| Show 1111 I I I American Ambassador Rescues I f If I I i l lf I Sufferers in French rent Floods I I L y I 1 I I J i i l I Correspondence I I y i r ONDON Feb Bacon Is IsI I I I I I LONDON a t countryman or of mine ot of whom I i I I 1 proud nn an enthusiastic l I f r i I AmerIcan woman who was In n nI I I j paris during the tho floods s was WIS telling I I I r i I I cyone yesterday esterday afternoon i f f One Ona of at tho first firs thIngs Mr Bacon Baconi i I j fi I dW ill was Us to fwd nd out It if there were any i Americans d b by tile state slate I I I I I I c cr Hs HIs In were directed I towards the tho poorer distrIcts and where I i I artists A Woman painter with a aI I d 1 t In fn the Latin quarter found I i j d I I herself one morning confronted by a ai ai i i f J from the embassy Y asking If t I t there Wan anything that could be dOlle l f or r her Sire She was just off orr to 10 frIends so 80 I II I I I t I f hero was no need In her case caso for the 1 1 I idly interest In other instances Mr Ir IrI I I C I Bacon gave that tile tin v I I I American inhabitants or of Inundated I t I Were to be Housed 1 and t II i F i I utter for tho time timo Ito IIo was most Ili II i I I active In his ministrations In several I I I f 1 Instances visiting the and andI I 4 seeing to theIr comforts himself i I Mrs Ils Reid says gays she sho will vIll sink her i grief for or the loss or of her father In her herr r J duty and when tho season n does open will hold certain receptions The duties ot of un an ambassadors are almost Identical with the tho duties or of a qu n who whatever her sorrow mu must t ap appear pear In public at times I saw n a let lett letter t ter r which Mrs 1115 Reid wrote roto to one ot of other her friends shortly after uler the each ot of Mr Ogden Mills In which sho said saidI I novel never realIzed how deeply I 1 should feel his loss lossIn lossIn In the circumstances It how fully Cully alive Mrs Reid Is to her position tion as the wife of the tho American am amba ba has ador adol when she he Is generous enough to tr try to lo lose c sight of her bar sorrow so that the Amerlean belle may not be 00 dis disappointed appointed when site ho comes way ray to tomake make 0 her hor bo bow Not until May IIa how over will there thero bo be any anything thinS going on at Dorchester House It would be 00 Im Impossible possible to exp expect ct Mrs Reid to do any anything anything thing socially before then thenA A ITA HAVEN VEN FOR TIrE THE AMBITIOUS 1 Sinco tho advent of the Rolas the tho American embassy has been the happy hunting ground ot of the tho American girls who would nev never r 1 be 0 well launched were wele It not Qt for rOI the tho opportunIties they get within Its h hospitable table walls rails To be Invited to functions at Dorchester House nOll gives newcomers il a i certain cachet wili h admits them practically Like LUo all good I hostesses Mrs Reid Is a kInd woman and b by no means so standoffish as asa a L fc few insinuate Sho upholds the dl dig dignity of the tho embassy and It Is quite comprehensible that at a memorable society function In last t year she MO resent resented ed 00 her name being mentioned after that or of a famous dancer danced I Everyone Is amazed that Miss Dray Drayton ton Mrs O Hal Haigs s daughter should Insist on traveling to the wIlds of oC Sussex to become Irs rs Wllliam Phil Phillips Phillips lips All her friends and acquaint acquaintances ances were ve vory much perturbed over her decision for It meant to lo th the yer few Invited a journey of nearly GO 50 miles mikes from London to Ro Rogate atc the tho lit little lie tle village where the nuptials were lelO celebrated cel on the dreariest and most mis miserable erable emble day we have yet had this win winter ter Society In London had been looking look lookIn In ing forward to n a town wedding and the excitement and hospitality which Is associated with such an event But the tho bride would not face faeo the musIc In a London church She determined to lo have a rural wedding far Car from the madding crowd Bridegroom was quite In accord with her In her wIsh to 1 he 0 married away awny from London Ho He HeIs Hois Is a great lover of privacy and he re regards gards aros the fashionable wedding of at the day dllY as about the bl biggest gest ordeal It is 13 possible for a man to have havo to go through NOW ON T THEIR HO HONEYMOON The bride and bridegroom have tak taken taken en fL a sweet little place In Ii Kent ont the garden of oC England whore they intend to spend theIr honeymoon They had no end ot of offers or of palatial mansions In which t td pas tho next few ow creeks but they declined them all the bride saying that she wanted anted to know what It was like to have hoer very ery own house lR Ogilvie Haigs health I rem remains rather indifferent and now that the wedding Is over oer she meats means to go abroad All this week nothing has haJ been talked d dor or of In society but the reporter refusal of oC Asquith to accept the kings command to visit 1 lt him last Satur lIa dav to Monday at Windsor In sor r Ti l the annals annal of at politics diplomacy arid so 10 clelY such nn an incident Is unknown save lave laveIn In the case caso ot of some lome sudden Rudden illness s It Is trite Mr 11 Asquith ex explained x that his wished him to have rest Iest and e but nanny many people declare th that t thIs the poor poorest poorest est ot of excuses and on h the kin king would take tako for what It was w worth rth Mrs James Henry wo a hl big dinner party et at the Hie Ritz Rib e of Mrs Anthony Dr dance arice In fires venor nor Mrs Drexel was of nr the guests and was enjoying herself and talking away merrily apparently lons of the tho fact that time was getting on and that she Rhe ought oll ht to he In her own house before 11 p m to receive her guests Sudden Suddenly I she realized the tho situation and dashed off orr not having to get et her cloak She arrived homo home just before the first or of the tiro dnn cers and looked as and trim as If Ie she he hEld had only ju just t loft lort her dress It WaS vas quito Quite nn an Innovation to a dance nt at this time or of the year such sueh almost unheard or of Buttor all It a big success and all enjoyed hugely LADY MARY l |
