Evening Star Newspaper, March 15, 1925, Page 58

18 storf, on the North Sea, for centuries Tales of Well Known Folk Gieen “Alceandra’ of ngind. Bern: In Social and Official Life Future Speaker Longworth Listed as Close Friend of the Capital——-Notes of Other Notable personagcs. BY MARGARET B. DOWNING. Representative Nicholas Longworth next Speaker of the House of Repre- sentatives, is affectionately regarded in the Capital as a Washingtonian quite as much as he is an Ohioan. Mr. Longworth came to the Capltal in an ofticial role in 1903, when he was elected a_ member of the fifty-eighth Con- gress, and he has been closely fdenti- | fied with Washington life ever since. | His marriage to President Roose- | velt's daughter, Miss Allce Lee Roose- | velt, took place in the White House February 17, 1906, and this was the outstanding event of his career until the stmultaneous honors came in Miss Paullna’s advent and his selection to be Speaker of the sixty-ninth Congress. *““This genial son of the Buckeye State s the second from the State to win the speakership, the other Incumbent | .from Ohlo being Gen. Joseph Warren | 5 Keifer, who presided over the des- | ~tinfes of the House from 1881-83. | : Many previous Speakers have resided | n the Capital for a longer period | Ithan has Mr. Longworth, but it is| doubtful if any ever. has tauched s Washington “at so many different * angles. Besides the purely political - and social roles which Mr. and Mrs. “fongworth have played, because of Htamily connections and acknowlexged status In the scheme of things, Nr. +Longworth has been prominent in ¢ various' clubg and is a fervent pro- | *moter of good musical events. He | *joined the Alibi Club early in his | + Washington life and he rarely misses 4one of its spicturesque reunions. s | %a violinist he barely escapes beinz & rvery ll for day This i geni and had he not elected <o fol- ®low statescraft he woul? without doubt b a top-liner ike Mischa | 2 Elman and others of that cla: Tt is & rare privilege to dine informally at «the modest Longworth home on M strect near Eighteenth, and after- *ward hear the I ourse on his 4 ¥iolin for an hour or two. Tn § as F. Bayard and Senator ‘oleman du Pont Dela- * Ware, State of the Unlon, “proudly continues a historical se- “duence in its public men. Senator| “Bayard boasts more sengtorial ance . tors than anysmember of the aug <body, being the sixth of his Imme-| “diate family to wear the toga, and five haye borne the name ard, and his maternal grand- four times removed, Richard : Bassett, was serving Delaware {u the +same CongreSees in which sat his paternal anecestor, James Assheton d. The du Ponts have been more 1y connected with the industrial ment of thelr State than the though Gen. du Pont was Se e WO years ago, nd his , Henry Algernon du FPont, was | of the conscript fathers from 1906- | “1917. These two oldest and most| honorable families fn Delaware are| closely united by marital ties. Thus| *Mrs. Bayard is a cousin both to Gen.| du Pont and his wife, for she was before her marriage Miss Elizabeth | Bradford du Pont, daughter of the| late Dr. Alexis du Pont of Wilming- ton. Gen. du Pont, who has succeed- | ed former Senator Ball, married his| c¢ousin, Miss Alice du Pont of Wil Jmington; both of whom and Mrs Bayard as well, are seventh in descent from the Immigrant brothers Trenee and Amadee, who were the founders of the powder mill on the Brandywihe. Mrs. Coolidge's unyielding determi- | Bation to patrenize only American goods for her wearing apparel will| _no doubt bear good fruit in every part “of the country, and it is typical of the examples set by the first ladies in recent vears. Many remember the | splendid ceremonial gown which Mrs McKinley wore at the fnauguration Dall, March, 1897, the material b-ing lavender brocade on purple satin, the design and weaving both done in a famous manufacturing house of Pat- erson, N. J. Preyious to the Me- Kinley era many fabries were brought from Europe. though they were fash- ioned by American modistes. Now, however, this country can furnish raiment material comparable to any to be purchased in the old world, and dressmakers from home are growing in esteem all over the country. Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt and Mrs. Wil- | Mam Howard Taft wore to the inaugu- | ratlon balls of their day gowns which | were American in manufacture well as in the making. In what commonly calicd the “leisure class ~there Is no denying that gowns, hats. wraps and all accessories come from | Furope, but thie, except in rare cases, relates to the wives of public men. | “Washington business folk often suffer | {hroush the fact that so large a pro- | sortion its population is official | «and maintaing 2 home in other parts, and when it comes to shopping ex- ‘tensively the home stores al get lthe preference. Many of the smartly “gowned women who live In Wash- <ngton habitually shop, in New York “and Chicago, though there are several samaller cities—Baltimore, Detroft and Loulsville in ‘partfcular—which have | Alvoglic among the conservative and best gowned women at the Capital. Mrs. Arthur’ Capper, wife of the nator from Kansas, and chairman of the District committee, is among ihe active members of the senatorial <ning, and has made a niche for her- self In her six years of residence here. | “Mrs. Capper, as wife of the war Gov- | fernor of Kansas. displayed much aBllity- in organizing and centraliz- Jng the work of the Red Cross and] wother alds to the Natlonal Gevern-| ment, and, of course, she led a busy life entertaining and advlsing strang- | ‘ers to Topcka about the most use-| ful methods to help win the war. | Mrs. Capper is the daughter of the | late Samuel J. Crawford. who was fhe Civil War Governor of Kansas, | and she had heard her mother and | sisters tell of the work which fell| upon them in those sad days, and| which she was too young to share. | Both the Senators frém Kansas come | from Its capital, Topeka, and to this| list of celebrities is now added Dr.| William Jardine, whose home also Is'| 7 i FOR y, KING” —a much abused dec- laration, but if you. come in for the-Sun- day dinner today for $1.25 you'll agree that we have a right to use it. Music—6 to 8 FRANKLIN SQUARE Coffee Shoppe 14th at K St. N.W. | tigers and othe in the flourishing capital of Kansas. As Dr. Jardine marks the entering wedge of the Sunflower State into the list of cabinet officlals, he and Mrs. Jardine will recelve much at- tention from its established hostesses, like Mrs. Capper and Mrs. Edward Everett Gann, sister of Senator Cur. ts, who is a widower, when finally establish a home here. Mr Jardine will‘remain sith the chil- dren in the home on the cambus of the State Agricultural College until next September. . Mrs. James Donnet, widow of & British army officer and Maughter of John H. Whitehouse, known for many years as the dean of the New York Stock Exchange, will in the next month receive from the Women's League for Animals a gold medal for heroism in rescuing & dog from drowning in the icy waters in front of her home at Irvington-on-Hudson Mrs. Donnet, who is a famous hunter of big game and has shot her lions. huge beasts all over | the world, was walking on the ice | with her dogs when one dog heavier than the others broke the fce and fell through. Golng to the rescue, she helped the dog put, but was plunged | into the water and clung precariously by the edge of the ice until the frantic 1 barking of her pets had aroused some pewple on the shore. Though in her sixty-first year, Mrs. Donnet ex- perienved no bad effects from her im- merssn, but two of the dogs were intrepid hunter now lives in the splendid Victorfan mansion of her deceased | father in Irvington, and the main hall and vast dining room show the largest and handsomest collection of mounted heads owned privately in New York. Practically every wild beast which may be found in any land may be Inspected on her walls. She intends to present her trophies of the hunt to some museum of natural history. Mrs. Donnet wears her halr Lobbed, and has for the past 40 years The AMPICO is not to be described as “uncanny” in the witchery of its re-enacting wizardry. Describe it rather as elusively beguiling. All is forgotten—as your eager ears drink in the melody—save the harmonies your love of the exquisite in Music lures you to enjoy to heart’s content. 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King Christian of Den- mark, who is the cousin of Viggo, has placed what is called the Yellow Palace at the disposal of the youns | couple, and besi Viggo owns the beautiful and ate, Castle have the Masterpiece in the blood of the policy of Very Best in Musical Instru- the KITT establishment—the in on KITT—at your comvemience piano—the = (T a@;—m AN\ gfl Esublished 13290 With the World's Only Re-enacting Pjano e AMPICO This supreme combination may be found in ‘Washington’s most exclusive homes—and is sold ONLY at our store. | Incomparable! Here is the supreme ensemble—the world’s finest JORDAN COMPANY a royal villa, became the patrimony of Prince Waldemar when he mar- ried the enormously rich Princess Marie de Bourbon, and Waldemar made it over to his son Viggo after the marriage to the pretty Ameri- can mald. Princess Viggo had an intensive training in philanthropic enterprises under her aunts, the Misses Hewitt, and she has intro- part of the patrimony of the Greens and Murrays, illustrious names in the country gentry of Virginia. It was an ante-bellum owner, Col. James Murray, who built the castie as a re- actic» to the novels of Sir Walter Scoty, and the castle was planned ex- actly as some of those old strong- holds of chivalry are described in ti Waverley serles. One side opens on a deep romantic ravine where a wild stream plunges, and this passed for the necessary moat, and the main en- brother's assoclate, Mr. Howard Car- ter, is a member. She also has sclen- tific proclivities and had visited Egypt before her brother's tragic death. Her first husband was the Hon. George Byng, second son of the Karl of Staf- ford and brother of Baron Byng of Vimy, present Governor of Canada. Her second husband, an eminent member of the Commons, Herbert Coulson Gardner, was made Baron Burghclerc of Walden in Sussex. He died in 1921, and as there were no SR [T LT s C. G. SLOAN & CO., Inc. Auctioneers 715 13th Street enthusiasm bazaar for the benefit of St. Joseph's Hospital, held the first week of March, | the castle after Scott's home, Mel- [€, of the Marquis of was a stupendous financlal success. | rose Abbey, to Viggo and his bride have been in- |marked r vited to London for the next drawing | verley legends have room and will be presented to their kindred for the first time, | baronial hall King Haakon of There are few horse-loving and | fox-hunting residents of Washington not at some time been the Mr. Greene Carter on his turesque estate, Melrose, outside of Warrenton, Va. Mr. Carter has|the Hon, Evelyn recently sold Melrose to Mr. J. B.|visiting the royal Hibbard of Detroit, who is retiring | taw: from the active business cares and ing will settle in Warrenton as a coun- following the hounds and |clere s the sister of the famous living as much as possible in the |archeologist, the late Earl of Cranar- Melrose {s about 80 years old [von, and her as to the “castle,” bulilt of the gray granite quarried on the place, but|hand the labors plantation is colonlal and was Archaelogical In duced New York ways into Copen-|trance, a great charity bazaars, to the great |leads into a people. Her [ which rises the tower with its curi- ous winding stair. of the is the sister of the |cer ofLe embellished affair, which it bears a|then ro: nblance, and many Norway iv another | when his home cousin findh 80, too, his wife, Queen |troops of McClellan and he, an offi- who British sovereign. After these cere- |swung do: from monial visits to the British and Nor- | ravine, hid in wegian cour American wife on a series of | meadows to & visits to his French kindred borrow a horse to get back into the | Confederate line Rhinehart visited Melrose some years ago, and out of curlous winding Lady Burghclesw -sd her daughter, Gardner, who are re coming to Washington dur- aster period and will make per- haps a week sojourn scientific sense and to study at first of th titute, of which her (Continued on been told by the the vines to the Miers. a Mexican heiress, mother, governor at Ot- sires to safeguard. Lady Burgh- dent Diaz, and in will be in the |sons the title becomes extinct. As mammoth hall from |the wife of the Hon. Grorge Byng, Lady Burghclerc spent much time in Dr. Murray called | Ottawa when her husband was A. D. Landsdowne, 1 governor, and she is much to her old home. n in Canada she accompanied Buests before the roaring fire of the |the Gov. and Lady Byng on their re- The doctor himself |cent visit to Victoria for the opening Viggo and King George being cousins. | once used the tower to find safety |of the legislative body. was ralded by the = Since she Count Maxence de Polignac, who was home on leave. He | is now in New York come to Washington, Vi the deep water untll | ¢, Mexico City, where Pfince Viggo will take | he could make his way across the respects to the new executive, Presi- nelghbor and there|qent Calles. Count Maxence, who is associated with his e Mrs. Mary Roberts | quis de Polignac, head of the great firm of champagne makers of Rheims, the tower and the | jg half Mexican, his mother being the stalr she conceived | hairess of the vast estate of the La some of the incidents in “The Bat” |Torre will soon is on his way will pay his the Mar- He likewise married cousin of his norita Maria de La Torre, and there ure three children, whose rights under the new regime he de- Members of -the old aristocracy of Mexlco were heavy losers after the expulsion of Presi- instances estates were confiscated and homes destroyed But a better order has been established and court of " THE BLISS SALE (By Catalogue) By order of the Farmers’ Loan and Trust Com- pany of New York, Executor of the Estate of Lucie A. Bliss, together with additions from other estates and prominent local families. 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In other instances the Ampico surpassed what had just gone be- fore, and thus did justice to the pianist when he had fallen below his own standard.” PHILIP HAL Dean of Boston’s Critics. “Note for note, phrase for phrase, the repetition was the same. It was as much Copeland as the original performance.” BOSTON TRAVELER. “One heard the pianist play a composition and then the Ampico played it. It would take a very marvelous critic to tell which was which with his eyes shut. Few compahies would submit their instrument to such a test.” BOSTON AMERICAN. “Ordinary reproducing instru- ments would have declined such close comparison. The manner in which Levitzki’s style was du- plicated by the Ampico was fas- cinating. BUFFALO EVENING NEWS. “The diabolical cleverness with which the Ampico took up its cue and continued its concerto when the pianist withdrew his hands elicited gasps of amazing wonder from the audience.” BUFFALO EVENING TIMES. “Impossible to tell when Orn- stein was playing with his own hands and when by means of the Ampico.” LOS ANGELES TIMES. “Wonders upon wonders! It was all a copy of the solo of the living master.” ST. LOUIS GLOBE DEMOCRAT. “There was not a person in the audience who blindfolded could have told whether Ornstein or the Ampico was playing.” MILWAUKEE SUN. “Comparing it with the playing of Ornstein it was more than a mere imitation. It was Ornstein himself. Nothing can equal the Ampico.” ARTHUR BODANZKY, Conductor Metropolitan Opera House Orchestra. 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