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Show m Taft Acts as First Aid to Cupid Jg BY CONSTANCE CARRUTHERS X3t "-casrd Wire to Tlio Tribune. (tVfiHlNOTON, .lan. 15 Pardon me, nnats Mr. William Howard Taft playing . piatcjmiaker again? Ever since ho pd lus tremendous diplomacy and . spy lo link the hearts of Nicholas elgh&worth fiml Alice Roosevelt there adv'fueen whisperings that our jolly ox-nfT7 ox-nfT7 ,can "Iwnys take time to assist K'hon the little deity gets stumped particularly difficult case. A fort- t ago I learned that Mr. Taft de- B to extend through Embassador "tS!;ini:i!i afc :Ro-' a special invitation tho Duko of Iho Abruzzi to come )i JVashingtoii and deliver a scientific . Afuro privately boforrj a chosen few. course, the lukc would bo. entertain- hoTa pv the "Baron Dos Planches, by anflfl0 TutTby Secretary Knox and SW 0.1 hers. . T,n f"ct, his stay would! pla.!c the social epoch of tho season. il0 would there be another result from 'jl visit of the intrepid youny Jtalian neTjMoroi-7 Would ho, coub'l he "find time ''all at the residence of the Steven Jiscs where Miss Katherino Elkins m clp18 supremo in beauty and riches ddcuhamperod by nuptial rumors and free &pn her aflection where'er she wills? ..mannol heh. .but beliovo that Mr. Taft "'JjdPm play first aid to outwitted eupid inlnis case albeit he maj' do it unwit- llBuT'"' lenjfl Beautiful Woman Heads Club. 0W.TS- William F. Dennis, who was ro-FdH)y ro-FdH)y elected president of the Southern a ntfJeC society, received tho unanimous raT ot 1 bo trustees of that organiza-Ve organiza-Ve I8" ".therefore has entered upon the nd i0.- cr Posit ion with an unusual pok$?.ctl". Mrs. Dennis is a Kcntuck-off Kcntuck-off 'V'-jy haudsomo woman, with great jtrm of manner aud executive ability, 'l011!?1: ho of iminenso advautage iu v 3 i 'l,idl will bo venuirod of her. u Wli"n,iu 1lrs- tennis will divide the cIsW h01v''ccm hero and New York, t.-P'&K i- f?.ri"er's business demands ,iU'iAj. &nxw 1,1 Present. The dato nontMlio bout. horn "Relief ball is fixed rf ffi-ul will be held at. the i bSi-S Andy a represenlativo llSS LZV ? nnd Ncrs coming from I? iff iuteuGn hc,on.ulr.V l"'o signified tli JJf ,uleu"on of being pposcnl. B W r Knip Is .SUellced. itlf'l.M.i1 lias 8-eL f,t rest the. gossip ?Eio pm. JiC0'i. 01n 0,1 Ul Washington ',ean,.ll..MCIa, I'rocrammo this sca-r?u sca-r?u vJ rccognized leader must bo .n- rk w -,ro,l,lnot woman in so- T,ffliy be purveyors of gos-frKr'u gos-frKr'u 1 "'Jt ?.nl-v anpearcd at the 'nVb LrW, IOM in Uw llltO aclKd l-TV 'i KWit part of tll 3 not nil"?. .Pli.'-,U ,Lat ' if h0 feto,g5 1 alk,,(1 J'uncrs and other so- rial entertainments sho is the social dictator, whether from tho head of the dining table iu the While House or from a cosy corner of her boudoir. She is really not ill now. Diplomatic Breakfasts Relegated. For at least a do.en years back there has been a diplomatic broakfast in the homo of the secretary of state, .but. that part of tho social" regime has been changed. Those breakfasts in the past amounted to receptions and were held just after tho White House reception. They were rites of a high order. I might say. When the late Mr. .lohn Hay and Mr. Elihu Root held the office of secretary of state their wives received tho foreign delegates with assistants. Now thero is a grouping of cabinet members' mem-bers' wives and the diplomatic breakfast break-fast has been relegated to (he abiding place of some of the Roosevelt policies. Recent Visitors at Capital. Some recent visitors in Washington Y.-uro: Mr. and Mrs. Clarence IL Pratt of Ivnoxville. Teiin., visitiug Mr. and Mrs. George W. Pratt. Mrs. Mollie Ku-bank Ku-bank bemplc and .Miss Elizabeth Eubank Eu-bank ol Icxus, visiting Representative and Mrs. Jack Beall, Mrs. Henry Oa-baniss Oa-baniss of Atlanta, Ga., visiting her sister, sis-ter, Mrs. M. S. White. Mrs. Thomas D. Merrill of Pululh, visiting Fran Krause. Mrs.. Agues Gray of Minneapolis, Min-neapolis, visiting Mrs. Charles L. Cur-liss. Cur-liss. Miss Mildred Prewift of West Point. Ky., visiting Mrs. William 11. Saunders. Will Live on Staked Plains. 1 have been tomptod to wonder how the beautiful and sprightly Miss Christine Chris-tine Roosevelt, niece of tho former presidcut. will like army life, especially army life on the Staked Plains of Texas. As Mrs. James E. Shelley ,m she is now an army officer's wife. Lieut. Shelley is connected with tho Eleventh cavalry, which is kept moving about Fort Sam Houston. Mr. aud Mrs. Shelley have already joined the company. com-pany. Centor for Coast Set. Tho Ballinger apartments in the Shorehain sce.m to be the center of activities ac-tivities for tho coast set. Visitors and residents of tho west, in Washington gravitates ovcutually to the Shorehain, where all urc welcome and charmingly received. Among some of tho visitors whom 1 mot. there quite recently wore Mrs. Humphrey of Spokane. Mrs. L. 0. Gilluiau, formerly of St. Paul, but. now of Seattle: Mrs. Gcorgo Turner of Spokane, Mrs. W. H. H. Green of Seattle, Seat-tle, and Miss Gillmnn. Senator Chauncoy Dopew of "New York, who used to hold the palm as the premier after-dinner speaker, has relinquished re-linquished that honor, and while he occasionally speaks a few words now, his utterances are not marked by tho How of wit which used lo sparkle (herefrom. (here-from. Mr. and Mrs. Depew are entertaining enter-taining in a quiet, way, but the senator is gradually withdrawing from society, as well as after dinner speaking. Will Sail for China. Mrs. dosiah Kingsley Ohl and daughter. daugh-ter. Miss -loan Ohl, 'will leave next week for San Francisco, whence thev will sail for China. Mr. Ohl is the Chinese representative of an American uewspuper iu Peking, but. was formerly a Washington correspondent. While Mr. Ohl's native town is Zanesville. 0., he lived for. many years .in Atlanta, lie has been in China for upward of a vcar. Secretary and Mrs. Knox will take no further part in the social activities of tho rest of the season, on account of the death of Mrs. Knox's brother. Frank Smith, in Pittsburg. The secretary secre-tary and Mrs. Kuox havo recalled all thoir invitations, including those for the especial entertainment of President and Mrs. Taft. Mrs. Matthew T. Scot I, prcsidciif-gcneral, prcsidciif-gcneral, .. S. D. A. R., will bo at homo to all the Danghiers of the District and visiting Daughters on Monday, danuary 31, from -1 lo 7 o'clock, at the Arlington. Cards have been sent to the chapter regents, who will extend the invitation to tho members of their chapters at the January meeting. Entertain Mrs. Long-worth. 1 saw Mrs. Nick Longworlh upon the street, the other day looking particularly fetching. She came from Cincinnati to be the guest of her son-in-law and daughter. Count and Countess do Cham-brun. Cham-brun. Mrs. Longworth has spent, much timo in Washington and has a charming circle of friends here. She v,ill be much ontertainod during her sfav. Within a few days Captain 'Harold Wellington Jones and Mrs. Harold Wellington Well-ington Jones will lie at home here, having:, hav-ing:, returned from their honeymoon spent in tho south. Tho brido was Miss Evarls Ewing Muun of Florence, Italy, a daughter of Major Ewing Munn, of Tcuncssoe. Captain Jones is in tho army service here. Quito a number of affairs are being given in honor of Miss Ruth Wollmau, daughter of Waller Wellnian. tho Arctic Arc-tic oxploror. Miss Wellnian joined her parents here after a year spent in California Cali-fornia where she lived with relatives. Mrs. Wollman came to Washington in Decombor from Europe whero sho joined her husband. Porsoual Mention. The dinner given this week by Secrc-' tary and Mrs. McVeagh was really one of the big affairs of the season, outside out-side of the functions at the While House. President and Mis. Tafl were A i present and among Iho guests was Mrs. Potter Palmer of Chicago, who came here from New Yuri; to, attend. With Miss Helen Taft back at. school her presence is sorely missed in the vouugcr circle. P,ut. while Miss Taft is fond of society and while sho could remain re-main at homo if sho so desired, it is her own will that her formal debut .be postponed tfor at least year yet. Mrs. M. Mulhol'.aul and her daughter, daugh-ter, Miss Margaret, who have been visiting vis-iting relatives i Mississippi, are expected ex-pected home next week. Miss Jeannette Davis of bhreveport , Ala. who is ."Heading school in this city, spent tho holidays witlb Mrs. Pi- ' Miss Alice Finch of Pueblo. Colo., is spending the winter here with her niece, Mrs. Charles G. Abbott. |