Evening Star Newspaper, October 21, 1928, Page 54

Tales of Well Known Folk In Social and Official Life odern American Manu Modern A M factured Plate and Table Silver Disvlacing Old.’ Ornate Varieties Produced in Foreign Lands. BY MARGARET B. DOWNIN: Mrs. John Henry Hammond and many other members of the Vanderbilt family are patronizing the modern American manufactured plate and ta- ble silver rather than the old and or- nate varieties which come from alien lands. Denizens of this land who hasten to Europe for exceptional table ware were no doubt surprised that at the recent international exposition of decorative and industrial art held in Paris the majority of the first priz-s went to original designs from th's count. A bowl for berriss, by Mr, James D. S. Weldon of Cincinnati, of a distinctly modernistic trend took all | manner of ribbons and cash 1s simplicity personified and is rectangu- lar with a floral carved base and rim | Mrs. Hammond purchased this and many of the other prize-winning speci- | mens as she could procure. Sinee the | keynote of good taste in furnishing a home is now simplicity, it was obvious that plainer ware is in order. Tea urns are absolutelv without decoration, save | perhaps a unique twisted handle com pletely curved and attached ty the ves- | sel itsell at one end only, something | entirely novel and very attractive. Spoons and other flat silver are pol- shed and scrolled a little, with a wide | space for an ornamental monogram. | Bome of the many varieties of trays and | platters besr such entrancing names | as Ebb Tide, Northern Lights and Day Dreams. b e ‘The Governer General of Canada and Lady Willingdon, like the President and Mrs. Coolidge, passed the Summer in a | secluded lodge. It was located on the | Athabasca trail in the Jasper National Park of the Canadian Rockies. Like the President, their chief diversion was fishing, but grmc\pally for salmon, al- though in the higher reaches of the mountain lake they fished for trout. All the goumeys had to be made in the saddle, for few of the tortuous streams are navigable except for canoes. but the mountain trails are abundant _and kept in a high state of perfection. Both | Lord and Lady Willingdon are accom- piished riders, and as they passed sev- eral years in India before being sent to Ottawa, they journeyed habitually on horseback on visits to distant posts and on those picnics which are so popu- lar with Britons wherever they liv Salmon fishing is as universal a recre: tion in many parts of Canada as it is| in England and Scotland. and both en- | joged the sport. Lord Willingdon has | never fished for tuna, the mighty game | fish which is common along the lower | coast of California and which attracts | sportsmen of all nationalities. He and | Lady Willingdon may run down to Los Angeles before the heavy duties of the | ‘Winter begin in Ottawa to look on thls, wport, even if they do not engage in ft. | ok x | The Archbishop of Baltimore, Most | Rev. Michael A. Curley, whose juris- diction extends over the Catholics of the Capital City, is another heavily burdened executive who found hea!lh,i rest and intense enjoyment in passing | the Summer in rural environment and in fishing. The archbishop was seri- ously ill through the Spring. He sailed | for his old home near Athlone in County Roscommon, in Ireland, and spent more than two months in perfect seclusion. In fishing for perch in the River Shannon the prelate found the most intense enjoyment and, like President Coolidge in the Brule country, | toothsome dainty until all declared that too much fish was worse than none. Archbishop Curley’s mother is in her eighty-ninth year, but she has not lost the knack fot frying the sportive perch. This holiday devoted to fishing is the first which the busy head of the oldest metropolitan see of the Catholic Church in this Republic has enjoved since he was a lad of 16 and departed from his | home to study for the priesthood in the College of the Propaganda Fide in Rome. Mr. John McCormick, the sweet nger of Erin and a boyhood friend of the archbishop. was his frequent com- panion on the fishing expeditions and toward the end of the Summer lured the prelate and his mother to the hand- some home which he owns on the east | It | coast of Ireland, where the salmon fish- ing is renowned. o ‘The Austrian Minister's decision to procure the building of a legation for his country was evidently the result of intolerable crowding in his present quarters, formerly the home of Mr. and | Mrs. Josephus Daniels during the eight | years that the North Carolinian was Secretary of the Navy in the Wilson cabinet. The Minister from the Aus- | trian republic, M. Edgar Prochnik. has | five children and the entire home would | not be at all spacious for his family, ; but the chancelry and the consular! office were both located on the third floor, and Mme. Prochnik, who was Miss Gretchen James of Boston, had to | submit to the using of her stairway at i all hours of the day by all manner of strangers. The new home of Austria | will be modest indeed compared to the fine mansion on Connectieut avenue over which the double black eagle of | Austro-Hungary used to float. ~ This | mansion, long since demolished, was once the social eenter of the diplomatic corps, especially during the long regime of the Baron and Baroness Hengelu muller. Baron Hengelmuller was Mis ister for fifteen years before he was promoted to be an Ambassador. and he purchased the property from Mrs. Au- gusta Patten Glover, sister of Mrs. Corbin and of Miss Mary Patten and: Mrs. Nellie Patten, and furnished it| superbly. Only two ambassadors re- sided there—the purchaser and M. Con- | stantin Dumba, who fell under the dis- | pleasure of President Wilson in 1915 | and was sent home. The Austro-| Hungarian embassy ~was temantless through the World War and its hand- some equipment was dispersed. Mr. Myron C. Taylor, who is one of the executive directors of the United States Steel Corporation, has taken a | month from the rush of affairs to| search in the London archives for inti- | mate and comprehensive data about his | stalwart ancestor, Capt. John Under- hill, whe, like Miles Standish of song and story. though more to the point of | tremendous historical importahce, wag the military leader of the Puritans. Capt. Standish filled a similar role in the annals of the Pilgrim Fathers. Mr. Taylor, who has a bookish turn despite his prowess in finance and statistics, has gone through the records of Under- hills in Warwickshire, whence came the stalwart John, who departed with the Puritans in 1625, but he has found a a tangled web. Underhill is a common | name in the midlands, and there are | many bearers of the name in London. In the Garrick Club there is a portrait of Cave Underhill who came from Warwick, which is Shakespeare's county, and was an actor toward the he supplied the family table with the CREERON 614 12th Street Advanced Showing Smart Millinery end of the seventeenth century. But M ylor, who descends on the distaff THF, SUNDAY STAR. WASHINGTONX, D. C, OCTOBER 1928—PART 8. 21, ’slde from the intrepid leader of the | Puritans departing for the New World | disheartened by the Stuart hostility, will ! eontinn> his szarch from time to time | when he c2n run over from New York to England. He enjoved his sojourn | there very much. for Warwick in Junc is a theme for the poets, but it w not very preductive of results rega ing the object of his visit. Miss Frederica Frelinghuysen, s a small girl so.often v cousins the children of former Senator Joseph S. Frelinghuysen, is to be among | the debutantes of next month in New | York City. In order to obtain a suit- able environment for this functicn her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Peter H. B Frelinghuysen. were compelled to pur- chase an’ apartment, those to be ob- tained by lease having been exhausted a year previously. The Frelinghuy: have been for so many years afliated with Morristown. N. J.. that few of the members of this illustrious family trouble to secure homes through pur- chase in any other part of the world Many of the Frelinghuysens have spent the Winter in New York hotels. jour- ing_back to Morristown for the ceek ends or on domestic occasions like birthday and wedding anniversaries and Thanksgiving and Christmas, but to present a_debutante without a perma- nent domicile anpeared out of the ques- tion. It happened that the apartment house at 856 Fifth avenue, where Mr. Frelinghuysen is to live, was erected EARLY AUTUMN BRIDE. on the site of the home of the Elbert { H. Garys, and they were frequently sts at this hospitable mansion. It will be remembered that in selling his house because of business encroach- ments, the late Elbert H. Gary ex- pressed a wish to lease or purchase the entire roof apartment, and it was his intention to reproduce high above ths traffic every essential feature of th home and its grounds. Mrs. Gary re- sides in this extensive skyward preserve, and if the weather Is favorable she | will fete all the daughters of her friends with a dance in a superb ball- i room under the stars. LR Mrs. Samuel T. Chase of Chicago. who s a leading philanthropist of the sceond ci and active in all man- ner of affairs, about conaeived the idea of organizing a small to spend quiet afternoons in each oth- er's garden's. Against the most unfor seen difficulties these fervent gardeners met. but their afternoons were far from quiet, and when the last meeting was held in mid-October, Mrs. Charles W. Hubbard gave an amusi talk, sum- marizing the obstacles which amateurs encounter in creating a garden of any sort, still less being able to pass a quiet hour in it. Gardeners all along the lake shore of Chicago take their duties and obligations very seriously and there are few who have not em. ployed an expert to plan an axis and a vista even for the most modest grounds Mrs. Chase, who is such a graceful writer on garden themes and on many others, has written severm satirical sketches of the popular opinion enter- tained of women who can sit about for an afternoon and discuss the beauty and habits of certain plants and the best way to care for flowers. These papers evoked much enthusiasm and garden parties are invariably enlivened by some such effort of the members, The Forest Lake Garden Club is plan- ning a regular lecture series for the next season and a concerted effort on the part of each member to refrain ft‘:m rn;n;(el“l act; 'iity on any day that e quiet hour in the n taken over for its own. Eaen i ¥ ok ok % Mr. Urban Hanlon Broughton, a d o} 12th and G Sts. et &= =3 S In Extra Large Head Size 10 and *5 |+ For the woman that ideas in a Midseason Hat well selected stock designe head sizes. Models to suit the young woman that requires is looking for the newest we offer an_exceptionally d on youthful lines in large snap to her hat and models for the matron with styles that are different. 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Decrees seldom accomplish all they set out to do. and it isn't likely that the white-whiskered old peasants and their wrinkled wives, who have got | along through 60. 70 or 80 years of existence without bothering their heads | over Russia’s eclectic alphabst—part Latin, part Greek and part Slav—are | going to take it up now. But their | children and grandchildren are going | to be compelled to learn their ABVs— | in Russia's | there being no C sound | alphabet. There is a C character.’ but {it is way down the line and is pro- | nounced “8.” Government statistics put the num- {ber of illiterate Russians at 15,000,000, | mostly women. But statistics have a is more than a popular success in her ! latest role, “The Cardboard Lover,” but her vogue might be described as a wide- spread craze. Hats, fans and wraps are named for her and the pretty Indian name of Tallulah which she received from her paternal grandmother is being bestowed on recent infants. 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Just how they are going to learn to read and write has not been explained. but the | government decree made no exceptions | Red Army Is Factor. | _Meanwhile. next to the schools. the Red army is the greatest single educu- tional factor in Russia | into its ranks each year for their period of compulsory service. A high percentage of them cannot read or write. All of them can do =0 before | they are discharged into civil life. Then the “Down With Illiteracy Society” has | branches in most provinces, but they are operated on a voluntary basis and | are scarcely efficient by Western stand- ards. The government would like to help them, but i is busy with running the country, trving to collect crops and carry out grandiose schemes for mak- ing agricultural Russia a great indus- trial nation. Various cities have adopted measures of their own to compel 2ll inhabitants to learn the written language. Lenin- grad, for example, recently agreed with military authorities that each militia- man—and they are many in Russia— would supply the names and addresse: of all illiterates in the section of the city under his beat. RUSSIA IN SLACK SEASON. Soviet's Industrial Showse Steady Decrease. MOSCOW (#).—The industrial pro- duction of Soviet Russia has been stead- ily slowing down during the last two | months, just when manufactured articles were most needed to induce the peasants | to part with their stores of grain, The preparation of flax from which strong warm underwear for the peasants is largely made dropped 70 per cent in July, according to Pravda, while the Production < | turnover of all textiles fell 25 per cent. Moreover, discipline among the work- ers iz on the decline, this spaper de: clared, attributing this to difficulties ex- perienced in the distributing of bread in certain industrial centers. new schedule of the air you! End-of-the- son prices at th BE Several hun- | dred thousand young men are drafted | Emir of Bockara Loses Last Hope of Getting Back His Throne. DUSHAMBE, Turkestan (#).—Rus- sia’s Red and ready justice has crushed the last sporadic efforts of Mohamme- dans to get back their foothold in the country once occupied by the deposed Emir of Bockara. Seven “Bassmatches," as the roaming Temnants of his once numerous follow- ers are called, were sentenced to death |and promptly executed recently after their capture by Red troops. | The “Bassmatch” movement started in 1920 shortly after the Emir of Boc- kara, fleeing from the Red soldiery, | parrowly escaped into _Afghanistan, leaving behind him his property, money and wives. From exile he sent Moslem mullahs as messengers into his former territory to exhort the population to |ral\}' under the green banner of the | prophet and wage holy war to drive out the invading infidels. The great Turk- h adventurer Enver Pasha was made chief of the emir’s guerrillas. At first the movement met with some success and the Reds were driven out of part of the country they had cap- tured, but soon the innocent bystanders, tl> natives, aroused bv confiscations |and tired of taxes, abandoned the emir's | cause and encouraged the Red troops to return. A band of 19 charged with many | murders was recently captured by Red | troopers and it was from their number that the seven executions were provid- . The others have gone to jail, and |the emir's last hopes of gotting back | his old homeland have gone with them. ith! Russian revolutionaries say. | GEM TO TOP BUILDING. HAVANA (#).—A huge diamond to be nlaced in the dome floor of the new na- tional capitol at Havana will be the | standard of measurements for Cuba. The gem is said to weigh 50 carats | and is the gift of a millionaire Cuban | Senator whose purpose was to provide a | fitting “top” for th new building. 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