The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1906-08-11

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George AIDE has written to friends
that he expects to be in Paris again in
a short time.
AS Miss Taggart of Indianapolis,
daughter Of Thomas Taggart. chair
man of the Democratic national COM
mittee, will be in Paris to spend the
summer with Mr.. and Mrs. Booth
Harrington, Dame Rumor is = again
busy declaring that AIDE is betrothed
to Miss Taggart. The two, have seen a
great deal of one another in the last
year, and last winter the report was
current in Rome that AIDE expected to
marry the daughter of the genial
Tom" Taggart.
The two Taggart girls went to Eu-
rope last october with the Tarking-
tons, and spent the winter with them
at the villa in Capri of the artist We'd
ded, going later with them to Rome
to be with Mrs. Harrington when her
first baby was born
All went to Paris in the spring to
meet George AIDE, who had been with
them in Capri and in Rome, and AIDES
devotion to Lucy Taggart was the talk
of the American colony They were
several weeks in Paris together, and
then AIDE had to go home. out in In
diana, in his fathers bank at Kent
land, he had a surplus of SCI OO0 which
had accumulated during his absence in
Europe, and he wanted to exchange it
for few more Indiana farms. But he
told his friends in Paris ne would be
back soon. Lucy Taggart and her sis
ter meanwhile took a trip to London
in the height of the season, and then
announced their plan to return to Par
is.
The Booth Tarkingtons have taken
big villa outside of Paris, near st. Ger
main, where they live in style, with
eight servants and a chauffeur to run
their big automobile, and they have
surrounded themselves with a crowd
of interesting dramat. and literary
people. AS soon as one house party
breaks up another one has begun, and
Harrington is earning in Paris the rep
utation he made in Rome of the Am
erican prince" given to him by an TIA
liam girl when he took a pearl necklace
from his wife's neck and put it on the
Lucy Taggart and Mrs. Booth Tark-
ington have been friends since they
wore short dresses and "pigtails" down
their backs. Mrs. Harrington was
Louise Fletcher, daughter of Stoughton
Fletcher, the Indianapolis banker, and
a member of one of the oldest families
in the West. The Tagghrts have four
daughters, Lucy being the eldest and
the most talented. She draws very
well, and last winter designed a book
cover for one of the magazines. She
is tall and slender, with very fair
complexion and pretty brown hair,
thoroughly and highly accomplished
and well educated.
Booth Harrington, after being vigor-
ously courted by some of the most
beautiful and experienced women in
New York, on and off the stage, went
back to his home town for a wife, and
1t would not surprise any one if George
AIDE should do the same thing. AIDE
and Harrington have been chums
since both belonged to the gay Sigma
Chi fraternity boys at Purdue univer-
sity, Lafayette, and it is well known
that nothing would please Mrs. Booth
Harrington more than to have her
chum become the wife of her hus-
bands chum.
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movement is on foot to erect in
Washington a statue to Henry Wads-
worth Longfellow. While England has
placed a bust of the great Poet in
Westminster Abbey, America has done
very little to declare the affection with
which so many Americans regard the
"Poet of the American Fireside."
New England has put into place a
few Slight memorials to Longfellow,
but there has been no opportunity foI
people of the nation at large to justify
their appreciation of his life and work
Washington is felt to be the place fol
such a testimonial The following is
the Presidents Endorsement of the
idea. II earnestly hope for the COM
plete success of your movement. In
building a monument to Longfellow
you honor one of the greatest of Am
erican poets; his writings are not only
for US, but for all mankind; we Amer
leans owe it to ourselves that there
should be a suitable memorial to him
at the national capital,-Theodore
Roosevelt"
The wife of John Burns, the Cabinet
Minister and erstwhile labor man, does
not go out very much in the higher
society of London, though she has
been to the drawng-rooms at Buck.
ingham palace several times, and oc'
casionally attends political receptions
and dinner parties.
The other day Lady Hindlip who is
doing considerable political entertain
ing, was giving a ball. She mad no
called on Mrs. Burns. and yet 1t was
her duty to invite her. So the Coun
tess wrote rather a gushing note t'
Mrs Burns, including card to tn
ball, and begging her to forgive thu
fact of her not having called, but
'Grosvenor square was so far ava!