Evening Star Newspaper, December 15, 1929, Page 65

Tales of Well Known Folk ; In Social and Official Life /st Secretary Stimson Commended for His Method in Classifying Appointments and Assiga- ments in U. S. Foreign Service. BY MARGARET B. DOWNING. The Secretary of State, Col. Stimson, s among the few executives of foreign offices who make no comparisons be- tween the importance of diplomatic as- mments. When a seassoned career man ke Mr. Sheldon Whitehouse is tran: ferred from the embassy at Madrid, where he served as counselor, to become 1 Minister to the, Central American re- Public, Guaternals, this is frankly styled a promotion, quite_as much as though he were sent to Portugal, to Copen- hagen or to any capital in the western world, or in Europe, Asia or Africa, where an envoy less than an Amba: sador is assigned. European chanceller- fes only since the present century began have regarded Washington as a mission of first importance, and that only in the political sense. Socially it was a sentence of exile. All other capitals in the Western Hemisphere, except, per- haps, Rio and Buenos Aires, are still so regarded. Those who are deeply concerned with the progress and pro promotion. Mrs. | the John Wood Stewart celebrated with pleasurable exercises thirty-sixth _anniversary founding of the National Plant, Flower and Fruit Guild, and among the first | to send congratulations was the mistress | of the White House. At the celebration Mrs. Stewart read the following weport e i il sl ik 3 ——— S SR S Ll e - perity of the budding foreign service, carefully nourished by the State De- partment, observe with some disapproval that even in the western world trans- fers to London or Paris are deemed a Brazil has twice empba- sized this by dispatching an Ambassador resident in Washington to the oourt of St. James and the republic of Chile followed the same precedent in raming the scholarly Senor Beltran Mathieu | as Ambassador to London. considers the British capital the peak of her- foreign service, as, for example. her wartime Ambassador Cartier de Marchienne, now represents King Albert there. here, * ok kX of . lpl!alx. homes for the a Belgium Baron recently the v ,THE . SUNDAY. STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., DECEMBER_ 15, 1929—PART THREE. from the local branch of this estimable association: 4On Monday mornings the Flower Guild receives its contributions. Usually the first box to arrive is from the White' House, for Mrs. Hoover is on. tne work of Mrs. Coolidge, and ‘it Is a real thrill to handle and send out the gorgeous blooms with the card of, the First Lady inclosed.” This xylld. as is well known, distributes owers, fruit and blooming plants, all contributed by its members, to hos- d, infirmaries of all clgsses, invalid children in their homes as well as institutions,.shut-ins of all ages and wherever enduring their exiie from the usual joys of life. Be- s her weekly Monday contribution, virs. Hoover, and Mrs. Arthur Hyde, prompted by her example, sent hun- dreds of the best blooms left when the chrysanthemum show was over. Col. U. S. Grant is a friend of the guild. He sends thousands of small plants which will bloom in the dead season, and these are placed in window boxes and bring hope to the pain-stricken | no longer hope. Mrs. Stewart began her philanthropic labors modestly 36 years ago, but today she has implanted her {deas in all parts of the country, and her letters on the guild birthday were almost sufficient reward for her self-sacrificing devotion. e Senator David Baird, jr, who has been appointed to the Senate to fill for a year Ambassador Waiter E. Edge's term, makes the second recent instance of father-to-son elevation in the Nation- al Legislature. The first was that of the late Representative O. J. Kvale's son to hold his seat from the district of Minne- = 314-316 7% St. It is astounding to see the fashionable 'details of ‘French designers carried out in this amazing group of coats. e R e You Will Find $69 to $89 Values Sizes for Women and Misses Wiee indeed is t}’b woman W]'lo chooses her new Winter coat from this super collec- tion of stunning models. Every coat makes lavish use of gorgeous {uf!. Holiday FROCKS 85 Clever adaptations of advance Paris creations that the smartest women the world over are wearing. You'll hardly believe it possible to buy so much French chic at so low a price. and joy for the moment to those who | sota in the House. Senator Baird is the son of that David Baird, a native of Ireland, but long promipent in Jer- sey politics, who was in 1918 appointed by Mr. Edge, then the governior, to serve out the term of the late Senator Wil- liam Hughes. Senator Baird the elder did not desire to remain in_politics, being & large operator in lumber, and so Senator Edge, on finishing his guber- natorial term, entered the upper house. Gov. Morgan Foster Larsen, the present executive of the State, honored the younger Baird after the example of Gov, Edge, and it is understood that he, too, is not keen to remain in public life, but will yield honors to former Senator Joseph Frelinghuysen. Senator Baird lives in Camden and has followed his_father into banking as well as profitable manufacture of wood pulp. PR President Latife Bekir Hanem of the Turkish Women's, Union has received such substantial ‘support among the enfranchised sisters of this republic that she recently announced what must be deémed a sweeping victory. considering Moslem thought on equal suffrage— namely, the right to vote at municipal elections. Mme. Hanem had visited this country and England and knows all the policies which have carried the women of these English-speaking nations to success, and has visited Germany and the Scandinavian lands, where woman is even niore firmly intrenched in public esteem for national leadership. One of the chief contentions of the Turkish Women's Union is that the wife be assigned certaln responsibilities in the home. For- instance, in the Jarger Moslem cities, like Constantinople, Angora and in Asia Minor, the husband Teserves the right to buy all provisions e e and to pay all the bills of household re- tainers or even teachers and special em- ployes, secretaries or lady's maids, and the wife, although taken care of very well in the matter of comforts. has no spending money at all. All the force of the union seems concentrated on this anclent Turkish custom, and the suf- frage leaders have not yet progressed to the point of demanding public office The union, however, inclines to support the observance of the Sabbath on the same day the majority of European na- tions have adopted, Sunday. Friday is the holy day of the followers of ‘the Prophet, and although President Kemal Pasha of the Turkish -republic would like to fall into line with his neighbors, he has encountered such stern opposi- tion that he fears to enforce his wishes. X e Mr. and Mrs. Sheldon Whitehouse, the former recently councilor of the United States embassy in Madrid and now minister-designate to Guatemala, have been spending the late Autumn in Paris before sailing for this side. They were among the prominent foreigners who were invited to the celebration of the feast of St. Hubert at the forest of Chantilly, and afterward took part in the stag hunt which followed. The Marquis and Marquise de Noailles enter- tained the hunters at breakfast in their historic Chateau de Champlatreux. on the edge of the woods. So many Amer~ fcans maintain stables near Chantilly and are members of the club that the ancient pageant which formed for the blessing of the pack and the hunters might have occurred near New York City or Philadelphia. Mr. Charles Munn and his handsome young daugh- ter, Miss Pauline Munn, rode to the | hound: did Mrs. Osgood Pell and her guest, the famous diva, Dame Nellie Melba. The Vicomte de la Rochefou- cauld, who_recently inherited from his mother, a Princess Radziwill, the splen- did old country home Ermonville, has turned an old stable on the grounds into a tavern, which has gained much celebrity as Hotel Jean Jacques Rous- seau. For some years the eminent Franch author lived in these woods and his body rested under his favorite tree until it was transferred to the Pantheon | in Paris, * % k X Mr. Henry Chang, recently appointed consul general at San Francisco, is well remembered in Washington, where he lived many years when his father was| first_secretary of the Chinese legation, at the time the witty and astute Wu | Ting-Fang was Minister. Perhaps this Capital ‘never witnessed a-more exotic ceremony than the wedding of the pres- ent consul general and Miss Isabel Tang, sister of Mrs. Wellington Koo, who died | in this city. Under the direction of the bridegroom’s father, M. Chang. a fer- MATTRESSES RENOVATED Best Service and Prices. 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