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Show II Daisy Fitzhugh Ayres I Gossips About Notables I Special to The Tribune. WASHINGTON, April 7. No man on the Democratic side of the House is said to be so devoid of Intimates as William Randolph Hearst. Even his colleagues from his own Slate know him but superficially. In spite of all the bluster and the blow and the racket in the country over him, IMr. Hearst, I deep down in his heart, is? just a big bashful blue-eyed boy with a clever capacity for taking good advice. Hc-I Hc-I makes a pleasant, cordial host at his I new home on La Fayette square, re-I re-I tcntly vacated by Secretary Hoot, I where the Hearst dynasty before very I long will blithely begin. Mr. Hearst is I fond of having all his friends who come I to the house to meet his pretty young 1 wife. She la usually surrounded by I her sister, Mrs. Tovey, the duplicate of I !.er In youth and comeliness. Mrs. 1 iJhoebe Hearst, who lias just returned I from a visit from every possible part of II the earth, declares Ceylon to tie a rc-cord-breaker In point of charm. H Among the spring announcements? is H the engagement of Misss Mamie Lati- H .ucr, daughter of the rugged and forcc- 1 tul Senator from South Carolina, and H Mr. Li. Martin Heard of Georgia, the H marriage to take place In the ides of H , June. Miss Latimer Is one of the H daintiest and most picturesque of all H the Congressional lassies. She Is H marvelously fair, with a torrent of red H gold hair and a poetic way of wearing H her clothes. She has been a graceful Hl llgure at all the smart functions of the mmm H A distinctively dcliglilful "salon." H in Washington all winter that H smacked of the old world in grace and Hl intellectuality has been brought to a H iverlod by the death of Mr. Burton Har- H ison. the distinguished husband of the H presiding genius. This couple of equal H personal prominence, and parents of the H wealthy young Congressman Burton H Harrison of New 'ork, were as ro- H mantically devoted as in the days of H their courtship In old Virginia, when H "Constance Carey" was the belle and H beauty of Richmond and Burton Harrl- H on Secretary to the President of the H Confederate States. He was born In H New Orleans and brought up variously H in Mississippi, Kentucky and at Yale. H Mrs. Harrison, who like most writers at H the capita, Is engaged on a novel of Hl Washington life, shares with the beau- H ilful Mrs. Van Rensraelner C'rugcr the R double eclat of .ultra smartness and H ultra literariness There arc hordes of H worshippers at both shrines. There's a H genial old-fashioned warmth to Mrs. H MarriGon's sweet Southern manners H no affectation nor pope. That she is H woman enough to remember that she H was once a beauty is evidenced in the Hl 4111 pretty coquetry of her dress, and H the sweep of the big picture hats and all winter have adorned her light hair. H "Come to sec me, my child, any morn- Hl ing," Mrs. Harrison said blithely to a newspaper girl. "Your dear mother and H - were happy young creatures together H n old Richmond. Come lets talk it all H TTho smartest social event almost of H the season, to have taken place thin H week, on the part of Representative and Mrs. Burton Harrison, was ox- Hl tinguished because of the death of the H host's father. It was to have been a Hl lolilllon with Imported favors, and the H flashing folk from both New York and H Washington. Young Mrs. Harrison was H Miss Croker of California and fabulous- H ly wealthy. H WwM Mrs. Thomas F. Walsh, who, in spite H nf her heavy social responsibilities, H finds time always for practical good H works and culture, has organized a H Haas of women interested In political H Hid sociological topics, to meet every B Thursday morning In the splendid great library of her new palace on Mama- H 'iiusctts avenue, where Miss Janet Richards, the noted Washington lec- H 'urer, gives an animated talk on Hl luestlons of general interest and ln- H trnational Importance. H Mr. and Mrs. Gilbert McClurg of Den- Hl or, the noted travelers and lecturers, j have been enjoying much public and social attention during their sojourn In 1 Washington. Mr. McClurg has given a 1 talk before the Cosmos club here, and before the National Geographic society H on "Glaciers and Their Work." Mr. M McClurg is vice-president of the so- H rlety. Mrs. McClurg, a woman of H attractive personality and literary H lalont. Is regent of the "Colorado Cliff H Dwellers' association." She has been decorated bv the French Government and given the title of "Oflleer do 1'Instruction Publique." col Marcus A. Smith of Arizona is receiving re-ceiving a cordial greeting back in Washington by his Congressional colleagues col-leagues of so many long years' standing. stand-ing. He has been very busy with his law practice since his retirement from Congress. Senator Warren of Wyoming and his daughter. Miss Helen Louise, and Mr. ! and Mrs. Thomas F. Walsh, were among the guests at a beautifully appointed ap-pointed luncheon given this week by Miss Helen Cannon, daughter of the Speaker, at her home on Vermont avenue, in honor of Mrs. D. B. Henderson, Hender-son, the wife of her father's predecessor. prede-cessor. . Frank M. Murphy of Arizona, a man who has accomplished such great things within the last few years In aid of the growth and progresss of the vast Southwest, has been among the recent arrivals at the Arlington. o a Miss Jennie Knox of Salt Lake is at the Raleigh. 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