Show j o s T C 4 j eing I Intimate Stories tories or orI of a iE c I U 7 1 i I I b the wo omans mans Side or or Official I LIfe in In the CapItal Capita 1 I 1 I I I How a Debutante Blossoms BIos Blos- Forth Into Official Washington Society at a Season By ALLENE SUMNER CHAPTER WASHINGTON March 26 Flaming youth is perhaps Washington's Wash Wash- Ington's bIggest problem Not because because be- be cause It flames any more hotly than thanin in other climes but because it costs so much It If you have a daughter the daughter must come out ut And I coming out can cost ver very little c less than at least n. n thousand dollars dollars dol- dol lars and then the fruIt punch I wont won't be as strong as it might be Its It's hard work being a deb in the thc capital city First of all there are arc H e s I I OW JeW jO 60 OO 00 A AIt D BE A Dt 8 I ii 11 N I thirty girls to every eligible male and by eligible one means a male whose name Is on a social secretary's secretary's secre- secre tary's list THE ELEVATOR MAN His occupation doesn't especially matter In fact one girl who danced divinely In the arms of a soulful orbed swain at a dinner the night before found herself riding In the elevator which he the next da day Social secretaries s are loathe to confess that elevator motormen are on their priceless men lists which are arc sold Bold for a nice sum But they dont don't den deny it GIgolos being those well groomed members of the genus male who toll toil not neither do the they drive cars unless it be the car of some rich woman are recognized necessities in Washington FURNISH DANCING PARTNERS Several social secretaries who will do everything and anythIng from arranging place cards in the White House state dining room to teaching a congressman's lady what to say when introduced also keep lists of personable young oung men I who will present themselves with a gardenia in the buttonhole to guIde guIdea a rather stout and elderly ederly dowager through the Intricate mazes of the dance It If her check is big enough Back on Main street a young man would be insulted unless he paid for his girls girl's ticket to a show but In Washington the girls girl's family quite often supplies the ticket Just the old story of supply and dem demand nd Dig Big demand Small supply sup sup- pi ply so why should the supply spend money SOWING OF THE DEB CROP The sowing of the deb crop is 15 an interesting thing Strictly speakIng speak speak- speaking Ing an any girl just an anybody body can be bea a deb Whether she gets by or not jI 9 Is another r thin thing it how how- ever There have been at least one and possibly two casualties this season One girl In the case was fairly pretty the daughter of a grocer who had m de money The family had plenty plent of money to play the deb pace and was very respectable There was no scandal In the lam lam- ilys ily's past which Is more than can be said concerning sonic some of the most prominent families in Washington socIety REAR ENTRANCE But the snobbish elite eIlte of the capital have always referred to o grocers grocers' families famBles as tradesmen itis It ItIs Is significant that on ever every Wash ash Washington ashington ington apartment Is the sign Tradesmen and Servants Use Rear Entrance Washington society will welcome with open arms the humblest humblest hum hum- blest sixth secretary of a foreign legation but the front door or of aristocratic aristocratic aris- aris society Is always closed to the wealthiest tradesmen But one social secretary decided to take a chance on the grocers grocer's daughter She arranged a coning coming con com ing out tea for her at one of the most aristocratic hotels sen sent out the engraved Invitations but not six people attended THE CASE OF MRS WILSON The The cave dwellers sharpened their fangs when the they heard for instance in- in stance that none less Jess than the president of the United Sta States in I es' es Wilson was paying attention attention at at- to the widow of a mere tradesman The rhe widow was Mrs Edith Dolling BoIling GaIt Galt widow of a jew jew- q eler eler Impossible so according to the edict But even cave dwellers cannot ignore presidents president's wIves and hen the impossible Mrs Gait Galt became Mrs Wilson first lad lady of the land the first to kow- kow tow kowtow tow unto her were those who had scratched her hel to pieces during the wooing days of the president Few women have ever graced the WhiteHouse House with the poise and dignity and courage of this Mrs lIson and the greatest evidence of her real worth was the tact act that though given glorious opportunity to tie do so she never got even with the tabbies who called her that tradesman's wid widOw w. w CANT CAN'T INVITE HER OWN BEAU Early in the season a well known social secretary generally generall Invites all the debs to a tea Thus the they meet L O Oo o oA A 1 J E- E one another Then the they file applications ap- ap applications for the services of the social social so- so cial secretary She takes charge of malls ma ing-ma ils the invitations to hundreds of the best people whom the deb In question has never seen The deb may not even invite her own beau Her fate Is decided after the coming corning corn com ing out tea If the invitations come in thick and fast she Is accepted If not she might as well dig a hole In the ground and pull pull the cover down over her The cost Oh she shea can get get through a season with it if she Is careful says social Washington Tn im- 1 h. h t u S |