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Show 72 Op ening of Washington Society fl nrrrsr'.-indpncc Trlbttrf 1 WASHINGTON. D. C. Nov. 1'3 --Mrs. H RoOSevelt turned on the official Washlrur- H ton senson tlio other day by a miis'lcale at tho Whit" House, a chronic Institution. J They run about ten to the winter thr-so H iiiuplcajs :ir' :ir- .iboul l)i most tlaz- J 7linsr sr-f pk-i . that ..r. Kht on at tlm J I'oyfiLl p"'oo One amir. ;e "C their eclat la that o few of friends aro there. To6 manv f one's friends cheapen an 'tf- fair, don't mj think One Is less of nn "it" with one s feiiows to seneroualy sprinkled. One im apt to be lonesome at a J White i,.:c musical o, but one ih tremen- oonsly fcrand. You walk Into one of thepe fun. -lions confidently, debonairly, without ahow- j lug vour ticket, too. Juwt like nn Intlmnte J chum of the roviil famil, and that J fiucwH to cheatlneea. on more populous H vtatfi occasi'itia you aro ordered to stand J nnd deliver your bit of pasteboard upon J which your name la Inaorlbed even before the tip end of vour nose Is admitted with- J In the sacred portals And that's kind o' . zy .iiid . nmfv, don'l you see .' And th'-n J tho President w.ilks around with his J pleajmnt homo manners on and passes the tlnio o" day with even the weakest and J lowliest of the guests. He and his queen J i onsort stand glued to one Inexorable spot when the occasion h more pretentious. J The evenings devoted to theyr musical ee J nt the White House r always doublS- j decker affairs. There is Invariably ft dln- J i er first, to which you arc never, never J Invited, with an aftermath of melody In J the great empty K:sl room. Two or three. J Itunnred people, all In their daz7llngcst J evohing duds, nugmcnt the dinner com- H pany at lo sharp. The "vox popull," as j Mrs Partington SRys, are never turned on J till io o'clock You grow aweary sitting Jl titound at homo yawning and waiting for H the witching hour to come l.ut the if- Hl ward Is ample at the end Such a glltt.-r- 1 lug glory c r the "Smartles" In their emart- J eax-every niother's son and daughter of j ' in a. h ndllner In Sunday's society col- J umn: such an effulgence of electricity and J polished ilooi-s and gilded scats with yel- Ilow hows' such an opulence of melody backed )v a golden piano with pit tnres on li that cost exactly 122,6001 The more tin Instrument reeks with notes, especially bank notes, the pleaaanter it sounds. Tho Presldeitt' sat In tht- bald-headed illlH row of golden chairs the other night, and j led the claque. He always does. He Is H very catholic In his musical tastes Is our H Toddv. He enjoys everything from "The H 8h.nl. of tho Old Apple Tree" to a H funge" from Bach to quote Mrs Mala- H prop again Ho congratulates -til the H stunt-doers itt the end of the performance, H and presents them to some particularly M 1 1 worth-whiles In the audience In his vlg- J orphs, snapps whole-souled way, wiih a H Hplritual slap on the back of each lcno- H Mt Francis Kogcrs of New York, the H baritone, the other night. Is a nephe of H the' late John Rogers of Connecticut, the j well-known sculptor, promulgator of the H famous "Rogers groups" on realistic M themes, a score of years ago, done In ter- B ra-cotta, with so many nice buttons and I s Mr Rogers was a 'White House dinner guest before the show began. Th ro Is a great scramble among the artists all over th country to be Invited to perform at the.se renal muslcales. It means a patent pat-ent of professional nobility, equal In dignity dig-nity to a command from hi Majesty to do 1 ii turn at Windsor castlo or Buckingham palace. ' Everybody works but father,'' musically musi-cally speaking, at tho domestic capital ot the Nation, where there are three pianos In constant commission. The third Instrument Instru-ment has recently Men put In Miss Roosevelt has one in her own apartments. Miss Ethel, quite an expert little musician, musi-cian, generally us another, while the third Is a sort of pro bono publico affair. A pianola has been added to the assortment. assort-ment. Master Archie pavs with Roose-v Roose-v el tan clash, and even baby Quentln. no longer much of a baby, has recently been added to the coterie of White House musicians mu-sicians This young gentleman Is booked to play a duet at a forthcoming students' lecltal given In tho studio of his teacher. Miss Marie Young, with little Mis? Agnes Trowbridge, Jusl the size of small Quentln. Miss Truwhridge is the niece of Senator :i iid Mrs. Scott of Vc5t Virginia Mrs. aevelt is almost Invarlablj an absorbed ab-sorbed auditor at all the finest musical jwM-formanees !n Washington. She was very attractive at a concert given by the Knelse! quartette the other afternoon at the New Wlllard in a gown of Ivory silk and lace, with big black picture hat Society turned out gleefully to hear the English funny man Jerome K Jerome 0 i imi?t 1m- sure to pronounce him "Je-i "Je-i imkj Jerum," read from himself, with one of our domestic humorists, Charles Battell Ixiomls, as an accomplice In crime. HL, The Englishman is dumpy and little nnd quizzical. The American's mlsf en ttceno is long and lanky and funereal looking He likes to be that way it makes his fun-illness fun-illness seem funuh r The population of W ashington Is picking up drodlglously with Vmgrcss Just a few minutes ahead and most of tho solons nnd tin ir satellites back in town again Almost ey ry 1 ongresslonal gentleman ar-rlved ar-rlved weirs a hungry house-hunting air Thoy don't Imporl their women folks and other Impedimenta, as a rule until after the holidays, but they come Instructed by heir domestic delegation to secure suit-able suit-able quarters for the later onslaught, and you know how hard it Is yourself to live up to qualilleatlons of jour '.Missus" when she's a thousand miles away "It's dreadful how you have to give up all the closets and the bureau drawers when your wife comes on.' a certain youngish Sen-! Sen-! ator Walled the other day "after you've bad such a gtiod time spreading yourself. A woman m-ver seorns to think a man needs any loom to keep his things in. She just sails In and pre-empt! I VI r thing In sight In the W&y of spaoa for clothes, and V doesn't leave you a strap to hang by." i fes," smll 'i He other legislator just I conn; to town, upon ln-lng congratulated i upon how well he looked. "I'm enjojlng my liberty for the next four weeks My wife couv.s i. to complete rny happiness directly alter Christmas, and that means a bondage of many months of buttoning her up the back. Women arc such curious natures It takes a shoo horn and a monkey wrent h to get 'em into thoir clothes ,and a forty-horse-power to closo 'em up when they ar- inside When my wife sails into me sweetly and says, "Tom, dear, won't you please hook me up In tho back'' I t;ik- off my coat and my collar, spit on tnv hands and go in sweat-In' sweat-In' drops of blood I see my litilsh i m a past master lnce I've been married In all the bock door Intricacies of a woman's furbelows. 1 could take a civil service examination on gulmps and polonaises I Bui l must admit It Is pleasant to be free from all such cornyllcations for a llttlo while at le.ast." Hi : !,, S nator w arr. d of Wyoming, one of the most notable unmnted solons, will bo at the Wlllard. Mr Earl a Badger of Salt ijike pri- Vf.tr secretary of Senator Smoot has re- centlj received the marked distinction of being elc t. d president f the large gra.l- in. ting class of tho law school of the li.-orge Washington unlverltv of which he I? a member, the highest tribute possl- We to bis prowess and popularity Mr I . ?.eI b -'Tiir clrcI of friends so- H daily In Washington. H Pf. W. J Ken- of Iigan, Ctah at- tended the m.-.-tlng In Washington ' last XX v.K of He American Association of Ar- . rlcultural Colleges and Experiment Sta- ' ' H lions. He was one of the gue.st.s ;,t the re- I eptlon :it the White Hons,-, extended to lhr convention by President Roosevelt . - Whd made an Interesting informal wddress cJti upon the occasion speaking of the pro- '."S gs-; of education In this country and the 'ml college ),i . - I, mm he has personally known. Prot P. A. Yuder of I.ogan a . & delegate to the convention, was also -3w an.ong th- gu. sts. and 1'iof I!. . ridge ; ,:nffl Kennedy of Reno, Nev. i-jiW Senator Hyburn of Idaho and his at- SV'W tractive Wife, one of the best artists In ;:V--?fl Congressional circles, have taken apart- ;5t3 menta for ihe winter ;,f stonelelgh courl f'itM P,nJW edifice near the v hlte House put up iy the late Secretary llav and . L,fin,"Lln no,10r of ''Is wife, 'who was a ! Represontntlve and Mrs 1' K Kiooks of Cnlorodabave arrived In Washington fV,r ,the4SX,0'i H,Hi aro Pleasnntlv doml- WM . l ed at 18 p street. They have muuy wflH friends here. Egjjfl Mr. W. J. Bdllard of Utah, who has Lev;n ! a recent guest at Shoroh.im r.rv.ke entbu- Blastdcally or ttu late election vlctorj In his State for the it?w American pnrtv, of which former Senfctor Kearns was the leading spirit. At the New WllllYl this week has been Mr ,T A. YerlngtOn tf '.'arson t.'llv Nev . n recent fongresslopa.1 candidate. He was chairman of the yorutve association I of tho St. LiOUll exposition. Ho Is Si gTeat I friend of ex-8eiiator iUewart. now prac-I prac-I In-lng law In Frog " 1 1 . Congreasman-at-Lrfirge Clarence Vnn IU7-n of Goldfleld and TO TV) pah, Nev , has ai rived for the Fesslon. and Is at th New Wlllnr.1 Recent Western ilsltorft In AVnshtngton have been: H Pope of Denver, nt tho Arlington hotel: ho-tel: Mr and Mrs M II Mmsbaum of Bainbrldge Ids . the Ralefjgh; O. C. I'rench. Moscow, Ida , the National; P. n. Kennedy of Nevada, the NatlonfU; Mr C. K Buckingham and Mrs P Buckingham Bucking-ham the Now Wlllard; W. D O'Sliaugh-nessey O'Sliaugh-nessey of Utah, the Ebbitt; L. B Parker of Denver and William Batohelder of Colorado Col-orado Springs Hie Ebbitt; A. '. Peck Detner. William II King. Salt Lalfe City th 1 lelgh . C P Qlllette, Fort I tellins, Colo, the Colonial; J.imes H Baker of Boulder. B. O. Aylesworth, Fort Collins, the Shoreham; J. C. 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