Show I 7 Th 01 o oa a a C d 0 How She Stood on Her Head Every Day Day- m One of the Intimate Bits of Gossip in the I Book That Is Some sa t While Tier ro co Anonymous cae g u e s 6 t tI tm amazement farmer I m 0 0 z ked nt nth Alicec Alice on r the h in c 2 Members of Washington Society and f Roosevelt put sat her i 3 head headon on t e cash cash- cashion hung M 1 41 ion shot her legs F t rb ala aloft It and andre re- re remained t poi poised II e d t el Y x M a wi k 9 a s t 1 R Rr m r w a perfectly Stand ing on her head and kicking ing at the l f wat chande chand was as aing al a 21 ye sort SOTt of dally daily ex ex- ex exy y with her a R Rr r P 1 There you try r y tv- tv tvs s this every day and you wont won't have lumbago or heart I i V VY Y Yr 4 at ati trouble she said said M t rb r q tw a r ne neti a 1 F r F s nY nYne N Na y Y ti 11 ry R r 5 y t H l lj j I 1 d I l y y je e I R Rp p e er r j r j wife of v L 1 I I the Rumanian s st t tr Minister a n d I I x her u r ter The a e ee eIn In aj E 3 t tun cars is said to have a M serpents serpent's e tongue like her celebrated Eng s t tY Y F lish moths Mrs Asquith wm 1 THO IIO is s the anonymous author WHO who is broadcasting to the 9 Y world in m a book called Boudoir Mirrors of Washington scores of inti inti- intimate intimate mate mato facts and spicy bits of gossip about men and women prominent in m the and political life of the national capital This IS i the question that is lD interesting the smart set of Washington just lust now I even e en more than who will be the next President But Bat thus far there is only aIde a aid aide Ide id variety of the tho wildest w dest guesses as asto asto asto to the books book's author The one thing certain is 15 that the au- au au author th thor r is some ionic one who ho knows Washing Washing- Washington Washington ton backward and very forward forward very probably probably ably tour some one who at this moment u 15 dining or dancing or taking tea with some somo omo of the men and aud women whose so- so social so social cial vial and political fives fires are arn alfi laid aid bare bar lD in Boudoir Mirrors MIrrOr Mirror The reason why the th appearance of thin book has sent the th cold shivers shiver chas chia chasing chas chas- chasing ing up and down many en an n aristocratic Washington spur spine is not because the things t t says are arc malicious or often If ever very far from the truth Neither Nether u IS isit f It because it re reveals eals many things that I have not long lone been food for far the th gossips The volume isa is a frank merciless and often highly amusing dissection of ot the personalities of ot various vanous men and women whose social or political ambitions tako them to Washington Wahington It reveals their good and bad qualities the things that Win them praise and trose rose that get laugh laughter laughr r and sneers just as they proba proba- probably probably probably bly stand revealed to t their own souls soula It if they have hav the thu courage to study them them- themselves themselves selves es But But while Washington Wad thinks many of the things with which the book deals are ar perfectly all right for specula specula- speculation speculation tion In its own awn boudoirs and around the tea tables tables It tt feels that it is rather m- m indelicate in-delicato in delicate and unwise to hand band them rn out in inthis inthis inthis this way for the th great American consumption It is feared that many things win wife be misconstrued and that some omo OHM of the l M characters that figure figor in m the th book will willbe willbe be put m lD a wrong light by the Ur co ry J at large Those who June have to depend on the votes of their theU constituents to t keep mp the their p places In Washington are an ar w worried about the th book books book's erect effect on n the tho folks oIb back bod home home- In evenI uses a side aide sid of at their lives is u revealed that seems hardly hanDy like lib likly ly to make mak plain Mr and Mrs Vis Taxpayer very enthusiastic about the tha way theu representatives are ant ar behaving when they get so sa far away from free then their old ole homo home hometowns towns Yet doubtless many fled find erase far tor pleasure and satisfaction in the reflections of their theu per which Bon Boa B doir a-doir doir Mirrors Mirron gives The Tir widow of President Harding and the WIfe wit of the tho new President ire r dealt with in a par par- parI I f gracious altho very Cry io- io r manner And Mrs Nicholas Lou Ure I former formes Aran Roosevelt certainly ought Jo fecI fed es a s dIo abo xh toads read the highly 1 men inear tar a ft A things thines the thea t h l ll i l book has to t say her he like lice ferreting fer fer- fer r vPs a h i out its author end and throwing her arms i ro about about bout his or her neck s k Ever since she Ehe made mado her debut r v 1 Mrs Longworth t t t thas has been byan by an all odds the most interesting woman f t t In vin Washington t I IVia Via smore v m o 0 r e celebrated f te Y then any other forY fori for f i I her brains braIDs and the i s r charm of ot her ber per per- per personality c 1 and her capaCIty for showing show- show t T mg ing an often sensa- sensa J Y t disregard of ot i- i iy the th e conventions j t y x r t i So it is quite natural that Mrs S Longworth t the h he e x most per per- peri i for the the the- ire mt goSSipS Wash Washing Washing- Washington mg 1 r ton eve e ever v e r had I a g y M should led lead this bookard book ard and be given the th longest and l A many think its Ita most sk 5 M chapter V i igar gar Cut Dut this anon anon anon- h irons i d du u roes a noes rr chronicler IS not 1 satisfied with recounting Ry some of tile the spiciest mCI- mCI ton sic dente dent of the former f f dih x t r Roosavelt's con con b ba a i def me mg career career- career f r i s show how hov sir shA WI was the first Washing Washington fa v ti ton tor woman ortan to puff cigarettes cIga ette quite openly her fondness for black satin trousers avid and the way she stood on her pretty head bead to demonstrate a novel DOvel cure curl for lumbago Toward the end of the th chapter the tho author snatches mate Mrs Longworth's Longworth hat and hurls it into the Senatorial ring t Ju what it would mean says the author of uS Boudoir Mirrors Motors to have one electric vIVId vivid fearless auda dons young woman m in that stuffy stodgy of fixers fence-fixers senders seed seed assembly embly afraid of and mediocrities The author adds wistfully And what a daredevil campaign it would bel And if she sh got cot it it Of coarse marse she wouldn't be b spectacular an aD the time time but those thole old partridges sit around waIting waging for tear fear ear they'd aims nusa nua it when abe be was in action making a m-cy m sti cylinder I Wen Weft who wb kw b will b hold I pe hope h p I am aai ali to 10 see em ee it if it Q the she nna nm rm rd Id ito bate hat to m misa i the th fun tun Perhaps th there them ts is yet to bea be a better example of ot the Or with which the late Theodore na n a daughter leaps the barriers bu of the tha mn thaw she xh led furnished tx m her home one IDe MS day when she turned tamed arcu acrobat before a party of ot astonished women ts cu m In t order to illustrate one on of her fa methods of keeping in m good c od health T Ty y l IIA S e er r CIO Miss Ailsa Mellon daughter d of the Secretary of the Treasury whom the mysterious ans chronicler of Wash Wah-Uli Wah ington on goss p describes describe as a wearing her triple crown of youth charm cb rm and wealth very easily One One of the guests sat cat miserably tanG tanG- ta talk talk-hie a aing ing about her health health- health BayS soya the th anonymous author She detailed her bar symptoms symptoms symptoms toms and their reactions her sufferings and the heroic martyrdom which never her pain to dim the fh happi- happi nl ness of her home Yoa Too know the th sort sorl ort of woman I Have you yon ever tired teed ta m your head l asked AIice ALee n leaning forward and betraYIng a sodden interest Tho The woman looked at her for a sue sue- mo ment meat uncertain whether or not DOt to 10 take tab offense But Bet there was not DOt a flicker of ofa ofa ofa a smile in the Roosevelt tie face It It It ads acts ct like ia a charm she said Here Here lend me m a safety safet pin phi She secured eared the th hem her cf of her skirt Urt be- be between be tween Ix-tween tween her knees and sad and taking a cushion placed it on n the th floor The Th hypochondriac watched her with bewildering interest Alice Longworth put pot her head on the and shot abet her legs Ices aloft where when front row scat seat in the th gallery completely absorbed in what is 13 al being said She goes coes not from frome e j idle idIe curiosity but to absorb d a L ideas from the long winded long T F r Senatorial debaters and to toon n 9 match their opinions against hers e Of the younger Washington o 5 butts buds only one on is is singled out q r tC for conspicuous mention in m the tho book and that is A Ailsa Mellon ri a the daughter ot of the Secretary of the Treasury who presides over his household since her n al ala a parents parentis are divorced Beaux Well Well I should say writes the author of her war so so Youth charm wealth wealth A Ailsa sa Y Mrs Alice Roosevelt Long Long- worth Lout Mellon wears her triple crown f 4 worth probably the mOl m o s t easily But she is a shrewd t fruitful subject object for gossip little hale lady is AIlsa and she t Washington ever had bad and now is winnowing the chaff recommended as the ideal per per- perthe person the oats There Ther is much mach sp spec spec- spec speculation c son to wake we w e up op the United as to which way the States Senate wind blows but it is too early s-i s she remained poised per per- perfectly 4 per Standing on her q l head and nd kicking her hery y t feet at lt the chandeliers was a sort of ot da daily y ex ex- ex erase with her PK l erase f The Th guests looked on 1 in fa amazement No other 7 woman in that room ast u f perfect equilibrium of or j jb Ul t b I composure of mind W i could c l l have bave stood on her s v-l v head bead and retained such There There you yea try that every everyday everyday every everyday day and you wont won't have havo lum- lum bago baco or heart trouble and andI she stood erect erect returned the th safe safo ty pin pID and her seat scat WIth leisurely ease eLC Mrs Longworth isas is as unconventional m in her ber choice of friends as in else The author or cites as an example of thIs the inseparable companionship ot of the tho Pr Princess Alice Aliee and the Countes which excited so much comment from the gOSSIps in m the days daY before the formers former's m marriage nage The Th Countess was wu the fhe young and ex- ex extraordinarily ex extraordinarily beautiful woman who made her ber appearance in Washington WIth Comet Cassim the th I Russian Ambassador during the th Roosevelt regime It soon became known that she ahe h wasn't a countess that that she sh wasn't any sort of Society dropped its lorgnettes loi and lift t- ted lifted lifted ed scornful eyebrows Its powers power decided they must draw the tb line somewhere and so they drew it at the Countess Tho The Countess however made mad a sIn sIn- gular galar appeal to 10 Alice Roosevelt 11 says the author at of Boudoir ou Dir Mirrors that sort If It she sho likes people she doesn't ask for their birth certificates and do- do domand domans d mand mans mand their marriage lines The Th same Alice Alie Roosevelt velt who used to torim torun rim nm hurdle burdi races over the th drawing room furniture with her dubious Countess and who once leaped into a swimming pool with an all her Clothes on em b is according to Boudoir Mirrors o one on of the tho tb k st students of political problems max man or woman woman in Washington day to-day Whenever a debate of importance is h hon ison ison on in the Lh Senate Senat she is to be found in a yet to prophesy Not an aD the th book is devo devoted d to the born born American of Washington Among the foreign residents who come corn in for comment is Princess the charm charm- charming charm ine mg ing and gIfted fitted wife we of the th Rumanian Minister The Princess is the daughter of England's Mrs Asquith whom Kip Kipling ling onto once one described as the th wo woman an With the serpents serpent's tongue and the author thinks she Ehe he has inherited much of her mothers mother's faC facility for biting remarks With all aU its sparkling humor and keen satire there is real pathos patros in Boudoir Mirrors of Washington Washington-in in the pages that recount the struggles man many men men and women have to make to keep up WIth the financial and social pace set by the wealthy lel leaders ers of the capitals capital's smart set The reader is s told how bow the women from irom the nations nation's humble Main streets comb the city for fer inexpensive apart apart- apartments apartments ments that are ar still fine enough to do the then n necessary Ce sary entertaining and how bow they borrow and combine one on another's resources re- re re resources sources in order to hide their lack of 01 means One example of the th lengths to which the demands of Washington life fore force those thos of only modest means is that of the th Senators Senator's wife wit who wh lives in ia a rooming house hous and who bribes the tho tb rest of at the tb household to keep oat out of sight when she sh Is giving BB an at home borne A to 10 the th Mirrors Mirror there ther are two invitations in n Washington more mare prized than t i any others One On is an aa In- In InVItation in invitation to an an- informal Sunday night supper SlIpper at tho the home bom of Senator and Mrs Mn Mcdill McCormick the th latter the th daugh daugh- daughter daughter daughter ter of the th late lato Mark Marx Hanna The other is an invitation from Alice Ance Roosevelt Longworth to 10 come corn over vcr end and hem bear Nick play Congressman Nicholas Longworth is aa an accomplished violinist and his wife wit says fays she sho enjoys his music best when she sh is dressed in m black satin trousers tran and curled up uy on a sofa Mrs Irs Herbert Hoover is the Ux only oM one of the Cabinet wives to be given a whole chapter to 10 herself The only job she wants to 10 fin fill in life hie lit is that of being a background for Bertie BerOe And yet ret it is pointed o out that whoa when F i fyr b a i j 4 a B BEt Et Etz z y t t The lively and lovely Countess Cassini at whom society drew the theline theline line but whom Alice Roosevelt I Imade made her chum Mrs Hoover was taking a mining en- en engineering en engineering course at Leland Standford University at the same time as her hus- hus husband husband hus husband band band she sho outdid him in scholarship Theres always been ill in inthe the Hoover home bome says the author it I wasn't wartime innovation a i They nil They did it it Bertie Bertie the th Background and the Boys According Accord nl to the Ure th Mirrors Mrs Grover Cleveland's abolition of the bustle was wu the th result of f a newspaperman's newspaper newspaperman's newspaperman's mans man's invention One On day when the Washington correspondents could find absolutely nothing worthy of at telegraph telegraphing ing rig their j papers one n at of them suggested manufacturing an item staying saying that the Presidents wife wit had decided to aboh the bustle In an as hour hoar the message was w being 1 sent broadcast and the th next ext morning m It was read at mona millions of f breakfast tables ables bles Mrs Mrs Mra Cleveland was young and beau beau- beautiful says the th author and the th nation looked to her as a guide guid in ia such soch matters She did the tho th simple courteous thing thine and immediately order rier a gown a eown without andI a I bustle st I I 1 A Ai j i J |