Show lein Intimate stories of ni the Womans Woman's Side of Official Life in the Capital A 0 Were Snubbed When They First Came Cameto to to Capital Now They Turn Down Many Invitations By ALLENE SUMNER S 5 CHAPTER XV W WASHINGTON March Even the worth worl turns And women of official Washington They couldn't have gotten away with it years ago but they they do o today And It If anyone tried to make them do differently there would be no official wives In Washington Washing Washing- ton It would be only a great seething city of if any I am referring to tile me almost extinct ex- ex custom of official women holding public at homes on on- one specified day every week weel to which the world and his wife carie to see what she's got In her house THE CURIOUS CAME TOO The wives of the judiciary had to hold open house on an Monday Tuesday was allotted mere congressmen's con con- gressmen's wives Wednesday f t l to the cabinet women On Thursday Thursday Thurs Thurs- day senators senators' wives were at home I and Friday belo ged to the diplo- diplo I matic set I Not only women in official life I paid their calls but the rabble came out of curiosity Insurance and real estate an and salesmen who found the ladles ladies inaccessible at t other times took this opportunity to enter enter en- en ter their homes trusting that they would at least have the chance of malting making a later appointment ment GIRLS GIRLS' SCHOOLS EN MASSE Girls Girls' sChools throughout all Maryland lar land advertised In their catalogs catalogs cata- cata logs the cultural advantages of meeting prominent wamen of Washington The They treated at homes as a course In the lUm Teacher were assigned to different homes and a plan of taking groups of from twelve to twenty girls to various homes was wasso wasso so well mapped out by So many schools that no official home escaped escaped es- es least a dozen such delegations a year ear earThe The boys boy school didn't advertise such ral advantages But the merry merry merd school boys themselves them them- selves quite without t pedagogical guidance gave the bums bums' rush to the at homes consuming all the refreshments whIle the hostess hostes sent out an S. S O. O S. S for tor more sandwiches and petit The boys hoys learned which houses gave the best feed and the word passed from one school to another with the eventual result that the chIcken salad sala hostess became a wafer and one COLLECTING SOUVENIRS Souvenir collecting was the fad It was such fun to exhibit the spoils back home and say I picked up UI this spoon at Senator lc ers ers' or Heres a fo fork k from the beautiful home ot of the secretary of stat state I REFORMERS THERE TOO The reformers came to snoop a vivacIous senators senator's wife from the Vest told ne They had the Idea that w vt whisky stra straight ht t at our teas and they came cameI cameto I to ind outA out ut A woman of this sort deliberately deliberately spilled her gass of f lemonade upon my Oriental rug IUS one day t rne on her s said ld It is such homes as this that pollute our nation at Its spring She hadn't even tasted her just lemonade took 1 i. i e rr v vI I I tf 4 MRS WILLIAM E. E BORAH it to fOl granted that it was an iniquitous cocktail ITS IT'S A DUTY Hut But all alJ this for forthe time the main was in inthe inthe the past To 10 be sure a few brave put tIe tle at home notice in the and trust that what with ith such modern distractions as the movie and radio and auto the Jams wont won't be so great They rhey feel it their theil duty luty to fulfill their of- of o r I I Ithe obligations for the benefit of the visiting great grandaunt of the stepbrother of the constituent from the home state nut But the names of these brave hostesses are few For the most part they simply have their da day A butler opens the door just wide I enough to stick out a mono mono- silver card tray and the thedoor thedoor door is shut quickly again the congresswomen cant ant eVen find the tray One littie little lit I tie tle woman told me this tale I THE SNUBBED Six of us us clubbed to together ether on a aI I taxi and started early one day In to get in as many calls as possible We Ve got to our first port ci 01 call shortly before 4 p. p m. m The maid came to the door It open a 1 crack and said My Iy missus doesn't receive until 4 and wouldn't even take the cardE carci We Ve lad jad to go back the next week Why did we do it Oh official duty Some of Washington's women who are most lionized today went through their baptism of ire in the way of snubbing The William for instance refuse about fifteen invitations In every mail They will wUl not accept for they say they cannot afford to reciprocate re- re But folks dont don't c tare re They want the even If they dont don't eat at their expense in re- re turn But Mrs 1 Borah tells her tales of her hem more than full share of snubs received whet she was green to the ways of official in D. D C C. I I Those Thase awful constituents a- a ways sending cheeses and ard dried prunes at th the wrong times time Told I aI to tomorrow m 0 |