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==Some Sniff at Pledge==

The bank struck up a popular new number, "I want to Be Back in Michigan."  Miss Wallis Warfield, resplendant in white satin, chiffon and pearl embroidery, was whirled into the dance on the arm of her uncle, Major General George Barnett of the U.S. Marine Corps.

It might have been a night to stir girlish hearts &mdash; particularly the heart of Wallis Warfield.

She hadn't had the long list of entertainments in her honor that most of the other debutantes had had.  She had gone to some of the affairs &mdash; not nearly as many as some of the other girls.

When Wallis Warfield, along with 33 other debutantes, signed an agreement to "refrain from extravagance in entertaining," due to the war conditions abroad, there had been those to sniff knowingly and hint that Wallis had more than one reason for signing such a pledge.  After all, her mother had kept that boarding house on Biddle Street!

Mrs. Warfield, by this time Mrs. John Freeman Rasin, Jr., was no longer taking "paying guests" in her home.  She had, in 1908, married John Freeman Rasin, Jr., who died two years later.