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Show Western Women Are Leaders in Capital Society BV CONSTANCE CARBUTI-15RS. By Leased Wire to Tho Tribune. AVASlIINGTOiV, .lime 18. Quite likely by tho time that society comes Hocking' back into the national capital from I-htropo. the seaside and the mountains moun-tains the Chevy Chase club will be housed in its new $100,000 building. The Chevy Chase club is the real smart and exclusive organization of Washington. Washing-ton. President 'I'll ft aud Vice fYosident Sherman play golf upon the links there every chance they gel. Upon its commodious com-modious grounds senators, representatives, representa-tives, foreign diplomats and others of national name, and even iulcrnafional renown are common figures. The Chevy Chase club has, perhaps, the most interesting in-teresting rosier of members of all the clubs in America. They comprise foreign for-eign statesmen, famous soldiers and sailors, ox-presidents, i congressmen, society so-ciety kings and queens and many other notables. The smart affairs given at Cliovy Chase by the present generation of society in Washinton constitute tho elegance characteristic of society among the rich. The new club house will be of the old country house type, simple in form and detail, but dignifie.l and capable of taking its place amidst the beautiful surroundings. Jioth President and Mrs. Ta ft. are much interested iu the new club house. Western Women Leaders. As the summer advances soi ial life in Washington becomes very dull. .Juno has furnished its regular quota of weddings, wed-dings, but tho families of many of tho congressmen and cabinet attaches havo deparled for the soason. In contemplating contem-plating Washington in tho present, half tight of society ono is instantly struck by the high position achieved in society by tho matrons of the west who have at once become notable hostesses well known for their cleverness and tact in entertaining and their hospitality. There was once a time when the resident resi-dent set of Washington looked with j something akin lo scorn upon those who came out of the west, called by, tho duties of statesmanship. Ju those days r.lio westerners wero regarded i mostly as outsiders. They were not j taken into the ooterio of the residents, and the easterners who were supposed to mako up the real society of the cap-; ilal. Now all that has been changed. Some of tho brightest women iu Washington Wash-ington are found in "insurgent" households. house-holds. Washington long since came to recognize in Mrs. Robert M. LnFollettc, the wife of the militant senator from Wisconsin, one of the most brilliant minds and tho strongest personalities in officialdom. From the time when she first become engaged to her fellow- j student, at the stato university at Mad-j ison Mrs. La Follctto has identified' herself heart and soul with the aims of! Senator La J-'olelte's life. She finds iu ' liis political career an interst scarcely less absorbing than is her care for her family, one of the most interesting iu Washington. Close Student of Politics. Mrs. La Follctto is as .closo a student stu-dent of politics as "Little J3ob" himself him-self and is also a clever writer. Mrs. La Follctte is ono of the strongest? advocates ad-vocates of equal suffrage lo be found ' among congressional women nnd, as I becomes the wife of the, foremost sena-1 torial radical, she is likewise somewhat! radical in her views of the future of j tho woman movement. Tho La Follctte j home, a roomy residence on Wyoming I avenue, is a rendezvous for nil the family friends, of whom tho clever westerners havo a great number. The eldest daughter of the family. Miss Fola La Follette, blond and pretty, :s likewise an .mlont woman suffragist. Another charming western woman, likewise the wife of an insurgent lender, lend-er, is Mrs. Victor Murdock, wife of the young Kansan who is generally recognized recog-nized as ono of the most irreconcilable of all tho party insurgents in the house of representatives. Mrs. Murdock Mur-dock never fails lo attract attention in any gathering. Mrs. Murdock is fond of music and is a talented amateur performer. Her rarely sympathetic ; personality has won her many friends, j and ono of the most admiring or them ! declares that Mrs. Murdock is the con- fidantc of half Washington. Her lricncia ' tell her of all thejr bits of good for- ! tunc, and likewise feel sure of her I ready sympathy in their limes of trouble. trou-ble. Notwithstanding her feminine ab-: sorption in society Airs. Murdocl:. has j not lost interest in the studies of her J girlhood. Her taste in literature ia ! acknowledged, and she is ono of the j best, read women iu congressional circles. Mrs. .Jonathan P, Dolliver, w;fo ot tho Iowa senator, who in point of length or insidonoo is the dean of the Iowa feminine contingent, in Wasli'ng-ion. Wasli'ng-ion. is also its good nugel. JI'T homo iu Massachusetts avenue is the favorite rendezvous for visiting, nnd resident lowam.-, who are so cordially welcomed that they never fail to renew their visits. vis-its. 10 very Christmas evening Ihc big old-fashioned house in Massachusetts avenue which I ho Dnllivcrs occupy is "open house.1' for lowans of rll classes Miss Tnft a Beauty. Mis Helen Tafl. the young lady of tho White House, is noted for two Ihiugs. her beauty and her simplicity Miss Tnft is a handsome irl and tu r grace nnd charm add to her winsome liens. She docs not lack admirers although al-though there is no thought of marriage for her yet. The president's dsiuglit'.r cares little for display. l!cr dresses are usually without ornament and hrr hats, instead of being ladim with plumes or constructed upon the French style to hide the face, are simply little affairs, usually ornamented ouiv ly a ribbon or a bow of softly colored slu.T. Brief Mention. Col. William C. Gorgas, of the army medical corps, who has been visiting hero with Mrs. Mrs. Clorgas, will sail for Panama on July V2. Ho will uo accompanied by Mrs. Gorgas. Mrs. L. D. Baxter and Miss Lillian Baxter have closed their ipartmeiils and will leave next week for SeatUc, Washington. They will make a number num-ber of visits en route and will go to California from Seattle, returning to Washington some timo iu December. Mrs. Hughes, wife of Senator Hughes of Colorado, has gone lo Denvor, where, she will bo .ioined later by her husband. They will spend the summer months in Ijcuvcr. 1 Mr. and Mrs. Henry Robertson will Isailfrom New York on Monday by tho way of Panama for Callao, Peru,. I to which post Mr. Robertson was re-Icently re-Icently promoted from tho consulate at Tangier, Morocco. Miss Olga Converse, daughter of Mrs. Converse and the late Rear Admiral Converse, sailed for America today and will soon be in Washington with her mother. Miss Converse loft Waahi-ig-tou more than a year ago. She '.v been studying abroad. Mrs. Moycr, wife of Secretary Meyiu-of Meyiu-of tho navy, and the Misses Meyer hnv gone to their summer homo at llamd ton. Mass. Washington i.s much interested in fh marriage of Theodore Roosovelt, .Iron .Ir-on Monday to Miss 101 pan or Alexander in New i'ork. A number of guests from this city will bo present. Hamilton Hamil-ton Fish.. Jr., son ot Reprcscuative Fish, of New York, will bo one of the ushers. Tho French embassy has been established estab-lished at Manehcster-by-lhe-sea, Massachusetts, Massa-chusetts, under Charge d 'Affaires fjofevrc Ponfalis and Mine. Pontali-. They are accompanied by tho thiic secretary, M. Tailbaud. The milita.-y attache "of the embassy .and the Comp tess de Chainbiirn, who have been it Cincinnati visting the countess' mothft Mrs. Longworth, sailed for France or. Thursday for the summer. The onunKvn. is a sister of Representative Nichouu: Longworth. On the twenty-eighth of this monr General Clarence R. Edwards and Ms Edwards will sail from San F rn a ci for tho Philippine islands, to which pent the general has been' assigned. Mis. Edwards accompanied by her daughter, j Miss Elizabeth, has been visiting in i Niagara Falls, N. Y., and Cleveland, ' Ohio. |