Evening Star Newspaper, May 10, 1925, Page 50

Tales of Well In Social an Known Folk d Official Life President and Mrs. Coolidge Generous as Hosts Aboard the Mayflower—Many Notable Events Sketched. BY MARGARET B. DOWNING. President and Mrs. Coolidge have “~en generous in extending the hos- itality of the Mayflower to many oups of Washington people. Mak- 13 the journey as regularly as they o, they have become familiar enough th the lines of the noble Potomac tv identify its most significant points. e river bank is, in reality, the old- « it part of Washington proper, and ihe redoubtable Capt. John Smith +niled up as far as the Little Falls a «»ntury and a half before the agents * President Washington arrived with reir measuring lines to plan the Fed- al City. L'’Enfant, the Frenth en- neer, who drew the ground-map of he Capital, has left in his correspond- ce many references to trips by skiff 1 the Potomac as far as Georgetown *hen he was viewing the future city om every angle and designing what as proved to be the most beautiful 'd adaptable plan of any city in the vorld. On what is now one of the ost unsightly parts of the wharves nearly 200 years ago theére stood the egant mansion of Notley Young, one +7 the original proprietors of the land !'-esident Washington purchased for he Federal District. This was part the Duddington Pasture grant, and ihe house of brick was spacious, sur- rounded by noble groves of trees, and stood on the high bank at what is now G between 9th and 10th streets vithwest. In this mansion was the first Catholic chapel in what is now the District of Columbia, and in it riass was celebrated in 1762 for the ! rst time within the boundaries of the Capital. If the Chief Magistrate 10 years hence takes his friends a-sailing down the Potomac instead of up in an air- ilane, now a probability, there will e among the sights of interest a white marble cross, which. is to be crected on the site of ‘the Notley '‘oung mansion in connection with the iv:tional celebration of the 300th anni- versary of the landing of Gov. Leon- 21d Calvert on the Dove and the Ark, At St. Marys City, Md., which will begin March 25, 1934. The Spanish Ambassador, Senor Don Juan Riano y Gayangas, dean of the corps, who recently received the Gecoration of the Grand Cross of Charles III, has lived in this country w long and speaks the language so nerfectly that outside of Washington ‘e is rarely identified in his present «~xalted role. During his recent visit to St. Augustine he was constantly siapped on the back by some one slaying golf on the Fort Marion =reen, who called him this and that, 4nd they were from almost every State in the Union. But the Ambas- sador’s most amusing experience was when a caddie rushed up breathlessly and asked him to watch two bottles »{ pop, while he, the caddle, went on in errand, a request which the Am- hassador most gracefully granted, hough the youth delayed his return or half an hour. Charles III of spain, who founded the Order of the irand Cross, just bestowed on the lean of the Washington diplomatic corps, was the monarch under whose natronage nearly all of the famous Spanish missions of the Southwest vere established and in whose honor v many in California, New Mexico ind Arizona are called San Carlos. He was the benefactor of Padre Junipero and made many gifts to the missions of California. George Henry Vgnderbilt Cecil, the young son of the Hon. John ¥rancis Amherst Cecil and his wife, who was Miss Cornelia Vanderbilt, could not have had more colorful christening festivities had he been born in the Old World castles of cither Amhersts or Cecils. This im- portant -youngster renounced the devil and all his works and pomps, of course, by proxy, in.All Souls’ Church, where his parents had been married, and the chief godmother waX Princess Beatrice of Battenburg, with Miss Rachel Strong of Cleve- land acting in her place. The Henry in the name is for the late Prince Henry of Battenburg, the intimate triend of Mr. Cecil and his chum in college and in the army. The George is for his maternal grandfather and likewise the Vanderbilt. The religious ceremony took place a little after 4 o'clock and then a buffet supper was served for about 300 suests in Bilt- more House, while at the same time the tenantry of the vast estate sat! down to a similar supper served in . large recreation hall the ounds. As soon as it was dark, across the wide esplanade blazed forth in large electrically lighted let- ters, “Welcome, Young George!” and for three hours there were set pleces of bouquets, flags and fountains lighting up the scene while the merry-making went on and light re- freshments were served during the entire evening. It was, with per- haps a half dozen exceptions, a party composed of the Biltmore neighbors and friends, many from Asheville and from adjacent estates. Young Vanderbilt, as he is to be called, though this will naturally be short- ened into “Van” long before he reaches the school age, is in the care of a fine ruddy-complexioned English nurse, the same who watched over the infancy of the Hon. John Francis Amherst Cecil and his numerous brothers and sisters. The Earl of Lathom, who is passing the Spring in New York, and who has come very quietly into Washington several times and renewed ties of friendship here, is about to produce a play, published under a nom de plume, and he is awaliting the outcome of his venture. The earl is not in the most robust health, the result of a painful wound during the Dardanelles cam- paign, and he has sold all agricultural interests in England and is going in for a sedentary literary career. He has 80 carefully guarded his assumed ame, which he has been using in his visits to Washington and Chicago, that no one save a few know it or where his play is to appear in New York, though the offerings, of all new candi- dates in the line of drama are being carefully watched. The earl is the first cousin of the former Ambassador from_ Italy, Prince Gelasio Caetani, and he inherited the title when less than 15 years of age.. He has a large tortune, ‘which he devotes principally to aiding impecunious playwrights and authors, though always in an in- volved and anonymous way. He has been for years identified with the young literary group in London, and is a close friend of Prince and Prin- cess Antoine Bibesco. It is doubtful if Senator and Mrs. Walter E. Edge, who have just return- ed from a brief visit to Europe and who took a run down into the lovely country about the { Mediterranean, found a more delightful retreat than their own villa in Ventnor, beyond Atlantic City. Senator Edge has there created a marvelous home and garden. A sunken effect is within plain view of saunterers along the beach and can be enjoyed by all, while an ornate wall, which seems part of the house, shields an Italian garden in perfect privacy, The Edge villa is partly Flor- entine and as to its lines might be among the solemn-looking ilex trees and Lombardy poplars on the hills along the Arno. But there i8 a wide veranda on the ocean side, and a few &sgb away,'the Waves run back and| forth joyously on ome of the whitest and broadest parts of the famous beach. There are pergolas which will, within a week or two, make a bower of pink and crimson, and there are courts with almost. cloistral effect ex- cept for the cheery effect of gay flow- ers, like petunias, scarlet and white geraniums and flashes of poppy in among the vari-colored iris. Spring comes early on this sunny part of the Atlantic coast, and the sunken garden has ajready boasted its peonies and its columbine, while the earliest. of the climbing roses on the south side show their colors through the partially opened buds. There are a playground and a big sand pile for little Miss Edge, now having attained the dignity of 2 years, under the wall, and it is the ideal spot for any youngster to grow strong and well and certainly a beautiful place for the grown-ups. Miss Sarah Livingston Jay, who is the far-off descendant of the first Chief Justice and a cousin of Mr. Peter Augustus Jay, a well known member of the American forelgn service, fs among the serious malds of Gotham, and though she made a sort of halfway debut, she is finish- ing her course at Bryn Mawr, and her recently announced engagement to Arthur Middleton Hughes will not be followed by a wedding until some time next Autumn. Miss Jay is like- wise a granddaughter many genera- tions removed of Philip Schuyler Liv- ingston and she is always prominent in the historic pagéants so frequently given in New York for charity. But she is one of the pillars and supports of the Junior League and of the Girl Scouts and she has visited Washing- ton many times in behalf of both these favorite crusades. Young Mr. Hughes, a former student at Prince- ton, son of that popular divine, Rev. Stanley C. Hughes, rector of Trinity Church in Newport, though of upper New York State, is now a denizen of the big city, and is practicing law. He too leans toward historical inves- tigations, as does his flancee, and he was an aid in the memorable cele- bration of the Huguenots descend- ants last year. The first Jay, Peter Augustus, fled to New York from Holland in 1685 with his wife and 11 children, after the revocation of the edict of Nantes. Mrs. Axel C. P. Wichfeld, formerly Mrs. Clarence Moore of this city, has recently ‘acquired a long lease on Crichel, a splendid estate in Dorset- shire, which is owned by Lord Allng- ton, and is about to remove from Blair Castle in Perthshire, where the family has lived for the past four years. Lord Alington is now a New Yorker and has a lucrative connection with a prominent insurance and guaranty company and has established a home on Long Island near Glen Cove. Mr. Wichteld, who is the nephew of the Danish minister, M. Constantin Brun, was an attache of the Danish legation here when he married the opulent Mrs. Clarence Moore, who had been Miss Mabelle Swift of the Chicago-Boston family. Mr. Moore, who was a victim of the Titanic, left four sons, Preston, Jas- per, Clarence and Lloyd, and they are being very carefully educated in England and will be sent to study on the continent when they have com- pleted their university education in Cambridge. ~Mr. Wichfeld ‘has a quasi-connection with the Danish legation of London and also is in busi- ness in the British metropolis. Mrs. Wichfeld is most loyally American and she intends her sons to study a pro- fession in this country. Preston and Jasper, now 21 and 20 years old, respectively, both show a marked preference for the foreign service. Mrs. Wichfeld will in about a year reopen her home on Massachusetts avenue here in order that these boys may have an opportunity to prepare for the examinations for the School of Foreign Service recently established by the State Department. Meantime, the estate of Lord Alington will serve as an all-the-year-round home for Mr. Wichfeld and the younger sons. It is about two.hours from London and will no doubt be the -scene of much hospitality to visiting Americans this coming Summer. ‘Washington will .always take & cordial interest in the fortunes of the Hon. Ronald Lindsay, who began his diplomatic career as undersecretary of the British embassy here, and who has climbed steadily upward. He re- cently was named Ambassador to Constantinople. Mr. Lindsay married one of the belles of the Capital, Martha Cameron, daughter of the statesman, Don Cameron of Pennsyl- vania, and of Elizabeth Sherman of Ohio. Mrs. Cameron died 8 years ago, and last Winter the British Am- bassador to Turkey married the first cousin of his deceased lady, Elizabeth Serman Hoyt, ‘daughter -of - the late Colgate Hoyt of New York. The cousins were remarkably alike in per- son and characteristics, and the ro- mance awakened. the sympathy of a wide circle of friends. Mr. Lindsay is a_member of one of the oldest and most {llustrious families in the Brit- ish Isles. He is the fifth son of the twenty-sixth Earl of Crawford, and has been in the diplomatic service since leaving Oxford 30 years ago. Mrs. Cameron is a charming hostess and has entertained in the lovely garden she has established In the “new British embassy park the un- !.veiled ladies of Turkish soclety, giv- ing teas, musicals and having lec- tures and talks on art, just as she would in her own beautiful home in New York City Commengatore Luigi Parpagliolo, who is one of the great Italian au- thorities on garden lore, has placed the Garden Club of America under a heavy debt by offering the perfected organization of his office to collabo- rate with it in promoting the study of Italian garden art. This is to be done by the practical means of. visits to the 500 monumental villas which though for the greater part woned privately are yet regarded~ by the government as national assets and are under the supervision of Commenda- tore Parpagliolo, who is a director of the department of fine arts, Mrs. Harold Pratt and the various offi- cials of the Garden Club of America will soon announce a committee who will examine these villas under the di- rection of the kindly official, and who will likewise have the privilege of us- ing his great library, in which the hi: toric gardens of Italy are presented most beautifully in pictures and also in scaled maps. More than 5,000 mem- bers of the Garden Club of America signed the request to this eminent | apostie of floriculture, and it is the hope of the officers that, following ltheh' visit and intepsive study under his direction, the commendatore may be induced to come to this country and see the results of the crusade. It was mainly through- the efforts of this ai- rector of fine arts that the Italian government within the past year is- sued a list of the villas which through their splendor, their historic associa- tions and their general presentation of a phase of art, were registered as na- tional property to prevent their be-, ing changed or neglected by their own- ers. In round numbers there are 508 of such and they extend from the Ger- man and Swiss border in Lombardy to lzlp end of the peninsula south of and contain the X-RAY AS AN AID IN DIAGNOSIS This is one of a series of popular health articles furnished by the Medical Soclety of the District of Columbis. The .discovery of X-rays is one of Y Wi d chose the algebralc symbol denote this fact. They are now frequently spoken of as Roentgen rays in honor of their dis- coverer: : From the "first it was foreshadowed that they might prove of great value in medicine, but, like many other discoveries, it was several years be- fore they became of much practical usé. Now they are considered almost indispensable and their use has extended to nearly every branch of ical practics X-rays depend for their value upon their ability to register on a photo- graphic film or fluorescent screen the varying densities of the structures through which they pass. They do not depict the'organs and tissues of the body_as they appear when dis- sected, but they do portray with amaz- ing clearness their comparative densi- ties. Bon bein, uch more dense then the surroun flesh, intercept more of the rays. For this reason bones are shown more distinctly than any of the other structures of the body. Hence Xways are of great value in the diagn of diseases and injuries of the skeleton and for the location of foreign substances which have a greater. density than the tis sues in which they are lodged. Shows Diseased Tissue. There are also many diseases of the fleshy parts of the entire body which effect density in ‘such a way as to make diseased tissue readily recog- nizable by X.ray examination. The size, position and movements of the heart are readily observed, and en- largements of some of the arterles, known as aneurysms, can also demonstrated. Hardening of the ar- terles which has’ progressed to a stage where deposits of lime in them has occurred can also be shown. The lungs are soft, spongy struc- tures, and when normal are quite translycent to the rays. When they are di , however, they are apt to become more or less solidified, and the location, sive and other charac- teristics of them solidified areas can be seen. The X-rays contribute a great deal to our knowledge of tu- berculosis, pneumonia and other dis- eases of the lungs, and also of the — re. an “X" to gation of magnificent country seats in the world. Mry. Charles Burnett, wife of Capt. Burnett, who was for so many years naval attache in Tokio, has received nearly all the literary honors which the Japanese government can bestow for her marvelous mastery of the language and its intricate method of poesy. ‘Mrs. Burnett has achleved what has never been accomplished by an American before—she has learned the language of Japan in the academic and practical sense and she has writ- ten some exquisite prose poems and has translated some of the classics from the Nipponese royal library. She is an unusually attractive person and very often is seen in the drawing room of Mme. Matsudaira and of the other ladies connected with the emtbassy. Living so long in the Orient, Mrs, Burnett has become attached to for- elgn ways and has taken up the west- ern domestic customs rather reluc- tantly. She is partial to having small companies of friends served in the ways which are famillar in Tokio and all through the' islands thereabout. Mrs. Burnett has several ‘volumes of Japanese poetry, and sometimes she 18 lured into reading some of her work to those few in Washington who un. derstand this flowery language. Mrs. Francis B. Biddle and her sis- ter, Miss Cornelia Van Auken Chapin of New York, are among the organiz- ers of a delightful club called the Snarks, which is a_ spirited and con- vincing way in which the younger generation has answered the appeals of the leaders of Gotham to organize social life again on the lines laid down by the late Ward McAllister. These two ladies descend from the oldest and most distinguished fami. lies of Manhattan, and, besides pos- sessing good blood, many of thelr an- Cestors were founders of New York in_the cultured and intellectual sig- nificance. Any -return to the “four hundreds” of the McAllister time and their descendants would necessarily include them on several counts. But the Snarks have been organized with- out the least regard to social lists in certain approved publications or the family trees of the Knickerbockers or British and other immigrants. They are chosén because'they.are brainy and because they can talk intelligently on the questions of the day and have accomplished something worthy in the literary, artistic or musical line, or give fair promise of doing so. Every Snark, to retain membership in good standing, must dance well, play some sort of musical instrument in more than the.ordinary way; must make a rousing public speech, or must have some accomplishment in the writing line. There are soon to be tryouts of the dramatic. efforts of the young people, of course behind closed doors. Miss Chapin, one of the founders of the club, recently had a oneact comedy formed, “The Ladles of Bayeaux,” with admirable success. The Snarks will also have a purely social side, and will give dinings, dances and afternoon levees next sea- son, when they are more closely knit into organization. Mr. and Mrs. Drelincourt Martin of Chicago, but now citizens of the world, have just translated a masterpiece in Rumanian dramatic art, “Eyes in the duced in some of the Little Theaters during the Summer, possibly in Chi- cago, where charming theater weather prevails until mid-August. Though Rumania has a_venerable and virile lterature, the World War may be said to have introduced it to all ex- cept to the most scholarly of Ameri- cans and this too may be remarked of other nations which have assumed a large importance since the treaty of Versailles. Mme. Wroblewska, wife jof the Minister from Poland, often has regretted that none of the charming Polish fairy tales or its folk lore in general is known even superficially in this country, and that eminent Bul- garian scholar, Dr. Panaretoff, fre- quently expyesses astonishment that Americans with their well developed love of dramatic prose and poetry have not skimmed the surface of that rich literature in his native tongue. This Rumanian dra; ves in the Dark” will be followed by other trans- lations by Mr. and Mrs. Martin, who French and not in e SUMMER COTTAGES FOR RENT AT SARANACINN S IR 45, JDIRIPACEY: s 18 HOLE CHAMPIONSHIP GOLF sports s, gy e k. in ST EAENTE z l*fllM and nflm 5‘ be | 2nd contributing dlagnostic informa- Dark,” and they are to have it}pro-| membrane covering the lungs, which is the part affected in pleurisy. Mdach information can be obtained with respect to -the alimentary tract by an X-ray examination. The gullet, stomach and intestines cannot be seen with the X-rays because they are of practically the same density as the es surrounding them. However, a harmless chemical, known as barium sulphate, can be mixed with food, and this, when fintroduced into the stomach and intestines, can be readily observed and many organic thereby discovered. Diagnose Cancers. * The X-rays are specially helpful in the diagnosis of ulcers,- cancers and obstructions in the allmentary tract, and are also of use in the diagnosis of certain kinds of appendicitis. Gall stones cannot be shown with X-rays in more than about 25 or 30 per cent of the cases in which they are pres- ent. Ity is only when they contain a sufficient ‘amount ot lime to render them opague to the rays that they can be visualized. It has recently been discovered, however, that a cer- tain chemical having the jaw-breaking name of sodlum tetrabromphenolph. thalin when administered is excreted in the bile and renders it opaque to X-rays, thus making it possible to vis ualize the shape, size, position and configuration of the gall-bladder, in much the same manner that the ba- . rium meal visualizes the stomach and intestines. This new method of exam- ination gives promise of being of con- siderable value in the diagnosis of gall- bladder -disease, i Unlike gall-stones, stones in the kid- ney or elsewhere in the urinary tract | usually contajn a considerable quan- tity of lime and can be demonstrated by the X-rays in a high percentage of cases. ‘Opaque solutions can also be injected into the urinary tract, thus making the tract opaque to X-rays, tion comparable to that obtained in the X-ray examination of the food pas- sage: Used for Brain Diseases. X-rays are of much value In the diagnosis of disease of the mastoid and of the other air-containing spaces in the skull known as the nasal ac- cessory sinuses. They have added much practical knowledge relative to diseases and abnormalities of the teeth and jaws ang are quite as indispensa- ble to the dentist as they are to the physician. They are even of value in the diagnosis of n diseases of the brain, particularly brain tumors. It is not very often that the tumor itself can be seen, but its pressure effects on the skull are frequently recog- nizable. While this application of X-rays to medical diagnosis is greatly diversi- fled, a consideration of their physical properties makes it at once apparent that their usefulness is limited. It is quite as important for the physiclan to know their limitations as it is for him | to recognize their virtues. It is also apparent that a thorough knowledge of the changes produced in the body by disease or injury is essential for one to properly interpret what the X-rays reveal. It is équally impor- tant that the results of the X-ray ex- amination be considered in connection | with all of the other features of the case in order to arrive at a full under- | standing of the patient’'s condition. “BIG INTERESTS” SCARCE. One Per Cent of Industries Have More Than 500 Employes. Special Dispgtch to The Star. NEW YORK, May 9.—The “big interests” ‘aren’t as plentiful as is generally believed, according to a statement issued today by the Na- tional Industrial Conference Board, to the effect that only 1 per cent of the manufacturing establishments in the United States employ more than §00 workers each. Seventy-one per cent have fewer than 20 employes each. The 1, per cent class, however, has 32 per cent of all the industrial workers in the country. 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