Evening Star Newspaper, December 13, 1925, Page 67

Tales of Well In Soci;g and Official Life President and Mrs. Coolidge Start Fashion in Christmas Observance—Personal Mention of World Celebrities. BY MARGARET B. DOW) When the President and Mrs. Cool- 1 gave such cordial approval to the living Christmas idea they started a fashion which is making rapid prog- Tess in many parts of the country. New York thinks so highly of the ldea that a commission is now engaged in “rranging for the planting of the Yule- | tide trees in three different parks of the big city, and the ceremonies there on Twelfth Night will, if weather con- ditions permit, he something to re member. Meantime the big municipal tree near the City Hall will be decked and lighted as usual on Christmas eve. I'he tree planted in the vicinity of the White House two years ago is an in spiring sight, and thes idea which prompted the planting and which the lesidents of the mansion so kindly aided will, as usual, have its Christ- mas load of good cheer on the eve of the most revered of Christlan feasts. A campaign approved by the Ameri can Tree Association and by the Gar: den Club of America is for every fam ily that has the space to plant any Sort of tree to seiect the varfety which may be used for the Christmas frolic. This is a practical and appealing con- servation move, and it makes for the Yuletide cheer in the open as well as 2 All through the on and in \West chester, N. blans are afoot o adorn an outside tree, and even the Sunday schools in rural districts i ed in the idea. Bu depends on wha sent along just Charles . Taft the two sons of t Mrs. William Howard T: cently been elected president of the Y. M. C. A., with jurisdiction over the entire United States and Mexico and Canada as well. It is dificult for Washingtonians who knew the bonny youth in the first vears of his resi dence here to picture him in such srave gulse. When the present head of the judicial division of the Govern- ment and formerly its Chief Executive was Secretary of War and had just retired from the post of Governor of the Philippines, “Charlie,” us he always will be known in Washington, young Quentin y hool and he member of the parties ack regions of the Quentin and Archie tainment of the newsboy ind the mess Admiral and \ White Iouse b for the ente ihe police Livink next door tc S ey K street, he formed a ten der affection for both, and indeed when it came to moving with his par- ents to the most exalted mansion in the land he did not think much of the change, and confided to the admiral that he would prefer to live where he was. The admiral consoled him by pointing out how short a distance sep- Arated them and that they could see each other often, a promise main- tained on Charlie’s part daily while he was in Washington. He gave par- ties to the policemen, news and mes senger bovs on his own account when he was in the White House, and be- fore he was out of his teens had be- come a member of the Y. M. C. A., over which he now presides. Right Rev. James F. Freeman was ng the most active of the Ame Can bishops who, by a joint letter of invitation, have just obtained promise of the Bishop of London, Iight Rev. Arthur F. Winnington ingram, to come to this country and Jecture before eight of the leading American universities. Because of his absorbing dutles in connection with the largest diocese under the Church of England, Bishop Ingram is unable to state definitely just when he will arrive, but it will be some time during the year 1926, and. as he is to address university audiences, his visit is necessarily lmited until June or after October. This visita- tion will take on the aspect of a re. ligious event as well as an educa- tional, and with shades of aiding the werld peace by drawing the English- speuking races more closely together. The prelate, who is one of the most —_— the | Known Folk scholarly in the English hierarchy, is o famous lecturer, and his ad- dresses to the vast student body of the University of London have re. sulted In many needed reforms and sent the colleglans more regularly to church services and déveloped a | sironger interest “in philanthrople movements. Bishop Ingram is anx- |ious to inspect the two great cathe- draly of his faith now being erected, {one in New York City and the other in Washington, St. John the Divine | {and that of §S. Peter and Paul. | Whether he will lecture in Washing | ton is problematic, since the Capital | does not contain any of the eight seats | of learning which he is to visit. But !no doubt Bishop Freeman will see | that this eminent divine has an op- | poriunity to dellver his message of | peace and good will. { Miss Mary Clark, daughter of Mr. | Churles W. Clark and his former wife, now known as Mrs. Tobin Clark, Is | one of the most accomplished of the buds who have been presented to the social world of San Mateo this | Winter. The granddaughter of the late Willlam A. Clark, she has in- | Rerited much of his love of art and | music, and so she prefers New York to San Francisco and spends much time there. With her vounger sis ters, Patricla and Agnes, she passed the Summer and Autumn with her uncle, Mr. Richard M. Tobin, who is | the American Minister to The Hague, | and they had many jaunts to Paris | | and were present at the grand open 11 of the opera this season. Mrs Tobin Clark intends to pass the Win- | ter in Europe, and after her daughter as been toasted and feted by rela tives and many friands in San Fran P she will Join her mother in the cupital of the Netherlands and have a glimpse of life at court. Her younger sisters are now at a convent in Paris and will be with the other members of the family during all holid: Like their mother, these maids” are famous equestriennes and have been admitted to membership in the Devon and Somerset Stag Hound Hunt, and they gave a very good account of themselves at every | Ineet. Mrs. Tobin Clark frequently | | crosses the North Sea from the Hook | of Holland for a few days’ hunting | | in England, and her brother is of the | { party whenever he can snatch a holi- | day from his dutles. The Devon and | Somerset Stag Hound hunts are the | | liveliest affairs going on in Engiand | |at present. | Mr. Franklin Adams, the versatile counselor of the Pan-American Maga- | zine, is an enthusiastic admirer of musie, with a strong leaning toward that composed and performed by Latins. It is mainly through the ceaseless efforts of Mr. Adams that Washington has enjoyed weekly for some time an evening of Latin Ameri: can music over the radio. Mr. Adams has recently engaged in the more am bitious' project of offering concerts in | the ballroom of the beautiful Hall of | All-America, and it is wonderful what talent exists in the Washington col ony and what a delectable feast is spread for the guests. Many of the diplomats are musicians of distinc tion, but, naturally, few have the leis ure to play in concerts, though a num ber often respond to Mr. Adams’ invi- | tation to perform for broadcasting. | The Mexican Embassy is particulatly | gifted in melody, and there are few conoerts arranged, either for an audi ence or for the radlo, which does no include three or four of its members. But music is the grand passion in the republic south of the Rio Grande, anc those who have heard its stupendou: national band play in the great square of Mexico City must acknowledge that in some respects the beloved Marine Band of Washington can be excelled But the Mexican government take: youths of promise in their tenderest years and they are steeped in music during the growing period and re ceive the most careful training. Mr Adams is being congratulated on per forming a valuable service in familiar | izing the Capital with the music of | Latin America, and the rendition o sacred music by native authors at the Thanksglving mass at St. Patrick's { dzemed epochal in music circles. Mrs. Charles ederick Hoffman who has lived in England for iive vears, will make hsr home in River. slde Drive this Winter, and is bre | paring to entertain a number of dis tinguished Britons. Among these wil' be Countess de la Ield, formerly Mise Adaline Lister-Kaye, nlece of the Duke ~f Newcastle and Sir Robert and Lady Peel. The iatter is profession- ally known as Miss Lillie, and it was as a member of “Charlot's Revue at the Selwyn that she captured the hsart of the British peer. She s a marvelously lovely person, and con- tinues to be the rage in London, ar well as in New York. The famous an- cestral seat of the Peels, Draytor Manor, Tamworth, is always fillec during the Summer with actor folk and the intellectuals of the kingdom Mrs. Hoffman does not find England so delightful, now that her daughter is married to a New Yorker, Aymar Johnson, and resides in that city per manently. That she intends to senf down deep roots is evident from the fact that, with her son-In-law, Mr Johnson, ‘she made a successful bld for box No. 26 in the radiant golder horseshoe at the Metrbpolitan Operr House, formerly occupied by the latc Reginald Vanderbilt, and she has beer absent from few of the best produc tions of the season thus far. Alexander Nelidow, who put prince before his name in the years preceding 1915 and who is soon to marry Miss Dorothy Gordon King of New York and ewport, was one of those far-seeing young men who as long ago as 1910 decided that he would prefer to trust his future to some other country rather than his own. The son of ‘he eminent diplomatist, Prince Alexander Nelidow, who for 30 vears represented the Muscovite court, first at Constan- tinople for 10 years and then for the me period in London and Paris, he reared for a career hi courts, and achieved much distinction when the unfortunate daughte cho las were taking the e into the gay world at Petersburg and Mosc of the aristocratic t the palace, he After trying out posts, among them ary to his father, who was in sident of ‘The Hague Peace Conference, young Nelidow finally came to New York and began work in a small way in a banking house, so that when the collapse of the Roman offs came and the consequent loss of his fortune he had already achleved success enough to insure a com was 4 noted figure a few diplomat tency and the right to remain in the mlayl circle to which his birth en titled him. He joined the Ruasiar army at once, and was an officer in his old regiment when the Kerensky government gave way to the bolshe- vists. His record in the French air force was gallant, but he tranaferre¢ his alleglance to his adopted country @8 soon as the United States offcially entered the war. Miss King belong: to a prominent family of New York and Newport, and i3 the daughter of the late George Gordon King. Her mother was the only daughter of Daniel Le Roy, and is the grand: doughter of the American manager of the Coats firm—the late Sir Jamre: Coats of Ayr, Scotland. Mr. Nelidow— for he sternly refuses any title to hir name, now that he s an American citizen—will make Miss King hi bride early in January. Abigall Adams, 2d, lived after her marriage to Col. Stephen Smith at what is now 421 East Sixty-firat stree’ and in what the chroniclers of the day described as a "conmloncm\\:w structure of uncut stone and oaker timbers.” But so gloriously have the Colonial Dames of America, who have made the historic mansion their head quarters In New York, restored the home of President John Adama sprightly daughter that she would not recognize it. The old mansion i adjacent to the now very fashionablc Sutton place, but in Abigail's regim< the gardens sloped iown to the Eas' River and a pleasure boat tugged a' its moorings when she wished to gc down to the city. Such sylvan beauty long ago departed, but the house partially the same, though enlarged and the ouken timber has been won derfully polithed and repaired. Col Smith gave fine military service te his country during the War of Inde pendence, and he was named on th/ staff of John Adams when he wat sent to London as envoy of the new nation. Here he and young Abigal fell in love, and with the usual re- sult. Their marriage occurred ir London, and, considering the smal’ esteem in which the United States war then held, it was a brilllant soclal event. Col. Smith lost his fortune and his home, and its present renovatior ssesses important. historic signifi cance. Miss Belle Skinner, who is the daughter of Willlam Skinner, the silk manufacturer of New England, it will be remembered, accepted for herself the task of rebullding the ruined French village of Hattonchatel, on the Cotes-de-Meuse, just as Miss Anne P. Morgan selected certain tasks of reconstruction, and John D. Rocke- feller, jr., and others. She has just Time Almost Expired has permitted n time. must delivery of designs Visiting HE unusual extent of our prepara- tion to handle orders this year tions up to this late moment for engraved Personal Cards of Christmas Greeting Only by your immediate call can you hope for Then. soon though all are beautiful. card plates may be used on many subjects Brewood shows ‘BRE®WED Stationer and Engraver 611 Twelfth Street Northwest Phone: Main 4868 us to accept selec- too, even our vast stock narrow your choice, - BB B PR B IR I IS RIS NI IR IR ASATININIBANG " Better Apparel at a Lower Price. All purchases sent by Parcel Post iree of charge. Shop of Quality Maper Bros. & Co. 937939 F St. N.\W. VITH These coats are values the most experienced shopper will quickly recognize as unusual. Exclusive one-of-a-kind models for women and misses. A SPECIAL PURCHASE PRESENTING « A Wonderful Coat Sal VA UES FROM $95 TO $110 FOR *69.50 FIVE OF THE STYLES ARE ILLUSTRATED Exquisitely silk lined. NEEDLEPOINT, AMERICAN PINPOINT, LUSTROSA; luxuriously fur trimmed with finest selected skins of caracul, beaver, fitch, fox, wolf, squirrel. Colors: Tanager, sea swal- low, cuckoo, malay, gracklehead, brown, black. OTHER COATS GREATLY REDUCED TO $39.50 $46.75 $24.85 and Extra sizes included. $58.75 Christmas Savings Fund and Pension Checks Cashed completed her work in the most ac- ceptable way, and capped the climax of her generosity by purchasing the old Chateau de Hattonville, the own- ers of which could no longer maintain it in its former beauty. Miss Skinner proposes to become a permanent resi dent of the village. and she has al- ready transformed it in the sanitary way. She remodeled her castle with out altering an exterior line, and has introduced water and shower bathe and the last word In heating ane lighting. 8he has a mode! school with every stitch of the equipmen* from Grand Raplds, Mich., and be sides every convenlence known to g scholastic inatitution, she has @ “gym" wonderfully well provided with luxuries and shower baths galore Hattonchatel in its 1,300 years of ex istence never knew water, save tha which fell from Heaven and was stored v $12.00, as low as. .. and ourselves to you. Si'lver, 15 jewel, $20.C0 Nickel, radium dial, $9.00 Estab. 1873, Give to 14-kt. White Gold Elgin, speci 25-year Gold Filled, 17 Jewel reduced from $20.00 to Hicsiatton Gold Filled Swiss Watches, guaranteed, All of the above are full Your in clsterns, and this with charming rivers and abundant springs all about. The good fairy from the land of thc Pilgrim Fathers has financed an elec tric company, and thee streets and houses look as daper as though they were outside some big, modern city The small town of Hattonchatel it near Verdun, and got its fiery bap tism at the same time. On the re opening of the village, its schools, industry and general life, the Amerl cun Ambassador, Mr. Herrick, pre sided, with the Bishop of Verdun on cne side and M. Poincare on the other. Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Medill Patter son will immediatelv after Christmat cease to be Chicagoans and becom: Gothamites, or at least they will be 1 Ladies’ 18-kt. White Gold, 17-jewel Wrist Watch, reduced from $35.00 to o~ 18-kt. \‘Vlnt. Gold, 15-jewel, case set with sap- phires, from $30.00 to 14-kt. White Gold, 17-jewel, reduced 18-kt. White Gold, 15-jewel Elgin; speci . $24.00 from $28.00 to $22.00 1 reduced .§25.00 iy nnmteod by the makers Representing exceptional values. Men’s Strap Watches No. 2269 White Gold Filled, 16 jewel, $15.00 No. 6253 Elgin Green Gold Filled, $35.00. .. No. 6324 Nickel Elgin, §2.00. ... .. . ... Nickel, luminous dial and hands, $10.00. Boys’ Nickel, Eng. Rad, $6.50. 15-jewel Silver Rad., $15.00 D. N. Walford 908 Pa. Ave. M-8039 Wife Enlisted Men Retired. Having had more than 30 years' ac- the following enlisted men have been placed on the retired | list of the Army on thelr own appli- Master Sergt. James Ellis, at tive service, cation: | tached to the omce of the chiet of field artillery, War Department; Mas ter Sergt. Willlam N. Davis, tached to the St. Emma Industrial and Agricultural Rock Castle Vu.; Technical Sergt. Jerome Graber zeh, Alr Service, ut Langley Field, Va Institute, REBUILDING SALE ALL FURS AT COST We must have room! Thanks to your patronage, we are getting too big for our present guarters—and must rebulld our tore. 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