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The Social Side of Washington[Speclal to The Tlmes-Dlipateh.]Washington, D. c. October S_Scarcclybad the natlonal capital recovered from the

rjppreswd excitement of Its week of greatsxpcctatlons and some reallzatlons In theway of vlslts from P.ealdent Taft and hl(L'abln.t. an Imperlal Chinese prlnce and arto! llve Sultan, of Sulu. when Us attentionwas required for the proper entertalnmentot dlstlnguished delegatei to tho AmorlcanPrison Assoclation meetlng, held ln conjunc-tlon wlth the elghth Internatlonal PrlaonCongre«»; noted apostles of the Catholicfaith, who came for a large church con¬vention: the Rlght Hon. Michael Dovle,Lord Mayor of Dub'.ln, wlth hia all-Irelandmall deputatlon. and a group of sclentlstsIn charge of the best exhiblUon of aero-planes and aeroplane englnes ever held lnthls clty.Soclety has also been busy welcomlng Its

returning members, among whom may be.nentloned such long-tlme favorltes asUnlted States Naval Commander and Mrs.Willlam XV. Whlte, who are here to pre-parc for the approachlng weddlng of theirdaughter, Mlss Anna Loulse, to Lleutenant-Iram Leech Irwln, U. 8. N.; General andllrs. Willlam P. Hall. the latter a daughter>f former Senator J. C. S. Blackburn, ofKentucky. who have taken a house for thewinter; Mrs. Grant, wife of LleutenantUlysses Grant, thlrd. who. wlth her youngfamlly, has Just concluded a summer vlslt\o her parents, Senator and Mrs.' KllhuRoot, at the latter's home at CUnton, N". Y.;Mlss M. J. Sherrlll, who hurrled home from

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Coburg, Can.. to prepare for a visit fromher brother and hla wlfe. United Statesmlnister to Argentlna and Mrs. Sherrll!who, wlth thelr young son, aro now ln Parlsen routo to the States.

Mrs. Franklin MacVca.h. wife of the Sec¬retary of the Treasury, has returned to herresldence on Sixteonth Street Hill afterspendlng thc summer at her country homeat Dublin, N. H.. and a few days ln N'ewYork City en routa to Washington. Mrs.MacVcagh. than whom there ls no more !n-defatlgable hostess in the Cabinet clrele,will open her home for the season, and ac¬cept a few very temptlng Invitatlons herebefore going to her former home in Chlca¬go, where she wlll visit her only son, EamesMacVeagh.Mrs. George L. von Meyer and her two

daughters have planned t0 remain at their,home near Hamilton, Mass., until the Sec¬retary of the N_vy returns there to vote.which will be at the end of the flve-weektour of .Inspection In the South and West.The Misses Meyer. who by the way, a!-.

ways dress exactiy allke, had very' charm-lcg experiences abroad, desplte thelr vouth,during thelr father's servlce In the dlplo-matic corps in St. -Petersburg and Rome.This year they added to the gaiety of llfe,ln rural Massachusetts, where thelr father'speople have been prominent slnce Revolu¬tionary tlmes. iOwing to the President's early visit the

regular autumn refurblshing of the Whlte,

House was done in September. VIsitorB tothe capital are, therefore, seelng lt at ltsbest. The old-fashloned flowers, bloominghospltably In the gardens, arranged by Mrs.Roosevelt whlle she was flrst lady of theland, enhance the beauty of the grounds andadd a pecullar charm to the hlstorlc sur-.roundlngs. Especlally attractlve were theyon Saturday afternoon when the famoujUnited States Marlne Band gavo its regulaiweekly concert on the grounds south of thamanslon.Accordlng to the announced schedule Pres¬

ident Taft will return to Washington witbhis famlly Qctober 20.a date much antici-pated by the gay offlcial world, which ex¬pects the lmproved health of Mrs. Taft tomake posslble her more actlve particlpationin the functlons of the season. There ls alsoevery reason to bclieve that she wlll. havethe asslstance of her only daughter, who, 11she Is not a debutante, wlll be a near-so-ciety bud, which is qulte as attractlve.

Another near-debutante ls Miss VirglnlaLe Suere, granddaughtcr of the 9peakeiof the House of Representattves, who ar-

.'Ived in Washington this week, accompaniedby her aunt, Mlss' Helen Cannon. Thoughstlll a student at tne National CathedralSchool, Mlss Le Suere will enjoy the week-ends at her grandfather's home. and all thefun of belng an honored guest at the N'avalAcademy hops. wlth one of the most wldelyknown offlcial hostesses at the capital.heraunt, Miss Cannon, as her chaperon.Mlss Hlldegarde Nagel, daughter of the

Secretary of Commerce and Labor, deprlvedlast season from the full enjoyment of llfeas a Cabinet girl by reason of the mourn-

ing of her stepmother, may be transferredto the more conservative Supreme Courtclrele before she is many weeks. older. Thereport that such would be the ca'se has beenvery perslstent recently, and added credencewas glven by the return of the entlre N'agelfamlly wlthln the week. when the regularaccredited members of th» high court circlowere assembllng for the season. JustlceMcKenna, the flrst and only Romanlst to

occupv a seat on thls august bench. arrlvedwith "Mrs. McKenni from Medfleld. Maas.,where they were the guests of their son-in-law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. DavenportBrown. , ,

Justice John M. Harlan, doyen of the clr¬ele by reason of his thirty-one-years' ser-i

vlce spent the summer, accordlng to cus¬

tom. at Murray Bay. Can. Wlth Mrs. Har-.lan and tholr daughters. the Mlsses Lauraand Ruth Harlan .he stopped in Albany en

route to Washington, for a peep at the

young famlly of hls granddaughter, Mis:Erastus Cornlng. As Mlss Edlth Childs.Mrs. Cornlng spent her glrlncod days In thaHarlan .homo here. She was presented to

afficial soclety by her matevna! srand-mothcr and was glven in marrlage underher roof at one of the most attractlve weu-

lings of a few years ago. It ls, therefore.with deep personal intereBt that Washingtonhears reports of her life as a matron.

In dlplomatlo clrcles it is generally con-

:eded that the Klng of Sweden recallcd hlsnlnister to the United States, M. de Lager-..rantz, to make hlm secretary of commerceit the Stockholm government Instead of as

i reprlmand for hls untaotful speech before-he Swedlsh socletles ln New York In the

iprlng. And apropos to thls. be It remark->d that hls coming here In the flrst place,\-as in line with Sweden's ambltion to make

mper Scandinavla aa profltable to Its sturdyjona as the latter have found thls countrj._olor waa glven to thls objoct by ever>

ipeech of the retlrlng mlnlster, who may

,ow be depended .upon to put to good uso

UI he saw and learned hero. M. do Lager-*rantz was a mtlllonalro many tlmes ovoi.

ind n business man flrst, last and all the

Ime. though hls llfe has been as adveutur-)iis as that of an up-to-data novel hero. uls

,Wfe and two lovely daughters wlll be great-y mlssed here, and lt will be many a dayx-fora socioty wlll seo such a dollgluful t'lt

if "transplanted Sweden" as was their home

m Slxtoenth Street HillM

Mr. do Lagercrantz's colleaguo from Nor-

vay. Mlnlster O. -Gudo, dled ln thla coun-ry during tho summer.-N'ew faces .wlll,herefore, gvoet officlaldom at the lagatlouif Norway as well as that of Sweden whonho clans have all assomblod for the say.<ason.A 'now ambassador from Italy is now onhe high soas comlng to auei-eed Baronvlayor des Planehes, whnso transfer fromA'ashlngton to Constantlnoplo In the sprlngil.un.ad the offlcial rank ot the remainlnailght amhHHsadoi. accredited to this gov-irnment. By lt tho ambusaador of Austro-lun.ary waa made dean of tho corps, othenollowlng in the order of tho date of thelr,ii-rivui in tho United States ga the repre&ent*

atlves of their governments. Length of ser¬vlce here belng the gauge by which ambas-.sadbrs flnd their rank. lt may so happenthat the representatlve of a thlrd-rate powerllke Turkey.at present tho only such powerhavlns a first-class ofTlcial to Washington.may be accor.ed precedence /over the am-bassadors of Great Britain,' Germany andFrance.Speaklng of Turkey recalls a chance re-,

mark of Herr Richard S. Werner, a Berllnbankcr apendlng the week ln Washington.Accordlng to Mr. Werner, the ambltlon olthe Turklsh mlnlstry ls to rank as a second-class naval power, and to thls end the Ot-toman government ls buying German battle-shlps with money borrowed In a Germanmarket, and both Jier army and navy offlcersare tralned by German offlcers. The vitalneed for a Turklsh fleet at thls time is thoimmlnent danger of a war between the Ot-toma_ empire and Greece as a result of theclalm of Chrlstlan residents of Crete to cltl-zenshlp In Greece. As such they would havethe rijjht to send delegates to the natlonalassembly to be held In Athens thls fall, andlf Greece admits these delegates Turkeyis expected to make trouble at the polnt o(the aword, a dangerously Interesting pos-Jlbtllty causln. great concern In Washlng-ton, whence there went so recently as thebride of a Greclan dlplomat, the soclally-petted daughter of former Senator Cockrell,

of Missouri. The former Anna Ewlng Cock-rell. now Madame Coremlllas of Athens,went to Greece on her weddlng trip In July.and by reason of her husband's distlngulshedposltlon, cannot fall to be vltally affected lnthe event at war between Athens and Con-stantlnoole.

The Cblnese Minister, Chang Yln Tang, nyromovlng this week from the spaclous resi¬dence ln Connectlcut Avenue, in which heestablished the precedent for future Celest-lal dlplomats llving outslde the legatlonhome to the latter place ls revlvlng tbe re¬port of hls approachlng transfer from Wash¬ington to Constantinople, and lncldentallyglving credence to the probablllty of aTurko-Grevian mlsunderstanding. The home,until recently occupled by Minister andMadame Chang, ls that of Colonel FranclsColton. father of the Governor of PortoRIco. Mlss Marjorle Colton, who spent lastseason as the chatelalne of the Govornor'smanslon, has just returned to Washingtonwlth Colonel Colton and her slster, Mrs.Archlbald Davls, wife of Captaln Davls, U._>. A., wlth whom she wlll spend some timein the old famlly home vacated by theChlncse.

Mrs. Roma Dovonne Hempstead, of "Earns-cllffe," near Charlottesvllle. has come to

Washington for the winter. Whlle hereMrs. Hempstead wlll serve as eontralto so-lolst of the Church of the Covenant (Pres-byterlan), where she was heard to advan¬tage Jast Sunday afternoonMiss Buckner, who came to Washington

for the late September weddlng- of MlssAnne Eustace Davls, of Oeorgetown, andMurray French Snider, of Ohlo, has return¬ed to her home ln Culpeper.Mlss Winnle Davls, of Atlanta, who was

also the house guest ot the brlde's parentsdurlng the weddlng festlvitles, has Ukewlsegone to her home ln the South.

GRACE PORTER HOPKINS.

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D. C, ls vlslting: her aunt, Mrs. Townea,at 508 Eaat Franklln Street.

John Mlnor, of "Gayle Hill," Albe¬marle county, ls vlslting J. XV. Bro-

ii j|[7|F A MAN should offer you a i|_gff__>1 automobile at one-half thevertised price, you would be justilin thinking there was something wifwith the engine or some other parjc jcould not see. You would be seal /of that "bargain." (

So it goeswith "bargains" in Diamonds.In ninety-nine cases out of a hundredyou will find that the "bargain" offeredyou cannot bear close inspection.^and ^

. a flaw somewhere makes it so.

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John Z. Holladay am'of Charlottesville, are,Mr. and Mrs. John Glei!

Mrs. J. M. ir7 (the guests/or'e /

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Mr. andhave beenclty, have returned /to I /Axton, Va. r

XV. P. Miller returnedLynchburg Saturday, aVseveral days ln Rlchmi.

J. W. Roberts hashome In Chase Cltysome time with frlends

; IRC. B. Bryant left Ril

for hls home In Sprln'tafter a brlef stay ln thi'Mr. and Mrs. James Rj.zhildren are the guests \lames Young at thelr ,'.

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