Evening star., 1909-06-12
MRS. FRANKLIN MacVEAGH
A WOMAN OF WIDE CULTURE

w LIE AOL j ONL
what few other women can. her home is
| the best effort of her education.
She employed all her learning in beau
tifying her home and making 1t what
every wealthy womans home should be-
not q museum of art. place to display
fine pictures and rare bronZes or objects
of vertu. or novelties in ancient and mod
ern methods of refurnshlng house, but
a place TO ENJOY the leisure hours OF LIE
and proper setting for hospitality after
the most exalted pattern. 1t IS uni keiS
that she will dismantie this home To
bring her household GOODS 10 Wash nSton.
though she may bring some parts OF her
exquisite collection OF silver and glass
ware and some wonderful tapestries and
draperes. For over twenty years she
has been collecting the dantiest and most
cur Gus designs of table covers, with the
usual accessories in doi!ies. and now she
can display bewilder:ng number o.
damask and silk embroidered crepe drap-
ings for spreading the festive board,
Her tapestries contain many rare and
fabulously valuable pieces. some II the
old Flemish weave no longer in the mar
ket and to be obtained only by the most
accomplished of agents. The French
tapestries which now adorn the great hall
in the Lakeside drive mansion ,and which
form an attractive mural decoration up
the main stairway, will probably come to
Washington. But in the opinion of her
example of Mrs Charles j. Bona parte.
who also refused TO dismantle her Bal
timore home. She will furnish the Nene-
tian palace in 10th street suitably, but
she will not rob Peter to pay Paul
The Secretary of the Treasury is the
Younger brother of Wayne MacNeagh.
whose beautiful colonial home on Con-
necticut avenue is one of the radiating
points OF resident society and is, like all
his family. man of broad, culture and
pronounced views on education and KIN
dred subjects. Mrs. MacNeagh shares
with him ardent love OF books and
she has always been prominent in all
movements which lead to the founding
of Libraries. 1t was mainly through her
announcement that MIR. MacVeagh found
ed the public library, which is the pride
of Dublin. n. H.. where the summer home
of the family is situated. Mrs. Mac
Veagh is one to whom good reading is
as necessary as food and light and she
provides that she may be furnished with
the best literature wherever she may
pitch her tent. Dublin. n. H.. now
favorite resort of SO many distinguished
men and women of letters and of ma
tional importance, was not of such note
twelve or fourteen years ago, and even
to get the daily papers with any degree
of certainty was long stride toward
literary food for herself during the long
summer months Mrs. MacVeagh was inn
pressed by the need which existed for
people who spent their entire year in
that beautiful but remote village. Mr.
MacVeagh gave the library and filled
it with the worlds best productions. and
Mrs. MacVeagh and several members of
her family have made generous contribu-
tions from time to time.
She takes a cordial interest in all that
4 h ihrpr nd a
wealthy community which gathers in
Dublin during the heated term is inspired
by her good example. Large donations
have been made each year for the in
ony has the pleasant habit of bestowing
the entire stock Of books which have
enlivened the long hours on the public
library. By this means the stock has
grown with the rapidity OF the mustard
seed in the Bible. and now one of the
inducements which hotel keepers consider
invincible is to state what an excellent
and well equipped public library is near
at hand. Mrs. MacVeagh is a frequent
visitor to the reading room, and one of
her keenest plea asureS is to suggest i'm
provements in the service and to inspect
the methods which bring greatest promise
of success
Dublin has been the summer home Of
many celebrities. and Mrs. MacVeagh
counts her most delightful experiences in
the gatherings which such environment
| has stimulated. She formed one of the
| coterie OF special friends so often asked
by the late John Hay to 1.-The Fells' on
this magnificent home that the statesman,
poet and patriot died. and his friends
there grieve for him and still miss him
from their literary evenings. In the days
Ixr,hn Did ord inc lfpc m
the lake was familiar sight he also oc-
casionally dropped in at the MacVeagh
home or at others near by. and though
he was chary of conversation he some
times enlivened the evening by thrilling
East Indian story. The simple, socable
life in Dublin appeals strongly to Mrs.
MacVeagh and it Is her custom to repair
to summer quarters early in June.
She has been compelled to defer her de-
parture this year for many reasons. but
| she will be firmly established soon and
| the Secretary will, like his colleagues.
snatch his vacation In various relays. She
ones equilibrium and gives back to the
jaded a sense of Joy in living. Conditions
| are idylIc around Dublin. notwithstanding
| that a list of the cottagers sounds like a
| of the most impressive figures on the
| national horizon are counted in the sum-
mer colony. But all dispense with elabor-
| ate functions or pretense of following
/ raSn1On ana tnc tranquility Is uH1ndTTeO
| for ten or twelve weeks. Dinner parties
are asked never more than day in ad-
vance, and then over the phone, and one
OF the most popular forms OF amusement
| is the old-fashioned basket picnic. Great
men and women whose social gambols
| furnish food for tea talk on two conti-
nents make sandwiches and mix lemonade
| and Mrs MacVeagh Is accounted among
the genuinely successful picnic hostesses
| The Secretary of the Treasury and Mrs
MacVeagh have one son, Henry Eames
| MacVeagh, and his presence In Washing
! ton next season will add a touch of inter
est, particularly in the debutante circles
He graduated with high honors from Yale
| two years ago. He has followed the fam
| lily tradition of studying law and then en-
| tering banking establishment. He Is
/ unmarried and Is described as possessing
| in a pre-eminent degree the attraction
] which naturally clings to young mar
| who Is good looking, of aristocratic I'm
cage and boasting more than the average
share of brains to which splendid edu
| cation is added.
| Copyright, 1909. by Margaret B. Downing)
i The White Serge.
From the Columbus (OhiO) Journal