Show jjr g 11 r 1 at JL me alati gossip of people and events b gathered in washington dance to mark social debut of ethel washington the date for the coming out dance of miss roose velt the presidents second daughter has been set for monda december 28 while this will mark her debut into the social life of the younger set as has been anno meed before the first state dinner she attends will really mean her formal debut this dinner will be the first cabinet dinner ot the season and will be given short ly before christmas though the announcement sent out from the white house describes the entertainment as a small dance the number of invitations will not tall far short of 1 the dance will be held in the east room of the white house and according to present intentions will follow the plan adopted when miss alice roosevelt came out that of dis bensing with the cotillion president and mrs roosevelt have maintained that entertainments given to the young members of their family should be as personal as possible when miss alice roosevelt made her debut even the first assistant secretary THE man question Is the most seri ous a fashionable girl in washington has to contend with trouble no 1 Is there aren t any men trouble no 2 Is the men that there are good irish are so spoiled to death they are a negligible quantity said a religious young woman in the innermost clique the other day conditions in washington are fierce where male creatures are concerned men have no obligations no response res they seem to think they are conferring a favor on the opposite sex simply existing of course for many a long day they have absolved themselves from the duty of paying dinner and party calls it was kind enough in them to come in the first place but halt the time they don t even answer your notes of invitation we girls have discovered that the only way to clinch the men when we really must have them at our affairs Is to catch them on the telephone before they have time to dodge extort a verbal promise that they will come and to facilitate things offer to send a of state was not invited and in gem eral that rule will be followed this year miss roosevelt Is only 18 years old and the guests will probably be the youngest assemblage ot the kind that ever gathered in the white house the tact that the dance will be given during the holidays means that a special effort will be made to have on hand miss roosevelt s school friends from new lork and the col lege mates of theodore roosevelt jr her brother will come to washington for the on and miss christine roosevelt and miss dorothy roosevelt cousins of the debutante are also ex pecked in all about young new york ers will be invited at least that number was present at miss alice s debut and tl e president has been careful that his children should not weaken their affiliations with their new york friends young teodore Tb odore will bring with him a number of his harvard college mates and perhaps one or to of the friends he has made since going into the business the list of those to be in voted is almost completed and the in will be sent out very shortly the debut of miss roosevelt Is ex pecked to introduce a very gay win ter at the capital since the marriage of miss alice roosevelt to congress man nicholas longworth Long woith in 1906 the white house has been voted a dull place by young ie blase bachelors of national capital carriage for them as well might add a bunch of american beauties be sides the girl laughed sardonically and a handson fe souvenir to boot in ancestral days the young worn in went on I 1 bel eve it was the orivl lege of the beaux to pay all the ex benses of the spree when fley took the girls to balls and looms not so in 1808 its a thanksgiving day to a girl it she can corral a p aner or the cotillion even when she pays her own subscription tee and supplies her own carriage and flowers it takes money to be a girl nowadays for example one cant be anybody and not be a member of the sixty couples cotillion in washington tickets for each oc caslon are three dollars apiece with out counting the extras does the partner whom you may possibly have secured by treason and stratagem bear any ot the expenses ot your evening 7 bisot by a heavy heavy hangs on your poor head elnan dally speaking and the beneficent be ings in evening clothes feel that they have performed the whole office ol 01 man in simply allowing you to gush over them in gratitude tor being there masculine stock Is way above par and a man who knows how to dance or will dance it he knows how to in stead of swelling the mob of blase black coats near the exits 0 ballrooms idle and unproductive is indeed a bonanza texas doctor a picturesque figure PERHAPS the most picturesque fig ure at the international losis congress in session here lately was dr A J beall of san marcus dr beall Is 85 years old has been a practicing physician in texas lor more than halt a century and be cause of his long record and his fidel ity as a practitioner Is one 0 the best beloved men in the lone star state dr beall s trip to washington was intended to be the closing and crown ing feature of his career when he re turns to his home at san marcus so he told his friends and patients before he left it will be as a man retired from active professional pursuits a private citizen the esteem in which the veteran physician Is held by his neighbors Is attested in a way by the fact that he was urged to make the trip to wash ington by and at the expense of his friends in and near san marcus the fund to pay the expense of the trip was not contributed by any one inclined person but by the entire community the money was raised by a popular subscription the doctor came to washington on the special train of the texas delaga tion and during the week was an in te rested as well as an interesting par in the proceedings and dem of the congress another enthusiastic texas delegate was dr jones of fort davis the day before dr jones left his home at fort davis to come to washington he lode horseback as miles into the country to see a patient the round trip was 90 miles the following day he rode 60 miles to the railroad sta alon whre he joined the other delegates bound tor washington the doc tor being used to such experiences was not gleatis fatigued by two trips through the country heres a bughouse job for some one Is now wanted by the bureau of entomology of the united states department of agrical ture to assist in making the bug busi ness profitable to the government or to the rural communities the rura lists have found that they had a legal ex cuse to advance the prices on eggs be cause the bug crop was cut short by the dry weather and there were no bugs for the chickens to eat so the is to i lepare b digs for chicken feed and other uses at the civil service examination to be held soon embryo preparatory will be required to assemble ten specimens of that will be furnished them and the one who succeeds in matching the dissected pieces of the ten bugs will be entitled to the price which is a position at 50 a month and board yourself or beat the landlady those who fall in the examination will be entitled to admission to the bughouse on the proper presentation of credentials another examination will be held tor applicants tor the po of aid in the division of insects of the national museum this depart ment pays better salaries than the de apartment part ment of agriculture as the salary Is 75 a month the government also wants a chief for the cattle and grain investigation laboratory the bureau of corporations depart ment of commerce and labor wants special examiners at salaries ranging from 1 00 to 3 a year |