A POLITICAL HOSTESS.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 480, 13 April 1909, Page 3

A POLITICAL HOSTESS.

> .^! laTne ?» is'sitting,. arid:the first fruits • of the session-have been gathered in (write: of an Australian paper).. • The discovery -has' iio relation --to ,: It .concerns;a -nowhostess. The wff the.newlylmarried wire of the First Lord of the Admiralty A heavy responsibility ; was cast' upon Mrs. AI Senna-on. the occasion ■of her debut as a,political.hostess,- Mrs. Asquith.'was'awaj from & 0 opening of ■Parliament. ■ Requiring a substitute for the •M Kenna to aot .for her. .The Prime Mini<£*er, with those who had attended the official dinner,, came on from 10 Downing -Street and M'Kenna "to h£ ■BrflW th f.. n6lV Admir "lty buildings, of rLn, ln ? V° Ut - m ° ] re , t . ha n a thousand of wisest and fairest paid their respect Sj to.iho; youthful hostess; I'ractSv ■ everybody mtho ofDcial worldv attends this wives the Corps Diplomatique, the heads of the civil,; nava ; .and military •services, and tali's-*"-," IZh °T ssou^ ou d , er v"' hll ° the decolletage-was Among the other young Liberal >ives who were present Mrs. M'Kenna were l r n, L aT ,S! f are - Urt ' Mj s - Herbert Glad! ■ stone, Mrs., Bunciman, Mrs. Raymond As,qmth, and .Mrs. »Vinston : -Churchill. ' One |unKknt,a .gaiety : t o :the Admiralty function which hasrbeen absent 'for. many years. Before the, present ■•chatelaine-, installed herself the great reception, rooms'were of almost unique dmginess. . Mrs. MSenna-had-trani-formed everything. Snow-white paint - and freshly-gilded furniture made tho place sniilo onco-more., t Lounges were h'idden among'bay trees and bushes of apricot; coloured azaleas decketl the sideboards; Every vista was pretty enqugh-for a. "boy and "girl": dance. Iho -moro sedate audience which Mrs. Aliienna ,had to entertain appreciated the ettort to introduce- a- touch of tho brifiht and beautiful into the almost proverbial'drabness ofan Admiralty reception.- •■■ . '