Evening Star Newspaper, May 28, 1922, Page 47

Tales of Well Known Folk In Social an d Official Life President Harding to Send White House Wrcnfll to Unknown Soldiers’ Tomb on - Memorial Day. Memorial day in years not remote was marked by many sentimental ob- servances which are no longer con- tinued, though . some equally ac- ceptable substitutes are {n order. President McKinley, it will be re- wmembered, with something perhaps of a premonition of his own fate never failed to send an exquisite wreath of flowers fresh from the White House conservatories, which in his day lay west of and adjoining the mansion, to the tomb of President Garfleld. The wreath was prepared With great pains in the conserva- tories and the President not only in- spected it. but he asked certaln of Lis friends to view it also. Usually it was largely of pink and red carnations with white violets and Young ferns and it was tied with a kreat sash of red, white and blue ribbon, In which was tucked the card of the chief exccutive. Then a Spe- cial messenger left on the midnight Jtrain and was in Cleveland in time to lay the presidential offering on the tomb when the regular oxerciscs were in progress. Mindful of the just esti- mates pjuced on American Presidents. a wreath went also to Grant's mauso- leum in New York city and to Lin- coln’s in Springfield. while an usher from the White House Jourr}«‘yca down on the Norfolk boat and disem- barked a3 Vernon with a of p wreath and crossed palms to lay on the tomb of Washington. So far as the records, &0, McKinley the only executive Who observed this custom punctilious- 1y_and with regularity. Now. all these graves of the il- lustrious dead. including the last martyr of the White House, are deco- rated, but orders go telegraphically and the floral tributes are deposited in the name of the chief magistrate of the nation by the military organ zation in_charge of Memorial day kervices. The one wreath which will go directly from President Harding is the unknown soldier's grave and the flowers will be taken from the propagating gardens which supply the presidential mansion. One feature of Memorial day this ear, by recent papal decree. Ma to be held sacred to the memory . Joun of Arc, and will be the first universal observance of her fe permanently fixed. Tt was merely & coincidence that the decree placed her feast on the solemn day given over to the memory of those who died i war or for the service of their country, but Americans welcome it heartily. No special arrangements could be made t nificant to the exerc| served. but some few s < earry copies of the banner of Joan of Are used in Which ix the day the French and oth: Europcan nations decorate their na- tional eemete The statue of the 2 cait on Meridian Hill will . receive its full shiare of w all the military and pa- tic associations en route to ceme- places of assembly. F past, lovely specimens of fleur- the royal emblem of France during the heroic mald's career, have lain about her efflc‘;n Earl French of Yypres, fleld mar- shal of Great Britain. is the first of the nation’s heroes of the recent war 1o visit this country. though hopes are still entertained of the coming of Lord Byng from Canada. Earl French is known personally to a large circle of Washington people. and his wel- me will have other than the official aspect. He furnishes an example of one who has become a renowned sol- dier, and vet whose youthful aspira- tion was toward serving in the cler ical ranks. His early education wx directed toward preparing for holy orders. Srcd Gen. French ‘was in Washington about ten vears ago, when the Mex- ican question was acute, and he passed much _time with Sir Cecil Spring-Rice and Secretary of War Garrison in conference about intervention. He also went south and viewed the tur- moil in the southern republic from various points of vantage, The fleld marshal was born in Kent. but is of Trish blood through his father and of Scoteh through his mother, who was a member of the Eccles family of Edinburgh. Lady Freuch. his wife, ss renowned for her prowess in the sport field, and is the daughter of the late Squire Selby Lowndes of Bletch- jey Hall. The only =on of “the earl and Lad French Selb: Lowndes. the ~well known water color a has reaped luurels Winston Churchill in the He also is captain Horse Artillery and served throughout the Belgian cam- paign. The distinguished naval visitor Admiral Sir William Pakenham. bear. a name as intimately connected with martial annals of the past as Field Mar French dof the present, for he belongs to the same eminent Irish family as that of Gen. Sir Edward Pakenham. who after serving with ‘conspicuou bravery under his brother-in-law, the Duke of Welling. ton, in all the famous battles which led up to Waterloo, died at the hands of a sharpshooter on the field of Chalmette, where the battle of New Sir Edward had : commander of the British forces in Baltimore, and had sailed to the mouth of the Mis- sissippi with the army which fared so badly under the attack of Gen. Andrew Jackson. The ecitizens of Louislana have borne testimony to ihe soldigrly qualities of Gen. Paken- ham and « small shaft marks the piace where he was borne from the battlefleld to a negro hut nearby, and where he died. His tomb in S Paul's, London, is one of the most imposing in that edifice and in- variably attracts the compassionate regard of the American tourist. The commander of the British squadron now in the Atlantic waters is the nephew three times removed of the Briti of New Orleans. in Bucks as freely One of the most interesting pieces of historic china in tae valuable collection which the National Museum has been gathering for more than thirty years is hat deep cream salad bowl in the cen- ter of the miscellaneous Washington me- morials. This bowl is the sole survival of the handsome dinner service presented in the summer of 1752 to Gen. and Lady Washington, as the term went then, by some officers of the Santoigne regiment, vencamped’ near Williamsburg. One of these gentleman, M. de Bellegarde was proprictor of a porcelain manufactory at_Niderviller, near Phalsbourg. The service was designed especially for the urpose. and. according to the diary of » e Baron Closen, one of the officers in attendance. “on July 14, M de Belle- e presented a porceiain service of great beauty and the newest taste, and Lady Washington was delighted ~with the “attention and most gracefully ex- pressed ner thanks. 5 A wreath of laurel surrounds the rim of the bowl and in the center in green surrounded by gold are the Wash- ington arms and monogram. Of the 140 pieces in the original service, this |, bowl seems the only ‘one in existence. No_specimen is in the White House collection nor in other displays of the china used at Mount Vernon during the Tegime of the illustrious patriot. Tals is also of interest because this dinner set, presented by the Santoigne regi- ment, is the first of the many ;and varied gifts which found their ‘way to Gen. Washington's home- during' :;3 public service as head of the Army of the nation. An unusually. largé and intéresting collegtion of miniktures is at present on exhibiticn n Paris = That which is devgted to thé marshals of France is racting much attention from Americen guests, since a conspicuous place is given the two who were prominentiy identifled with the af- falrs of this country—] m Washiagton's assosiate at Yorktown. znd Feech, the gemergtissimo-of the g nd white violets | France on November 1. Al h Gen. Pakenham of the bnlllcl allied armies. scparated from the illustrlous com- rrounds them and a American flag surmounts that chambeau, while a button of the They are somewhat 15: clasped agaf the frame of Marshal Foch's. Al lovers of the drama linger before the exquisite miniature of Richelieu, ‘ inat |wl-o was & marshal of France before American Legion he became the powerful statesman depicted the stage. These miniatures are part of the Ristoric collection in posse: the Louvre, and royal dym presented in order of thelr era and add immense interest to those his- toric portraits. The exhibition part of the permunent gram. and it will be withdrawn about midsummer. The {cmbellished by a in scarlet robes on is spring pro- ‘apoleonio era is lovely painting of “Mme. ILilizabeth Patterron of Baltl- I more, U. first wife of Jerome i Bonaparte, ward Kingiof Wes! phali; With a phenomenal rush of Ameri- cans to Europe and the usual con- fusion about passports, ona of the first duties taken up by Undersecre- tary of State Phillips is to prepare a list of countries requiring these of- ficial papers. those who permit all pleasure seekers in without question and the large number, considering the world war is presumed to bé over. jthat because of unsettled conditions Will not honor passports of any sort except for entrance on the most fm- | perative business. Thisslast class begins with Russia, but this being the ase for years past and traveling even during the czar's regime always a { hazardous performance, it will not prove much of a_privation for the "summer tourist. Many would like Poland, but this young republ: has closed doors, and in the same.list are Roumania, Hungary, Siberfa, Bul- garia, Armenia and near east countries, Persla included. All barriers are down for the sum- mer traveler in Holland, Belgium and Switzerland, unless these countries are entered to seek employment or engage in business. France Great Britain continue to ask pass- ‘Dorr.\’ from Americans and Italy like- wise, but they are in the ‘nature of | identificatign ‘as against certain un- | desirables \which these nations wish temporarily to exclude. Germany and be vised every month. In the west- ern world, north and south, no re- strictions of any nature exist, the tentative ones, which have held for the past five years in entering Canada, have all been removed. Even Mexico is now open to travelers. There are fashions in clocks as well as watches, and in London a fad has developed for the quarter-bell chiming clock i durin, xa Nicholson variety, old for the first time in 1770. c is @ work of art; that is. In specimens. being a gold kground on which is scrolled in y&reen and red and brown s in birds and flowers. he chimes sound unfamiliar The American ambassa- recently purchased rly Alexander Nichol- gon cloc. “rom a private sale, and the main utiraction was that on the stroke of twelve the chimes gayly played “The March of Hurons” a composition muck in favor about the time when Gen. Washington was be- coming world famous. Because of the pleasure he manifested in ing it “The March of Huron b came the air by which the bands at- tending the Continental Army an- nounced the presence of the com- mander-in-chief, as “Hail to Chic” has eerved for many genera- | tions since Washington's day. Col. {Harvey's clock and his enthusiasm jover it has led to the making of {others with modern tunes placed in jtheir chimes, and those whose Nich- olson clocks have set mute for scores of years are having them fitted with new works and the popular airs of the present. That exalted peer with historiclin- eage, Lord St. German: enty and very delicate, and another | American, a_very distinguished one in court sets, Mrs. Montague Kliot, for- merly Miss Helen Post of New York, }is the wife of the next helr, and in | natural events will soon add another !to the many now reigning in London. {Mrs. Eliot Is the daughter of Lady | Barrymore, by her first husband, the {latc Arthur Post, and she is there- the adjacent | Austria require passports which must | fantastic | Old airs | is past sev-| MISS CORAL ROBERTS, Daughter of Judge Mrs. Willlam Thomas Robe: 1y a phen B. Fllk place ia June. have been issued by women in this and other countries. There was a fashion show in Faubourg St. Ger- main last week for the benefit of the blind eoldiers and for a rare and ar- tistic treat. it is said, to surpass any- thing undertaken in this line and far removed from the humdrum affairs, 80 called, in this country. Mme. Lou- don. formerly Miss Lydia Bustls, was In charge, but the details had been ar- ranged by the world renowed masters of clothes, and instead of smiling marionettes, as the figures are called over there, coming out and bowing and turniug to display their finer: and & ELECTRIC ; Washing Machi which enjoyed a rage | lutionary period, the!% stairway, had been secured and of mode displayea on it Firsta ,um::-y descended ready oo, e ey caine dowh) aiked up down & then passed ou eame morning Alarly, then wne, ‘onm ‘at the end of new-bal doséns dinner regalia for Just a running commentary on of the clothes cante from the perform B al of ti masters, like Poiret, their theaters for display of clothes, but of staging them in home was unique -n.‘. brought barrels of money to the It any one proves skeptical about the world getting more democratic and less favorable to titled or privi- loged classes, a glance throu the diplomatic Mst {ssued monthly by the Department of State would be con- vinoin, Of have tities, and in each case the pat- ent of nobility was confefred for ex- ceptional service during the war. Sir Auckland Geddes, the British am- buseador, was Dr. Geddes in the au- tamn _of 1914, and the Belgian am- bagrador had & long tenure here as M. de Cartier. The title of baron wi added by the Belglan king just as the war was closed. The Japanese ambassador. was M. Shidehara and. like the others mentioned, does mot belong to the hereditary -nobles of hin land. Once on & time the corps in Wash- ington bristled with high-flown titles, but the two who recently bore that of Prince Bibesco and "Lubormiski have both been recalied by th ernments and it is doubtful if a hallmark of an era which s pass- ing will be visible in the American capital soon again. In_ Polands a roated objection prevalls against the hereditary nobles using their titles. and this created a préjudice H 1S 3 fore a_cousin of the senator from | New York. Lady Barrymore, her mother, having been the daughter of the late Gen. Wadsworth and sister of the former representative in Con- gress from Geneseo, James W. Wads- worth, sr. Mrs. Eliot was the on companion of the Jate Crown Prince: of Sweden, Margaret of Connaught, and was one of the attendants at the wedding. Montague Eliotis at present gentle- man in waiting to_King_ George, he was to the late King Bdward. H is the younger and only surviving brother of Lord St. Germans, who lives in complete retirement at Mal- vern, a well known British health re- sort. The Montagues frequently do the honor at the estate of St Germans in Cornwall, that splendid pile called Port Eliot, ‘which has been erected on the site of the tenth cen- tury priory of Porth and almost in the shadow of the old ministry of St. Germans, which was the seat of the first bishops of Cornwall during the | saxon dynasties. 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