Evening Star Newspaper, January 20, 1929, Page 45

Tales of Well Known Folk | In Social and Official Life| Vl'cc President Dawcs. Leading in Movement for‘ Chicago Centennial Celebration, Arouses Interest of Entire Country. BY MARGARET B. DOWNING. The Vice President, Gen. Charles Gates Dawes, becomes irresistibly con- vincing when' he states the reasons that the vast industrial and sports exposi- tion which Chicago proposes to launch to commemorate the 100th anniversary | of her appearance on the map of Amer- | ican municipalities will reach a lofty point of success in the summary of such | projects on this continent. Public opin- don is voiced in every section of the | country that the era of expositions has passed and that no matter what the occasion nor the attractions brought to & focus in such an activity, it is fore- doomed to failure. Certainly the sad fate which befell Philadelphia in the celebration of the Sesquicentennial would seem to bear ouf such a pessi- mistic viewpoint. But Chicagoans re- fuse to see this at all and go joyfully on their way transforming a delta in the river into a lake of considerable di- mensions, proposing to create an Ameri- can Lido, with all joys of bathing dur- ing the heat of the Summer in a pic- turesque environment hitherto unknown in this country. But the vast sport stadium now in course of erection, and which is to present superevents through- out the continuation of the exposition, is the chief dependence of the promot- ers to make the event financially sound and safe. Mr. Bemas Dawes is presi- dent of the proposed celebration of Chi- cago's hundred years, and all the Dawes family are enthusiastically supporting the event. * ok % X All that pertains to Quaker affilia- #on in Washington has assumed vast fmportance, and for the moment there | are two local groups in resident so- clety which claim the Friends' School as at least a partial alma mater who are now much in the limelight. One is the more mature group that had the honor of rubbing elbows with Col. Lindbergh when his father was in the House and the other is composed of what is this year the senior class at the Friends and which claims that dainty littie maiden who may be Empress of Japan as close friend and classmate. A sizeable number of “Lindy's” class- mates at the Friends' School remain in the Capital. One is the charming lady ‘who presides over the amenities at the navy yard, the wife of the commandant, Admiral Charles Edward Riggs, who as Miss Louise Benton Pugh was in_the class with the renowned flyer. Mrs, Riggs hopes the time may arrive when the hero of the solo flight to Paris will +resist his hostility to social intercourse sufficiently to attend a class reunion in the Capital. All #he young students who knew Nttle Setsu Matsudaira cherish the hope of journeylng to Tokio and accepting her often-repeated proffers of hospital- ity. Her intimates in the Friends' School received an artistic Christmas card bearing the usual greeting and showing & scene of land and sea upon which the bride of Prince Chichibu gazes daily. ‘These cards, although having the im- perial seal stamped on the fly leaf and on the envelope, are signed only “Setsu,” the diminutive of her full name, Setsuko, by which she was known to her associates in Washington. * k% * That the banking house of Morgan has recently taken into full partner- ship four young men who represent the second or third generations of the founders of this famous establishment has led to many critical essays In British newspapers and reviews about the predisposition of young men in the United States to seek financial gain rather than to serve their country in holding public office. It is pointed out that young aristocrats in England at once, on attaining their majority, seek a place in the Commons and expend without murmur all their time and in- come in campaigning. Viscount Kneb- worth, heir of the Earl of Lytton, is on the Conservative ticket for a London borough, and Viscount Castle- reagh, only son of the Marquess of Lon- donderry, iz trying for a seat on the other side of the British capital long identified with his family. Viscount Knebworth has large possessions in the Anglo-Indian Co. of London, his father, the present earl, having been for years British governor general at Bengal. ‘This candidate for the Commons is the great-grandson of that Lord Lytton, once British Minister to Washington, who later attained fame as a dramatist and novelist. Lady Londonderry, moth- er of the Viscount Castlereagh, is one of the great political hostesses of Lon- don, and her reception at the splendid home of the earl marks the opening of each parliamentary session. 9k M. Ramses Chaffey, first secretary of the Egyptian legation, has been recalled to Cairo and will soon be assigned to another post. M. Chaffey was among the much sought diplomats on all va- rieties of social occasions. He was a graceful, proficlent danceg, had learned all the intricacies of the new modes, and was always ready to aid those not 80 accomplished. He was perhaps the most_assiduous dancer among the sev- eral Mohammedan nations having dip- lomatic establishments. He also is a linguist and speaks English with the distinguished accent of those bred in accepted British universities, and be- fore Egypt took her place among the vereign nations he had been a pro- lessor of literature and language in English college in Cairo. Mme. Chaf- fey mever came to this country, and the @ignified lady who bore that name was is mother. The elder Mme. Chaffey longed to the old school in Egypt and she never became entirely reconciled to the sweeping changes in the family ahd the religious life among her country peo- ple. She was highly educated and spent most_of her time in Washington art gllefles and libraries, not indeed cling- g to the harem vell, but always with ber face covered and in the severest clothing, with a loose, enveloping cape concealing her entire figure. The re- tiring first secretary of the Egyptian legation came of a family well known in modern letters and critical review in the Nile country. * ok ox The Minister from Costa Rica, Senor Manuel Castra Quesada, has, to the regret of admirers of the artistic, given up the legation maintained for many years on Nineteenth street, and with his staff is spending the Winter in ‘Wardman Park Hotel. Senor Castro is a bachelor and the trials of conduct- ing an establishment without a femi- nine head appalled him. His mother, who is an influential social leader in San Jose, decided not to come to Washington this Winter, but hopes are held out for a visit in the Spring. The Minister has not entirely renounced a permanent legation for his country, which will be furnished in native style and with that splendid mahogany for which Costa Rica is renowned. The British frequently buy of these repub- lics wood for their artistic interiors, and the magnificent stairway and interior finish of the British embassy about to be demolished came from Costa Rica. But most of the wood now goes into do- mestic furniture and for ecclesiastical purposes, and San Jose has many manufacturing plants where, according to expert opinien, the most beautiful and artistic household equipment made in the New World is placed upon the orerket, L Mrs. Henry Howard of Newport, R. I., who has been among the important re- | useful small volume called “Seaman’s | Handbook for Shore Leave.” It might be described as an epitome of all the travel books ever penned, but dealing exclusively with that most important theme of where to eat and sleep and how much these comforts will cost. In every place of the world where seaman | or traveler could possibly penetrate Mrs, | Howard has listed in alphabetical order as to locations the most likely hotels and rest houses, giving the American | equivalent of the various ways of counting the pennies in alien lands. | Mrs. Howard has the zeal of an apostle | for the cause which she has sponsored, i and she has the ability to inspire an enthusiasm in all who hear her appeals. A local branch of the American Mer- chant Marine Library Association is about to be formed, with Mrs. Gibson | Fahnestock as chairman. Mrs. Howard |is the wife of Mr. Henry Howard of Newport and she was before her mar- riage, in 1896, Miss Alice Sturdevant of that city. * ok ok % Mr. Andrew Mellon, Secretary of the Treasury, although one of the most reserved and undemonstrative public men Washington has known in a half century, is nevertheless one of the city’s favorite adopted citizens, and vast pride is felt in the fact that he has brought here one of the rarest private collec- tions of paintings to be found in this country. Indeed, #s the great owners of canvasses in Great Britain and on |the European Continent have been | compelled to part with their treasures | through financial stress, Mr. Mellon's | group is deemed by some as unique, in | that every canvas is the masterpiece of its class. It is, however, only by ex- amining catalogues that his purchases may be traced, for he has never issued a catalogue of his own, although one exists, but merely for the enlighten- ment of certain agents who hold com- missions from the Secretary to obtain certain canvases if they are placed in the market. Visitors to Mr. Mellon's apartment on Massachusetts avenue have noted the care with which every unit has been hung, portraits exclu- sively in the dining room, landscapes in the great living room with an occa- sional romantic picture interspersed, while sylvan scemes of light delicate beauty enliven the corridors and wait- ing rooms and French portraits, and a few historic scenes may be glimpsed in the private portions of the suite. Every | canvas is a thing of beauty, something which can be lived with comfortably and with profit. Nothing distressing, no matter how renowned the artist may be, has ever been purchased for Mr. Mellon. * P Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt, sr., is presi- | dent of the Riis settlement house, the oldest establishment of this kind in all New York City and located in the heart of the lower East Side. She, therefore, departed from her rule not to visit the big city during the stressful days of Winter for mere entertainment in order to appear at the benefit performance given for the Riis house by the brilliant British company acting in the vivacious musical comedy, 'his Year of Grace,” and this the night before she sailed for Europe. The late Jacob A. Riis, an in- timate friend of President Roosevelt, often was entertained in the White House and he was profoundly in- terested in the local settlements, Friendship and Noel Houses, Mr. did not follow any special model either fu England, where such aids to the poor and needy anteceded those generally es- tablished here to elsewhere, but he took hold of the fleld personally and added special features to his New York ven- ture as occasion suggested. Riis House at the present time needs a thorough renovation and to accomplish this Mr. Anthony J. Drexel Biddle, jr., who is chairman of its house committee, has devised several benefits, the first of which was “The Year of Grace,” at the Selwyn Theater. Mrs. Roosevelt enter- tained a large company of relatives and old friends in the several boxes which she had secured, and Mrs. Kermit Roosevelt had a group of younger friends, among these Mrs. Charles H. Sabin, the former Pauline Morton. * ok ok % Since the President and Mrs. Cool- idge may be in any of the motor cars which bear the tag numbers from 100 to 110, only the experienced eye of the Washingtonian can detect by the va- riety of secret service men which marks the presence of the Chief Mag- istrate as distinct from that of the members of his family. But only on ceremonial occasion does the Chief Magistrate use a motor car, his jaunts for pleasure being walking affairs and at a good brisk pace at that, Mrs. Coolidge is a good walker also, but she cannot keep up with her husband and so she rarely tries. Those who knew the President in his early days in Washington—those immediately suc- ceeding his coming in March, 1921— will recall that he and Mrs. Coolidge made all their pilgrimages afoot to the river front when the weather was mild, to the various statues throughout the city, and to the beauty spots in the various parks. An inestimable treasure is the snapshots pasted in a large book, which were taken in these comparatively carefree days. Mrs. Coolidge always en- joyed photography and she used to de- velop her negatives until she came to Washington. There are countless rolls safely tucked away to be developed and pasted in books in the leisure days after March, 1929. ‘These include journeys as far back as the trip to Cuba, and, of course, the many snaps of the recent journeys to Virginia and Georgia and of the Autumn strolls in Washington after the return from Brule River, Wis. Rebel Chief Ordered Freed. GUAYAQUIL, Ecuador, January 19 () —Immediate release from prison of Julio Cesar Rivas, self-styled general of the Nicaraguan rebels, has been ordered by the authorities. He was also given permission to remain in the ccgntry. Rivas was arrested early tl¥s week because the authorities claimed he was too communistic in his lectures before workers’ circles. | l 1 | And Clear Your Skin Anointgently with Cuticura Ointment. After five minutes bathe with Cuticura Soap and hot water and continue bath- ing for some minutes. Then keep your skin clear by mak- ing Cuticura Soap your every- day toilet Soap assisted, as required, by touches of Cuti- cura Ointment to soothe and THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, | | MRS. WALTER J Before her marriage yesterday morning Eleanor Mills, and is the daughter of UT GEORGETOWN way there is an old-fashioned business use with an age-blackened chimney at one end of its peaked roof. One afternoon, a blackbird hopped around the top of the chimney to its own whistling— caw, caw, caw! This was nothing new, understand, for the same bird has been | hopping around that chimney and calling his same cry throughout the decades of one wqman's life, any- How —don't let’s say how many. For this one time, however, a man on the street heard the call above the clash of traffic, and as he looked upward, a passing man paused to in- quire fraternally: “Pet of yours got away?” And the man who had been look- ing upward lowered his eyes to the face of the other man. “What in thunder do you suppose a farmer wants with a crow except to shoot him? That's all he’s good for.” And then it was that the woman who chanced to be close by chipped in with her own little comment— “Down at my uncle’s farm they used to be plagued to death at planting time with the darn things perched around on fence rails to watch every hill that is planted and every corn seed that is dropped in—“One for to grow and one for the cro “The farmer man chuckled with a heartiness that took out the two lines that the crow had brought between his eyebrows. “And the crow never misses his share, either. What do you suppose this rascai means by loafing up here in the city where there’s nothing to steal—unless he calls this his town residence in Winter?” The man took a little turn in the confab: “Why, we've got nearly 50,000 crows over in the rookery at Arlington. There isn’t an old-timer in the District who hasn’t associations connected with our crows. You can time a clock by them any day in the year. Every morning in the early gray they fly down the Poto- mac to their feeding grounds—and—-" | “That’s where they get me, drat ‘em!” “Live along the Eastern Shore?” “No, sir. I'm from Charles County, God bless her. “So am 1,” bragged the woman. Plain souls can afford to be familiar. The farmer man beamed a smile of Summer sunshine at the woman—who, statistically considered, was really noth- ing to look at—— “How long you folks been living down there?” OSEPH REILLY, in St. Matthews Church. she was Miss Mr. and Mrs. Harrington Mills. Mr. Reilly is the son of Mrs. Thomas Reilly and the late Mr. Reilly of New York. —Bachrach Photo. AROUND THE CITY BY NANNIE LANCASTER. land in one of those boats. Yes, sir! They helped to make the laws of the old State and died on land and sea in their defense.” And as they gave their names—both of them identified with the old life of the county—the crow on the chimney top was forgotten—though he still con- tinued to call out— Caw, caw, caw. R K AVERAGE New Year calendars given by business houses to their patrons show black-numbered figures large enough to be seen across a room—with red symbols to mark historic events associated with the day. But—there are others: One coal magnate of the Southeast selected for his calendar this year a hark-back to the decorative Japanese scroll, with a gay scene of pink sky, blue stream and silver gray foliage, all Jjumbled together with such blithesome disregard of nature, as is, that onc woman customer who had received three of the pink-heaven style had come bufik to ask for one with a sky of lemon yellow. In the.coal office a big man was buying a ton of coal, and as he took from his pocket the money to pay for it he said to the clerk, with a confabby little smile that included the woman in search of a yellow sky: “I've just lost $20——" ending his in- ffif:nltlon with a grin that had a sigh n it. “That's bad,” sympathized the cal- endar lady, whose voice was as cheer- fully fresh as a stream in Summer time. “Is there no hope of finding it?" The loser seemed cheerfully anxious to broadcast his tragedy. 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One of the feilows came up to me, as I hap- pened to be standing near the anneal- ing_machine, to pay for his share, and as I took a $20 bill from my pay en- velope the machine whirred the money from my hands and before it could be rescued was cindered into a pinch of gray dust.” As the woman's knowledge of what an annealing machine might be was limited to the man in Mort d’Arthur who was “housled and aneled and had all that a Christian man ought to have,” she kept quiet—which is always a wise thing for ignorance to do. But by that time it didn't matter, anyhow, | for the man’s little grin had come back with the sigh left out: “T only lost $10, anyhow, for the boys lns](:ted on chipping in for the other half." All of which would be nothing to tell about, of course, except that it shows how regulation coffee may be trans- figured into the cup of kindness of “Auld Lang Syne” vintage—a cup that had for its strength and aroma the clubby friendliness of a bunch of good fellows for a comrade who had lost out, and you know—I know—everybody knows that friendliness is a most won- derful thing! As for the woman who was in search of a lemon yellow sky, she might pos- sibly—just possibly—have made another story. As Hudibras said before Kip- ling and, doubtless, Adam, first of all. * ok ok K | ONE customer in a millinery shop was hard to please. A polite clerk had taken nearly every pattern shape from its stand, and finally held up for in- spection the new bell model with a pompon at the left brim. “I don't want a hat that wears a| bustie on the side. I don’t mind the have something clerk mentioned that older women than the customer wore these hats, but the compliment failed to work. “Yes, I've seen them. That is the main reason I wouldn't be caught in one. I'm no grotesque to be going around in bobbed skirts, specs and gray ‘ hair.” “How do you like this? It's the new aviation cap, with ecar flaps and ¢hin bands. They are all the rage.” “Uh, huh; and if mv husband was to see me in one he v * be in a rage, too. For goodmess s. , what do you call that one?” ‘The clerk had presented a model that wasn't close-fitting, exactly, hav- ing the historic pufly crown and ripple of velvet for a brim—all of plum color, with a cut-steel buckle near the front. This is the Henry VIII—something | entirely new—from Englan “I see. But if that is the eighth I pity the other seven. Haven't you got any sort of a hat suitable for a mid- dle-aged woman who doesn't want to go around looking silly in something too young for her and who isn't old enough to be her own granny?” And it seems as if, in case there be | such a mode in existence, milliners know ! it not—which shows the folly of grow- | ing old to wear youthful style—and yet: ‘We do everything on earth that we can to keep from dying young! JANUARY 20, 1929—PART 3. completing arrangements for the “D 7 FEVERISH PACIFIC ISLE VOLCANO PUTS ON SHOW 4,000 Eruptions in 24 Hours by Krakatao Bare Rapid Increase of Its Activities. By the Associated Press. BATAVIA, Java, January 19.—Four thousand eruptions during the past 24 hours are reported to have takeh place on the famous island volcano Krakatao, which is showing a rapid increase in its renewed activities. ‘Witnesses report that burning mate- rial has been hurled several thousand feet high, with vapor clouds going still higher, affording an imposing spectacle, especially at night, when flames from the crater add to the impressive scene. Unceasing tremors are felt on the sea. No loss of life or damage has been reported thus far from the volcanic ae- tivities on isolated Krakatao, which al- ready have lasted many months. MIAMI PLANS ELABORATE WELCOME FOR HOOVER MISS SIBYL BAKER Of the Community Drama Guild, who is assisting the steering committee fin | 23-24 in the new McKinley Auditorium. over Road,” to be presented January | —Harris-Ewing Photo. | sing a mogul named Bob. And the one who showed her knee joints was com- plaining to the elder, who was old enough to be letting her hair grow long again: “Bob says we look like freaks going around with our knees bobbed. He says men are sick of the sight of us. And what do you think, Mam, he says he is ashamed to be caught on the street with me and wants me to lengthen my ;smm and wear shoes in Winter. Makes me so mad.” ‘The other pooh-poohed the idea: “Don’t listen at him! Your hus- band’s a man, and they are all alike. If Bob was to come across you in a long dress and shoes, the first’thing he would ask would be why in blazes you_couldn't look like other women? As I used to tell Fred before I trained him down: I know ’'em from A to Izzard and they are all alike, every man-jack of them——" And an overhearing spinster in the rear whose life-view of man has been as a Kohinoor in a case—some other woman's case—pondered to herself in * ok ok ¥ MA N is a mystery this side of the | wedding ring. 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MEXICO CITY, January 19 (P).— Archbishop Miguel De La Mora of San {Luis Potosi. in a statement printed in {the newspaper El Universal today de- |nied a story carried by the paper say- |ing that Bishop Velasco of Colima had | | ment. | The statement said that Bishop Ve-| |lasco had merely been in hiding and that negotiations to obtain permission for the bishop to return to his home were being carried on by a priest named Santana. Will Aid Fog Tests. NEW YORK, January 19 (#).—The Daniel Guggenheim Fund for the Pro- | motion of Aeronautics announced yes- terday the appointment of Prof. Wil- liam Brown of Massachusetts Institute of Technology as technical assistant to Lieut. James H. Doolittle in the fog- |Says Bishop Velasco Not in Field | been in the fleld against the govern- | | Aerial Parade and Displays by States Included in Reception Program Features, By the Associated Press. MIAMI, Fla.,, January 19.—Members of the reception committee which will welcome Herbert Hoover to Miami Tues- day, were plunged today into final consideration of details attending the eloborate reception planned for the President-elect. They expected to com- plete the schedule tonight. An aerial parade, a parade of yachts, a “stationery” parade of displays by States and Florida cities and counties, are on the program of welcome. Retired Rail Official Dies. MONTREAL, Quebec, January 19 (#). —J. E. Dalrymple, formerly vice presi- ent in charge of traffic of the Cana- dian National Railw: night. He was 59 years old and retired from the railway service December 31, 926. [ | 1 Community Dinners SERVED IN The Highlands Cafe Connecticul nue at California Street Let us do your enter- taining for you. 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