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Show ; Doings in Social Circles : at the National Capita! J 1 -f -t -t- Special lo Tho Tribune. I wtttASHINGTON, D. C, May 2L " wv AH thc "riUilllly" nckt;d to ' y F those two sylvan symphonies on the old observatory grounds, "As , You Like It" and "Twelfth Night." Everybody who -was still la town was in the fresh air audience, absorbed , in thc rough hewn fresh stage situated on a sort of elevated cape embraced by the broad river. The costumes and I nilse en ycene were accurately Lllza- Dethan. Rosalind and Viola were the delightful Englishwoman, "Edith Wynne Matthlson. who did such Impressive work here a few weeks aGO in the ! quaint old Morality play of "Every man." She has a voice of golden vcl-j vcl-j vet and rare elocution. Among the participants In the bcau- I tlful service were the Rev. William Pettis, once of Covincton, K, more recently of Christ church, Nashville, who now has a charge Jn Georgetown, Z. C, ar.d Rev. J. B. Cralghlll, canon ! of the cathedral, who at one time was rector of the Church .of the Nativity at Marysville, Ky. Kentucky, Ten-M Ten-M ncssee and Texas were especially well I represented in the audience. Little 2 Ethel Roosevelt was a devout partlc- Ipant In the exercises. She is a pupil I at thc cathedral school, situated within i I the umbrageous "close" of the pro-P pro-P Jected ecclesiastical building. Secre- I Itary Taft's little daughter, Miss Helen Tait, about the age of the President's "little girl," who has just come to town with her mamma, governess and three little brothers, has also been entered as a pupil at the cathedrnl school. The little Roosevelts enjoyed the circus cir-cus the other day with the fervor of unreconstructed gamins, consuming stale peanuts and stick popcorn balls and taking in all the side shows, even to the bearded lady. Mls9 Alice was at the vaudeville this week In a pretty white frock. The Presidential family Is strong on shows. . Mr. and Mrs. Roosevelt have resumed re-sumed their horseback rides together this spring. But it Is "solitude a qua-tre" qua-tre" with this couple of married lovers, with two secret service men on wheels constantly dogging their heels wherever wher-ever they may ride. . . 1 We are still catching the roynltiea either "a-comln' or a-gwlne," on SU Louis intent. We've shiped our own Queen LI1 there, who plays "Hiawatha" "Hia-watha" and "Bedelia" on the piano at her Washington home, even as you or 1, and our Prince and Princess Cupid, her nephew and niece. Mrs. Cupid's costume this summer, or, "botnnlcally" speaking, Princess Xnlanianaole's, are depresslngly magnificent. You feel in sackcloth In comparison. A highly Interesting visitor to Washington Wash-ington recently has been Edwin Murk-ham Murk-ham of the "Man With the Hoe" fame. He read his celebrated poem in tho course of a philanthropic lecture that he gave, on the "Dignity of Labo;;." Thc poet, who has done many other things as capable as the "Man With-the With-the Hoe," is a man of sympathetic, magnetic perwnallty. Mrs. Frances Hodgson Burnett, after a winter of ill-health at Asheviile and other resorts, has set sail for the other T T T T T T X T t Tt T "v r T i side without her threatened descent upon her old home, Washington, or her promised visit to kinspeople In Kentucky. Ken-tucky. It Is strange she should Ignore the name of- her newest husband, Stephen Ste-phen Townsend, and cling to that of her ex-mate, Dr. Swan Burnett, the Washington oculist, who has given her a successor in ills conjugal regard during dur-ing the past few months. Until she went into mourning lately, her Tuesdays Tues-days at the Burnett home on Farragut square, where "Little Lord Fauntle-roy" Fauntle-roy" first saw the light of day, were exceptionally pleasant. She speaks naturally na-turally and admiringly of her husband's hus-band's first wife, if occasion requires it. Mrs. Burnett number one serves notice that she will return to this country In the autumn and re-establish herself In Washington. Among tho delightful literary folk recently come to Washington, though Washington is an old story In this case, Is C. Arthur Williams of Houston, Tex., who is domiciled, at the Portner withhls most winsome young wife. Mr. Williams Is Washington correspondent for Collier's Weekly and o.ther publications. publi-cations. A strong story from his pen will appear in the next Issue of "Success.' "Suc-cess.' He receives much literary in-I in-I splratlon from his wife, a woman of strong charm and personality. Mrs. Williams was a Southern belle before her marriage, Miss Frances Illte, of Kentucky ancestry. She was educated at Potter's college In Paducah, Ky. Maurice Low. thc well known writer, and his wife, are close friends and neighbors of Mr. and Mrs. Williams. Mrs. Low is niece to that distinguished Washington landmark, the late Mrs. E. D. E. N. Southworth, the record-breaking novelist, whose eyrie of a cottage hanging picturesquely over the Potomac Poto-mac In old Georgetown, Is even yet an object of deep interest to sightseers. It was here that the indefatigable Mrs. Sou tli worth wove all her thrilling romances ro-mances in one's mother's days. a Attorney-General Miller of Colorado has been in Washington this week. It Is understood that Mr. Miller came to Washington to confer with the Department De-partment of Commerce and Labor relative rel-ative to the labor difilculties in Colo-i Colo-i rado. Society has been interested this week in the sale, at auction, of the splendid household effects of Senator.. Stewart, those of thc regime of his first wife. Thc venerable Senator is the only man in the upper house of Congress who has never been shaved. His beard, for many years of snowy whiteness and of patriarchal length, began to grow when he was 1C and has continued Its progress for sixty year's. 1 . 0 G. B. Turner of Salt Lake lias been a recent guest at the new Willard. ' Charles D. Hay of Denver lias been at' the Raleigh this week. Secretary and Mrs. JTafl and-.' Gen. and Mrs. Miles were -among 'Ue box-holders box-holders at the theatrjoal performance at the National for the benefit of-the Army Relief society. DAISY FITZrfUGII AYRES. I .SINGING GIRL HEIRESS. From the latest photograph of Alice Farrell. singing girl heiress, Friends j arc congratulating her because It is reported that a rich uncle In Denver has Hj left her $900,000. She declares that rich or not she will work as earnestly as Hj ever and go to Europe to complete her musical education. She Is at present a stenographer and sings for thc poor and aged on Sundays in various charlta-ble charlta-ble institutions. 7 |
