Evening Star Newspaper, February 15, 1925, Page 52

Tales of Well Known Folk ' In Social and Official Life COoIidg:'s Simplified Inauguratidn Plan Likened to John Quincy Adams’ Program—Notes of Other Distinguished Personages. ! BY MARGARET B. DOWLING. President Coolidge has taken John Quincy Adams as his prototype in re- gand to inauguration ceremonies, and 4 plans, according to his Interpreter, Senator Butler of Massachusetts, to emulate the distinguishegd son of Mmesachusetts, who became chief magistrate just & century ago, as clpsely as possible. But simple and umpretentious as the s fnduction into office seems at reamote day, It is chronicled in its era with many flourishes, and was, in- dqed, far in advance of any previous inkuguration. For instance, the in- augural ball was the most brilliant aver attempted in the crude voung Capital City, and a special hall, de- signed by George Hadfield, architect of the courthouse, and erected by Lewis Carusi, was used for the pur- page. The ball was given under the ayspices of Washington's most ex- clusive club, the Assembly, and the decorations, the attendance and the supper and other accessorles were copsidered of the most lavish order. John Quincy Adams was escorted by all the military procurable at that day, and a long army of the local militia_and civillans walked th® mile from the Adams residence at 1331-33 I' street to the Capitol. After the oath of office was administered they escorted the new President home where he entertained a vast compa of friends at lunch and recelved as many more who came to shake hands. He then went to the White House, where Mrs. Monroe lay ill, and for two more hours held a levee with officials from Congress and others. Then the ball at 8 came, and he and Mrs. Adams led the grand march and remained through the three hours of its duration. Rather a busy day, it would be called even now, almost entirely dedicated to what w as the pomp and ceremony customary on inaugurating a President. When the last President from Massachusetts, John Quincy Adams, assumed office, the diplomatic corps w&s composed of exactly 17 persons. Sir Charles Vaughn, the British min- ister, was dean, and but four other nations sent ministers or envoys of | the first class, while all others were represented by charges or consuls. Charles X reigned in France and his envoy was Baroh de Marleul. Ferdi- | nand VII ruled in Spain, but he had only a charge in Washington at this time, Senor Rivas y Salmon. Prussia hid a minister sent to replace the first Prussian minister here, Baron Greuhm, who died in this city fn 1824. Portugal had a minister, the witty amd accomplished Abbe Correa de Serra, author of the phrase “Washing- ton, a city of magnificent distances.” Baron. de Tuyll was minister from Russia. Could the present corps be assembled in one place to witness the solemn ceremony of the President of the United States taking the oath of office, more than 400 persons would be numbered. Congress and every di- vision of the Government has in- creased in proportion during these 109 years. John Quincy Adams en- tertained an official group of less than 200 persons, whereas Washington, under President Coolidge, counts about 6,000 persons i5 the official set. Sir Esme and Lady Isabella Howard are continuing the traditions which have governed the British embassy since it was opened for amenities mere than 50 years ago by Sir Edward Thornton and his stately lady. It may be that the coming demolition of the mansion has quickened interest in the afternoon receptions; but few homes have attracted such large and distin- tinguished companies as those which have been entertained at the British embassy during the past month. Some notable changes are apparent under Lady Isabella’s regime and are po- tent signs of the times. So short a time ago as when Lord and Lady Reading invited a few friends to aft- ernoon tea the ballroom with drawn Ccurtains showed its rows of gilt chairs primly set against the walls and King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra looked / from opposite walls mirrored in the waxed surface of! the floors. Now, however, so vast has become ‘Washington's calling contingent that the ballroom figures in the drawing room quite as a charming living room, a splendid rug covers the floor and there are a multitude of flower- laden tables, easy chairs and wide, comfortable settees. Their majesties smile on as busy a scene as in the days when the ballroom was opened only for a dance or a musical. The dining room, once the most stately in proportions which Washington bomsted and many feet larger than| 2 1 % ke that of the White House until ¢ remodeling under President Roosevelt in 1902, is now crowded just with casual callers and is uncomfortably | g acked when an invited company is ?eeehlem This aspect, together with the submerging of Connecticut avenue into commercialism, has hastened the sale of the historic mansion. It is of interest that the British embagsy con- tinues its trend from its early cays toward Georgetown, and not out Six- teénth street. The first home of the British legation in this city was in the “Six Buildings,” Twenty-fourth and K street, now the site of St. Ann's Infant Asylum. Mr. Irvin B. Laughlin, who is serv- ing as Minister to Greece, has re- cently purchased a charming foun- tain for the inclosed garden of the mansion he had erected in Crescent Dlace, quite near the splendid home of Mr. Henry White. This fountain s of marble and is the work of Ra- mon Bonet of the New York art cen- ter and has been on exhibition at his studio aN through February and will yemain in the sculptor's keeping until Mr, and Mrs. Laughlin make their an- hual visit home this coming June. It js a diminutive effort, but the per- fection of grace, and shows two plump children astride a dolphin, from the mouth of which the water pours and which the youngsters catch In shells. Mr, and Mrs. Laughlin have plunged Whole-heartedly into the plans for the relfet of Greek exiles from Armenia. & dharity which claims such sustained effort in Washington and other Amer- jcan cities. Conditions are more tran- quil In Athens, but the social side is not paramount as in the days when the royal family were akin to all the royalty of Europe and the numerous visitations gave an impetus to court functions. Dr. Stephan Panaretoff, who is re- tiring from the forelgn service of Bulgaria, intends to devote his leisure vedrs to study and to historical re- search and that he has selected the American Capital for his home shows how rapidly the Natlon advances in the intellectual way. This ripe Bul- garian scholar, who passed the best parct of 40 years teaching In the Rob- ert’ College of Constantinople, finds all'he wishes for an exhaustive study of | Russia in the Congressional Li- brary and already he is deep in plans for several hours daily when he is relleved of diplomatic duties. Dr. and Mme. Panaretoff are among the well beloved members of the foreign colony and they are included in that category only because of their diplo- matie status. Mme. Panaretoff is an s known | American and was Miss Lydia Giles of Boston, while Dr. Panaretoff, for so many years a professor In an Ameri- can college, has absorbed the national spirit at its best. Mme. Panaretoft also was a teacher in the Constanti- nople college and she has the most delightful womanly qualities, which suatgixniavs oward Alliney iislends in Washington, which are undoubted- 1y the result of her wide experience in dealing with every sort of people. Dr. Panaretoff follows an example of many former diplomats, especially some of Russian origin, in seeking a permanent home ‘in Washington. He will, when his historical work is fur- ther advanced, be called into the pro- fessorial ranks by local seats of learning, who conduct schools of diplomacy or of international rela- | tions. Bishop Manning of New York sounded a popular fote in his recent address to the cosmopolitan congre- gatlon which is afliated with the Cathedral of St. John the Divine when he declared himself “in favor of the golf department of the church and hoped that sportsmen in general would contribute to the finishing of the great minster of Morningside Helghts, on the Hudson, for sport is in itself a wholesome and sound re- ligion In the physical sense.” Bishop Manning is one of the most beloved shepherds of souls who have ever held | this onerous post. and, according to the comment of a recent genealogical writer in Gotham, he- is but carrytng on the traditions of his race. ihe family from which the eloquent Now York divine traces his origin staits with that Simon de Manning who fol- lowed Richard the Lion-Hearted intc the holy wars and who was knighted for bravery. The name Manning means brave and valiant, and since the coming of the first member of the family to this country this motto stands untarnished. Capt. John Man- ning was high sheriff in the province of New York when the Dutch fleet | arrived in 1673 for the purpose of re- capturing the good old island of | Manhattan. Having but a handful of defenders for Fort James, Capt. Manning was obliged to surrender, but he returned in later years and again raised the standard of Great Britain over the island. He was the first owner of Blackwells Island. It was his grandson, William Manning. who collected the first money for Harvard Hall.” Mr. George Turnbull, an American | writer, many years a resident of Lon- | don, has started an amusing contro- | versy by asserting that as the equal- ity of the sexes s now accepted, more attention should be given at wed- dings to the appearance and general attributes of the bridegroom. Hither- to every detail of the bride's costume is minutely described from veil to glipper buckles, but the bridegroom, certainly an all-important figure on such occasion, is dismissed with a bare mention of his name and some- times even that is so sandwiched with best man and ushers that only a careful reading disentangles his identity. Mr. Turnbull presents a sur- vey of fashionable weddings solem- nized in the past five vears in London, when the bridegroom, the mirror of fashion and a perfect sartorial figure, is written in columns of description as merely “walking across the chan- cel” or “down the aisle,” with never an adjective to denote his grace or manliness in performing this simple role. He shows, however, that at daylight weddings the bridegroom of Britaln wears invariably a black morning coat, but that his personal preferences may be expressed in his walstcoat, his spats and boutonniere. Some wear highly decorative effects, others appear in somber hues. But the high silk hat or topper is invariably worn whether the wedding be before noon or long after the orb of day has set. Now it is argued that future descriptions of hymeneal events in- clude “such illuminating items as that “Mr. Honey wore to the nuptial altar a well fitting black coat with pale gray trousers and embroidered waistcoat, with gloves, spats and hosiery of the same hue, and that he was most graceful in handing the wedding ring, in leading the pageant down the aisle, et Prince Murat, Marquis de Noailles and Count Bertrand Devalon, the leading sportsmen of France, invited a brilliant company of huntsmen to the forests of Compeigne a few weeks ago to witness the unique ob- servance of St. Hubert's day. The American Ambassador and his son, Mr. Parmalee Herrick, and some 50 other Americans -resident in Parisac- cepted the invitation, and saw the SCARFS— Now Selling at LESS THAN COST The end of the season finds us with several handsome fur coats and scarfs which we wish to dispose of at once. It's your opportunity to save practically one-half onre- liable furs that will give you years of satisfactory service. Call and inspect our stock and prices. A small deposit reserves any Fur until wanted FURS REMODELED ; This is the dull season n our remodeling depart- ment. If you dLire to have your furs remodeled now we can offer you a very attractive price, and will store your furs free until wanted. 717 11th St. N.W. Next to Palais Royal hounds blessed by the pastor ofsthe nelghboring church, and then set loose for the first hunt of the year, which was through the royal forests of Compeigne and Chantilly. St. Hu- bert is the patron of hunters, and he was the pagan in the time of Clovis who was converted by seeing a shi ing cross appear between the antlers of a giant stag he was pursuing in these same woods. Small statues of St. Hubert are worn in the pockets of the hunting coats, just as motorists carry St. Christopher, and woodland shrines to him are always hung with garlands at his feast and dyring the season that the hounds run. France has not suffered the soul-racking Winter that has visited this country and hunting has been almost con- tinuous since the last weeks of Janu- ary and all of Fepruary thus far. Mr. and Mrs. T. Suffern Tailer have been adding some spice to the va- riety of dinner partles, in that their series given in their suite at the Plaza in New York City are distinctly studio banquets. Studio musicals, teas and receptions are commonplace in every social center, but a formal din- ing in studio surroundings is a nov- elty. Mr. and Mrs. Tailer take the occasion of their banquets to display in the most ornate environment cer- tain of their marvelous collection of miniatures. This collection, which was begun some 20 years ago, ap- proaches the number and celebrity of that gathered together by the late Plerpont Morgan and which was dis- persed by his son, the present head of the family. Mr. Tailer, who has Inherited much of the artistic, trend of his father, the late E. N. Tailer, purchased heavily of the Morgan miniatures when they were placed on the market and he has now the entire number of Renes, among which is that exquisite ivory showing Marie Antoinette in the radiant bloom of her beauty. He has likewise Louis XVI and the dauphin and the young Duchess d’Agouleme, the sole sur- vivor of that royal family that per- ished on the guillotine. When these masterpieces of the miniaturist's art are displayed Mrs. Tailer has the din- ing room in French adornment, with candeldbra of the late elghteenth century for lighting and many ex- quisite Watteau screens and fans about the hall. All the minlatures are shown on black velvet framed in Tuscan gold, after the manner of the celebrated miniatures in the Borghese Falace in Rome. When her Roman pictures are shown a banquet hall of the Eterpal City is presented, and when some of the beauties of the Spanish court hold the place of honor on the walls there is & sus- gestion of the patio and flowery gar- dens of old Seville. The stringed orchestra fits into the scheme on each occasion, and these dinings are among the genuine novelties of this present brilllant season in New York. Lady Barrymore, who is such a dis- tinguished hostess in London and who is among the powers of the Anglo- American social circle, was before her marriage Miss Elizabeth Wadsworth of Geneseo, N. Y. She is the daughter of the late Gen. James Samuel Wads- worth and is the aunt of the Senator from the Empire State, James W. Wadsworth, jr. She married first the late Arthur Post of New York and then Lord Barrymore. This peer also was married before. His first wife, dead some 30 years, was the daughter of the Ear) of Dunraven and had ac- companied her father on one of those trips when he challenged the New York Yacht Club for the famous cup. There was one daughter by this first marriage of Lord Barrymore, a hand- some daughter. who is now the Hon. Mrs' William Bertram Bell. Maj. Bell is with the 1st Lancers. and he and his wife are among the fearless riders to the Kounds in his section. There abe three children to whom the present Lady Barrymore is devoted and who spend as much time with her as they do at their own home. Alexander Graham Bell is so firmly intrenched in the esteem and affec- tions of the American people, and Washingtonians in particular, as the inventor of the telephone that it caused utter bewilderment to read in recent cablegrams that the small vil- lage of St. Cere in the Department of Lot, has unveiled a life-sized bronze statue of Charles Bourseul and on its base may be read, “In honor of the Father and Inventor of the Tele- phone.” But it appears that Bour- seul's seniority is acknowledged in this country and in France, and that both Bell and his associate, Thomas A. Edison, gave him credit for the pre- vision which has made that most use- ful and yet tormenting of modern in- First CLOTHES Should Be Worthy of Baby— WE ARE FEATURING FOR THIS WEEK ONLY 32-Piece LAYETTE At an extraordinary low price to introduce our baby shop to the women of Washington. Every article mentioned here is high-grade in quality and worthy of your million-dollar baby. 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It was clearly pointed out when Dr. Bell and Mr. Edison were mak- ing their initial experiments in Paris prior to installing thelr patents that France undoubtedly had the honor of glving birth to the actual inventor of the telephone, but that France had falled to percelve the value of the idea or to finance.its learned son. This handsome statue is a tardy repa- ratlon to the struggling sclentist, whose large family drained his every resource, though in later years he was made inspector general of all the telephones of his department and after his 70th year drew a government pen- sion. Charles Bourseul dled about 10 years ago In Le Cere, where his statue has been erected. At the various official banquets and evening receptions the guests of President and Mrs. Coolidge may note how rapidly pomp and ceremony are passing In the matter of court uni- form among the members of the dip- lomatic corps. The same is true in regard to the opening of the various houses of legislatures. Two, Great Britain and Japan, are the only ones which cling to the pomp and circum- stance of past years. 'Japan, how- ever, on New Year day, when its A sembly convened. staged the event behind closed doors, and the Empe- ror and his suite rode in heavily guarded carrlages, while no guests of any description were asked to the pleturseque services. King Goorge and Queen Mary still ride to Parlia- ment In the golden charlot, with 10 prancing white horses and scores of outriders. But they alone of all the soverelgns of Europe maintain this state. King Alfonso has found it wiser to keep to the ordinary every- day method of getting his lawmakers together, and he uses a plain, unpre- tending motor ,car, while his consort rarely accompanies him. Less cere- mony is now seen in Paris, while the pieturesque observance which at- tended the opening of the Reichstag in the Kalser's time has given away to a qulet assembling of the mem- bers, just as Senators and Represent- atives foregather at the Capitol. Party for Misses Wood ) Given by Jamesons Mr., and Mrs. Alex Jameson of 245 Twelfth street southeast, entertained a large company the evening of February 7 In honor of the Misses Wood. Mra. Albert Jameson assisted In recelving the guests. Dancing was {ndulged in, and a beautiful ,silver vase was presented to Mr, and Mrs. Frank Havenner and a duplicate to Mr. and Mrs. Charles Havenner in appreciation of their eerv- ices rendered to many of the guests in a musical way. . MRS. GRACE CHANTLAND TELFORD, Daughter of Special Assistant to the Attorney General and Mrs. William T. Chantland, whose marriage to Mr. George McNeil Sonfield, will take piace in ELEVENTH ST. rAl.b‘m-nfl. Mflrdi Gms Dance to Be Brilliant The Mardl Gras ball to be held In the Mayflower Tuesday evening, Feb- ruary 24, by thé Alabama State So- clety will be one of the most bril- llant social affairs it has given this season. The carnival spirit will prevail, but costumes are optlonal. Masques will De supplied, also favors and con- fettl. One of the special features of the ball will be a tanga dance. A partial list of box holders for the occasion includes: Senator and Mrs. Oscar W. Underwood, Senator J. Thomas Heflin, Representative and Mrs. John McDuffle, president of the soclety; Representative and Mrs. William B. Bankhead, Representative | and Mrs. Miles C. Allgood, Represent ative and Mrs. E. B. Almon, Repre- sentative and Mrs. W. B. Bowling, Representative and Mrs. Lamar Jef- fers, Representative H. B. Steagall and Representative J. Lister Hill. On the list of patrons and patron- | esses are: Mr. and Mrs. Bates War- ren, Mr. and Mrs. Oscar W. Under- | wood, jr.; Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Stoke- | ley, Mr. and Mrs. B. Kay, Judge | and Mrs. E. K. Campbell, Mr. and Mrs. Forney Johnston, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Stewart, Dr. and Mrs. A. L. Stavely, Gen. and Mrs. Frank Mcln- | tyre, Capt. and Mrs. C. Calhoun, Representative and Mrs. David Kin- cheloe, Representative T. Webber | Wiison, Mr. and Mrs. C. L. Shephera, Mrs. Rhett Goode, Mrs. Marion Martin, Col. Charles Lovelace Foster, Repre- sentative Ladislas Lazaro, Mrs. J Russell Verbrycke, Mrs. Edgar E. Clark, Miss Edna Kostmayer, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Morrison, former Senator With o'clock, an innovation, showing Theater. tractions with a splendid musical be shown at the theater, with day, Wednesday and Friday. Admission, Under no stances do we comparative pr values. 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