Evening Star Newspaper, September 11, 1927, Page 56

s avacansy FULAAE SR 351 1AL A LA DA BRI A L ATV R AL S AL 634 BaR A S AT A e Arrvasarae g. g i £ LRSI B AR SR AARE LA DAN A AN In Social and Official Life French Ambassador Makes Public Complimentary Views of U. S. Progress—Sketches of Celeb- rities—OQutline of Achievements. BY MARGARET B. DOWNING. The French Ambassador, M. Paul Claudel, who has been almost con tinously in Paris since he left Wash- ington last Spring. gave some of h n.pressions of the United States, v visited to the press of his country, hortly before sailing for his post in Washington. The Am ador spent three years in New York, Boston and Jersey cities some 30 years He makes s note of the progress allantry, even in the at, rushing cities of the E: He found that women are universally shielded and given polite attention, even those whom he humorously de- scribes as being- strong, agile and forceful, and quite as able to look after their own safety as men are. 'he Claudels have a beautiful old home in the Passy region of Pari and it might be desoribed as an Or ental domicile, so numerous and hand- some are the Japanese and Chinese treasures which the Aml ador brought from his former mission. Since three of the five Claudel chil- dren are at school in France, Mme. Claudel will remain in the home in Passy at least until the Spring, when it is probable she will bring her_ two sons and youngest daughter, Mile. ine, on a Visit to this country. The oldest daughter, formerly Mlle. Marie Antoinette Claudel, was married in Aprll to M. Bonami of the foreign office, and, with her husband, is to spend the Winter with Mme. Claudel. Mile. Reine, the young daughter, who will be the chatelaine of the KFrench embassy this Winter, has been the inseparable companion of her parens and has lived all the time with them in the East, receiving her education from tutors. Lieut. Col. Thomas Holcombe, U. S. M. C., who recently was appointed commander of the legation guard in Peking, is well known in Washil ton, where he lived for many years, and where about 12 years ago he mar- ried Miss Beatrice Clover, the younger of the two daughters of the late Rear Admiral and Mrs. Richardson Clover. Col. and Mrs. Holcombe are on famil- jar ground about Peking, for four vears ago the former was appointed janguage officer there, and has been in China all through the revolution and in most of the warfare in which the Marines became engaged. Mrs. Holcombe has remained in the Orient all through the troubles, occasionally taking refuge in Japan when the con- flict in China raged in too close prox- imity. She was introduced to society in the old home of the Clovers at Eighteenth and O streets, now the legation of Panama. With her Sister, Miss Eudora Clover, she was among the belles of her period. The older element of Washington society recall the lovely fancy balls which Mrs. Clover gave for her young daughter, many presenting the legends of China, when splendid costumes were loaned the little people not possessing so many treasures from this land as did the hostess. Miss Eudora Clover, after the death of her parents, pur- chased a ranch in San Bernardino County, Calif., and for years devoted all her time and energies to the enter- prise. She has apparently tired of the isolation of ranch life, as she recently took a 15-year lease on an apartment in Boulevard Montparnasse in Paris. As children, Miss Clover and Mrs, Hol- combe spent many years in Shanghal when Admiral Clover was connected with the Asiatic Fleét. Miss Alice Brooks Davis, daughter of the Secretary of War and Mrs. Dwight Davis, who will make her dfbu( lDecernber 2‘3, ‘will be the center of unique, attention, froyy the Arm contingent]” edpicially A Xl(n younge¥ and unmarried ranks. As social chroniclers have frequently observed, when the Secretary of War has a young and attractive daughter, it does not require an official ordér to bring out the martial forces at receptions or teas at the Secretary’s home. Miss Davis has been-earefully prepared for her debut in this country under pri- vate teachers and in France, and will be the first daughter of a War Secretary to be presented to society since Miss Edith Root, now. Mrs. U. 8. Grant, 3rd, was a bud in the memorable Winter which witnessed the debut of Miss Alice Roosevelt, now Mrs., Nicholas Longworth, wife of the Speaker. Miss Helen Taft, now Mrs. Frederick Johnson and dean of Bryn Mawr, elected to enter that col- lege the year she should have made her debut in company with Miss Ethel Roosevelt, now Mrs. Richard Derby. ‘The four Secretaries of War who fol- Jowed Willlam Howard Taft, now Chief Justice—Gen. Luke E. Wright, Jacob M. Dickinson, Henry L. Stim- on and Lindley M. Garrison, had only married daughters, or, in the ‘ase of Mr. Garrison, had no chil- dren at all, and the small daughters of Secretary and Mrs. Newton D. Baker were of the school age during the five years of their residence in ‘Washington. The late Secretary of ‘War, John W. Weeks, only daughter, Mrs, John W, Davidge, had been mar- ried some years before her father entered President Harding's cabinet. If the precedents hold good, the President and Mrs. Coolidge will be among those to felicitate Miss Davis on December 23, and the military probably will be there to the last man and woman of the circle. Signora Guiseppe Brambilla, form- erly Miss Julia Meyer, daughter of the late George von Lengerke Meyer, President Roosevelt’s Post master General and President Taft's Secretary of the Navy, has spent the Summer with her mother at Maple Rock Farm, near Hamilton, Mass. Mrs. Meyer had been in Rome with her daughter since the sudden death of Signor Brambilla, which occurred in the past Winter. It is probable that sigWora Brambilla will make Rome her home, at least until certain lit- erary work in which she was collab- orating with her husband is com- pleted. This was a history of the old palice on the Corso in which the Italian foreign office is located and in the upper part of which the premier makes his home. The late nor Brambilla, who had attained the rank of counsellor in the foreign |service of his country ‘and was on the eve of promotion to the rank of minister, was taken over by Signor Mussolini as a_personal and lite retary, and in addition to his v: responsibility in these lines, he was writing the annals of the famous old palace de Rospigliosi. Signora Brambilla had been aiding both in the arch work and in the actual writ- and she has been designated by Mussolini to complete these studies. After this is satisfactorily adjusted it is likely that she will make her Winter homs in. Washington. ‘The Attorney General, Mr. Sargent, has a well earned reputation all over New England for his knowledge of old clocks and the best ways to reg- ulate them and doctor them gener- ally when they get the tantrums. But what many do not know, the head of the Department of Justice has made a study of colonial locks and keys and has placed such on his doors whenever it was possible to ob- tain the kind which suited the en- vironment. The early inhabitants of Plymouth colony did not tend to make farey looking ironwork, but its massive simplicity distinguishes it even now when continental methods are considered. more artistic. Escutch- eon plates and door knockers did not come into fashion for a full century and a half after the plain strong locks and keys of the Puritans had served. Many Boston - mansions have: excel- lent specimens of the best iron and brass workers of the sixteenth cen- tury purchased on the other side of the water: when .opulence-and ele- gance led to mora frequent crossings. Knockers on. inner doors with keys to match are on'all the-Sargent doors, and there are some ornamental win- dow catches and stout carved irons to hold back shutters,.all of which show the splendid craftsmanship of the years when the makers-of noted clocks and general household equip- ment of this coyntry were busy at their benches. The “Attorney General has not removed his famous clocks from his home in Ludlow, Vt., for he has decided that such ancient and deli- cate construction would mnot with- stand the jostling of railroad o of motor travel. “Mr. Charles MacVeagh, the Ambas- sador to Tokio who played such 2 pleasing role in presenting Miss America, the doll sent to the small daughter of the Emperor and Em- press of Japan, has been an interest- ed observer of how this dainty little princess is succumbing to the ways of western dolls and clamors for other playthings on the same style. Mr. and Mrs. MacVeagh have furnished material galore for the dressing of dolls such as the’ little folks in Uncle Sam's domain play with, old gowns of Mrs. MacVeagh being yielded and neckties ‘and vests of the ambassador offered for Miss Tailor-made, a kind of doll which fills the young Japanese girl with awe. Mr. MacVeagh is a lover of flowers a 8 been at- tonding many o tha MG el hibits. He has noted in a letter to a friend that whereas this Nation has taken over the national flower, the chrysanthemum, and developed it into collossal size and undreamed-of hues, the Japanese have cultivated the peony and obtained larger and more colorful and fragrant blooms. The peony, a flower so much prized in gardens of this land, is graduaily getting a wide vogue in the Flowery Kingdom. Peony culture is wide- spread and there are votaries who acclaim it the best and most satisfac- tory of Spring blooms. The single variety is popular in Japan and So deft are the gardeners there that the starry bloom of the peony endures almost to the time that the single golden-centered dahlia comes, and these last until the early varieties of chrysanthemum are due. 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A., and Mrs. Bailey, has re- turned to their home at 2100 Massachusetts avenue, after a lengthy motor trip. ninth birthday was colebrated by the | historians of the world, for this em-| inent scholar—nephew and pupil of Lord Macaulay—is the oldest mem- ber of their guild still in active serv- jce. Sir George Treaelyan's mother was Macaulay’s elder sister, and he made his home with her for some time in his youth. Celebrated as a states- man and orator, Sir George is equally famous as a historian, presenting hi facts with the ease and grace of his distinguished uncle. In this country, the works of Trevelyan have a wide vogue among historians who de- seribed political conditions in England at the outbreak and during the prog- ress of the War of Independence. -The Briton's admiration for Franklin and his painstaking search into all the windings of the family in Northamp- tonshire and in the colonies, led to the first Franklin cult, now so wide- spread. Few scholars have arraigned George III and Lord North more scatchingly than Lord Macaulay's mephew. Sir George has occupied a seat in six Liberal cabinets and but for his advanced years he would have been proffered one in the coalition council of Mr. Ramsay MacDonald. Through both parents he descends from anclent families of Cornwall, Offeriné th and he occupics a fine old castle on the coast, owned by his people since the Norman conquest. His father, Sir John Trevelyan, was high sheriff of Cornwall for years and received the title of baronet for eminent services to the crown in the form of zealous efforts against the smugglers for which that coast is historically re- nowned. Napoleon IIT, as Prince Louls Na- poleon Bonaparte, is to figure in a play laid in New York City, which will present many incidents of the future emperor’s exile there in 1837, The Bonapartist pretender lived the greater part of his sojourn at the Washington Hotel. 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