Evening Star Newspaper, December 26, 1926, Page 46

Tales of Well In Social apd Official Life Known Folk Descriptive Stories Given and Pleasing Reminis- cences Rehearsed as sonages of United BY MARGARET B. DOWNING. Queen Mar: In England the Whit that is without . these ye: women to retain their h thelr guests wore them card them nccordingly. can recall 3 listress of the White IHouse : hat when she received guests a or merely for a courtesy call. 1 other hostesses wear their hea ear at afternoon fun those calling for man: invariably given in hotels or An_exception to this s the regular Weekiy reception of official women. Rumor has it that Rer return from this ry a weeks ago. telling visit to the Coolidge and to the Secretary of State and Mrs. Kellogg, remarked the absence of hats in the early afternoon, while the British cling tenaciously to the head covering un- til it is time for evening raiment. Apparently this appeared a sensible custom to England’s queen, for she s hatless all through small recep- ns in thé daylight hours for the past month. Lady Astor, who took 8 fancy to the type of hat worn in this country during the Autumn, calléd the “vagabond,” purchased sev- eral of these, and one of scarlet with & Roman band was very becoming, but she astonished her friends when go- acheon in a cafe or club by r hat together with her outer wrap and gloves. London women may now be seen bareheaded everywhere except on the street or shopping. Queen Mary, who has par- ticularly lovely and abundant hair, once a perfect golden, but now silvery white, found but one shape of hat, the | yound turban, comfortible when her hair was dressed as she wished. She | delights in the new fashion and though the milliners grumble a little, t seems already established. o has started any years noon calle to dis No one here guests are few asant and Mrs. Mr. William H. Vanderbilt of New- L port, Mr. Otto W. Lehman of Chicago ‘Miss Jean Brown Scott of Phila- delphia are among those who have Jed the crusades to have certain roads about their respective homes closed to moter trafiic in order that the pictur- esque coaches of the early 18908 and the first ten years of the 1900s may again I have an opportunity on the highways. Nantucket and Marthas Vineyard and certain parts of Buzzards Bay permit ho vehicular travel except in horse- dvawn vehicles, and for those who Jike ® leisurely, composed drive in the _ afternoon behind lveried coachman and footman and prancing bays, this ordinance lures many who dislike the l nolse and odor of petrol. No part of ‘receit horse show in New York City, created so much enthusiasm as | the exhibit of coaches which formerl made the journeys between New York ‘and points on the upper Hudson all through Long Island and suburban citles of New Yo Mr. Vanderbilt, \who-has preserved intact the coaches ‘his father, the late Alfred Gwynne YVanderbilt, drove several of them at the show, and Mr. Lehman has one _\Which he is endeavoring to find a route for in the Lake Forest districts \vhere he lives. Miss Jean Brown Scott, one of the most expert arhong the younger set of Philadelphia, han- | dled’ most Nfully the .« _goach which is a replica of “The Com ‘modore,” owned by Mr. Edward von _@er Kock of New York City, the origi- il vehicle being that made immortal kens as zn%'euer when he first met Mr. | Pickwick. . William Lyon Mackenzie King, ‘hl:r of Canada, is a firm friend of neighboring republic, and it was this Xindly feeling which prompted him to toss an American dime as well as & Canadian coin into the great [ oaldron at Croyden, where the big “Dells intended for the carillon on the fower of the new houses of Parlia- ment at Ottawa are being C The | Canadian statesman studied at two universities south of the horder, Chi- and Harvard. 'He. demic studies in the Un "Poronto and then went I Oxford. But he matri 1 mn}‘."éo seat of learning in 1896, and 1897 received the degree of bachelor 1: science, politics having been his se- jection. He spent three years at Har, Yard and got the degree .of doctor of science from its school of political b ny. The premier afterward m for two years with the Rocke- feller Foundation, and his’ report in book form called “Industry and Hu- manity” is one of i vaiuable bro- chures. Tt is entirely probable, if he can possib] ly spare the time, that fltle ‘premier will drop b ‘Washington to ‘nfl the first dian Min "y 1 T. noent Massey, who will arrive dur- the coming month. The confer- ence of premiers in London has prac- tloally ended and the statesmen are abot to depart for their homes. Afy. Sinclair -Lewls, who is living i Georgetown with his family, has gonfided to a New York writer that he finds little inspiration in his quiet and picturesque surrounding: for hi§ source of inspiration is on the bounding deep, and the rougher the weather the better the ideas flow. AMiss Joan Sutherland, a fictlon swriter of London, who has her following in this country as well as $n Great Britain, has recently taken fo an alrplane when trying to com pose her thougl She is about to have published cel, the impulse for which was red when she was driving at ifi e through rain and winds piloting 1 small plane in which she makes d short journeys. Smith r tel room with he observance of habits of great presented in ir nd look ing for hours, and then when the mood came he grabbed a pencil and pad_and scribbled furious The scholarly and sedats ames tells in many of his that he liked to meet fellowd hd chat with them abou v before undertaking anything of importance. I Ly Masters, authe ‘Spoon River hology,” would rih to the Gramercy club when he vas out of ideas and lay hold of any fel Jow poet whom he could find. §ir John Ward who marr Jean Reid, daughter of W Rejd, during the former's se ambassador to Great Britain As pas sionately devoted to gardenys, and an the climate of England, ke that along this side of the Adantie, is getting more sev winter, he and Lady Ward pracfically_de. serted their fine ¢ . Chfiton Hall at Hungerford in Berks./They v three-fourths of the at thelr villa Rosemary, at Cap Fgrrat, on the whites best in door open to . ci passersby Writing Americans have a fashion | clubs. | y Astor on | and | | four-horse | to Distinguished Per- States and Europe. xarden, asion, . superb marine view . while the shrubbery and marvelous all through special plant- e flowers, come only in in this climate, are almost half vear ecarller in this enchanted while the larkspur and forget- | P keep up a continual bloom- all through the year and pink cover the give a background to the i and lavender of the wistaria. All the planting is informal and there is a riot of color against the old stone wall which protects the terrace. When the season proper opens John and Lady Ward oc- their handsome home Dudley se, in Park lLane. London, and | give proper attention to their social duties, and this ended they return {to the Riviera for the remainder of the year. T sprin Pius XI, Roman pontiff, has selected Dr. Charles Rufus Morey, dean of the department of art and archeology In Princeton to prepare the catalogue of minor works of art in what is called the Museo Cristlano of the Vatican. These statues, carvings and crude paintings of the opening Christian era in the cultural sense are highly prized by scholars, and it has been a subject of regret that they were marked in rather a haphazard way, sometimes the date being a century or two amiss. Dr. Morey was at one time a fellow in the American School of Art in Rome, and thus came to know the head of the Catholic Church | in the days when he was a librarian, tirst at the Ambrosian, in Milan, and later at the Vatican. A profound scholar, the present pontiff always made the little museum, as it was called, a special study, and last year he raised it to the first rank by or- dering removed to it all the objects found in excavating the catacombs, and he had the curios taken from one single room in a remote wing of the papal palace and placed in fine large airy rooms near the more famous Vatican collections. To possess even cne authentic work of early Christian art was deemed a triumph in such rich and well endowed institutions as the Metropolitan of New York and the Boston Museum. In the latter but which leads from the water | hter of Tepper, and bef cember 19, at L’'Aiglon, she was Miss Rena L. Tepper. Her future home will be in New Jersey. turned out the music of “Silent Night,” the words being adapted from an older Austrian hymn. Mme. Schu- mann Heink has made a fortune on the records of this hymn, and she never falls to visit the tomb of Gruber when she is in the Tyrol. Miss Gwendolyn McCormack, daugh- ter of the famous Irish singer, John McCormack, will make her debut in the musical work of New York at the samo time that she crosses its social threshold. This young daughter of Erin has assuredly a fairy godmother of the most influentlal sort, for she is fair to look upon, has a volce which promises in_the lyric soprano all that her father has realized in the tenor role, and the family fortunes three and in Boston but two may be found, while the Museo Christano of TRome has nearly 150. Dr. Morey and his associates have been given full con- trol of the indexes of this work, as well as of the catalogue, and they be- gin their labors next June. The dean of the art and archeolcgy department in Prineeton is from Hastings, Mich., and he made his collegiate studies in Ann Arbor. After completing his course in Rome in 1903, he went to Princeton as been at that seat of learning ever sin Mme. Schumann-Heink in the early s of December celebrated her fifti- eth anniversary as a singer, and in her that it is also nce she began to sing in public, Christmas eve, that most beau- tiful 'of the many hymns of the:Ni tivit; tille Nacht” (“Silent Night”). To hundreds of thousands throughout the world Christmas would not be Christmas without this glorious song, and since it now comes on the radio and on the records. unavoidably to those away from church #services, it would appear that long after the great having been driven bY | yoice ‘which made its popularity at least In this country, is stilled, it will continue to proclaim thke Yuletide spirit. The author was Franz Gruber, the organist and choir director of a small Catholic church at Hallein, in upper Austria, quite near Salzburg, where Mozart was born. His pastor had gotten up a. Christmas celebra- tion and he asked his organist to pre- pare a special hymn for the occasion. As spontaneously as Stephen Foster composed his ballads, so the musician sat at his task, and in an hour had S:LECTI K : I 4 thecks to your i comfort. / ., IUDSOXN S now BBV LR SILVER = Al $350, now @ and Cocoa shade—were $1,100, now SEALINE COATS in X030 32 Riviera, and tually $ir John has transferred the contery of his fa- mous hothouses from I to and of sofhern France. is sitgated on Mediterranean, 3 AfterX:nasSalefi Fur Coats anvaryPrices i Qats, in the season’s prevail- ing etects, offered at Very Specxal Pries. to close out. This sale affords you a timely oportunity to utilize Christmas EAL COA Muskrat), Dyed Squirrel Shawl Col- lar and Cuffs—were $265 to $395, MUSKRAT and Cuffs of Brown Fox or Red Fox ——some have Borders—were $225 tc DYED ERMINE COATS, Gray of effects, to be closed out at ...... A Number nfMode] Coats ; at Cost for Quick Disposal SaksFurCo. IN THE CONFIDENCE OF THE PUBLIC FOR OVER THIRTY- it 610 Twelfth St.—Just Above F—Phone Main 1647 have been g0 enlarged through song that in Summer the lives in a splen- did castle in County Kildare, in Ire- land, and the Winter home at 270 Park avenue, New York City, is among the statellest of the neighbor- hood. " Tt'Is in the latter that Mr. and Mrs. McCormack on the 28th will give a dinner to their daughter and her young friends, and later the same eve: ning there will be a concert, followed by a dance, in _the gold room of the Ritz-Carlton. Miss McCormack will sing alternately In numbers with her talented father, and her brother Cyril will also take part in the concert, a; all three will join in those haun Irish melodies in which Mr. Mgy mack has achleved his widest juio larity, it not his most notable pa g succeeses. This concert Wi ¢hoce treat long to be remembered’s wide invited, and the guests incl" Apch. range of celebrities, frompe Rev bishop ~of Baltimore, ¢ A thione. Michael J. Curley, a nathe the tenor, and & former schoolmad york. “Aj and the Governor of Joco Cpersondl Smith, one of highan il eon friends. Miss Mcfi.”‘ but she will Also time £y hirl of the las " e large a little in the Sogish Catholic con- and influential, . tingent of Ney ork City: of Roxburghe, who s ‘2::‘)4«.“ in order to hold a yeunton her attendants at her nuptials g ::fl nfi'o, sgegr‘;t léno’lllh lother, rs. len Goelet, with her’sor home just in time to ehusband and son for the né holldays at Floors Castle, fri¥8eottish Highlands. Though in Uan a quarter of a century has Mopd since Miss May Goelet mar- & X3 ON of 378 Fur advantage and TS (dyed LSRN with = collar $145 ;@Z $595 $60 25 & COATS 3 & $800 to a variety X3 IGHT YEARS ants at this brilliant international al- liance, which, unlike many of those of the same epoch, has turned out | prosperously, live in and near New York, and several had young daugh ters among the season’s debutantes. The Countess of Granard, then Miss | , Beatrice Mills, was a flower girl at| [ this wedding, but having just depart- ed for home, after spending all of the Avtumn in New York, she could no return for the reunion. Mrs. Irwiy { Laughlin of Washington, wife of thf § i former Minister to Greece, as M | Therese Iselin, was among the maid and she made the journey from Was ington to renew oid tles of friends Mrs. Henry Rogers Winthrop, 1 was Miss Alice Babcock, w oty attendant who was present, with Ernest Iselin, formerly Miss P Whittie 3 who wa: ton. vyears have passed that the dufy | has not come to New York to her former chums, and oftan th has accompanled he He 1w nted this year through duties relating to the visit George and Queen Mary to hj land estate during the grou ing season. ‘fied the duke, nearly all her attend- | e Baby's Beginning | From the Boston Herald. My nephew, aged 6, m-a"‘:"“‘" £ with a baby brother by th{ terday. On'felling his grandpa fit it he | said: “Gramp, I gat a by i 1t commenced today.” ESTS, $1.00 EP-INS, $1.25 f{In Lovely Colors All Sizes 7227, 7 727 o honor DECEMBER Adams, and Miss Anna Ri and Mrs. John / Thu-sday night. OOMERS, $1.65 26, 1926—PART 2. uests of Maj. jower in their | POLICE GET GREETING. Dougherty and Hesse Send Christ- mas Messages. Commissioner Proctor 1. Dough- , who has immediate supervision of the Police Department, and Maj. Ed- win B. Hesse, superintendent of polic yesterday extended holiday gree ings to members of the police force. Commissioner Dougherty’s greeting. addressed to Maj. Hesse, reads: “T desire at this time to express to you, and through you to the mem- bers of the Metropolitan police force my earnest wishes for a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. “When this year shall have been brought to a close you may feel as- sured that you have completed it with honor and duty well and falth fully performed. Carry on for 1927 “To those of you who are ill |illness in their homes, I sincerely hope with. the coming of the new Maj. force the following message: “In sending to you the season’s greetings, 1 desire to express my sin- cere_appreciation of the efliclent and loyal service renderd by the members eal | out the year. ! “I hope that nineteen {wenty usefulness, that has been reposed in us. “Hearty Charitmas greetings and | good wishes. that your burdens may be lightened | Hesse sent members of his| seven may be a period of even greater | nd that we may all prove Miss Faith Adams of Chicago, daughter of Mr, and Mrs. Horatio Hearne | worthy of the trust and confidence Jaques, also of Chicago, house Hull, who entertained at the Mayi | HELMET IS DISCARDED:-semmes |Swedish Police Adopt American 1 Style Caps and “Billies.” STOCKHOLM, December 25 (#) The American police cap has replaced | the German styie spiked helmet t of the Swedish police uniforn: The “plcklehaube,” as the Germans call the helmet, which were sent hom: ag souvenirs in tens of thousands the doughboys when the Army Occupation moved up into its place on the Rhine, has been shelved. The anclent sword, too, for genera tions a side-arm of the constabulary | here, has been sent rattling into the | corner of discards, and “billies.” like those twirled so artistically by the police in the United States, will be | carried | NEW FUNGI.ARE FOUND. NEW YORK, December 25 #). - Hitherto unknewn fungi that subsist on plant life and cause heavy crop losses were discovered in a survey of Porto Rico just completed by Dr. Fred J. Seaver, curator of the New of the force to our people through-|York Botanical Garden, it was an nounced today v| Results of the survey will be lished by the New York Academy of Sciences as part of a scientific report on Porto Rico and the Virgin Islands It represents vears of inveatigatio 1| by varfous collectors of fungi in the islands. HOSIERY Perfect Silk Hose, $1.00 Beautiful and Exceptional Values All Colors and Size. 1214 F Street N.W. JANUARY CLEARANCE SALE! . Sensational Reductions on All Qur Merchandise! : vaery Garment Is Taken From Our Regular Stock Which Means the Same High Standard of Quality Prevails COATS—DRESSES—FUR COAT Heretofore Selling $59.50 to $69.50 Smart straightline models, with natural wolf collars and cuffs, squirrel, etc. Formerly Selling $75 to $85 High character models in fine materials, fur trim- mings, excellent work- manship. Heretofore Selling $89.50 to $98.50 Luxurious models, fash- ioned after the most ex- quisite creations, beauti- fully fur trimmed. Heretofore Selling $105 to $129.50 Replicas of Paris pro- ductions embodying fab- rics, furs and workman- ship. Heretofore Selling $135:to_$159.50 Distinctive and fash- ionable. Heretofore Selling $165 to $189.50 Includes every one of our highest price garments in this group. SHOE DEPARTMENT *49 '99 '69 15 125 Regularly Selling $16.50 to $25 Smart afternoon and street frocks in satin, flat crepe, char- meen, cloths and other favored fabrics. Regularly Selling $29.50 to $39.50 A group that includes a splendid assortment of distinctive frocks for street and afternoon wear. Regularly Selling $39.50 to $49.50 New and fashionable models in street, after- noon and evening, in all the season’s favored ma- terials. Regularly Selling $49.50 to $59.50 Truly values of ex- ceptional merit, new- est materials, trim- mings and styles. Regularly Selling $59.50 to $75 Representations of all that is the newest in style, color and materials. Regularly Selling $75 to $89.50 For every occasional wear, all our higher type dresses. - January Clearance Regularly Selling $6.50 to $8.50 3 Every shoe brand-new, ance, comprising—patent and tan calf—for street, Regularly Selling x $8.50 to $10.50 only grouped for January Clear- leat her—satins—reptile leathers dress wear and all occasions.. $12.75 Seal Mendoza Beaver Northern - (Dyed Coney) Sold 15 These Are Wonderful Coats and They Formerly for $155.00 Northern Seal Trimmed W 18 13 rel, mink. (Dyed Coney) Fitch, Dyed Squir- Nutria or Mar- ith 115 Formerly $175.00 Pony’s with Fox, Fitch or Raccoon Trimmed. Caraculs Silver Muskrats 135 Northern Seals All Luxuriously Trimmed Regularly ’1 A remarkable collection $185 to $245.00 SPORT COAT CLEARANCE At 9.50 of snappy and smart sport coats, in a wide variation of checks, plaids and _other attractive designs. All sizes. These Coats Formerly Sold for We Solicit M Accounts $39.50 '