Evening Star Newspaper, August 16, 1925, Page 50

Tales of Well Known Folk In Social and Official Life Washingtonians Doubt C}'IOSCI’\ \Vhlte COU\‘( as Permanent Summcr BY MARGARET B. DOWNING. That President Coolidge has practi ally decided to make Swampscott the Summer White House during: the re. mainder of his term or terms, &s pre- dictions from that section now nm] high, s received with much caution by people of the Capital. They are in- | clined to ascribe such rumors to the | enthustasm of local writers, and to the obvious enjoyment which the Presi dent and Mrs. Coolidge are deriving from their sojourn in this dellghtful | spot. A permanent Summer ite House Is not regarded as loglcal, for the reason that when Congress sits no Pregident feels that he could possibly he outsid boundaries of the city, and t ative bodies prolong the aessio) through the mmei every other year with a certainty and often throush every year. W resent Executive was the sec clal of the Nation lie found small op sortunity for two Summers nd, in fact. the sent season and the fateful one hen with Congress adjou jent Harding took the journes 10’ Alaska, make up all the real vaca. tion he has known since 1 With such rigid ideas of economy as the | President has expressed, it is quite im. | probable that he would ask the coun- | ¢ to purchase or lease a Summer home when the use of it remeins so | problematic. But New England, and | espactally the North Shore of Mass ~husetts Bay where they are now re- | siding, have always been the favorite | Playsround of the Coolidge family, and there is no doubt that when the | lelsure of private life is attained a Summer residence will be purchased near their old friends, the Frank A.| Stearnes. What friends of Mrs. Coolidge de. scribe us the chief attraction of the Summer at White Court is the fact| t she can use the bathing beach | ar the villa, and spend as much time 13 she wishes in the warm, sunn sand chatting with the youngsters that cluster about without attracting any attention. The Summer home of the President boasts of a private salt water peol fed from an inlet behind the house. but, after a few plunges In this, Mrs. Coolidge, who loves to swim, found this too tame and began to patronize the surf with the others of the Swampscott colony. As a rule, | the water of the North Shore is rather | icy for surf bathing, but there have| been many warm, sunny days, when practically the entire population took | its ocean dip. The children are faith- | ful in watching for the coming of the | first lady, otherwise her movements are as free from public intrusion as | though she were sheltered behind | sides displays flowers That the President Has her, has passed one of the busiest Summers which has been his lot he cntered the forelgn service, for an endless procession of Americans wends its way to the Eternal City, some pilsrim to the shrines of the Holy year and as many attracted to the Ttallan capital by the picturesque scenes to be witnessed during a pilgrimage period. One of the many beautiful spectacles to be seen in late July was the feats of the flowers in the small village of Gen- zano, in the Alban Hiils, perched high above the Roman Campagna. For cen- turies @ floral carpet has been woven of wild and cultivated blossoms, a | task which occupies the people of the village all day long and when the car- vet is laid there is a grand procession | of the sacrament in which all the | mountaineers and residents of Gen- zano join: The carpet stretches the entire length of the principal street and would be perhaps a third of a mile in length. The Ambassador and Mrs. Fletcher, with a number of triends, motored up the hills to Gen- zano in time to see the carpet laid and it was an unique experience. Each household along the route takes care of a certain amount of space and be- in windows. Prather Ile since Senator Tasker Lowndes Oddie of Nevada is invarfably named among those members of the high legislative chambers, whose terms are about .to expire, as rather uncertain of future success. But recently Senator Oddie's chances seem to show and upward trend and the general verdict is that he is due to have another term in the halls of legislature. Which is agree- able news to Washington for the Capi- tal has a special claim on the states- man from Nevada and looks to him to continue his good work In the mautter of his great-grandfather, Benjamin Stoddert, first Secreatry of the Navy. Mr. Stoddert is the only instance which a citizen of the District of Co- lumbla securing such a plum as being appointed in the cabinet. He is offi- | clally listed among the counselors of John Adams as of Maryland and he had substantial Interests in and about Bladensburg, which was his birth place. But he llved in Washington's | mother city, Georgetown, when he was invited into the cabinet of Presi- dent John Adams, to make its sixth member and to represent the sea de- fense honored for the first time with a portfolio of its own. This was in 1798 and the splendid mansion designed and built by Ben jamin Latrobe sat in a spacious park known then as now as Prospect Hill. The grounds descended in terraces to he Potomac, where Mr. Stoddert’s THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. ¢ MRS, M‘\Rll'.‘; ROBERT, who before her marriage yesterday was Miss Ninon Viguier. tend the Cathedral School on Woodley Lane, which opens in October. Mrs. Corhelius Vanderbilt, sr., in purchasing the residence of the late George- Gould on Fifth avenue and Seventy-seventh street, moves up 10 squares on the famous boulevard and becomes a close neighbor of her daughter, Mrs. Harry Payne Whitney, and of the Vincent Astors. She had previously disposed of the last of the splendid group of mansions, which were_erected for the children of the late Willlam H. Vanderbilt and which occupled the cholcest sites in the square between Fifty-sixth and Fifty- seventh streets on Fifth avenue. This | celebrated avenue which recently ob- | served, with much pomp and circum- stance, its centenary is, up to the Fiftles, fast yielding to business and when the widow of Willlam K. Vand- erbilt sold her mansion to a bank, it became evident that all the others of the family would be compelled to sell also. Mrs. Cornelius, who is the head of the family, lingered much longer in her old home than she found en- tirely comfortable, for with stores and commercial houses and fine old domi- ciles being turned into apartments, she enjoyed little quiet or privacy. The George Gould home was built about 25 years ago and is surrounded by spaclous groynds which ward off too! close an approach on either side. It is directly opposite .the sumptuous residence of Mr. and Mrs. Elbert Gdry and is in the proximity of the home of | Thomas Forturie Ryan, Mrs. Vander- bilt will remain in Newport until after Thanksgiving, and will take posses- sion of the new home just in time to give her regular Christmas banquet and reunion for her children and himself could not ask a more eloquent demonstration of the “simple life.’ John D. Rockefeller, who within the past year made over to his son, John D., ir., four of the handsome estates whica he had improved in various sec- tlons of the country, plans for the re- mainder of his days to retain only two, that which keeps its old Dutch name, Kijk-nit, in the Pocantico Hills, on the Hudson, and the beautiful place which has made the name and fame | of Orlando Beach, in Last Florida.| Kijk-nit is one of the largest and most | highly developed country seats of the | scores which lie adjacent to it north- | west of New York City. There are | {9 milee of fine, wide roads within| |the contines of the property, and the | nine-hole golf course is the treasure which the aged capitalist values above all his possessions.~ On July 8 he cele- brated his 86th birthday anniversary with a famlly party, and he and his sons and daughters-n-law and grand- children practically spent the entire anniversary on the golf links. Lunch- eon was served under a big tree off the course and the birthday cake of tradi- tional size and lighted with candles oc- cupled a smaller table nearby. After the feast and little speeches of con- gratulation, ‘golf was resumed and pursued untll it was too dark to find the balls. The mansion at Kijk-nit is on a hill 500 feet above the Hudson and commands a magnificent view of |the valley. It is of gray stone of !eighteenth century colonial style and | the rooms are of almost heroic propor- itions. The conservatories were for-| merly an important adjunct, but since | Mr. Rockefeller spends_ the Winter in | | Florlda, hie no longer takes such pride in the dwarf orange and lemon trees, raised under glass. Mrs. Charles Frederick Hoffman of New York Is devoted to English country life and she has again leased Bickling Hall in Norfolk, the ancient | home of the Boleyn and where the | unfortunate second wife of Henry | VIII, Anne Boyleyn, was born. Every |vear a fine pageant is held at Bic) |ling Hall for the benefit of the | | country schools and Mrs. Hoffman not | |only gave the grounds for the pro- | cession but she was a generous |patron of the performance. Some incident is taken from the career of the much married King and the |lovely Anne, for whose sake he di- vorced Catharine of Aragon and this | year thelr firat meeting was pre- sented with some of the greatest ladles of England acting in the tableaux. Miss Evan Jones, a local | beauty of Norfolk, was the fair lady- in-waliting, who captured the King heart and Henry was presented by the Earl of Leicester. The Duke and | Duchess of Athol were among the | courtiers and the American-born peer, Lord Fermoy, formerly Gerald Burke-Roche of ew York. was the gallant Duke of Norfolk. The Bick- |ling pageant, which was staged right in front of the old mansion which is Mrs. Hoffman's Summer home, is al- ways sponsored by an imposing ar- ray of names, and Includes practi- | {cally the nobility and gentry of the| county, who rely on the financlal suc- | cess of this spectacle to maintain | tree schools about Aylsham and other | orfolk hamlets. Rumor has that | Anne Boleyn comes back every year in the spirit to view the historical scenes and more than one Norfolk , AUGUST Engagement Announced 16, MISS MYRA FRANCES KERWIN, Whose engagement to Mr. Merwin H. Browne has been announced. in Birmingham in the middle of September. Her itinerary is all ar- ranged and the details of each a city or State are worked out by some local member of the commiitee is the third year t at the fund of the 9 1925—PART 2. memorial to the lamented World War Ambassador to Britain has been avatlable and Miss Hallowell is the first woman to win it. Mrs, Willlam Adams Brown of New York, who is chairman of ths com- mittee from the National Soclety of Colonial Dames at present the guest of the Sulgrave Manor Assoclation in England, has, with her assoclates, just spent a delightful week end as the guest of Viscount Lee of Fareham and his wife, who was Miss Ruth Moore of New York City. The Colonial Dames under the able leadership of Mrs. Brown raised $100,000 of the Sul- grave Manor endowment fund and their present visit is to admire the re- stored mansion and to examine some of the American Washingtonia which have been presented in the past year. | Senator and Mrs. Coleman du Pont, who are spending part of the Summer in London, entertained the American committee at dinner following the charming garden party which they at- tended at Windsor Palace, and where they were presented to King George and Queen Mary and many members of the royal family. One of the most interesting fetes in their honor was the garden party at Sulgrave Manor, | at which the entire British member. ship of the assoclation was present and at which the Marquis of Crewe was host. The marquis, who has rent- ed his beautiful home to the American | Ambassador and Mrs. Houghton as| he did to the Kelloggs, is the Brit-| ish Ambassador to Paris and has been | a member of the Sulgrave Institute since its inception. Lord Cowdray, an- other member of the institute. bas| been host of the Dames, and Lady As- | tor extended the hospitality of Cliveden for a garden party followed by dinner. Liver. i One pound of calf's liver, half| pound of very thin bacon, two tea- | spoons ketchup, one pint of stock, one | teaspoon of chopped parsley, one | small onion minced, quarter pound of | bread crumbs, pepper and salt. Cut Women Who Know FURS will be quick to appreciate these are featured in this AUGUST SALE held at both of our stores. Upon posit we will Reserve any garment values in luxurious pelts which payment of a small de- the liver into neat slices, and lay iri a baking tin. Mix the chopped parsley and onton with the bread crumbs, and sewson them with pepper and salt. Lay this mixture on the slices of lfver, and cover each slice with a thin slice of bacon. Pour over It the stock, and baks in @ moderate oven for three- quarters of an hour. When cooked lift the slices out on & hot dish, and pour the gravy into a saucepan. Thicken it with a litt! with faithful detail. price—reduced now to the remaining flour, and add | pound: the ketchup, then pour over the liver and serve. Some Loss. From the Detroit News. “Say, John, I want yeu to go to England next Sunmer and redacs.” “How come, to England?" “Why, Mre. Jones sald she lost 1. in London. THeE LOUVRE 1115 1117 F STREET You'll be impressed —with the daily augmented display of new Fall Frocks. They are typical Louvre cre- ations—original in design—developed in the latest favored weaves, trimmed with exquisite taste; producing exclusive effects —and interpreting the heralded fashions Beginning at $29.50 We continue— The Sale of all this season’s Hats— —dress and sports —regardless of the former $4.95 —and the unrestricted choice of all Dresses—Suits Coats—Blouses high wall and hold for you in a safe place until you are ready to claim it. Below are a few of the items offered in this sale: farmer vows that he has seen her | carrving her head under her arm and | slipping about under the trees. i cago have an unusual home just be. | o Miss Mary Hallowell, principal, or low the smart suburban section which !head latrams: s ke iors torer e, | great warehouses were filled with pro. | $¥andchildren. AMr. Andrew W. Mellon, Secretary|duce which his ships carried to every of the Treasurv, and his right-hand|Pport in the known world. A renowned man, Senator Smoot of Utah, in this|bullder of ships, associated with his onerous task of becoming collectors of | father-in-law, Christopher Lowndes of the war debt, have discovered that| Bladensburg, Col. Stoddert won this Mr. and Mrs, William Switt of Chi —of the present season has grown up around the Oswentia | there is a difference In the interpreta- | tion of the value of figures, and that the Latin view of the round sum owing this Nation, because of the bor- rowings during the recent hostilities: is made “up through a system of book- | leeping to which neither eminent | financler is _accustomed. The Secre- of the Treasury, according to his | lose -friends and admirers, is one of | the most astute and successful bank- ers of present days, and he holds by the rules of arithmetic as something | unchangeable and forever to be relied | upon, and his colleague in the Senate Is of the same mind. But, among the | Latins, say these same friends of | Secretary Mellon and Senator Smoot, | arithmetic may be charged with emo- | tion and under these conditions addi- tion, subtraction and all of the series | perform strange tricks. The brief | brush which the United States Treas: | ury had with the Italian Debt-Fund ing Commission recently in Washing- ton convinced all tha officials whose | duty it was to attend the confer- | ences that the forthcoming settlement | with the French, Ttalian, Roumanian | and other nations possessing the | Latin temperament, will not prove the prosaic rather dull affair which | the British turned out to be. This| debt-funding commission handled by | far the greatest after-war settlement | of any of the nations allied with this | country, but it was all one set of | hookkeepers going up against another set in the thorough-going way of the | English-speaking race. Mr. Mellon, in anticipation of the turmoil and wilderment which is to be his lot through the Summer, is taking all the rest he can snatch in his home in Southampton, and Senator Smoot has been out camping with his sons in the Rockies to renew his strength. The Anibassador to Rome, Henry AUGUST FUR SALE ‘ ost Wonderful Fur bR M Values in : of quality ,{V"?‘}%’i at levels Prices the Lowest in the City for Furs of Worth {[Especially exclusive models in FUR COATS interpreting the | scendant now in the Senate to repair title most gallantly at the battle of the Brandywine and built such ships as the Constitution, the Constellation, the United States, and some half a dozen others. Yet the Capital City has utterly neglected this notable son, and the present generation looks to his de- this long neglect. A statue of this ex- cellent citizen of the District of Co- lumbila would look very fine in the green space before the present Navy Department. Mrs. Robert Bacon has just termi- nated the friendly court proceedings with the other heirs of the late Secre- tary of State and Ambassador to France and has come into complete possession of the beautiful estate in the Westbury section of Long Island. Representative Robert Low Bacon has A emaller place quite near his mother which is all he can attend to at pres- ent with his legislative duties and rivate interests in New York City, and he gladly sold his claims to the property as did the other heirs. Mrs. Bacon, who hovered for a time be- tween establishing a year-round house in Westhury, or in Newport, where she has been spending the Summer with the three small daughters of her | son in her charge, has finally de-| cided on Westbury, and will soon be- | &Iin certain remodeling of the man-! sion she has had in mind for some | vears. | Mrs. Bacon has been conspicusus in the activities of Westbury for so leng that her decision to remain there has called forth an ovation. She will be- gin her repairs at once and hopes to be in possession of the family estate before Christmas. Representative and Mrs. Bacon, who are now in Manila, expect to return early next month, but they will remain only briefly on Long Jsland. as their three little girls at- ] Club. It is a genuine farm, given over to the raising of horses and dogs, and the original farmhouse of broad white- painted boards had served the previous owners before the Second Ciiy had, en- tered its first decade: Billy Swift, as he is known in Chicago, is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Louis Swift, wife, who {s the daughter of Mark Gordon, 1s & noted sculptor whose work has realized excellent sums. Mrs. Swift has succeeded in gathering some painted wood furniture, such as existed in Tllinols when the last cen- tury was entering on its second half, but which is very difficult to obtain now. But it gives an air of distinction to the old farmbouse, {n the loft of which she has a large, airy studio. ‘The stables are arranged as in the olden days, long rows of stalls under a gabled roof, and the dogs are in friendly proximity in the lower ranges of the stables. There is a great gar- den, almost informal, with the sim- plest sort of flowers and shrubs and little white houses for the pets dotted here and there with charming effect. A tall whitewashed picket fence shields the estate from encroachment with the result that Pastor Wagner | W. B. Moses & Sons Furnitare and his | Britain, of King Edward’s High School | for Girls in Birmingham, is the win-| ner during the present season of the | Walter Hines Page traveling scholar- | ship and she has been entertained very lavishly in New York under the | auspices of the English-Speaking | Union. Mrs. Charles R. Scarsborough | gave her a delightful little party at| the venerated Faunce’s Tavern, where | ‘Washington bade farewell to his Army, | and Judge and Mrs. Alton B. Parker | have been giving the British visitor | the most enjoyable time in motor trips through the Washington Irving coun- try and to the former home of the first of American, authors at Sunn; side. Irving's travel books are deemed necessary text books and are | found much more generally in Eng-| lish achools than in the home of the | revered writer. Miss Hallowell ar-| rived on the Aquitania .the first of | August and for the first week of her | sojourn on American soil she was the | guest of Mrs. Egerton Parsons, a member of the Page Memorial Scholar- | ship Board, in her home in New Lon | don, Conn.’She, will visit Philadelphia and Washington and may journey be- | yond the Alleghanies, but she must be Bay Seal (Coney) Coat squirrel trimmed. .$115 Fine Muskrat Coats, Marmot Coats, raccoon trim......... $75 Hudson Seal (Dyed Muskrat) Coats.$225 Caracul Coats, brown; fox fur MODEL FUR SHOP 923 G Street N. W. 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FRESH/ We've Just Unpacked the Boxes Containing These Wonderfill!y Created ORIGINAL MODELS AND SAMPLE DRESSES AND GROUPED THEM AT THE SALE PRICE Reproductions of $59.50 Dresses Copies of $49.50 Dresses Original Models Worth $35.00 Dresses Made to Sell for $25.00 All Sizes From 14 to 54} shirt effgcts; Flare sides and backs; Long sleeves, 29 styl Back designs (newest); Straight teilored model. Youthful high collars Front and side panels. SALE Advance Colors Heavy black satin crepes, Rich plum and pansys, Burgundy and = wine, Cocoa, brown, tan, pencil And crackle blue, new Grays and green, Combination of Black. YOU’LL BE DELIGHTED WITH THESE DRESSES, AS THEY REPRESENT EVERY NEW IDEA IN STYLE AND FABRIC