Evening Star Newspaper, November 4, 1928, Page 61

‘Tales of Well Relating to Prominent Personages of Old and N BY MARGARET B. DOWNING. | Senator Hiram Bingham, who is one of the versatile members of the legis- lative bod: as, according to his friends. Jent a sympathetic ear to those who are essaying to do something in the man Jacture of <h~irs which cannot be used #5 a scat—ihat is, a comfortable seat— | and scorcs throughout the. country would join #-v crusade which would impose the ¢ those whe make or sell answer the purpo is paid. It looks a complicated | proposition and just what law could be invoked, even Senator Bingham i not yeb Beady to divulge. The crusade has e literary champions, and Mr. | Lewis Mumford. whose name is famili: to all readers of the weeklies and many monthly magazines, has been writing witty and forceful essays against th bentwood machine-made chair which i | totally unadapted in contour to the | human body. Of course, it has been pointed out that any one who buys r chair may try it and if he is vigilant, may discover its defects. The outery | i= principally directed against the high- sounding machine-made articles called ‘Tudor chairs and Windsor chairs, whereas they do not follow the excellent lines of their models. Artists and those who are interested in the arts and crafte have joined the crusade, and among other reforms to be suggested in thc coming session of Congress will be one to promote “‘pure” chairs, so to speak, and not adulterations of the best styles * o % Mr. John T. McCutcheon's quaint | home, Treasure Island, near Nassau, in | the Bahamas, was in the path of the | recent hurricane and much destruction | has been reported among the numerous | outhouses and seclude® fiooks built after the fashion of the pirates’ retreat in Robert _ Louis Stevenson's _inimitablc | tale. But the saddest feature of the | disaster is that the stately avenue o | coconut palmswhich circles the main “shanty,” as Mr. and Mrs. McCutcheon call their largest guest house, was laia low almost to the total number. Not only does this lessen the scenic effect | in the approach to Treasure Island, but the storm killed the source of supplies for that famous frozen ambrosia which | is the crowning offering at the ban- | quets and luncheons in that picturesque | abode. Nassau and its inhabitants have privileges not granted to the denizen ' of this republic, and the ambrosia of Mr. McCutcheon is. according to the de- | scription of many artists, writers and | newspaper scribes who have been their | guests, delectable enough to draw the high gods down from Olympus to taste something not enjoyed by mortals for nearly 2,000 years. | * ok K X% Mr. Potter Palmer, 2d, has bowed to the decrees of progress and has disposed | of the Norman castle built by his par- | ents in 1885 and which has been during the intervening years the center of the opening social life of the mighty Lake City. Mrs. Potter Palmer had been the guest of an ancient French relative in Normandy, and the memory of the cas- tellated towers and battlements im- pressed her so strongly that the home shortly afterward built on an inland lake was in part modeled from the Nor- man structure of the fifteenth century. The second Mrs. Potter Palmer has maintained the high tradition, and it was with pain that she consented to the sale of the site, now uncomfortably hemmed in by skyscrapers and far from desirable as a residence. Miss Bertha Honore Palmer, a bridesmaid at the ‘Williams - Cantacuzene nuptials, only granddaughter of Chicago'’s illustrious social mentor and her namesake, will make her debut in the family mansion this December, and this will probably be the last notable gathering within its walls. This young girl is not yet 18 and her parents wished her to study for a ear or o more, but she wished to make er bow in the same drawing room where the grace, tact and social charm of the first Bertha Honore Palmer lin- gers in grateful memory, and her par- ents have acceded to this request. Mr. Palmer intends to devote the Winter and opening Spring in recalling old traditions of the mansion’s early chap- ters and to interview all the contem- poraries of his mother and her equally accomplished sister, Ida Honore, Mrs, Frederick Dent Grant, who resides in Washington, about them. * % % Mr. Eugene Jordan Rozwadowski, who reently arrived in New York City to serve as consul general of Poland in that district, will make many visits to Wash- | ington after he has mastered the rou- | tine of his new labors. He is partly American, as his name suggests, and ‘was many times a visitor to this and other cities before the World War. He is of that part of the ancint kingdom of Poland which fell to the spoil of Aus- tria and received his education in the | University of Lemburg, his native city. He pursued the higher studies in the University of Leipzig and graduated in the law in Cracow. He was among the first enrolled in the diplomatic service of the Polish republic and was assigned to The Hague in the early days of his country’s .reconstruction. He obtained two large loans from the government of the Netherlands to aid in the rehabili- tation and in many ways proved of | great service. He was for three years | consul general of Poland at Koenigs- berg, a post which ranks first in impor- tance in the Polish economy. He was alse at Cologne before being dispatched to New York City. Poland maintains only six consular offices in the United, but the service is gradually being in- oreased, as the trade and commerce has Been quickened in the past two year: ¥ it MAYFLOWER Known' Folk In Social and Official Life! Notes and Incidents and Personal Sketches | them. Mr. Kirk passed several yea |in the form of vestments made into of the glories of ancient Rome which he hopes to make a reality in course of time, may be realized in miniature for the vistor to New York City by expend- ing 10 cents on the Fifth avenue bus which turns in at the Metropolitan Mu- seum of Art. Under the modest desig- nation of the court of Wing K may be {and ivy and small edgings of box cir- | Sumner House, is being demolished. So ew World. The district of New York includes the Federal Capital, and the consul gen-! eral, Mr. Rozwadowski, will b2 here on business within the month, and will also come soclally to visit many old friends | |in Washington at the Polish legation | and in the State Department. * %ok ok Mr. Alexander C. Kirk, who is one | of the important bachelors of the | United States foreign service, is possibly | the possessor of the finest Chinese col- | lection of vases, rugs, bric-a-brac and | screens in the city. and his spacious home, once the Dumbarton Club of | Georgetown, is the ideal place to displ | I in China and he purchased discrim natingly of its artistic treasures. He appears to have a special weakness for | screens. Abundant room presents ftself | for screens in the corridors and cham- bers of the old Dumbarton Club, known | to older Washingtonians as the Cox | residence, and these add to the general effect of the draping, rugs and rare Oriental furnishings. But screens have almost passed as an article of furniture in other Washington homes. Some fu- ture mistress of the White House, if she has a liking for these accessories, will find many beautiful ones in the storage rooms in the attic of the presi- dential mansion. When the corridor of the White House served as a State ban- quet hall there were a variety of screens set up for the occasion and there were many in other parts of the lower floor used mainly as protection against drafts. In the remodeling in 1902, all the screens were discarded except on: or two small handsomely carved fire screens which are used in the red and green rooms. Mr. Kirk has some very ancient embroideries which he bought screens and they blend with the gen. eral coloring of his main drawing room. *x o % | Mr. John Hay Payne's air yacht, the | Pegasus, is said to surpass in elegancs of appointment and in size any of the planes on Long Island which have been constructed for pleasure alone. With a twin motored Sikorsky, the Pegasus is amphibian and offers the last word in comfort and space. Mr. Whitney re- | sides at the Manhasset, Long Island, estate of his father, the late Payne Whitney, and he has built elaborate accommodations for his yacht. His mother, formerly Helen Hay of this city, lives at Manhasset all the year, making | only brief visits to New York for the | opera and concert seaton and to the splendid estate in Thomasville, Ga., during the severe weather. Young Jock, i as he is called, graduated at Oxford and | is prominent in sports circles. having | won his laurels in polo and in cross- | country riding. He will eventually fol- low his father into the banking and‘ trust business, but he has not begun his career in that direction yet. The Pegasus was built under his watchful eye and he intends to operate it himself when he is more familiar with its man- agement. The cabin of the Pegasus is roomy and furnished luxuriously in bronze leather and the sleeping quarters compare favorably with all but the largest sea-going yachts. The dining | equipment is also elaborate, and the owner proposes to take his relatives and friends on two or three day trips along the sound and into the country of Con- necticut and Massachusetts, which is particularly desirable in Autumn. * kX % Premier Mussolini’s vivid description admired a Roman garden and cortile which inspires -many landscape artists and architects and which became so crowded when first opened during the past Summer that cards had to be issued to the visitors. Like the majority of Italian gardens, a large portion is tiled and in vivid red. creams and blacks with a line of Pompeian pink marking off the walks and circles from the sward. Grayish walls rise to the height of 10 feet and against them are the Lombardy poplars that inevitably decorate such inclosures. A peristyle, in which the columns ! are deep red at the bottom and shading to silvery pink at the top, surrounds the walls and the poplars. Next are the walks in mosaic effect and a long white marble pool surmounted by a fountain, a white marble youth holding a shell On pedestals are grand old Romans o’ the republic, of the empire and of the most famous of the Caesars. Mytho- logical figures skirt the beds of fern cle the green, making it less than 150 feet in length and about 80 feet wide, a glorius suggestion for those who wish to make a genuine Italian garden anc not a feeble makeshift for one. * % ok % Levi P. Morton and Charles Sumner are both recalled as the o'd4 Shoreham Hotel, which stood on the site of the much history was vritten within the walls of this old mansion and that in- dependently of its later annals as a hostelry that it would require an im- pressive bronze tablet to record them all. Sumner was rated as host in his dey and to his residence came th> brains and social concourse of the Na- tion in the years immediately follow- | ing the Civil War. John Lothrop Mot- ley, the historian, was Sumner's friend in Bosion and often his guest in the house on the corner of Fifteenth and H | the THE SUNDAY STAR, .'WASHIXGTO)T, D. C, NXOVEMBER 4 1928—PART 3. Mid-Autumn Nuptials Parents Entertain For Youni Dflughter 1 Mr. and Mrs. J. Stewart Kimball | Wednesday evening, October 31, gave a | Halioween mack party for their little | daughter, Mary Lorraine Kimball. children were amused by playing all | kinds of Halloween games, for which | prizes were awarded. Mary Wheeler | was winner of the first prize for the | guessing game, while Betty Smith was | MRS. JAMES T. GREEN, | Formerly Miss Anna Elizabeth Parker, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Nelson Par- ker, her wedding day being October 17. —Clinedinst Photo. streets. Through the Massachusetts statesman’s influence, President Grant appointed the historian as minister to Great Britain, an honor which had his life-long_ ambition. But carcely had the scholarly envoy presented his credentials to Queen Victoria when the President and the Senator had a vio- lent disagreement and Motley was re- called. This so embittered the his- torian that he never set foot on his nativé land again, and his daughters married Britons of consequence and apparently reared children who have no friendly feeling for this land. It was in the mansion, afterwards the home of Senator Sumner, that Andraw Johnson lived when he was Vice Presi- dent, and from which he was called to occupy the White House, but this after an interval of some months, owing to the serious illness of Mrs. Lincoln. Pres- ident Wilson and his family were enter- | tained at the Shoreham for three days preceding the inauguration in 1913. e g o e Miss Alix van Rensselaer Devereux, | whose debut was one of the exceptional functions of the little season in Phila- | delphia, drew a number of illustrious | relatives from across the seas to pre- | sent their felicitations in person. Among these were the Countess of Winchisea and Nottingham. the hand- some daughter of Anthony Drexel, Mrs. Charles A. Munn, who with her hus- band and family now call Paris their permanent home, and Mrs. Paul Denckla Mills of London, Mrs. Rad- cliffe Christon of Sandy Run, Oreland, Pa., mother of Miss Devereux, was, before her first marriage, Miss Frances Paul Drexel Fell, and her kindred are among the socially prominent | in many cities of this continent and of Europe, sent her daughter to Foxcroft School, in Virginia, and in- variably brought her to Washington for the holidays. Miss Devereux's debut occurred October 27 at the home of her | grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Alexander van Rensselaer, at Camp Hill Hall, at Fort Washington, and was an Autumn feast of rich and varied attraction. Of a bookish turn, Miss Devereux plans to spend part of the Winter in Paris, where she has previously studied literature and art, and she will be the guest of Mrs. Charles A. Munn in her beautiful new home at Suresnes, on the Seine. Mr. Munn, who was reared in Washing- ton, is now deep in the whippet-racing problems of England and the continent. Marriage Licenses. Marriage licenses have been issued to the llowing. fol . Victer 'S. Mersch, 32. and Catherine C. Carr. 27. Rev. P. C. Gavan. Bernard Brown, 32, and Anna Paige. 28, | Rev. J. T, Harvey. Roger & Warner. 27. and Bernice M. Crump, 26. both of Richmond, Va.; Rev. H_W. Tolson. ‘olson. Homer O. Mains, 34, this city, and Jose- phine E. Curran, a0, Charleston. W. Va.: . a 28, and T." Vincent, Fitzgerald Matthew Ross. Katherine E. Mun- dell. 30, Rev. H. M. Hennig. William R. Wright, 21, and Ellen E. Smith, 18, both of Berwyn, Md.: Rev. Wililam M. Hoffman. Norman R. Stuart. 22. and Rearl J. Best, 20. both of Richmond, Va.; Rev. J. S. Mont- gomers. Beniamin Mevers, 28, Bridgeport. Conn., and Mary A. Steeb. 23, Norwalk. Conn. Charles E. Kendall, 34. and Mildred_G. Travers. 23." both of Baliimore, Md.. Rev. Henry W."Tolson. Allen, L Taslor. 22. and Agnes L. 19. bofh of Richmond, Va.. Rev. ce, O. Caf. 40, this city. and Julta fol, 22." Norwich,' Conn.i. Rev.' N.'M W._Hayden. 27, and' Dorothy R. | 18, Rev. David L. Snvder. Farmer, H M seeking civil service positions in other departments e e " Community Dinners | i Served in M ¥ The Highlands Cafe Connecticut at California Street Avenue t Roast Phila. Capon or Roast Lo: nd Duck or Roast Meats All Fresh Vegetables Delicious Salads Ice Creams or Homemade Desserts or Fruits in Season Infinit is the staff of the university in the dining hall Entertains Friends a party on Saturday afternoon, in honor decorations were in pink and each little doll's bed and doll completely dressed Mary Sterling. Mollie Schwartz, Nancy Shantz, Mary Ellen Carter, Billee Ruble, Naval officers of Great Britain are ||| e Furs the winner of the pumpkin game. The | parlor was artistically decorated in | orange and black, with many Halloween | favors. | Later the little folks were served re- freshments, the table decorations car- ried out in everything suggestive of the season. The young guests were Betty Smith, Anna Louise Heiser, Marie Her- bert, Elanor and Mary Wheeler, Adele | Clark, Frederick Wheeler, jr., and Jack Lindsay, jr. i L0 LSRR Card Party and Sale Will Aid Home for Children| Mrs. Wendell Phillips Stafford, px-esi-l dent of the Plerce Guild, auxillary to | the Washington Home for Children. | announces the annual card party and sale of choice Christmas gifts and homemade candies the afternoon of Wednesday, December 5. at Wardman Park Hotel. In view of the interest being taken in the building of the new home near the intersection of Wiscon- | sin avenue and River road, the Guild hopes to make this the most successful benefit ever given for this very appeal- ing charity. Membrersr ;:f .College : Faculty Honored Members of the faculty of the Col- | lege of Home Economics of the Univer- sity of Maryland gave a tea for the wives of the members of the faculty and at College Park last Thursday. Mr. Raymond Allen Pearson, wife of the president of the university; Miss M. Marje Mount, dean of the College of Home Economics; Mrs. Frieda McFar- land, Miss Edna McNaughton, Mrs. Eleanor L. Murphy and Mrs. Mark F. Welsh were the hostesses. On Her Seventh Birthday Miss Sylvia Wells, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Glenn Wells of Cleve- land Park, entertained 12 little girls at of her seventh birthday. The table girl made her own souvenir—a little and decorated. Among the guests were Betty Ann Mertz, Janet Thompson, June Wells, Ruth Lewis and Barbara Pringer. SN NGO R e Dinner Given for Club. A dinner for the benefit of the Lional base ball club was given Friday night at the First Brethern Church. Those contributing to the entertainment were Mr. Jetts, Duncan Thomson, M. Stuart, Grace Stanley Stevens and Mr. Koerner. 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