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...only natural that St. Valentine's Day should be the birthday of the only baby of the most popular lady of the land. Paulina R. Longworth, daughter of Mrs. Alice Roosevelt Longworth and Speaker Nicholas Longworth, will be two years old on Feb. 14, 1927. Would it not be delightful if certain interesting ladies of official Washington should be invited to the home of Mrs. Longworth to celebrate the day by inscribing little stories in Paulina's memory book? In order to serve history faithfully, it would be best for each of these ladies to describe herself accurately...
...Longworth, the hostess, would of course lead the way: "As a child I was shy; as a girl I ran hurdle races over the White House furniture; today I do what I please and enjoy it thoroughly. There are certain days that I like to recall: the day that I dined with my favorite monarch, the late King Edward VII . . . the day I was banished to New York from Washington by my father, Theodore Roosevelt, because I had bet on the horse races . . . the day I wore red riding breeches when presented to the Emperor of Korea...
...elected president of the Congressional Club [the most important feminine-political-social position in Washington], I manage my onetime husband's large estates in Biltmore, N. C. Since my marriage to Senator Gerry of Rhode Island I go to the Capitol almost half as much as Mrs. Longworth. At balls I have heard it whispered that I dress like an empress...
Other famed Washington women who might inscribe illuminating monographs in Paulina Longworth's memory book are: Mrs. James W. Wadsworth Jr., who fought against woman suffrage; Mrs. Harry S. New, amateur cinema exhibitor; Mrs. William E. Borah, mouselike in comparison with her tigercat husband; Mrs. John P. Hill, stylish wife of a swanky husband; Mrs. William Howard Taft, music critic and enthusiast; Mrs. Curtis D. Wilbur, able cook; Mrs. Frederick H. Gillett, wife of a Senator and one-time widow of a Congressman, hence, interested in politics; Mrs. Louis D. Brandeis, who writes poetry; Mrs. Frank B. Kellogg, able...
...Nicholas Longworth, Speaker of the House: "My nephew, Count René de Chambrun, aged 20, was last week almost jailed in Paris for speeding in his car. The Magistrate let him off with a double fine; assured him of eight days' prison for a second offense. He, son of my sister Clara, is studying to be a diplomat. As his uncle is French Ambassador to Austria, his father General in Command of French troops in Morocco, and as he is also descended from La Fayette, perhaps he will make good...