Evening Star Newspaper, April 14, 1929, Page 68

a8 - Tales of Well Known Folk ! In Social and Official Life Mrs. Hoover, First Lady, Appears Freely Public Without Official Guards and Manades Own Automobile. BY MARGARET B. DOWNING. Mrs. Hoover's appearance on Wash- ington’s streets, walking with her sister or niece, Mrs. Jean Large and Miss Ja- net Large, or with friends, without the attendance of Secret Service guards, and drinving of her own car minus chauffeur proves conclusively that this First Lady is convinced that the troublous years following the World War are ended and that times are safe even for a Presi- dent's wife. Mrs. Harding and Mrs. Coolidge were the only presidential ladies who had to submit to the judg- ment of the Nation, which required that they be safeguarded to a degree which seemingly encroached on their personal liberty. But prior to 1920 First Ladies had no restrictions placed on their go- ings and comings. Scores remember Mrs. Taft shopping alone in her favor- ite haunts, even going to her old-time dealers in the Center Market, dropping in quite unannounced on her friends and joining morning parties in homes she had frequented in her less exalted days. Mrs. Roosevelt, as the President’s wife, followed the same routine as dur- ing her former residences in Washing- ton as the wife of the Assistant Secre- tary of Navy. As she was a famous knit- ter and liked to match her own wools, early morning shoppers often encoun- tered her. No doubt the same will be true of Mrs. Hoover. who declines to have her personal liberty invaded and really cannot place such an interpreta- tion of her high obligations as was deemed necessary when the world was In‘such disorder 10 years ago. * ok ok X Mr. B. M. Dow, who in the absence of an Australian high commissioner, is officially in charge of all that relates to affairs in the vast commonwealth of the South Seas, finds much of his time taken up by the inquiries of the citizens | of this republic regarding the progress | on Canberra, the splendid new capital | which is being built after the same ideal | which prevailed when Washington was planned. On May 18, 1927, Canberra | was formally dedicated, with the Duke | of York, then on tour with his charm- ing wife, representing King George. It required 10 years for Washington to emerge from its tobacco plantations and bogs into a semblance of a city, but Australia hopes to have her capital in readiness early in 1933. But performing such a task is vastly less labor than it was in 1791, when President Washing- fon’s commissioners set about their her- culean task. Australia’s eapitol, a vast domed building, is like that in Washing- ton to grace a lofty hill and it will mark the center of the 12 miles square de- wpted to urban purposes. But Canberra will rise in the middle of 2 marvelous park. 60 miles in area, and not one inch is to be given over to industrial pur- poses. Only enough business will be permitted as will be necessary to main- tain a large city. * * * Mme. Ferdinand Foch, one of the world’s most pathetic figures, will after all necessary affairs are settled return to. her native Brittany and to the se-| cluded estate, Trefeunteuniere, where the | generalissimo spent his most peaceful | days after 1920. The widow of the | great warrior was Mlle. Julie Bienvenue | of St. Brieuc, and like all Bretons she | loved the wild rugged coast so intensely | that she felt exiled anywhere else. | When fortune smiled and the future commander of the mightiest army ever | collected felt that he could afford such | a luxury, the old stone house and 10| acres sugrounding it were purchased | and all his lesiure time was passed there | both before and after the catastrophe | of 1914. The marshal and his wife | loved the solitude of this Breton coast and nearly all vacations there were | spent in training the native evergreens into a hedge of density so that no in- had to be provided with a guide. Gen. Pershing has given an amusing descrip- | tion of his first visit to Trefeunteuniere. He said that all his previous experi- ence on Western and Indian frontiers availed him nothing in efforts to locate the marshal’s dwelling. Just beyond evergreen maze is the picturesque of Plonjean, with its church 30 n painted by artists. Ferdinand ;o:lh;,‘ pew will be marked with a brass et. * x x x Mr. Larz Andérson. who, with: Mrs. Anderson, has been this Spring & hos- pitable member of the resident social world, acknowledges to the hobby of collecting orchids. A gorgeous array of these aristocratic blossoms may found in the glasshouses at Weld. in Brookline, Mass., and Mr. Anderson goes to much_ trouble to secure a new variety or a different shading of older kinds. ~Orchid cultivating, so widely the fad of emirent men and women in | ing the distinguished invalid. * k kX Great Britain, has many advocates in this country. While those at Weld take the lead of such growths about Boston, Mr. Ernest B. Dane, also of Brookline, is a close second and devotes much time to new and rare orchids. Mr. Joseph widener is in the lead of all in or about Philadelphia, but there are many famous growers on Long Island, who can dispatch a corsage bouquet to a visiting friend or any number of such with as great ease as they can cut a bouquet of roses or arrange a box of violets and mignonette. Mrs. Robert Bacon had a wild orchid preserve in her former home in Westbury, which the present owners are caring for most successfully. Governmental hothouses in Washington have not taken up the raising of orchids, but perhaps the gardeners will, since Mrs. Hoover de- lights in certain kinds found wild in California. 5 * * kX ‘The late Ambassador to France, Mr. Myron T. Herrick, so universally la- mented in his own land and in France, to which he had proved so wise a coun- selor and friend, will be especially re- gretted during the next six weeks, the ard of American visitors to Spain hat planned running up to Paris, Because of his serious illness last Win- | ter, Mr. Herrick entertained rarely and only in the most informal way ‘during | the late Winter and the Lenten season, but he had planned a number of bril- liant post-Easter fetes. During the ab- sence of Mr. and Mrs. Parmelee Herrick the Ambassador often invited Mme. Paul Patenotre to preside over his amenities. She is the widow of the first Ambassador accredited to Washington in 1893 and is one of the most impor- tant members of the American colony living permanently in Paris. Though she has rarely visited her home in Philadelphia or the Summer home, Ken , which her father, the elder James Elverson, maintained in Massa- chusetts avenue extended, Mme. Pate- notre takes ar abiding interest in her country people and has always been on f intimacy with the personnel Catlin of St. Louls, assi Ambassador in his hospitable duties. * kK X ‘Mr. Edward Bok's bird sanctuary near Miami, Fla., which gave such unique to two Chief Executives and , one acting and one elect, many lesser efforts at their period eral Hospital, a refuge for all feathered tribes that select the Federal Territory for mesting purpose deep woods Carberry placed al then known for the warblers. ! unusual precautions against the bird ; enemies—cats, hawks, every variety of tory creature, with the result that ing Spring, Summer and early Autumn resounded with melody. Many of the birds remain and it was noted that the glorious oriole once so abundant about Washington remained in the hospital grounds long after they had fled against the advance of limits. of the Izaak Walton League of America, will no doubt get a sympathetic ear from President Hoover in the crusade he has startéd against the pollution of water which not only is destroying fish but proving serious to human life. Mr. Ward fired the opening gun in his battle for pure water in a lengthy scientifically handled article in Amer- ican Game, and he recites the efforts made by various States—New York, Il- linois and many of the States of the | Middle West—to protect their waters from waste and from extraneous drain- ing. It will be remembered that former President. Coolidge showed the keenest interest in the national conference of “Outdoor Recreation.” took up its aims and provisions with his cabinet, and the Secretary of Com- merce, himself immediately and, in fact, had done this in a private way before the presidential sanction urged more ac- tive measures. tention to the fact that the Izaak Wal- ton League has 2500 local chapters established from Maine to California and between the Canadian and the Mexican borders, and that its hundreds of thousands of members are linked in a sirong union both as to energy and funds, locally and nationally, to secure the proper legislation to prevent further pollution of all water, fishing | | streams especially. *i% alone in the mellow brick mansion which he built 25 years ago in the| Lincoln Park section of Chicago when | fortune had smiled most beneficently. | In this former exclusive region of the Lake City the Crane domicile is the sole reminder of its olden prestige, for at the other end of the park the Harold F. McCormick mansion stands, and tenantless, and since both Mr. | McCormick and his wife, the singer, || Ganna Walska, preference for another abode, the “for sale” sign has at last appeared. Miss | Florence Crane, who made her debut last Winter, is so devoted to her home that unless her affection wanes, Crane will ignore office buildings and | skyscrapers and continue to reside ; there during the Winter. daughter, Frances Crane, who married | M. Jan Masaryk some months ago, is | just as much’ attached to the home, | where her courtship and marriage to | the son of the intrepid President of ! Czechoslovakia was staged. across the broad Lake Shore Drive | where the Cranes live is a mnmmoth‘ apartment house, which covers the site of the hospitable Franklin MacVeagh mansion, where so many Washingto- | nians have been entertainer. weil House at Gognor, is just beyond | the picturesque village of Aldwick, on | the south coast of West Sessex and in | the vicinity of England's most famed | seaside resorts, Brighton, Portsmouth, | Littlehampton and Bournemouth. The | truders could find their way into the mansion, which is owned by Sir Arthur | private grounds and expected friends |de Clos, is a substantial three-storied | house facing the channel about 200 yards distant, and the front is almost wholly covered by windows, to give full ! benefit of the southern and western sun. Very plain and unadorned is the lawn which leads to the porticoed en- trance, limited as to room appears this abode of Britain's King that those retreats in which former President and Mrs. Coolidge Hoover recently found rest and recre ation are palatial in comparison. There are many larger and more imposing mansions which could have been se- lected for the invulid King, but Craig- weil Hall answered all requirements of quiet, seclusion and simplicity which be | would prove more restful. flagged walk bordered by dwarf Japa- nese maples and low growing barberry make a gay streak of color against the emerald well trimmed grass, and at the end of the enclosure, a glory of flower- National Washington Memorial Church, in the confines of the Valley Forge Memorial Park, owned by the State of Pennsylvania, and the commissioners and architects appointed by the Legis- lature are en; chroniclers d be as the first bat- tle of this famous section. Burk sternly opposes the transforming of the sacred ground on which Gen. Washington’s ragged soldiers were en- camped during the rigorous Winter of 1777-78 into an amusement park, and leads a cohort of more thoughtful cit- izens, who would like to see the farm made into a valhalla surrounding the $10,000,000 memorial church which will be designed after the illustrious West- minster Abbey of London, and besides honoring - Washington and the brave soldiers of his Army will furnish a place of burial for all of this Republic’s mighty dead. Bishop Thomas J. Gar- land, Episcopal under whose jurisdiction the Rev. Mr. Burk is, does not support the rector, and accords the State the privilege to (;gnl:l‘l’ct '\fllley hl;‘o}x;le lMemorhl Park y way whic] leases the - Jority of its citizens. T ore. sees hostility to the idea of making a national monument like Westminster Abbey any place except in the Capital of the United States, and as he is about to erect a fine new cathedral at Rox- borough, the entire body of Episco- palians favor having only a chapel at Valley Forge to fit into the plans of he park commissioners and not a vast and expensive national shrine. Girls' Friendly Society National Center of the Girls’ mflecy this :fllemonnxwm be Miss Clara rse, Miss Irent ling Miss Ethel Grimes. e o —_— e n the es.” In the | of the area which still in the hospital grounds, Capt. 1l the allurements He took bad boys—and Carberry estate dur- ‘Washington’s urban * ok ok X Mr. Henry Baldwin Ward, president The Executive now the President, concerned Mr. Ward_calls _at- * *x Mr. Richard T. 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