Show I FIXING UP WHITE HOUSE I hi a few Days the Repaired Building Will Be Ready Then and Enter Society May I s Colonial White and Ivory Prevail Pre-vail in the East Room Rugs I Will Oust Carpets in Every Apartment Red Room and Green Room as to Their Walls Are Done in French VelvetAbout Mrs Roose L I velts Secretary CORIlESPONDENCn TRIBUNE Washington Dec 1It Is only the sanctified and the elect who are admitted admit-ted Into the White House grounds these days A burly Sl Peter In blue togs and I brass buttons billy in hand stands challeuglnEly at every entrance The public Is not allowed In the grounds madame while the work Is going go-ing on But there Isnt much threatening I threaten-ing and slaughter In his enl blue I eyed gaze A certain sympathetic courtesy cour-tesy characlcrlzcs all the attaches of tIll White House I 1 They Ipvo you for yourself alone But Im not the public please Im a very particular newspaper person Then make yourself at home qnd I he waves you Into hospitable privileges of the place with an expansiveness of lila whole big person The press Is mighty and will prevail yOLISHING UP THE BUIbDING There arc ns many bad amclla within the portalfl of the Executive Mansion as I 1 I 1 < = i i 0 rt 1 1 In the whole city of Cologne Somebody Is rubbing the handle of the big front door with a compound odoriferous Turpentine and beeswax greet the nos true from the stone floor of the lobby into which a servitor on all fours is diligently scrubbing I There is varnish and paint there Is sawdust and damp plaster There arc other things going on each with a distinct bouquet of Its own Mrs Roosevelt munt spend these days of architectural upheaval with her handkerchief to her nose But Just a few more days for to tote the weary load then everything will be adJusted FURNISHERS AT WORK The furnishers are to get In their work thin week In the east room and the main reception hall whore colonial white and Ivory prevail There IB a certain cer-tain classic effectiveness In the simple white columns that alone separate iHc reception hal from the long transverse red corridor replacing the old gaudy mosaic partitions Rugs will oust carpets car-pets from every apartment Shrouded In canvas great packages of them stand sentinel over the scene REMODELING EAST ROOM Maj Pendlc majordomo of the White House who has flourished thereIn there-In various capacities since Lincolns time grows reminiscent over the changes The only other remodeling of the cast room ho has known was In Grants time when the Justabolished grout crystal chamlcllura were added ThcspJ chandeliers are to be lakcn to the Capitol ns historical souvenirs Four large brass cleclrlc standards with d sort of ecclesiastical effect supplant them In the east room The four new marble mantelpieces are listed respectively respect-ively as flour de peach rouge royal roy-al J Jasper royal and grayetlc whatever all that means FRENCH VELVET ON WALL They are doing the red room and the I r L J 1 ur z green room as to their walls In French velvet at JIG a yard Isnt French velvet vel-vet a trifle unpatriotic Or is It an Intentional In-tentional tribute to Lafayette and Rochambeau The upholntcrlng of the blue loom will remain In blue silk The servants have a stairway now ns well as an elevator The reconstructed Presidential elevator IB sentimentally fitted up with ancient oak from the Old South Church of Boston or Paul Revere fame MRS ROOSEVELTS SECRETARY President McKlnleys little smoking room where he never smoked to the < right of the entrance has been contracted con-tracted Into a cosy little snuggery rich In dark crimson Here Mr Stone of the administrative force and Miss Isabclle Hagner the handsome South era girl who 1 Mrs Roosevelts private pri-vate secretary receive their friends officially Come In any morning ways Miss Hagncr from 10 to halfpast She has a cordial Interested manner and an appreciative sympathy Too busy lo give much time to clothes this Influential young person who holds the social destiny of so many In her hand finds the same comfort In an old shirtwaist shirt-waist a you or I with a ribbon slung around her soft plump throat along the line of the least resistance All the pretty rInglets that typhoid fever Imparted Im-parted to her hair last season havo clln appeaied Miss Hagncrs coiffure Is unstudied un-studied and unrrl zed not even a pompadour pom-padour SHOWER OF MISSIVES The air Is white with little missives that Miss Hagner sends fluttering from tho Executive Mansion almost dally to the newspaper sorority They are sent by messenger and they recount the doings do-ings of the Presidential household on tiny thin slips of paper that recall the klus I I verses of ones early Infancy I Alice goes out to tea or Mrs Roosevelt projects D musicale the white winced Information goes aflylng This method meth-od saves time all around DRINK TEA AT WHITE HOUSE Four pr five hundred people drink tea with Mrs Roosevelt this Friday and four or five hundred more will do the same thing on the 19th Mrs Roosevelt lakes her friends In Installments The white that sartorially characterized character-ized the mistress of the White House during her first scason seems destined for a return engagement this year At her first at homo last week and at r r < 0 t 6o lesser functions cream or white has runctons been tume Mrs Rooscvelta Invariable con SOCIETY IS YAWNING Society which traditionally stays asleep In Washington unlll the first of January Is yawning and rubbing Its eyes earlier than usual this year The short duration of the present Congressional Congres-sional session may account for this The majority of tho Congressional fam lieu however arc waiting for Christmas Christ-mas at their own firesides After that begins the Influx of wives and daughters daugh-ters In their Sunday clothe A prime factor in the gayeties of the Southern colony Is always Mrs Representative Repre-sentative J H Bankhead of Alabama who has been n popular force for many known in terms Mrs Bankhead 19 Washington a the dean of the Congressional Con-gressional corps She will Join her husband at the RIggs after Christmas Another active and ornamental Southern women notable as well for her rich toilets Is Mrs Thomas Jones of Columbia Tenn who will winter at the Ebbitt Her sister Mrs Oscar Turner of Louisville will Join her In January Southern beauty made a goodly showing show-ing tho other day at tho coming out tea of Senator Cockrclls handsome young daughter MIss Harriet South crland herself a debutante daughterof Commander and Mrs Southerlund of Kentucky assisted in the honors together to-gether with Mrs Chauncey Depew Mrs Leonard Woods Mrs Thomas Walsh ete Miss Edna Sims daughter of Representative Rep-resentative Thetus Sims of Jacksonville Jackson-ville Tcnn was one of the distinctively distinctive-ly pretty girls present Mrs Payne wife of the Postmaster General received prettily this week at the Arlington assisted by Gen Paynes sister Mrs Camden and niece Miss Louise Jones Miss Jones woro one of the most charming gowns of the season sea-son accordion pleated white chiffon with appliques of heavy ecru lace She is one of the most popular of the Cabinet Cabi-net girls Admiral Schlcy hale and hearty was one of the guests of honor The rooms were dressed with Christmas Christ-mas grcen and American Beauty rosca Representative Sutherland of Utah Is at the Drlscoll for the winter Senator Sen-ator Kearns Is making his home at tho ArlingtonDAISY DAISY FITZHUGII AYRES |