Show HOUSE I ROOM C CHANGES ANGE a I IN 1 former Scene of Many Brilliant Social Functions Has Ha Been Setting for Four Funerals Lately By fly HARRY HAURY HUNT WASHINGTON Dec 10 Events Events ot of the th last Ian fifteen months have ha changed i h whole atmosphere o of g East Cast room of ot the White While louse Hitherto to It always has been regarded regarded re- re a as ao the the- hub of Washington's social art ati It has been a alace place pl lace ce for foi festivities for tor parties receptions reception dances Its suggestion abs sl i ways a ys s 's has bas been one of che cheer r of 01 h happiness of ot gaiety odai oda however there Is a sense ot of a suggestion of ot sadness sad sad- ness nesSi th that t is felt b by all who enter entert Itt t It Its ei g emptiness is no longer that of a a. brilliant ballroom but ut tit rather that of ot a funeral chapel your our times in but little over a a- year ear has t this his room so often otten the scene of the capitals capital's most brilliant social a affairs Hairs been the setting Betting for fora af a a. funeral first it was President Harding en Mrs Work wife of ot tie the s secre- secre creat cre- cre at abr K of ot interior Then Then The n y young yung ung C Cab lIn In Coolidge Jr Jr and lastly S Creary Cre- Cre J 5 tary ary of t A Agriculture Wallace Hi In Iris f r of tragedies tragedies' g es' es the great t state parlor has somehow altered Its aura aura tat t at m mysterious quality by w which places as 2 wf 11 a at as persons influence the moods of visitors Th The suggestion Of dancing gaiety is gone In n Its Ill j IM is the brooding heavy Cju quiet et of a sepulcher society for the last lasto fortnight o night has been ur up In the air airo o oUr g r George W. W Steel Steele who ame came o over ocr cr from Germany with the and Is to command this big big- est eat of ot I the he teete tele has been the social lion of or orthe the hour No Xo less than a dozen a atles ha ba hate hae e been thrown for him hims s many main days Mrs Irs Mrs Catherine New wife of or the postmaster general herself herselt former former- tan D authoress authoress' thinks that nile Mark lark Twain may have been all aU alla right all as a writer he was a rotten politician Is Irs frs Ni News New's v. v s observations follow tallow a aren ren reading ing of ot Twains Twain's autobiography nsf t out which the humorist sUp sUp- la ed si should illiQuId ion Id rot be published until en n years eaIS ara after his death In the c parse of ot these mem memoirs irs Twain seely se- se I f ely Roosevelt Roosevelt and GenerI Gen- Gen Ir erI J Leonard Leona Wood both bolh good Republicans Re Re- u. u publicans and thereby moved Mrs y to i 2 wain waln was a a. she deares dee tiec de- de e c ares area therefore his political ons ont and views were generally o bas d on knowledge or jud judgment judg ment but on prejudice It Is all an anT Ight T ht to cote for tor the best man for tor riff 01 or school hool super but butin in n national politics no man man man-Is Is bel bet bet- than his party If It Twain had hado o fined Ined himself to what he know knew and nd not wandered ort oft Into the un- un own field of or politics his old uld carry carr more weight hen een as thoroughgoing a him an n as the general him CI could III d' d not nor have ha quoted ortho- ortho o party part creed more accurately lr it SH service lc Ice headquarters gets e ts some i as reasons for tor forCed Ced ed landings ings or dela delayed ed flights tho th r freakiest t IS held to be that 1 o Bob Wimsatt who had hade hado e o a i landing near Fort Worth ille lile r m n n i route outu to Brooks field San SanA A tomo tonio Tee Te ed ed due dill to co cow eating wing ss aid d t hI wire ire Wimsatt sent to the theo o of officer ricer at San Antonio e eat t t day day on his arrival Wlm- Wlm II it t showed a a. number of or homede home- home de dc patches on the lower 1 wing els and stabilizer where he swore ow ow with the appetite of ar os- os freh eh oh hid had made a square meal 7 like lice press ones one's onesTi oness s T i. Washington Post t edited ted Harvey said at the top t rl r one onn column one on the day tm tOI r election George Harvey picks ano aner ano an- an o er a Inner It Its It's s a habit By Y cai inq 1111 It first George at least made de sure stir it ii was WitS said RaId |