Evening Star Newspaper, November 4, 1923, Page 54

it SOCIETY. THE SUNDAY STAE, WASHINGTON, D. T, NOVEMBER % 1923_PART 2. Tales of Well Known Folk | In Social and Official Life f# SOCTETY. Romance in Career of First Cuban Ambassador to United States—Mrs. Coolidge Relieves the Social Monotony. Dry Cosme de 1a Torrlente, who en- | who formed a musical organizution out foys the dual honor of having been | 9f Which came the Marine Band, ~Jef- en the same day elected president of the league of nations, sitting in Geneva, and appointed by President Bayas as the first Cuban ambassador to the United States, has had a most | romantic career. It is doubtful if @ny other member of the exalted olrcle of ambassadors now serving in Washington cver saw the inside of an American jull—that is, an occu- osnt. As a young patriot, Dr. Torri- snte ran afoul of the neutrality laws of this country during the Cuban tnsurrection in 1895-8, and because of his successful fllibustering expe- ditions and at the instance of the Gpanish minister, Dupuy de Lome, he was arrested in Washington and served a short term of imprisonment in New York city, whither he was tauken. Considered one of the most sminent of Spanish publicists of to- Jay, Dr. Torriente is revered equally for the services rendered the cause of Cuba's Independence. u cause which he served as a soldler in the fleld, a8 a diplomatist in the junta at Wash- ington and after the independence us a lawyer and statesman. He was born in Cuba of the opulent class and spent his youth on his father's sugar plantation near Matauzas. He was “ducated by privats tutors and after ward at the University of Havana nd at Columbia, New York. AL tn. auccessful termination of the Span- ish-American war the present Cuban ambassador was appointed &s gov- ernor of Havana and was _closely agsociated with Gen. Leonard Wood. He served first as secretary of the Cuban legation at Madrid and then as its minister, and was recently scc- retary of state under President Menocal. ‘Washingtonians of the clder genera- tion are much interested in the return of Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Nixon, formerly prominent members of Vanity Fair, but recently residents of London and Paris They arrived last week on the Presi- dent Monroc. Mrs. Nixon was Agnes Do ph, daugnter of Senator Doph o. Portland, Oreg, uand she patsed nearly all of her girihood here. —Aftel some years svent in New “York and Portland - she rcturned to Washington about ten years ago, when Nixon, Wwho {8 the well known inventor, had some of hls Gesigns befors CONKTess. Ruth Dolph. the younge made a brililant debut here about 1 v fter married an Englishman, o took her to London. Since her widowhoaod, she has made her home in New York city, and ler youngest daughter is about to be presented to woclety, and may possibly visit the Nixons later in the teason when they are established here. Mrw. Nison had in recent years a very popuiar home near Haumpstead Heath in Loudon, znd ~vas aggenerous hostess to wanderers from the Pacific coast. The late Joseph | Norton Dolph ®as a member of the Senate when It was dubbed the Mil- Jionalre #%.b, and his fortune made in tmber lands along the Columbia river vas not surpassed even ‘by that cof | Senators Aldridge or Leland Stanford, who served with him. The family, nowever, lost nearly ail thelr land oncessions, and Mrs. Dolph died In circumstances, , Mr, Nixon, ver, retrieved the fortune “arough his inventions. Coolldge has becen passing busy days, for, possessing in a marked degree prudence and fore- slght, she has been taking over minor obligations in the less -strenuous timées, in order that later weeks may not become intolerably burdened. One innovation has been her reception of small groups of women in the official world, giving them .an opportunity to call and meet her personally it only for a moment or two. This cere- mony, happily over, they can go about their other duties with an casy | inind, for though Washington takes oficlal etiquette less serfously than .apitals_are prone to, one hard and 7ast rule relates to calllng at the White House at the first possible mo- ment after arriving. But many mem- bers of officlal soelety were embar- rassed over asking for a reception, n view of the warnings issucd so “widely about conserving the time and ~trength of the Chief Magistrate of the nation and of its “First Lady.” Mre. Coolldge. realizing this, has gractously let to be communicated to 311 newcomers the rules which now hold and her availability on certain afternoons. In the diplomatic corps this courtesy has simplified conditions greatly, and has made for the com- fort of the late arrivals. The forelgn .ontingent is now the strongest nu- werfcally in the American capltal as vell 28 the most influential in the oclal sense, and at present counts more than. three hundred persons on vhom every detail of accepted eti- uctte s obligatory. Washington is apparently ready to :cknowledge lts tremendous ~esthetic Gobt to Thomas Jefferson and a result is an enthusiastic co-operation in the 1ovement to purchase his former home, Monticello, and transform it into i« national shrine. Jefferson was the first’ Executive to provide art and muslc Zor the young Capital, for it was during \is administration and largely through his efforts that Benjamin Latrobe went to Ttaly to secure the services of artists, woodcarvers and various artisans to £ive some semblance of beauty and grace To the interior of the Capitol building. Most of this work, particularly much of the carving in stone and the first 1nural decorations, were destroyed when the British 4red the legislative halla. But they were replaced in later vears wnd according to the original design. it was these homeeick Itallan artisans ferson was entirely committed to the classic idea, and the early government bulldings which were planned during his regime remain the finest which adorn Washington, the lovely lonic group which includes the patent omee.l the old post office, courthouse and tho stately Treasury and the White House. ‘With the exception of President Wash- | ington, no man of the era strove so earnestly to make the Capital a beauti- ful city, bult on such lines that its beauty would expand with the growth of the nation. It former Senator Frank B. Kel- logg, according to the wish of Presi- dent Coolidge, s confirmed as suc- cessor of Col. George Harvey as am- bassador to the court of St. Jumes the tradition will hark back to the legal luminaries in such important posts as against the tendency ®f the past three administrations to appoint literary celebrities. Senator Kellogg came to Washington with a mighty reputation gained in legal battles, some of them epochal, and he at once took place umong the authorities in the Senate on the. interpretation of the law. He will prove a worthy Successor tg the most renowned law- yers this niition has produced, among whom may be mentioned those who first represented the struggling re- ublic in the mother country, Willlam inckney, John Jay, Rufus King and James Monroe, and, in later years, Robert T. Lincoln, Thomus F. Bavard, Joseph D. Choate and John W. Davis, Mrs. Kellogg is peculiarly adapted for such an exalted role as she would all in London and possesses a charm- {1g personality and presence. She was before her marriage in ‘1386 Miss Clara M. Cook of that small city of Minnesota, Rochester, now world fa- mous through the healing arts of the Des. Maye Washington the Kel- ©BEs resided on 16th street near S street and dispensed n hospltality altogether commensurate with the reputation of the great northwest. Mrs. Kellogg 13 essentially home lov- ing, though she Is socially accom- plished and a grandedame in ap- pearance and in manner. She has an <nviable knack of choosing fitting rai- ment and s equally felicitous n con- versation and in her selection of toples. With less than four weeks Inter vening. the new Congress will de- scend upen the Cupital, and with it comes an unusual activity and neces- sary readjustment. Almgst oue-third of the members of the Senate will sit in that body for the first time and possibly one-fourth of the House will make & debut In national legislative circles when the gavel falls. In the soclul sense, many of the notabls now familles come from the middle and southern states and much Inter- est centers about Senator and Mrs. Thomas F. Buyidrd of Delaware and thelr attractive group of children and Senator and Mrs. Willlam Cabell Bruce of Maryland. Senator and Mrs. Samuel M. Ralston of Indiana are people of importance and will take up the threads of many pleasant friend- ships in Washington. The new sen- ator from New York, Dr. Royal S, Copeland, will bring several daugh- ters to enllven the younger coterle and Senator Stmeon D. Fess of Ohio | comes back to familiar scenes. In the House Robert Lowe Bacon, sorl of the former Secretary of Stute and ambagsador to France and Mrs, Ba- con, formerly Miss Virginta Murray of New York, will be valuable addi- tions to cosmopolitan soclety. They | have paid several visits to Washing- ton and have leased the.residence of M Brambilla, in Gcorgetown, for winter. Representative Gordon Lee ot Georgia presents many soclal possibilities, belng a grandson of no less than three distinguished leaders of the Confederacy. Mrs. Francis G. Newlands is passing the autumn in her suburban home here, after renewing many close friendships among the denizens of | |i Nevada and the Paclfic coast during the past summer. She is shortly to entertaln Mrs. Philip Van Horne || Lansdale of San Francisco, who after | securing a suitable home will spend | the-winter atthe Capital. Mrs. Lans- dale, 'who ‘left San Francisco with! Mrs, Newlands, stopped en route to ! visit her: brother-in-law_and sister, Col. andj Mrb. Georgo Plllsbury at Fort Leavenworth, Kan. Mrs. Fred. erlck Shqron, with whom Mrs. New. “(Continued on Sixteenth Page.) NY Fur Garment that Sperling sells is- a “worth-while in- vestment” at the price he asks. | Draperies, Portieres and ' Lace Curtains : Inspect your door and window draperieél - Dainty lace curtains and exquisite, heavy portieres are equally safe in our careful hands. 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