Indianapolis Times, Volume 38, Number 289, Indianapolis, Marion County, 10 March 1927 — Page 8

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IN WHICH SUE RECALLS THOSE DAYS AT VASSAR She Tells How Indianapolis Group Debates Ten Greatest Thinkers —Highbrow? Oh, My. ' March 10 Ilene Dear—l haven’t had such an educative week-end since the days when you and I breathed the rarified atmosphere of old Vassar! Remember the walks we used to take to the cider mill in the spring when we settled all manner of questions that were perplexing the rest of the world? Really, Ilene, I’ve never been quite so learned since, have you?

Wish you could have been with me Fx-iday afternoon at the Indianapolis Woman’s Club. Mrs. Leo Burnett read a coui’ageous paper “On Becoming a Hoosier,” in which she hesitated not to scathe our politics and dii-t, but remained to praise a little our Indianapolis love of comfort and general homeliness. And Mrs. Evans Woollen Jr., gave a charming paper, “A Citizeness of the World.” And apt title, don’t you think, for the famous Mrs. Jack

Are you reading this charming series of letters interchanged by Sue and Ilene, two Indianapolis girls? Ilene is in Paris and writes of fashion there, and Sue, in her letters, gives you an authentic glimpse into Indianapolis society life. They will appear on this page from time to time.

Gardiner of Fenway Court, Boston? She gave a description of Mrs. Gardiner’s gallant and eccentric personality, and told about the construction of Fenway Court, which now houses one of most interesting art collections gathered together by a single person in America. I must see. it my next trip East. Saturday night I spent in defiance of the Eighteenth Amendment seeing “Snakes.” Don’t take me seriously, darling, I almost never do! It was this way. Kurt Vonnegut introduced the speaker of the evening at the Indianapolis Athletic Club, Dr. Raymond L. Ditmars of the New York Zoological Gardens, and his subject was “Snakes.” lie showed six l-eels of motion pictures explaining the habits and peculiarities of many animals. Showed a fight between a mongoose and a rattler, a secretary bird, which is a snake enemy, and a venomous reptile, and one reel of marine life, the animals of 'which surpass Poe lxightmares in uncanniness. Although cold shivers ran up and down my spine every once in a while, the evening was intensely interesting and Mark Pangborn Jr. and the many small boys in the audience sat spellbound. |" X"! UNDAY evening Mrs. Louis I Haerle entertained a few i 1 guests at tea before Dr. Will Durant’s lecture on “The Ten Greatest Thinkers,” at the Kirschbaum Community Center. Her guests were Miss Mai-garet Pantzer, Miss Elizabeth Haerle, Irving Fauvre, Howard Webb Adams, Theodore Severin and Edward llaub. Dr. Durant is a brilliant, chatty speaker. I was quite .proud of the audience. Mr. D. L. Chambers was the moderator and read the questions asked after the talk. They were of such an intelligent nature that it occurred to me that it wouldn’t have been necessary for Dr. Durant to have popularized his subject to the extent he did. Afterwards we all went to Ted Severin’s to discuss Dr. Durant’s choice of the ten greatest thinkers — Confucius, Plato, Aristotle, Copernicus, Francis Bacon, Isaac Newton, Spinoza, Voltaire, Kant and Charles Darwin. Mrs. Haerle made the point, and I think it a good one, that Darwin was not in strict definition a purely philosophical thinker, but primarily a scientist and naturalist. Therefoi-e she would have omitted liis name and included Nietzsche. Then the argument waxed because somebody else wanted Descartes, and the evening was wan and weary before we finally disbanded, settling absolutely nothing—thereby proving we had somewhat matured since collegiate days. Ilene, I’ve been so consistently high-brow over the week-end that you know a reaction is inevitable—and scheduled. The Players’ Club performs next Friday night, and the rehearsals are always small and exclusive riots! The program consists of three original plays by Paul Richey and there hasn’t been a single rehearsal! The possibilities are that the performances will be very original. Thursday the committee, which Includes Richey as chairman, Mr. and Mrs. R. Hartley Sherwood, Mr. and Mrs. Hex-man Wolff, and Neil Campbell, and the cast are going to the Little Theatre for a twenty-four-hour rehearsal. Mr. Richey thinks it a splendid idea, because then the actors’ enthusiasm will be cumulative and won’t flag. Good idea? C" "IOULD you get some Binche lace for me without too much w—J trouble? I want the pattern with small elephants in it. It’s so cute and effective on boudoir pillows

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and for trimming, don’t you think? I’d appreciate it loads if you could get me some. Have you seen any celebrities over there? And tell me, what are the very latest styles in shoes? I need some walking shoes, for spring is certainly the time I “long to go on pilgrimages,” and my golf shoes are ruined from teeing off my toe! Love to ydu, and write soon, SUE.

HE-WOMAN DEAD, AVER LONDONERS Long Live the Modern Feminine Girl, Is Fashion Cry.

Bn United Press LONDON. March 10.—The he-girl has killed herself. She a fail-ui-e. This is the verdict of the fashion jui-y of London after an autopsy on dead styles. The he-woman became neurotic thi-ough the craze for straight lines and the boyish figure. She dieted and starved herself until she became painfully thin. Her place is being taken by the modern feminine woman, who, judging by the spring fashions, w-ili be a perfectly delightful person. “She will be slim, yes,” said a prominent court dressmaker. • “She will never go back to the bad old (lays when women were all figure and vapors. Tennis, golf and motoring have done away with that. But she is profiting from the reaction of the match-stick figure. She will wear higher waists, fluffier frocks, gayer buttonholes and richer evening shawls. She will be more feminine and more lovely. Her skirts will be about an inch longer and she will want to be a shade plumper. The rolled stocking idea is dead. It was a crazy notion for London, with our climate, and knees obviously too ugly. Also the flat heel idea has been abandoned. It was only a whim, anyway, and the women who clumped along in low-heeled shoes found they were had for the ankles. “In the daytime Miss 1927 will wear simple, straightish dx-esses; at night her frock will spring into fullness fi-om the waist, which will be fe trifle higher and with cascades of draperies from the hip. She will be a real she-woman.”

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Mrs. Everett Schofield was elected first vice president of the Woman’s Department Club Wednesday.

One Meal, and • That Wasn’t Bu United Press LOGANSPORT. Ind., March 10.—Stacie Forber was granted a divorce. He complained that his wife, Cerida, had cooked only one meal in their two weeks of married life, and that he could not eat that one.

HONORS GUEST Mrs. Wayne Mitchell, of Bedford, who is the guest of Mx-s. George L. Tovey, 5435 Washington Blvd., was honor guest at a luncheon-bi-idge which Mx-s. Tovey gave Wednesday. Covers were laid for fourteen at a table decorated with spring flowers. NAME OFFICERS At the luncheon meeting of the Wednesday Afternoon Club at the home of Mrs. B. H. Bass, 4003 N. New Jersey St., the following officers were elected: Mesdames A. E. Shirley, president: O. S. Wright, fii-st vice-president; W. J. Schreiber, second vice-px-esident; R. W. Robex-son, secretary; E. J. Ryan, assistant secretary; William G. Praed, treasurer; Homer D. Trottex-, critic; C. C. Shaffer, parliamentarian. SPOKE AT LEAGUE Miss May Louise Shipp talked on “China" at the open meeting of the Indianapolis League of Women Voters this afternoon at the Propylaetim. History teachers of the public schools were special guests at the meeting. After the program there was a social hour, during whieft tea was served. ANNOUNCE OFFICERS Offlcei-s of the Cai-oline Scott Harrison chapter of the Daughtei-s of the American Revolution were elected at the clubhouse today. The polls were open from 10 a. m. to 4 p. m. and the results will be announced Friday.

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RESERVATIONS MADE BY PARENT-TEACHERS The Rev. Fifer Will Speak at Dinner of Indianapolis Federation Friday Night.

Rev. O. W. Fifer pastor of the Central Ave. M. E. Church, will speak on “Loyalty of Appreciation,” at the dinner of the Indianapolis Federation of Parent-Teacher Association at 6:30 Friday evening at the Spink Arms. Mrs. Homer J. Miller of South Bend, president of the Indiana Federation of Parent-Teacher Associations will talk on “The Survival of the Fittest." Ernest G. Xesser and the Whittier choir under the leadership of Mrs. Clyde E. Titus will sing. The following reservations have been made: Board Members and Guests —Mr. and Mrs. Charles H. Smith, Mr. and Mrs. Murray Balman, Mrs. William M. Hedrick. Mr. and Mrs. E. G. Hcsser. Mrs. Robert J. Walden, Mrs. N. O. Tracey. Mrs. Robert Kendall. Mrs. James H. Dunne, Mrs. R. C, Tilley. Miss Flora Drake. Dr. and Mrs. O. W. Fifer. Mrs. Homer J. Miller. Mrs. A. C. Raffensperger. Mrs. Annie S. Clark, Miss Olive Funk. Miss Olive Selby. Mr. and Mrs. Thomas C. Miller. Miss Mabel Wheeler. Miss Mary Farmer and Miss Kathryn Pickett.

JOURNALIST FROM INDIA IS HEARD Woman’s Club Chooses New Officers; Name Mrs. Perkins.

Mrs. S. E. Perkins was elected president of the Woman’s Department Club Wednesday, to fill Hie unexpired term of the' late Mrs. E. J. Robinson. Mrs. Everett M. Schofield was elected first vice presi. dent: Mrs. Edward Ferger, third vice president; Mrs. John Curry, corresponding secretary; Mrs. Carl Fletcher, audito'r; Mrs. Alvin T. Coate, Mrs. William Welch and Harry Foreman, directors at large. In his talk on “Eastern and West'ern Ideals’’ Syud Hossian, journalist from India, said: “We have not progressed intellectually and spiritually as we have economically. In these two respects we are still living in the middle ages, in isolation. We must build up a body of intellect in the world that is forward looking. ( “The whole world is looking toward the United States as the shaper of the world's destiny. There has been a great deal of misconception in this country in regard to the position of the East as an influence to mankind. Every great: x-eligion Inis come from the East, every department of human knowledge had its principle laid down in the East and in our education of yoyth todav we should not forget to teach them these fundamental facts.” ALUMNAE ELECT Mrs. Howe Stone Landers was elected president of the Indianapolis Alumnae Association of Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority at a dinner meeting Wednesday evening at the I). A. R. chapter house. Mrs. D. Maurice Stephenson was elected vice-president: Mrs. Ronald Scott, re-elected recording secretary; Mrs. L. H. Millikan, corresponding secretary; Mrs. Albert H. Fessler, treasurer; Mrs. William Henry Harrison, chairman of the program and press committee. After a business meeting Miss Josephine O'Neil and Miss Norma Shuttleworth, Mu chapter pledges, gave xi musical program. PLAN PARTIES Miss Catherine Lewis, daughter of Mi*, and Mrs. John W. Lewis, 135 Johnson Ave., who will be married March 26 to Edwax*d Davis James, will lxc honor guest for many parties during the next two weeks. Friday evening Mrs. Clifton E. Donnell, 82 N. Hawthone, and Mrs. B. W, Lewis, 36 Layman Ave., will entertain and on Saturday Miss Katharine Gallagher and Mrs. John T. Kurflss, Jr., 5949 University Ave., will be hostesses. Monday evening of next week Miss Ilene Harryman, 5733 E. New York St., will entertain for Miss Lewis, and on Wednesday evening Miss Corinna Wilson will entertain. Friday night Mrs. Stanley M. Green and Mrs. Thomas S. Shinier, 224 S. •Emerson Ave., have invited guests in her honejr and Saturday afternoon Miss Margaret James, 41 Whittier PI., and Mrs. Charles R. James of Chicago will be hostesses. Sunday, March 20, Mrs. John F. Kurflss, Sr., will entertain with a dinner for Miss and Mr. James. The following Tuesday Miss Mildred Stilz. 450 N. Audubon Rd., and Miss Florence Lupton, 3fi S. Ritter Ave., will entertain at bridge. Mx*s. William Henry Harrison, Miss Lewis’ sister, will be her only attendant and Charles R. James of Chicago will be his brother's best man. Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Bushong, 5214 Pleasant Run Blvd., have returned from an extended southern trip.

School 3—Miss Ida Pearcy. Mesdames L. S. Bowhay, Elizabeth Peterson, Roy Money. M. H. Harmon. Jessie Lodge, Clara Westerfield. Miss Susan Howe. Miss Cecelia Galvin and Mrs. E. R. Lee. School B—Mesdames D. M. Kina. C. D. Murray. H. B. Morris, Miss Mildred Weld and Miss Florence Hamill. School 10—Miss Katherine Johnson, Miss Maude Hoffman, Mesdames L. R. Sehellsehmidt, D. E. Trimble, M. E. Secur. Alleeno Hoeh, E. M. Boesel, Herbert Uiker, E. C. Harrington. Geraldine Epnart, G. E, Mitchell, E. L. Darraeott. J. B. Irwin, L. T. Highly. Charles Fisher. F O. Houts, Scott Van Buskirk, Mr, and Mrs. Hubert Holsehall. ■School 12. —Mrs. A. L. Dobbins. School 13—Mrs, E. P. Hall, Miss It. A. Crielag and Miss Sara Waara. School 14—Mesdames Mayme E. Armstrong, Robert M Armstrong, Bernard Bederholm. J. IT. Marshall, C. R. West. Mr. and Mrs. A. W. Guthrie, Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Tucker, Misses Ruby Lee, Caroline McAdams and Eimlv McAdams, School 16—Mesdames Grace Adams Granger. Bessie Butcher. Will Miller. Vernon M. Heath. Harry Stearns. Doris Milan. E. J. Swift, Daisy Calvert and Ruby Wolf. School 17—Mrs. Elizabeth Galloway and Mrs. Urias Sharpe. School 18.—Miss Emma Dorman. Mesdames L.vdia Wolf. Elinor Kalb Golav. Pansy Loroman. C. H. Sohwomeyer. Elsie Baker. Chas. Donges, Dye Miller and C. J. Miller. School 21 —Mesdames Anna Reade. Fred Daveo, A R. Nachleis, S. E. Willis and B. F. Abel. School 27—Mesdames W. B. Craig. William Titus and Paul Bowman. School 28—Mesdames Lee Buchanan. William Burch, Clara White. Charles Reed, Miss Grace Duzan and Mis.~ Jane Graydon. School 20—Mesdames George Steinmetz. C. L. Thurston, M. E. Robbins, H. C. Fletterjohn. Edward Bundy. Miss Vcrena Denzler, Mrs. Charles Over and Miss A. E. Cotter. School 30—Miss Elizabeth Hester, Mesdames Nettie Day. Robert Goodlet. T. C. Kelly. Frank Lentz, F. W. Maitlen. Georgia Lacey. Oscar Jones, Charles F. Grauel and George Orrn. School 31—Miss Mary Connor, Miss Anna Leiss, Mesdames F. E. Simms. J. E. Cox. A. E. Egsrert H. A. Meyer. H. E. Hinkle, L. O. Ruddock. A R. Bernd. H. E Caasaday. q O. Henn. F. M. Maar. C. E. Frisemiehal and C. H. Gasiier. School 33—Mr. and Mrs. A. Leßoy Portteus and Miss Ada Wyriek. School .'l4—Mrs. J. J. Govne, Mr. and Mrs, William B. Laramore. Mr. and Mrs. E. J. Schuster. Mesdames George Weber. Richard Sturm. -Mabel Mcßeynolds. T. U. Denny, B. T. Carroll and Sylvia Barns. School 36—Mesdames Frank Stewart. Claudia Ballard, William Kraas, Wilfred Weiland and E. R. Neal. School 36—Mesdames Carl Seller. William Brandt, Milton Valodin. C. E. Wilson, Miss Vivian Sowers and Mrs. J. E. Fry. School 38—Mrs. J. O. Rhodes. School 39—Mesdames C. N. Hadlev Peter Rupp. Ernest Myrtck, Anna Schakel. O. L. Dicks. Leslie Duvall, C. A. la'et. P. R. Snell, William Jegen. Frank Cramer. Miss Ida B. Geary. Miss B.vrl McClure. Miss Esther Knop, Mr. and Mrs. J. E. King and Mrs. G. E. Tene.vcK. School 41—Mrs. Frank C. Spangler and Mrs. Stanley Scott. School 43—Mrs. Thomas Cooper. Mrs. John Metlett and Miss Nell Green. _ School 45—Mocdames John Bernloehr D. T. Brown’ess. Cora E. Stewart, John Haugh. Walter Holt. O. B Brown Mur ray A. Auerbach. Walter C. Holmes Albert Hirschman and R. A. Meyers. School 46—Mesdames Frank Prestin. John A. Bell. Albert Romine. Jessie Buthr. Wenzel Boski. Ray Nave, James W hern. Fred Gaits. li. Clyde Fowler. Wallaa.e Thompson. Frank Arbuckle. Earl William* Raymond Wainscott. John Wnuman. Ruth Holmes. Wilma Mueller. Ella Parsons Misses Grace Black, Christine Neerman! Ksthcr Carlton. K'sii* Heil. Graoe Swailn Nvla Smith. Marv Morgan. Gladys Murphy! Cjara Moore. Maude Dome and Gladys

~ School 47—Mrs. J. E. Horsley. Mr. and Mrs A. S. himber, Mr. and Mrs. Ben H. Grimes and Mrs. Chas. Helmer. —- Mrß • Hattie Aubrey and Mrs. £sUll!l Mnitl). School 49——Mrs. A. S. Brown. School 50—Mesdames H O. Powell I. M. Sartor and Edward Wheeler. School ol—Mrs. S. P. Driggs. ~ School 53—Mrs. Jeannette Knowles. Miss C. A. Ryan. Mesdames R K. Waldo John Sanders. C. E. Gooden and J. E' Scrogen. School 54—-Mesdames Zona Mock krank Harris. Fred Hull. A. J. Huesing. Ralph St rat man, Murray Truyn, Clifford Miller. Mabel Inglis. Florence Br.vdon. Eunice Shelby, Mary Headley, Misses Lena Swope. Agnes Malumcy. Ella Shell. Anna Torrence. Ida Pingpank. \ lima Haertig and Mrs. Lawrence Carter. School .>s—Mrs. W. B. Davidson. School 57—Mrs. G. I. Hoover. Mrs W S. Southard. Mrs. Milton Mnngus. Miss Helen Loeper and Miss Genevieve Burns. School 68—Mesdames Clayton Ridge, Moudy. Turner MarShall 8. A. MaeDouglaa and Robert Mills School hi—Mrs. J J. Adams Mrs. C E. Hall, Miss Du lay Brooks. Miss Came FHmi Miss Gertrude Thatcher and Mrs. ucii r^oei. School 63—Table reserved. School 67—Mrs. R. w. McCracken. Mr. ami Mrs Walter King and Mrs. Fred King. School.69—-Mesdames S. J. Lee. Mabel Mead and C. L. Ross Srhooj 72—Mis* Ida Helphiiistine. Miss Ellen Vickery, Miss Ethel Budd. Mrs. George Burkhart. School 73 Mesdames Edna Basbinder, E. E. Doll, G. E. Brennan. S. A. Mewhinney. L. A. Seibert. A. R Chowtnind. M. C. Penrn. Mis* Anna Heidcrgott ami Miss Frances Newton. School 76—Mesdames Julius C. Travis. W. E. Balch, S. M. Raymond. Albert H. Hinkle. Edward W. Springer. Misses Bell Ramey. Martha Logsdon, Prances Graney and Edith Seeley. SJchQpl 77—Mrs. Charles Souther* and Miss Laura Hayes. School 78—Mesdames H. W. Linsbury, Charles Moore. Gcorgo C. Witt, W. ,1. Mellemler, O. H. Boaz. Walter Mountjoy and Miss Clara Steele. School 80—Mesdames Donald Stackhouse. H. T. Bennett, Homer Ohcy and Lillian Weller. School 31—Mesdames E. J. Larkin. Ear! Siler. .1. R. Johnson. Claude Yates. R 11. Humphreys: Misses Adelaide McCarty. Claraboile Pate, Edna Chandler, Ethel MeKinsey and Ruby Mel’ammon. School 82—Mesdames C. L. Plummer. D. E. Morgan and Emil J. Reinhardt. School 83—Mrs. Lilly Hughes and Mis*? Fanny Bridges. School 44—Miss Elizabeth Kirby anU Mrs. Joseph Cravens. FOR BRIDE-ELECT Mrs. W. B. Elliott, 1712 Orange St., entertained Wednesday evening with a miscellaneous shower in honor of her daughter,'lrene, who will he married March 19 to Rex La Porte. Ten guests were entertained and i*efreshments wex*e served during the evening. Miss Hilda Kritsch entertained Friday with a party in honor of Miss Elliott. The wedding will take place at the home of the bride’s parents, with the Rev. G. L. Farrow officiating, i Only the immediate families will be present. CLEBRATE ANNIVERSARY Mr. ajxd Mrs. Samuel Phillips of St. Omer, Ind., recently celebrated their fifty-ninth wedding anniversary. Both are 81 years old and have been living in the home in St. Omer for the past forty-four years. Mrs. Phillips was born in Morgan County, Kentucky, and Mi*. Phillips in Decatur County, Indiana. They have ten living gijndchildren and four great-grandchildren.

IJcnifeSSioftS |§§d Being Intimate Stories of Wteuthe Womans Side of Lif e in the Capital

You’re an Insurgent If You Live on the ‘Hill’ at Washington. By Aliene Sumner CHAPTER IV “Nobody lives on the hill.” That’s what the official sisterhood of Washington tells the newcomer when her private car strikes the Union Depot. (Yes, indeed, many of them come by private car, and many of tliem do not.) But however they come, they soon learn that if they would be somebodies in Washington, they simply may not live within commuting distance of “the hill”—the nation’s beautiful capltol building. Sometimes the sisterhood strikes a hard nut to crack. Sometimes an insurgent husband brings an insurgent wife who insists on living where she darn pleases. Insurgent Shipsteads Take the Hendrick Shipsteads from Minnesota, for instance. Mrs. Shipstead started house-hunting. They told her that “nobody lived on the hill.” She told the senator. He said. ‘“Ah, so we have so degenerated that we need a location?” The Shipsteads live on the hill, almost next door to the eapitol, which Mrs. Shipstead calls the biggest show on earth,” and they manage to he "somebodies” in spite of it. And of course, the congressional families, like the poor, are ever with us. Tiiey are hived together “upon the hill,” perhaps sixty of them, in a hotel of the traveling salesman type. Potted caftnas in the lobby, the smell of furniture polish, wicker chairs on the porch, and darkish little suites which can be rented for $125 a month for two. The Other Half Long and weary miles trod the city over by dozens of congressmen's wives have proved that this is about the best they can do. They may rebel at first as visions of sunny big houses which can be rented at home for $125 persist, but sooner

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Senator and .Mrs. Shipstead, who broke Washington's social traditions by living where they pleased—which happened to be close to the eapitol.

or later begin to prate of freedom, to trek to the eapitol galleries, and gather in one another’s rooms for bridge and gossip. That's how one half lives. The other half lives in thfe world’s most luxurious apartment houses and hotels. . The “Andrew Mellon apartment house.” where the secretary of the treasury lives, is said to rent its huge suites for SIB,OOO a. year. Dr. Hubert Work's suite in an-

AT LEAST four thousand people have asked friends this question in the past few days. Those who did see it have reported an intensely interesting experience. For here was a Fashion Show presenting more than just “nice clothes on attractive mannequins. ,, It was the first formal presentation in this city of authentic wearable spring, 1927, style—the sort of style in dress that has made Indianapolis known for its smart women. A showing of beautiful yet eminently; practical clothing for all feminine ages —flapper to grandmother, for the very mature to the very slender figure, including the new and much-discussed “half-sizes.” Inexpensive street frocks were shown as well as forty-six original Paris models. It was a show in which fashion-right-ness came first. This was noted by many discriminating spectators, who noticed that each costume included just the right shoes, hose, hat, handbag and jewelry. • To our friends in answer to their many kind words, we reply as modestly as we may that we are proud of our effort—for it reflects adequately what is our best collection in years of authentic wearable styles in

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One Half at Capitol Has Every Luxury; Other Lives in Flats. other hotel rents for almost hie aalary of $12,500 a year. Basic Suites at $6,000 Fifty senators and a few congressmen’s families live in what aro called “basic suites" of a certain hotel. These suites rent for $(,000 a year. The suite consists of an ordinary living room with an in-a-door bed, a few pieces of carved Italian furnlturo, a bedroom, kitchenette, pullman dining alcove and bath. But the dreamedof marble halls of song are all about. Foyers and lobbies carpeted with rugs of liquid plush, time-dyed tapestries and oil canvasses upon the walls, beautiful fountains, singing birds in golden cages, shops filled with beauty, clgaret girls clad in gorgeous silken pajamas, jeweled combs in their hair, incense burning aflame, nnd the colorful costumes of the world's officialdom all nbout. Here. In mirrored and tapestried and over-upholsteried “peacock allies" sit rows upon rows of beautiful women. Some not so beautiful. Old women with knlsomlned faces puffing Russian clgnrcf* through jeweled holders; Washington's debs, swathed to the pink chin in peltries, whisk down the alley on the arm of some mustached gallant. Borrow $15,000 a Year “You might just as well be dead as try to he in Washington nnd not live like this,” a senator's wife told me, confiding that her husband borrowed $15,000 every year bo was in the Senate. “We figure it's better business to live well enough to make contracts even if It's on borrowed money,” she said. “There'll lie a better chance to make a haul some day. You can't get anywhere If you don't meet the right people.” Next you'll have some tidbits about life in the White House. (Copyright, 1927. NEA Service, Tno.)