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SOCIETY. Tales of Well Known Folk In Social and Official Life Memorial Association Planning to Honor Early- Day Patriots—Personal Notes of Distin- guished Americans and Others. BY MARGARET B. i;;“ G Senate and to abolish some of that With Kenmort home of Betty Washington Lewis perpetuated as a national monument and with Wake- field Manor making glant strides to- ward restoration as a park worthy of its significance as the birthplace of the founder of the Nation. the Lee Memorial committee is putting forth every effort in behalf of Stratford Hall, that noble brick mansion which stands on a high bank of the Potomac about 25 miles from its mouth. This me- morial association is about three years old and with admirable modesty has awaited the completion of the Ken- more and Wakefleld campaigns before beginning a nation-wide drive to pur- chase Stratford Hall. Col. Richard Lee, the immigrant of this illustrious line came to Virginia in 1641 as Secre- {ary of State under Gov. Sir Wiliam Berkley. Col. Lee was the first white wan to settle in the Northern neck of Virginia. His country seat was in Northumberland County. His son, Richard Lee, 2d, was born in 1647, and early in life established himself in Westmoreland County. It was his son, Thomas Lee who founded Stratford Hall, and established the dyvnasty of Lees which figured so eminently in Virginia history, colonial and revolu- tionary, and during the first century of the republic. In Stratford were born Francis Lightfoot Lee, the sign- er and one of the authors of the arti- cles of Confederation. Willlam Lee, his brother, was appointed by the Continental Congress to be commercial agent in Nantes, France, in The Hague, Berlin and Vienna. Richard Henry Lee, who also was a_ signer and the first Senator from Virginia for two terms, was born at Stratford, and Arthur Lee, distinguished diplo- matist and ociate of Franklin, John Adams and Henry Laurens during the volutionary era. Gen. Henry Lee, Light Horse Harry Lee," was not born in the old manor, but became its master through his marriage to his cousin Mathilda, only child and heiress of Phillip Ludwell Lee. But his son, the gallant leader of the Confederacy, Robert Edward Lee, was born there in 1807. Stratford Hall is in perfect preservation and its acquisition as a historic and national monument seems well and logically founded. The future Lord Fairfax and Thir- teenth Baron of Cameron was born during the past month at the home of his parents in London and is thus the first peer of his line born in Britain for the past 235 vears. It was the sixth Lord Fairfax and Baron of Cameron whose birth occurred in 1691 who came to Virginia and took possession of the estate of his mother who had been the daughter of Lord Culpeper. This friend of Washington died in his Massillon Greenway Court, in Fred- erick County in December, 1782, and his son declined to return to the fatherland and assume the British title and estates. From the Sixth Lord Fairfax until the Twelfth, the Amer- ican inheritors of the purple declin- ed to assume it until the present holder, the son of the eleventh baron, who has been a much beloved physi- clan in Northampton, Md. The present Lord Fairfax determined, on the death of his father in 1900, to revive the ancient glorles of his iine. Lady Fair- fax, like her husband, is a Marylander and was Miss Maud Wishart McKel- vie. The young heir has been named Thomas after the Lord Fairfax of Revolutionary days. It was in the old garden of Mistress Dolly Madison's home at the corner of Lafayette Square that Owen Mere- dith, son and _private secretary of Lord Lytton, British minister, wrote the celebrated passage in ‘‘Lucile” about man being able to live without hope or love, but that he must dine every da Dinners formal and in- formal, with and without a purpose, make a long chapter in local social history and the news from New York that Mrs. Schuyler N. Warren, Mrs. Horatio Slater, Mrs. Glenn Frank and several other of the brilliant coterie who form public opinion, have evolved a novel way of giving a formal ban- quet where there is a guest of honor or a notable group of persons actually or intellectually affiliated. Mrs. Schuy- ler inaugurated the new way when she entertained the brilliant ~British economist, Sir George Paish, when with her invitations a line was in- closed saying that at table the educa- tion of the future would be discussed. As only brainy people were asked, Mrs. Warren was convinced that each guest would have something to contribute worth listening to, and so instead of long, dull after-difiner speeches there were short snappy talks between courses, followed by a leisurely dis- cussion as the food was consumed. Mr. Glesasi Frank believes with the learned Dr. Johnson that dinner should mean good talk, veritable feasts of conversation, and not the desultory meaningless comment, which is the usual procedure. These dinners with a theme are “having a vogue in New York and will without doubt reach Washington before the next season opens. What a boon it would be to the President and Mrs. Coolidge and the cabinet hosts, in fact all of official- dom, to have such an order estab- lished as the many formal dinings they must give through the year. It was a foregone conclusion that the Secretary of State, having listened 1o the plaints on the passport ques- tion, should be heartily in favor of remitting these fines, for so they are now regarded on both sides of the ocean. Mr. Kellogg heard much about this grievance in London and he is still hearing of it from many sources. The delay in getting passports at the State Department is not the least of the troubles engaging the attention of this amiable and far-seeing chief of the foreign office. Mr. Kellogg firmly believes that executive departments are to serve the people promptly and according to their expressed wishes and not to exasperate them and cause unnecessary hardships. He is con- vinced that the attitude which the State Department had to assume dur- ing the war should not continue in- definitely. This Nation for the best of reasons required a passport of its cit- izens going abroad during war time and in the unsettled period following it and also asked all foreign visitors to prepare themselves for entry through the American consuls abroad. European governments, noting that the United States charges their citizens $10 to land on its shores, promptly re- quired Americans to pay $10 when they crossed each border in their trav- els. Mr. Kellogg hopes to do away ‘with the restrictions here and this will be followed by the same latitude abroad. The vice presidential home, so well known for the hospitalities of its owner, Mrs. Guy T. Scott, and her charming group of daughters, who are the grandchildren and chief heiresses of the late Nathan B. Scott, capitalist and some time Senator from West Vir- ginla, is one of the best arranged homes in that section of imposing domiciles. But its situation is isolated enough to prevent the stampede of visitors on Wednesdays in the season which Mrs. Marshall and Mrs. Cool- idge for a time experienced. The in- terlor arrangement is somewhat sug- gestive of the Dawes home in Evans- ton, & feature which had much to do with its selectien. The Vice Presi- dent’s campaign to limit debate in the body’s existing rules comes at a time when the British Parliament is clam- oring to have the speeches of its mem- bers broadcast throughout the emjpire. The Britons wish their constitpency to hear their efforts at first hand and thus to avoid the trouble and expense of mailing or wiring them. In the course of time speeches In Congress undoubtedly will be broadcast, if the rules are revised or if they remain as they are, and this would automatical- 1y limit debate, for the radio fan would raise much more of a commotion than Charles Gates Dawes is doing, if speeches were dull or long drawn out. However, students of the national legislative body are quoting President Washington, who said that the Senate was created for the very purpose of securing deliberation and that it was the saucer into which the hot coffee of the House of Representatives was to be poured in order to cool. Which proves that, however sourid were the political theories of the great patriot and founder of this Nation, his table manners in this generation would be open to criticism. Miss Emmeline Grace, daughter of Mr. Eugene C. Grace, president of the Bethlehem Steel Corporation, whose engagement to #ir Michael Bruce has Just been announced, is a young wom- an of many accomplishments and one of the enthusiastic supporters of the Bach Choir, which lately gave Wash- ington music lovers such a rare treat. Miss Grace is literary, athletic, musi- cal and fond of society, and her fiance may be described in the same terms. He has recently been in the coloniai service and was stationed in East Africa. He was during the late war a hero of the ill-fated Dardanelles ex- pedition, and is only now just recov- erlng from wounds received at Gal- lipolis. Sir Michael is a hunter of big game and is a crack cricket and polo player. He wrote a few years ago a book of lIyrics, called ngs of the Saddle,” which impressed Miss Grace so much that she wrote to the author, with the result that early in June she is to marry him. The wedding will occur in the fine home of the Graces in Bethlehem, and the nuptial music will be sung by the famous choir. Miss Grace is at present in London, but will return to this country at the end of this month Mr. Cuno H. Rudolph, chairman of the Board of District Commissioners, is bearing the brunt of the dissatis- faction over the selection of the Amer- ican beauty rose as the floral emblem of the Federal territory. But the composite mayors of Washington could hardly hope to please every one of the half million residents. Yet there is a lingering regret that the Commissioners did not take counsel with the thousands of rosarians who live here and devote their leisure and much of their income toward the sci- entific study and rearing of the queen of flowers. They would have learned, for Instance, of that exquisite climb- ing rose, the Mary Washington, found in all gardens which have room enough for this variety and which is the very first rose of American origin, was propagated by George Washing- ton at Mount Vernon and named in honor of his mother. The first Presi- dent had obtained from a garden near Philadelphia a cutting of the Rosa setigera, probably the variety known as the Macrophylla, and this he gradted on a young dogwood tree, with the result that within two years his rose had attained considerable height and had produced those soft. creamy blossoms with pale yellow centers so famillar in American gar- dens now. A trellis at the end of the west plot at Mount Vernon was cov- ered with the blooms, and this several times a season. The President, it is known, presented two small bushes of the Mary Washington to his clos- est friends and neighbors—George Mason at Gunston Hall and George Diggs at Warburton Manor, across the Potomac, now Fort Washington. The Mary Washington continues a prime favorite in all gardens which claim the best climbing roses, and this despite the hundreds of new va-| rieties placed annually on the market. Cuttings from the original bush were planted from time to time in the old garden at Mount Vernon, and few rose Jovers have failed to buy one when visiting the venerated shrine. he dean of St. Paul's, Right Rev. Willam Ralph Inge, who has so thrill ed the nation by comments on things American, finds the American press much more respectful toward men of the cloth than British publications. The dean is a man of humor, so that he took no offense at the squib pub- lished first in Punch and copled, it would seem, everywhere that the Eng lish language is read and which was to the effect that “part of St. Paul's, including the organ, is to be closed. We are relieved to learn, however, that there is no intention of shutting up the dean.” Right Rev. William Inge was far from being the “gloomy dean” at the diner which was given in his honor in New York City last Tuesday at the Astor Hotel, by the Church Club, with its president, Henry Goddard Leach, as toastmaster. The guest of honor falrly sparkled with merriment and enjoyed the occa- sion immensely. But he made the re- mark that the excellent comic sheets of “the States” nor the powerful ral- lies seldom took a clergyman as the target of a joke. The dean has a searching clipping service, and he is quite well aware of all the published comments on his visit or on him per- sonally. He is among the most schol- arly of British divines, and, though he usually contents himself with writing D. D. after his name, the customary procedure with clerics, he could, if he wished, mark magic letters which de- note academic degrees and orders which would extend clear across a printed page. Mrs. Frances Carolan, who recently married Col. Arthur Frederick Scher- merhorn, was a frequent visitor to Washington when her mother, the late Mrs. George M. Pullman, spent her Winters in th old Arlington Hotel, and when her sister, Mrs. Frank O. Lowden, was the wife of an M. C. She was Miss Harriet Pullman, and though active in social affairs in Chi- cago and California, she has been from her girlhood profoundly interested in music. It was a pursuit of this taste which led her to remove from the metropolis of the Pacific coast to that of the Atlantic. Col. Schermerhorn shares this preference, and he has al- ways been among the generous sup- porters of good music in all its forms in New York and his home city, which is Albany. THis descendant of the earllest settlers in Manhattan is ninth in lineage from tbat Jacob Janse Schermerhorn who camé from the small municipality of Schermerhorn on the Zuyder Zee in 1636, and took out g great grant of land on the East River end on the Hudson at Fort Orange. The large farm on the East River was an eminent country seat in colonial days, and the mansion, still one of the finest of its era, was pur- chased a few years ago by the Rocke- feller Institute. Col. Schermerhorn in- tends to build a modern house of the Dutch type on the lower end of the farm. He also maintains a handsome home in Albany, whither his forebears went In the opening eighteenth cen- 1Depew, | l Back From Europe I MRS. WILLIAM W. KECK, Who has joined her husband in this city, after a visit of some weeks abroad. tury and acquired valuable tracts of land. Two of the most distingulshed women of Czechoslovakia were among the delegates to the quinquennial of the International Council of Women— Dr. Albina Honzakova and Mrs. Frances Plaminkova—and they were several times entertained by the mem- bers of the legation staff. Dr. Honza- kova, who won her degree in the ancient University of Prague, and is its first woman graduate, is ndw a professor in the grammar school at Minerva, and for the past 23 years has been devoting her efforts to the higher education of girls, striving to prepare them for leadership in the new era. She also is a writer on sclentific subjects and was a frequent contributor to the Czech encyclopedia, where her articles on the history of education have been published in pamphlet form by the Teachers' Jour- nal of Prague. She organized the suffrage party in secondary schools. and in 1923 she founded and is now the president of an organization for the promotion of women students in Czech universities and to direct the efforts of women graduates. Dr. Honzakova lives in Prague and has been for the past three years a mem- berof the Czechish Council. Mrs. Frances Plaminkova is a well known writer of Bohemia and for 20 years has been prominent in feminist movements. In 1905 she aided in forming a club which later developed into the first suffrage club of Bohemia and which is a potent factor in the republic at the present time. In 1923 Mrs. Plaminkova founded the N tional Counseil of Women, which is very prosperous under her leadership. The aim of the Czechoslovak N tional Counseil of Women is to see to it that the equality of rights of both sexes granted by the constitu- tion should be carried out in every- day life and that the most important task of women, motherhood, should be justly emphasized. Mrs. Plaminkova also is an experi- enced social worker. As vice presi- dent of the society for the protection of woman's interests she founded a short while ago a home for homeless mothers with children and work- rooms for women with little capacity for work—old and sick. She is the member of the presidential council of the central organizations for the protection of children, included with- in which are the “Czech Heart” and “The Czechoslovak Land Committee for the Protection of Children.” During the Balkan War, in 1912, she acted as special correspondent of the leading Czech daily, traveling through Serbia and Bulgaria. She has traveled widely in Italy, Switzer- land, France, Denmark, Holland, Ru- mania_and England. She is an authorfty on all questions relating to public education, whether elementary, advanced, professional schools, ete and she added considerably to the reform of these schools. She has been appointed inspector and a mem- ber of Council of Education for Prague. Bisvisien ok Ehe And Other Societies Noted in Chevy Chase Dinners and Teas and Bridge Parties Also of Record. House Guests Enter- tained. Mr. and Mrs. Joseph A. Burkhart, who have been traveling in England, France and Switzerland for two months, have return to their home, on_ Connecticut avenue. Mrs. J. Liddon Pennock of Lans- downe, Pa., has been the house guest of Dr. and Mrs. Arthur B. Crane at their home, on Northampton street, for several days. Mrs. Pennock at- tended the International Council of Women. Mr. and Mrs. J. Craig Peacock en- tertained at dinner on Friday evening at their home, on West Irving street. Di. and Mrs. Janvier W. Lindsay entertained on Sunday at a christen- ing party at their residence, on Broad Branch road, in honor of their daugh- ters, Catherine and Ellen. The Chevy Chase Circle of the Florence Crittenton Mission met Tuesday afternoon at the home of Mrs. Willam T. Pollard. Mrs. Arthur B. Crane was the hostess. Mrs. DeWitt Scott entertained at luncheon and bridge Friday. Miss Afne Pollard, daughter Mr. and Mrs. William T. Pollard, was hostess at a luncheon and bridge Thursday at her home, on McKinley street, in honor of Miss Ellen Newell of Atlanta, Ga., who is the house guest of her uncle and aunt, Mr. and Mrs. George Hillyer, at their home, in_the Woodward Apartments. Mr. and Mrs. R. L. Sanford are house guests of their son and daugh- ter-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. R. L. San- ford, jr, on Forty-sixth street. Mr. and Mrs. Sanford are returning to their home in Vermont after spend- ing the Winter in Florida. Mr. and Mrs. E. H. Moon of Detroit, Mich., are also house guests of Mr. and Mrs. Sanford. Miss Mary Gale, an instructor in the National Park Seminary, at For- est Glen, Md., is the week end house guest of her uncle and aunt, Mr. and Mrs. Bert Sommers, on Elm street. Mrs. J. J. Bryne entertained the members of her club at luncheon and bridge Friday, at her residence, on Jocelyn street. Mr. and Mrs. Joseph M. Garrett en- tertained Saturday evening in honor of the fifth birthday anniversary of their daughter Catherine. Mr. and Mrs. Willlam Stein of Jocelyn street have motored to Phil- adelphia, Pa., where they are spend- ing the week end. Mr. and Mrs. J. Craig Peacock are spending the week end in Annapolis, Md., visiting friends. Mrs. Sidman of Philadelphia, Pa., is the house guest of Mrs. George M. Mrs. Charles Roberts agd ~ Notable |mond is honorary chairman. | _STAR, WASHINGTO D. C, MAY 1 New York Society Awaiting Event of Season Fete at Historic Claremont-on-the-Hudson Soon to Opcn—American Girl to Wed Briton. NEW YORK, May 16.—One of the biggest events of the Spring season in New York will be the fete to be held at the historicsold Claremont-on- the Hudson, May 26 and 27. The pro- ceeds will be used to carry on the pa- triotic, home, civic and educational work at Roosevent House, 28 East Twentleth street. There are a num- ber of unique features planned by the entertainment committee, of which Mrs. William Curtls Demorest is chairman and Mrs. John Henry Ham- The af- be under the auspices of Roosevelt Memorial Asso- fair will Women's ciation. There will be luncheons, bridge par- ties, and dinners each day at the fete, which will be held in the open with the accompanying facilities offered by exhibition booths and a marquee shel- ter for dancing. Thirty “senoritas” in costume will be in charge of the danc- ing inclosure, which will be known as La Sevillana. Several alluring tango contests are planned by the commit- tee, with Mrs. Winchester Fitch as chairman, assisted by her daughter, Miss Dorothy Fitch, as vice chair- man. Mrs. Oliver B. Bridgman, assisted by Mrs. Henry Morton Merriman and Miss Florence James, will have charge of Ali Baba's “Open Sesame” and the ““Twirl the Twirl.” Voting Contest Listed. There will be a voting contest to name the favorite radio station. The winner will receive a large bronze Theodore Roosevelt medallion. Mrs. Frederick W. Longfellow is looking after this feature. Miss Grace Henry, assisted by Miss Charlotte K. Demarest and Mrs. Lawrence Copley Thaw, will direct activities in the large amusement tent, where the professional and amateur talent will present acts for the entertainment of the guests. A number of well known milliner- ettes will assist Mrs. Frederic Sterry, who is chairman of the haf com- mittee. A pretty diversion will be offered in the Maypole dance by schoolchildren from 85 Roosevelt Clubs in this city organized by Mrs. Henry A. Wise Wood, chairman of the educational committee of the Women's Roosevelt Memorial Association. Mrs. Magtha H. Miller will be chairman of the flower committee and has arranged to huve masses of flowers from many private gardens. Miss Alice Bowker is on the bridge committee. Engagements Announced. Mrs. William Cary Sanger of Sangerfield, N. Y., and 45 East Sixty- announced the en- Miss Mary . Sanger, to Mr. derick W. imonds of 33 West Fifty-first street, New York. The wedding will take place June 4 at Grace Church-on- Mrs. Mary Miller, at their home, on West Kirke street. Mrs. Horace E. Alexander, assisted by Mrs. Riley and Mrs. Lewls, will entertain the auxillary home board of the Willlam Hunt Chapter, O. E. S, tomorrow evening at 8 o'clock at her home, on East Bradley lane. Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Angel enter- tained the members of their club at dinner and bridge Saturday evening at_their home, on West Kirke street. Miss Florenge Henderson was hostess to the members of her neigh- borhood club at bridge and supper | Thursday evening. Mrs. J. P. Bowling of Birmingham, Ala., is the house guest of her brother-in-law and sister, Mr. and Mrs. Arthur L. Cline, on Oliver street, for a week. Mrs. Jere Crane will entertain the members of her club at luncheon and bridge tomorrow at her home, in the Chevy Chase Apartments. Mr. and Mrs. Radford Moses were hosts to the members of their unit of the Church of the Blessed Sacrament at bridge and supper Monday eve- Frank Howard Harver of burgh, Pa. is the house guest for the week end of his brother-in- law and sister, Mr. and Mrs. Arthur L. Cline, on Oliver street. The music section of the Woman's Club of Chevy Chase entertained Thursday, at the First Methodist Episcopal Church, at its annual luncheon. Miss A. E. Broas, leader of the section; Mrs. R. S. McBride, *. E. Waters, Mrs. Lyles”Offutt, Mrs. H. D. Dale and Mrs. Corning ~ were hostesses. Mrs. William A. Mills of Primrose street entertained Thursday at lunch- eon and bridge at the Congressional Country_Club. Mrs. Marvin Farrington and her dnugter Edith of Elm strest will leave tomorrow for Fryeburg, Me., where _they will spend the Summer. Mr. Faprington and his daughter Helen will join them in June. The executive board of the Wom- an's Club of Chevy Chase met Wed- nesday at the home of Mrs. Thomas E. Robertson, on West Melrose street. Mrs. Robertson and Mrs. A. MecC. Ashley were hostesses at the lunch- eon which preceded the business meeting. Mrs. Chacles A. Mullen and two children, from Montreal, are spending several weeks with her brother and sister-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Charles E. Davis, at their home, on Rosemary street. Sally Lunn. Two cups flour, % cup melted but- ter, 2 tablespoons sugar. % teaspoon sali, 3 teaspoons baking powder, % cup milk, 2 eggs. Combine all the dry materfals. Add the beaten egg yolks to the milk and melted butter. Stir in the mixed and sifted dry ma- terials and fold in the stifly beaten egg whites. Bake in greased muffin tins two-thirds full. Bake for 15 to 20 minutes in a hot oven. The batter should be poured in butter muffin pans filling not more than two-thirds full. Steamed Rhubarb Pudding. 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Franklin 7475 Paligrns cut to measure the-Helghts, Brooklyn, where for many years Miss Sanger's father was vestryman, as was also her grand- father, Mr. Henry Sanger. Mr. and Mrs. Charles W. Bowring of 66 East Ninety-first street, have an- nounced the engagement of their eldest daughter, Miss Amy Bowring, to Capt. Willlam Arthur McDonald Stawell, Royal Engineers, British army, now in India. The engagement is the outcome of a visit in Delhi. India, where Miss Bowring met her flance. She returned a few days after | having passed the Winter in Delhi with her aunt and Lady Blackett, whose husband, Sir Basil Blackett, is financial member of the Indian Coun- cil. Lady Blackett is the former Miss Beatrice Bonner of this city and Staten Island. Miss Bowring was introduced to so- clety In New York more than a year ago, when many entertainments were given in her honor, one of them at the Colony Club by Mrs. Francis Hig- ginson Cabot. the former Miss Maud Bonner; cousin of the debutante's mother. She was graduated from Miss Chapin’s School in this city and be- came a member of the Junior League. Miss Bowring is a granddaughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. Edward H. Bonner of Staten Island, a niece of Reginald FE. Bonner. who married Miss Effie Caesar of Staten Islan sranddaughter of the late Capt. Jacob Vanderbllt, the only brother of Com- modore Cornelius Vanderbilt. Exclusive Outdoor Events. Among the exclusive outdoor events of the late Spring will be the garden party to be held under the auspices of the board of managers of the Ladies’ Auxiliary of the New York Zoological Society on May 21 at the Zoological Park here. S8his is a fete which has been held every season for years. Mrs. Henry Fairfield Osborn, with several members of the auxiliary, of which she is chairman, will receive the guests of the day. Other guests of the auxiliary, who are interested with Mrs. Osborn in keeping up this formal entertainment are Mrs. George F. Baker, jr.. Mrs. Henry Reese Hoyt, Mrs. William G Rockefeller, Miss Eleanor de Graff Cuyler, Mrs. Shelton E. Martin, Mrs. Finley J. Shepard. Mrs. Lorenzo Daniels, Mrs. Marshall Field, Mrs. Robert Gordon McKay, Mrs. Willlam V. S. Thorne, Mrs. William B. Os- £ood Field, Mrs. Clarence G. Michalis, Mrs. Henry T. Tilford, Mrs. Regi- nald Fincke, Mrs. Willlam White Niles, Mrs. Edward M. Townsend, Mrs. Arthur Fowler, Mrs. Stephen H. Olin, Mrs. Richard Trimble, Mrs De Forest Grant, Mrs. George Whit- ney, Miss Mary Parson, Mrs. Mor- gan Hamilton, Mrs. Percy Pyne, Miss Pauline Robinson, Mrs. Thomas Hastings, Mrs. William Woodward and Miss Jean Whiteredge. {Franklin Mo;t Gunther's Career Is an Examp]e For Young Diplomats Mexican Affairs Bureau Chief Has Risen Rapidly And Promotion Is Seen. Principally through the zeal and energy of the late Henry Cabot Lodge and John Jacob Rogers, the foreign service has assumed tangible form and the State Department proper has be- come a sort of post-graduate course for those who have passed the pre- liminaries and are in direct line for a post of Minister or some important charge d'affffaires. The chief of the Bureau of Mexican Affalrs, Mr. Franklin Mott Gunther, is pre-emi- nently an example of the possibilities which now open to the “career” man in diplomacy. After taking his A. B. degree in Harvard in 1907 Mr. Gun- ther selected a diplomatic career,and to perfect himself in the languages and necessary accomplishments he matriculated in L'Ecole Libre des Sci- ences Politiques in Paris and finished his course two years later. The late Robert Bacon guided the helm of state when the young New Yorker passed a brilliant entrance examina- tion and was assigned as private sec- retary to the American Ambassador in Tokio, then Mr. Thomas G. O'Brien of Detroit. Since that time, October, 1908, Mr. Gunther has risen step by step in his profession, and, having served as counselor of the American embassy in Rome and for the past 13 months as chief of the Mexican Bu- reau, he will soon be promoted to the head of a mission. Married in Boston. Mr. Gunther was secretary of the American embassy in London when, cn April 27, 1918, he married Miss Louise Bronson Hunnewell of Wel- lesley, Mass. Mrs. Gunther has proved a charming hostess in the many posts to which her husband has been since assigned, but her most BOfiental&Domesfickngs A NESHAN G. HINTLIAN 1206 18th N.W.—At Conn. Ave, Phone Main 9678 | Remodeled Repaired Special Low Rates 7, 1925—PART MISS NENA HODGES SPENCE, Whose brother, Mr. Thomas G. announces her engagement to ) van A. Miller. conspicuous success was when she acted almost continuously as chate- laine of the American embassy in Rome. Mr. Gunther was sent to the Italian capital in 1920, when Robert Underwood Johnson was head of the embassy, and he remained during the several interims, first before Richard Washburn Childs arrived, in 1921, to succeed Mr. Johnson, and again when Mr. Childs came home Jn 1924, and after a prolonged absence was suc ceeded by the present incumbent, SOCIETY: Henry P. Fletcher. Mr. and Mrs. Gunther maintained one of the most hospitable homes in Rome. The lat- ter is firmly Intrenched in the affec- tions of many young schoolgirls in every part of the country who were studying art or music and to whom she showed many courtesies, in the ost substantial way enlarging their pportunities and lessening the griev- ous pains of homesickness. Lives In Georgetown. Since coming to Washington Mr. and Mrs. Gunther have occupied one of the coziest homes in Ceorgetown, at 1533 Twenty-ninth street, and have more than kept up their end in social affairs. In the early Winter, however, Mrs. Gunther contracted that painful epldemic which raged in her section, scarlet fever and her convalescence has been slow. She is beginning to get about a little now and with the advent of pleasant weather, she will be able to resume her usual duties. Mr. and Mrs. Guntlier have a wide acquaintance in official Washington and among the members of the for- eign corps. Mr. Thomas J. O'Brien, who was Mr. Gunther’s first chief, is a Winter resident and keenly inter. ested in the fortunes of his former secretary. Among his classmates af Harvard is Robert Low Bacon, now Member of Congress from Westbury, N. Y., and there is scarcely an em: bassy or legation that has not several secretaries with whom Mr. Gunthed has served at some time since he e tered diplomacy 16 years ago. Mr. Gunther is the most ardent New Yorker, and despite the fact that he has become In truth a citizen of the world and is now in the particulag sense a citizen of Washington, he stilf calls home the stately mansion maine tained for years at 375 Park avenue, New York City. He is the son of | Franklin L. Gunther of Gotham ang | his mother was Miss Louise Dunmora Mott of Long Island. 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