discussion of their Senator and his principles with a Washington antagonist an-tagonist Unit neighbors expected results re-sults Mr Smoot Is one of the tallest men in the Senate Senator Smoots wife does rot accompany him now She will return to Washington with her husband next session Mrs Smoot was a Miss Eldrcdgc of Utah Three of a kind In the way of members mem-bers of the name oC Clark variously with and without tho final e em Some of hplllsh the new scs the e slon of he i Senate The neu Senator New Senators Clarke from Ar 1 Itaiibas brings an e with him Senator Luiltner of South Carolina with a record rec-ord almost unique he who was oft with the old love as a Representative one day arid on with the new as a Senator Sen-ator the IIcxlIL llhtning change artist of capability and dispatch Is a big fine looking man with a cordial hand clasp His handsome daughter with her fair skin and red gold hair Is one of the distinctive dis-tinctive light of the Southern colony here The Latlmcrb have been at the r National hotel all season Senator Navvlanda of Nevada shares Senator I Latlmers distinction lie too served In the House until he was sworn Into the Senate He too Is a Southern man by birth Natche Miss being proudly responsible for him He has line classic features Ills daughter Miss Frances Newlands isone of the most export horfcwomnn in Washington riding cross country and taking fences and ditches l with thc ease of a cowboy She Is a petite little maiden tipping the beam at just eighty pounds She and Miss Florence Field the young stepdaughter step-daughter of Thomas Nelson Page both lovers of horse flesh are great pals At the Nowlands home of Voodloy the old Cleveland place a few miles from town the marriage of the oldest daughter daugh-ter of the house Miss Edith Newlands to her fathers exsecretary Charles Johnson of Washington will be one of the smart events of the spring Mrs Newlands returned from a long absence in the West In time to sec her husband take the Senatorial oath I Mrs Thomas F Walsh Just before her departure for Palm Beach her first Southern trip gave a luncheon at the New Wlilard In honor of Mrs Arthur Paget Miss Alice Thaw and her financier finan-cier fiance the Earl J of Yarmouth Harry Thaw the young Plttsburg Croesus and Mr Gallaudct and his bride the daughter of Senator Cockrell Mrs Walsh wore a French gown of pale green broadcloth curiously embroidered r 4 The Alice Roosevelt rose Is the floral fancy of the moment Many a gay dining table is The ducked with this of the new product Alice Roosevelt flollsls shill The Rose Alice Roosevelt rose too is blooming bloom-ing he I cheeks of the Presidents vigorous vigor-ous young daughter since her return from her Southern triumphs Alice seems proof against social fugthe madder merrier the pace the softer grow her contours It Alice would only wear a better corset exclaims a Rooscveltian Intimate J < she would be a charming looking girl Alice doesnt bother her happy young head greatly about clothes Swinging across Lafayette Lafay-ette park the other day with a sturdy stride came a young girl In a crimson walking dress The skirt poked down in the back and hiked up In front revealing re-vealing a pair of low shoes with great gilt buckles The March winds were making merry with the long black boa about her neck The queer black hat with a blouse of cock plumes flapping in her face was clutched tightly with one hand There was no style or distinction dis-tinction in the figure only abounding vitality The girl crossed the street and entered the White House familiarly It was Alice Roosevelt r Society in full force was in at the death at the adjournment of Congress The calleries fairly bulged with the smart and the chivalrous Even In the diplomatic section usually empty the = na standing room only sign would have been In order The front row of scats with a gate at each end labeled in silver Rcsurvcd for the Speaker aIL a-IL study In French gowns and fair fcm nlnily Mrs Olmsted was lovely In lark velvet and Russian sablus with a hat composed entirely or rocn fol age and red raisins Young Sheppard oC Texas the baby of the House after i the telling stroke of 12 led lustily from the marble steps of the Speakers rostrum ros-trum In the singing of God Be With You Till We Meet Again and Praise God from Whom All Blessings Flow o S After two mouths of popularity and I enjoyment In Washington society her first experience here Mrs Thomas Kearns who has been charmingly domiciled dom-iciled with the Senator at the Raleigh has left for her home In Salt Lake City and her three longedfor little ones She wasaccompanied as far as Chicago Chi-cago by Senator Kearns who returned it once to Washington to remain till the end of the session extraordinary Mrs Kearns with her grace and her Gentle womanly ways has endeared herself sincerely to the hearts of the Washington people during her short residence here Welcome Indeed is the anticipation that next session she will come at the very beginning with her entire en-tire family take a house nut her tyro boys to school and be a permanent factor fac-tor in social things here The Senator and his family expect to spend most of the summer at their place in the mountains nearKings mineD mine-D F ExGov Thomas of Colorado has been with old friends at thecapital for some days 1 e Mnj Th W Young of Salt Lake City was here at the close of Congress Representative Rep-resentative and mnlniQ Mrs Frank Mondell lingered I a week at Capitale their home nL thc Capital Cochran before returning I turning to Wyoming Wyo-ming Mr and Mrs Mondell expect to r I rent a house during the next session of Congress and establish themselves as regular residents of Washington Mrs 1 Mondell with her charms and chic is one of the distinctive young women In Congressional circles Her friend Mrs Marshall of North Dakota after a severe attack of the grip has returned re-turned home with her husband t A Mrs Jill I wife of the former Senator from Colorado is much entertained In Washington where she Is the guest of Mrs Sargent P Knott Mrs G T Foster of Wyoming has been at the Nary Willard this week He Is Interested In a mysterious strike of coripcr near Laramie a o Mrs W W Grant of Denver delegate dele-gate to the recent D A R congress IH now at the WaldorfAstoria In New York Before returning West she will visit her old home In Culpc3cr Va Her sister Mrs Thomas D Stokes of Richmond Is I ivilh her a 40 4 a Senator Tones of Nevada completed on the Hh thirty years of continuous service In thc Senate Ho and Senator Allison of Iowa hold the record for length of olllce In the upper house Mr W R Sapp a prominent wheat grower of Nebraska Is at the New Wil lard A A A Mrs BUn MeLaughlln and little daughter of Salt Lake City are at the WaldorfAstoria In New York A Mr D G Henderson of Denver Is at the Raleigh 6 It Mr G II Dulaney oC Salt Lake City Is at the New Wlllard He Is enthusiastic enthu-siastic over the output of copper mined every month in tin Salt Lake valley deeming It almost Incredible Hon Burton L French of Idaho Is busy making new friends In Washington Washing-ton DAISY FITZI1UG1I AYRES |