Evening Star Newspaper, July 5, 1925, Page 31

SOCIETY" Tales of Well Known Folk In Social and Official Life Mrs. Coolidge Whiles Away Waiting Hours Sesw-L ing or Knitting—Mrs. Garret A. Hobart at Southampton——personal Notes. BY MARGARET B. DOWNING. Mrs. Coolidge and her sewing basket or knitting bag will always be asso- clated in the minds of those who have known her in the most intimate sense, and her busy fingers at odd times have accomplished marvels in the way of results, when the output of the year wag counted. Just now she is enjoying the seclusion of the Sum- mer place, and though her neighbors report her as reading oftener than sewing or knitting, no one doubts that she fills the waiting minutes in her usual way. This amiable first lady once confided to a friend that she had, knit an intricate set of doilies in the early years of her married life during the moments when she was compelled to defer to some event, such as dining when her husband was detained down town. This present season ushers in gomery’s tragic death he was buried with others in the military cemetery outside of the old French fortress, and it was not until early in the nineteenth century -that Congress heeded the petitions of his widow and | sent a warship to convey the remains to New York City. They now rest under a fine monument in old St Paul’s graveyard, and those who read the stirring tribute engraven in stone to the patriotic conduct, the enter- prise and perseverance of Richard Montgomery are moved to visit the home from whence he went forth never to return. Gen. Montgomery's memory is honored in_the Maryland county which adjoins Washington to the west, and in many parts of the country there are towns, countles and streets which bear his name. Gen. Delafield has kept the mansion as far as possible in the manner it a craze for Itallan cutwork among those who have furiously labored at | needle point and tapestry for several | years past, and it is an interesting | speculation whether or not Mrs. Cool- | idge will try her hand at this ancient | and very beautiful method of adorn- | ing the table linen. She resisted the | needle point and tapestry fad most | valiantly, not that she does not ad mire the exquisite products of many | of her friends. But this varlety of | what is generally called “fancy work” | requires an amount of concentration which she could not in her present role bestow. The Itallan cutwork is a rapid sort of open embroidery, and, like tapestry, it suggests the busy | ladles of the medieval ages sitting | among their handmaidens plyiag the needle back and forth. All up and| down the north shore the broad verandas are filled with ladies hold- | ing their dainty bits of linen, snip-| ping rapidly with their scissors and filling in the cutout places with deft- | ne: Mrs. Garret A. Hobart, who is the senior of the four women who once | on a time answered the description of “second lady of the land,” is bear-| ing the vears surprisingly well, and | with her three grandchildren, Garret, 3d: Miss Katherine and Miss Elizabeth Hobart, she has been passing the early Summer in Southampton. She will shortly be joined by her son, Garret 2d, and Mrs. Hobart, who was Miss | ine Briggs, daughter of Mr. and rank Briggs of this city, and granddaughter of the late Senator Fryve of Maine. The young Garret Hobarts have been making a _brief | visit to relatives and friends in Maine | ind have passed a few days with Mrs. Briggs, who is at the fishing camp of Senator Frye, near Barfor. Mrs. Hobart was the most important | official hostess during the first of the McKinley administration, since the first lady was an invalid. Mrs James Schoolcraft Sherman, who filled | the role of second lady during the Taft administration, is, like Mrs. Hobart, widow of a Vice President | who died during his term. The other | former second ladies, Mrs. Roosevelt | and Mrs. Coolidge, having been ele- vated from the minor to the major post, are not much associated in the public mind with their first position in the executive set. Representative and Mrs. Robert Low Bacon, who have been in their home in Westbury, N. Y., since the middle of June, intend to sail July 12 an Francisco for Honolulu and This is Mrs. Bacon’s first trip to the Orient, and she is anticipating it with much pleasure. Representative Bacon has, however, covered the ground before and can act as a splen- did guide. He is gathering data on the Philippines situation, and both he | and Mrs. Bacon will be the guests of | Gov. Gen. and Mrs. Wood when they arrive in Manila late in August. Mrs Wood will take her guest to the higl hills above Manila, while the men of the famly go on their inspection tours in the interior. It is the intention of Mr. and Mrs. Bacon to visit Japan and China, and even to venture as far down as Burmah and Sfam. Repre- sentative Bacon is intensely interested | in the merchant marine of his coun- try, as well as in the problem of deal- ing fairly with the natives of the insular possessions. He knows the European side of the merchant ma- rine thoroughly, and he is determined to see the Oriental point of view for American trade vessels. The three pretty little daughters of Representa- tlve and Mrs. Bacon, who have been attending a private school in Wash- ington, will spend the Summer with the elder Mrs. Robert Bacon, who this vear, contrary to her usual custom, will be located in Newport instead of near Southampton Gen. John Ross Delafleld, who is the closest and among the few re- maining descendants of the great soldier, Gen. Richard Montgomery, who was killed in the assault on Quebec in December, 1775, lives in the splendid mansion of that famed American warrior at Rhineback, on the Hudson, and nothing delights him <o much as to welcome those bent on honoring his ancestral hero. Gen Montgomery married Margaret Liv- ingston, daughter of Robert Living: ston, and the estate and mansion was her ‘wedding dower. Rhinebeck is filled with Livingston holdings, which, with the mansion, make up a goodly part of the place. After Gen. Mon “APECIALISTS IN “PIANOLAS 7 DeMOLL DEMOLL | thing of a stir in the quiet was left. There is one spot on the wide porch fronting the Hudson which is marked by a tablet where the hero of Quebec stood to say good-bye to his famil neighbors and retainers before his departure for Canada Miss Lucille Atcherson yesterday on the sume her duties as second secretar: of the United States legation in Berne will without doubt cause some- wiss capi- “lady diplo: ed in that region however, soon who sailed Leviathan to a: tal, for she is the first mat” who has appea Miss Atcherson settle smoothly ‘and 'unostentatiously into her new niche in Switzerland and her sex will cease to alarm the con- servative element. Though much is heard of the invasion of woman into the ranks of statescraft and diplo- macy, as a_matter of fact, but few have ually entered the foreign | service of the Buropean nations. The Soviet regime of Russla is alone in appointing a woman to the post of envoy, and though several were ac- credited at first, but one remains, Mme. Severnoff, who represents the present regime in Russia at Oslo, the Norwegian capital. Practically all the countri of northern and eastern Europe have, according to their rep- resentatives in Washington, granted full rights to women in the political way, and the forelgn service is open to all who can pass the requisite ex. amination. But few reach the goal, though, as in Washington, every em: bassy and legation is filled With women trained in the technical sense, who serve skillfully in delicate situations, but their work falls just below that included in diplomacy. Every Am- bassador and Minister in this capital has several charming ung woman clerks, who are invariably assigned rom the home foreign office to these various missions, and who prove themselves invaluable. These women may enter the higher grade, if they wish and can pass the test success- fully. The State Department also is beginning to send woman clerks abroad, so that it seems probable that before many months Miss Atcherson, in Berne, and Miss Pattle Field, in Washinfiton, the only feminine mem- bers of the foreign service at present, will be joined by several others. Mrs. Joseph H. Choate and Mrs. Wil- liam K. Vanderbilt, 2d., with Otto Kahn and Mr. Louis C. Tiffany, have, with Mrs. Howard Spencer Graham, worked betimes to have the art ex- hibition at Newport ready for inspe tion on July 4. The Grand Central Art Gallerles of New York selected Newport as the scene of their Sum- mer display of the most notable work accomplished during the past year by American artists and the committee has made a strenuous effort to have all in readiness. The committee which manages this exhibit is co. operating with Mrs. Graham, local chairman, and Mrs. Choate and her aides, is truly national in complexion and its efforts to make American art known and appreciated are meeting with encouraging _support. Among those who are affiliated with the movement and who are making a spe cial visit to Newport for the opening week of the exhibit, are Mr. and Mrs. Potter Palmer, Mr. and Mrs. Edward Stotesbury, Gen. Butler Ames, Mr and Mrs.” Joseph Pennell and Miss Cecilia Beaux. Invitations have been sent to the leading artists of the country and much social activity has followed their arrival. Mr. and Mrs. William H. Vanderbilt presented to the public schocls ewport an interesting series of colored photographs of places of es- pecial significance during the War of the Independence. Their gift was of- ficially received in all the schools yes- terday, with appropriate July 4 exer- cises and with an {lluminating talk on the assoclations of the place and its present-day aspect. This series of pic- tures, 12 in all, have been collected by the United States Historical So- ciety of New York City for the pur- pose of adorning school buildings. Mr. Vanderbiit made the gift as a me- morial to his late father, Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt, who had,.gince coming into possession of his prop erty in Newport, been a member of its school board. The pictures are of uniform size and are framed in deep- srained dark oak, with a small gold tablet below each, giving a succinct AND REPRODUCING PIANOS* EMMONS "5 SMITH Washingtons AEOLIAN HALL ~ Twelfth and G Streets. Sale of Upright Pianos A Remarkable Value at Many fine Upright Pianos have recently come to us in trade on the Duo Art Reproducing Piano. We have about twenty of these instruments in stock that we propose to move quickly. These instruments are worth from $150 to $200 on sale at the ridiculously each. Tomorrow they go low price of $94.50. Any one of these pianos would be a better buy than a new cheap one. Terms arranged if desired. INTERESTING WEDDING JUNE 30 MRS Married in the Washington Height: fore marriage Mi account of the event portrayed. Car- penter’s Hall in Philadelphia is the first of the series and then come the signal events during the entire strug gle for liberty, with the final victory implied in the surrender of Cornwallis at Yorktown. The Secretary of the Treasury. who as leased the Henry R Southampton, is entirely w join_those denizens of the ne hood who are endeavoring to change the name “Gin Lane” to something more law-abiding. Gin Lane, a designation, which was familiar when Southampton had not a half dozen houses and when, a cotton gin was in operation on the shore, is now one of the exclusive thoroughfares, and seems quite filled with Washington- ians or former residents of this city. Mr. and Mrs. Henry Huddleston Rog- ers were among the first to build on Gin Lane and though they became thoroughly reconciled to the name vears ago, Col. Rogers is willing to lend his influence to change it. Just now he is occupying the house with his small grandson, Peter Salm, for both his wife and daugltter are ill in Sloane Hospital, New York City. Millicent Rogers Salm, for she dropped the title of her husband, h: taken a small place of her own F hind_her parents, in_what is called the Meadow. Mr. and Mrs,K Wilhelm vom Rath, the latter formerly Miss Cecelia May, of the Henry Mays of Washington, have' purchased a home in the Gin Lane section, the property of Mr. Pierson South. Mme. vom Rath has three quaint little daughters and she and her hushand have apparently taken permanent leave of Germany Mrs. Cleveland Perkins of this city is in Southampton for the Summer and Mr. and Mrs. George Barton French have joined the colony of old friends there, after passing the year, so far as it has gone, in Hot Springs, Va Southampton, lovely and popular lit tle resort on Long Island Sound. has been selzed with a spirit of dissatis. faction over names and so many changes are now proposed that the board of aldermen s irritated. But Gin Lane would seem to call for at- tention especially since the Secretary of the Treasury, the head and front ARTHUR NATHANIEL PRESMONT, Presbyterian Church Tuesday, and be- local na Henrietta Valentin of the prohibition enforcement laws, has chosen it for an abode. \ Dr. Edwin A. Alderman, president of the University of Virginia, who is| so enthuslastically, supporting the| | Monticello Memorial Association in its |effort to purchase the home of the great Democratic leader, Thomas Jef- | ferson, as a national shrine, was| among the guests of the Virginia So- fety in New York last week. New | York has societies composed of the| exiled sons and daughters of practi: ally every State in the Union, but| at of Virginia has the honor of be- |ing the premier, and was founded in | 1885 by Gen. Roger Pryor, Right Rev. David H. Greer, Bishop of New York, and Francis B. Rives. Some 20 na- tives of the Old Dominion signed the charter, and it began its career for the purpose of keeping alive Virginia traditions and to observe the sacred days in the history of the Common- wealth. Some of the most distin guished of Gotham's citizens are mem- Ders of the Virginia Soclety. Its two| | most impressive celebrations are that | |of the founding of Jamestown, and the |other the anniversary of the granting of the great charter to the which established representative gov- ernment for the first time on the sofl of the New World. It was this latter celebration which Dr. Alderman at tended, and at which he delivered a memorable patriotic_address. Lady Astor has made Virginia famous | throughout England, and, in fact, its repute now quite dominates that of |the Empire State. Mrs. Charles Dana |Gibson is equally as enthusiastic a | daughter of Virginia, and is one of the officers of the society established |in the city of her adoption. Virgin- ;hln‘-‘ in New York are representative ¢ the older regimes, as, for instance, Mrs. Ellsworth Elliott. wife of the eminent surgeon, who was Lucy Car- [ter Byrd, u lineal descendant of Sir William Byrd, founder of Westover on the James, father of that romantic | figure in colonial years, Evelyn Byrd. | | The American Minister to Stock- holm, Mr. Robert Woods Bliss, who was called to Santa Barbara, Cualif. by the serious illness of his father, Mr. Willlam Henry Bliss, does not ‘THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. O, JULY 5 1925—PART" 2. anticipate so lengthy a vacation from his post as to enjoy part of the Sum- mer in The Oaks, the lovely old Colonial place which he purchased in Georgetown when he was Assistant Secretary of State. The elder Mr. Bliss is one of the most widely known lawyers and raflroad men of the Mis- sissippi Valley and lived for many vears in St. Louis. The first Mrs. Bliss, mother of the diplomatist, was Miss' Annfe Louise Woods, daughter of Robert Woods, a ploneer manu- facturer of the Mound City. She died many years ago and in 1894 Judge Bliss married Mrs. Anna _Blaksley Barnes of New York City. Mrs. Rob- ert Woods Bliss is the daughter of this lady and the romance and mar- riage of Mr. Bliss to his step-sister occurred after he had graduated with distinction from Harvard and had be- gun his diplomatic career in San Juan de Porto Rico. Mrs. Bliss, who was Miss Mildred Barnes, was educated abroad and has spent nearly all her life in forelgn parts. She inherited a large fortune from her father and she has always been prominent in the social way in the various homes in which she has lived. Both she and Mr. Bliss have spent much time and money {n restoring The Oaks to its Colonial aspect. Mrs. Woodrow Wilson and _her companion in traveling, Miss Belle Baruch, are having a quiet but thor- oughly delightful visit to Paris and they are living in a secluded spot just outside the barrier of the French capital, in the southeasterly direction, and on the edge of the mighty Bois de Vincennes, the most extensive of French municipal parks. President Wilson showed a marked partiality for the woods df Vincennes as against the more frequented Bois du Boulogne and he rode in them almost daily. He was accustomed to stop for refresh- ment at a celebrated cafe on the side | of the larger of the two lakes which are situated right in the heart of deep woods, and Mrs. Wilson, recalling her | many visits to this charming inn, in-| vited Miss Baruch to accompany her there. She was much touched by the reception given her by the venerable proprietor, who recognized her at once and led her to the balcony where the war President loved to it and gaze upon the scene—at all times a veritable Carot landscape with the soft water lapping the shore and the gray haze rising from the lake and back of all the dark, dense forest filled with birdlife. The balcony is covered with ivy growing over the rail and below is a lovely rose garden The restaurant keeper roped off this balcony from general use because of its associations and before he invited Mrs. Wilson and Miss Baruch to eat their luncheon there he had permitted only Gen. Pershing and a party of friends last Spring to use it. The chair in which the war President habitually sat is in the private quar- | ters of the innkeeper, and the last napkin is framed in the same apart- ment. Naturally Mrs. Wilson was re- joiced to find a part of Paris where her husband’s memory is so revered. M. Hjalmar Stauning, the Soclalist premier of Denmark, who is the only remaining Laborite who assumed power at about the time Ramsay MasDonald | did in England and M. Herriott in | France, leaped into fame almost over night as a playwright. The premier wrote his play more than 20 years ago, when he was a cigarmaker, but | opportunity to present it never came | until recently. It is called “Life’s Lies employers and em- | ploves. This drama is presented on | the stage of the Workers' Theater in | Copenhagen, but as vet the general DRESSMAKING Taught Quickly— Personal Instructions D'dx'“ Evening Classes LESSONS, .00 11th & G. Formerly with Woodward & Lothrop Bring In This Ad Before July 12 Shampoo. ... ...50c Hair Dyeing ... $4.95 = Hair Bobbing. . . 50c Marcelle Wave. . 75¢ Marcelle & Bob Curl. . §1 MISS FLEET Formerly of Woodward & Lothrop and Lansburgh & Brother Garden Rose Beauty Parlor 1112 H Street N.W. Franklin 2224. 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