Evening Star Newspaper, September 9, 1928, Page 43

i N e S » B e 0 = B ——[n] —— o[ —— [ ——] THE SUNDAY STAR., WASHINGTON, D. €., SEPTEMBER 9, 1928 PART n B Tales of Well Known Folk In Sociajlgd_ (_)f_ficial Life Secrctary and Mrs. Ke]logg Take Well Merited Vacation Abroad to Escape Hot SCaSOfl Here. BY MARGARET B. DOWNING. [lh' work of this guild in disposing M‘ all surplus plants, flowers and fruits | The Secretary of State and Mrs. Kel- | F0E 5 niviaial gardens for the logg. who have enjoyed a well merited | pleasure and comfort of those who lack vacation in France and Ireland, are | such good things. Especially does the : ormer ‘Secretary of Commerce praise | among the first of such exalted rank | former ‘Secretary of Commerce praise who have passed practically the entire | o €, VS RO Cre G (OCTIN RS el Summer in Washington. Neither ap- | fiowers and delicacies from the home | peared to have been oppressed by the | piot for children's hospitals and for con- | Sultry air, but with morning outings, | fymed invalids of mature years. Win- golf for the Secretary and & long ride | g0t e o O s con- in the country for Mrs. Kellogg and the | tors and desps®ched to homes of sick late afternoon and evening spent Where | peonle as well as to hospitals and the entertainments were al fresco, both set jjie” Ghristmas tree activity is well the admirable example of being €00l | known Mrs. George Barnett. who had | comfortable and unflurried when the | go0t ME COOmR T A discussion of the thermometer Was 2| jnoton branch. has become vice presi- popular_theme. dent, Mrs. Edward S. Walton, sec The British Ambassador announced | iary’ and Mr. John B. Larner, treas- before leaving for England that this | uret” “The' question o transporting | will be the last year the embassy Will | theii offeringe from country estates b removed to Summev quarters, and it | apout Washington to the city institu- would seem that diplomatists like high | onc” o p S TIRIGE B8 Mt ibution list officials of this Government realize that | hag been engaging the attention of Mrs. | the business routine is continuous. Less | Thorpe and her officers as it has va- than 20 years ago, Secretaries of State |rious centers in many cities. Mrs. | departed in June and returned in OC- | Gharles G. Dawes, wife of the Vice Pres- tober. The late John Hay invarlably | jgent, who is deeply interested in the followed this routine and it will be Te- | yranch established in Evanston. her membered that near his beautiful estate | home, has persuaded a corps of girls to on Lake Sunapee, N. H. the Secretary | run trucks and autos filled with flowers, of the Interior. Ethan Allen Hitchcock. | fruits and vegetables several times & had a Summer residence and he, t00. | week frc;1 the suburbs to the general spent the full three months there With | headquarters in the heart of Chicago. his family. Ambassadors were as rare in the Capital in Summer as snow- flakes, but now even if they establish a Summer_home farther North, they re- turn to Washington whenever there are important measures to be discussed at the State Department. | The home of Mary Ball Washington | in Fredericksburg is perhaps, after unt Vernon, of hallowed memory #fand the most closely associated house | in Virginia with the great patriot and | founder, George Washington. It stands | in excellent repair less changed by the | hand of time than the stately mansion | at Mcunt Vernon and it was built ac- | cording to the records by the com { mander of the patriot army for the com- | fort of his mother and he did much of the finer carpentry himself. Mrs. Augustine Washington lived in the | mansion from 1775 until 1789, and her | peaceful death occurred within its | walls. The Society for the Preservation ! of Virginia Antiquities took over the Mary Ball Washington domicile many years ago, repaired and restored all the exterior and painstakingly gathered from every available source the house- hold equipment scattered by the will of this venerable mother in Israel. The Mount Vernon regents at their last meeting in this city returned to the Fredericksburg mansion the handsome poster bed on which Mrs. Washington died and which had come to her il- Justrious son after the terms of her will had been executed. That the founda- tions of this sturdy home are becoming insecure is sad news which should in- terest the entire country and cause a generous: response to the appeals for funds to strengthen it at once. The | old garden where blooms the identical rose, the lovely ivory white climber Mary Washington, which Gen. Wash- | ington hybidized at Mount Vernon, i | in excellent condition and sales of roots | and plants make a tidy sum for the | upkeep of the home. | Mrs. George O. Thorpe. who was chosen president “of the Washington branch of the National Plant, Flower and Fruit Guild at the recent election, takes great pride in the cordial letter of indorsement which the presidential nominee of the Republican party, Mr. Herbert Hoover. has dispatched to the York central office. Mr. Hoover, the great apostle of conservation ry field, regards most favorably e[| Summer Sale o of FURSEI —continued, for a short time, for the accommo- Miss Faith Rockefeller, who will be among the notable buds of this Winter | in New York City. has been spending a | month hi g in the Berkshires with | her brothers and a few friends. This andsome young woman is the gran niece of the founder of the Standard Oil, being the granddaughter of Wil- liam Rockefeller. She is 2lso the grand- daughter of the elder James Stillman and her debut party in November will bring together an illustrious family con- nection. The Stillmans. now so closely afliliated with New York, originated in Wethersfield, Conn., and the first fam- ily mansion and burial plot is carefully preserved. The immigrant of the fam- ily. George Stilln*.n. married Elizabeth Goodrich, of anoih'y pioneer family in the Nutmeg State, and the tomb of this couple and many of their children is a hallowed spot outside the old city. His son Charles. who was the first in New | York City. returned to his Feme in later life and lies in the old buriai plot. John D. Rockefeller is about to publish the annals of his family in this country and this, say his friends, will prove that though he and his brother William were poor and began life humbly, they have behind them a long, fine lineage of which the general public has hitherto heard nothing. Mrs. Horace Mann Towner, wife of the governor of Porto Rico, is an inde- fatigable traveler and she deems it no hardship to journey from her present beautiful island home at San Juan to ‘Washington, Iowa, California, or any place where she is to represent various associations in which she is prominent. | Mrs. Towner, who was president of the | Congressional Club, takes keen interest in the prosperity of that social body and few of the annual reunions—the famous breakfasts given in the Spring with the wife of the President as guest of honor— find her missing. She is the regent from Iowa on the Mount Vernon board of regents and she gives scrupulous attention to these duties and despite her present distant home, she has been in Washington year after year to meet her associates. Mrs. Towner was in Iowa at the impressive home-coming of Mr. Herbert Hoover and was prominent in hospitable cares for the various celebrities who accompanied the presi- dential candidate. 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Mr. Harold Seton has been enter- | taining Newport with his slides of old photographs, all of belles of former years taken in Summer regalia and all carrying the most coquettish parasols, | many of the once popular Japanese va- | riety. Mr. Seton has created a historic division by means of old photographs, and he gives lectures on periods of New Senor Danielo de Menocal is with | York City's social chronicles and throws Senora de Menocal, a Summer resident | these photographs on the screen when of .Newport, and they have also estab- | going into family records in an ex- lished a permanent home in Boston. | haustive manner. Senor de Menocal is an internationally known sportsman whose visits to t. country resulted in his forming a banl ing partnership in Boston and also in his marriage to Miss Beatrice Crosby of New York City. a daughter of that branch of the Crosby family for four generations established in Washington square but originally from Virginia. Like her husband, Senora de Menocal is an excellent tennis player and can ride like a centaur. Senor de Menocal is the son of a former Spanish governor of Cuba with a long lineage in the home country who affiliated with the native party and aided in the struggle for independence. As both possess an ample fortune, they have lived in China and Japan, in India and in South Africa. But now they have put down deep roots in Boston and Newport and except for occasional visits to Havana, where the senor has a wide circle of | relatives and friends, they plan to be come permanent denizens of this repub- ic. Senora de Menocal is the cousin of Oscar Terry Crosby. affiliated with the railroad administration during the | World War, and of the lovely Nina Crosby, who married Mr. George Eustis and after his death the Marquis de | de | Menocal, she was frequently here when ! Polignac of Paris. With Senor § 500 GOOD POSITIONS AND FINE INCOMES Tearooms. Restaurants. Cafeterias. Motor Inns. Candy. 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When the Hungarian Minister and his | family return to Washington in Novem- | | ber after dividing the Summer between | | their _homes in Budapest and in the | Carpathian Mountains just over the border from Hungary into what is now | the domain of Czechoslovakia, they will bring among the several handsome paintings done in Munich by Richard | B. Adam a canvas of the youngest daughter, Sylvia. This little mald is a veritable Amazon, though a most gentle |and diminutive one, and she has been painted on a great bay horse, which prances as though spurred on by mar- tial music. Mr. Adam has been passing | some weeks in the Szechenyi castle, and the horse is one of lengthy pedigree and huge enough to hold a commander of | cavalry. But little Sylvia would never | accept a pony, and from the age of 3 | she rode her own steed. She is the | | youngest of the four girls of the Hun- | sarian Minister and Countess Szechenyi, |and she was born in the legation on Massachusetts avenue in May, 1923. 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Lord Fermoy sits in the Lords and | his twin bother Frances Burke-Roche has never followed up the rumor that he intended to try for this district in which his brother has large interests in the Commons. Indeed Mr. Burke- Roche has never acquired British citi- zenship and as he spends as much time in New York as he does with his mother and brother in England, it is not likely that he has political ambi- | tions leading to Parliament. Mrs. Hoff- man’s daughter, Marion, was presented occur. The Spanish writer who proved so popular in this country left a for- tune well beyond a million dollars, much of it obtained through filming of his best known novels in Hollywood. His violent republicanism and open sym- pathy with the Cubans in their revolt against Spain in 1898, led to his exile and it was in that year that he selected his fine villa site at Mentone, then a fashionable resort, but with property values far below what they are now. 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