Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1912-01-19

space Russian territory for the 1ext
two or three years. The Fairbanks
house stands at Seventeenth street
and Farragut square and 1t is the flank
residence OF line which years ago
was known as "Million&ires' Row"
There are SO many millionaires' rows
in Washington today that the name
has lost all its individual signif-
cance
Germany to Build New Embassy.
The German embassy Is situated on
what Is known as "the Terrace" on
Massachusetts avenue just a few
doors west of the residence OF Sena-
tor Shelby M. Cullom of Illinois, al
though 1t is probable that Count Won
Benstorff, the German ambassador.
would hold 1t more proper to say that
Senator Cullom lives few houses
east of the embassy.
The Germans have fine headquar-
ters, but even at this they are not al
together satisfied with them. and so
they have made arrangements to build
another embassy far up on Sixteenth
street overlooking Rock Creek park.
The French embassy is up In the same
section OF the city, but France does
not own it's building. It is the prop
erty of former Senator and Mrs. John
b. Henderson, one time of Missouri,
but for many years Of Washington.
] The British embassy is on Connect
cut avenue. Great Britain also in
tends to erect a new building for the
use of it's representatives, and like
France and Germany will go to the
north end Of the city near the public
park preserve.
Charm of the Knox Home.
Secretary and Mrs. Philander Chase
Knox live in the same house they
occupied when the secretary was
attorney general of the United States.
1t is a huge house in the very
heart of what is possibly the
most fashionable neighborhood in
Washington. but it is differentiated
from all the other homes of wealth
and fashion in the Capital City. To
paraphrase, it would seem to be true
that by their houses We shall know
them, for the impression that one
gets after meeting with the secretary
and his wife is like the impression
that one gets from glimpse of the
interior of their residence.
The secretary and his wife are i'm
mensely popular, albeit some of the
newly rich, and some of those labor
ing under the weight of little brief
authority, believe that the cabinet of
ficer and his wife are a bit old-ftsh-
Toned. The truth is that although
they come from Pittsburg, the trade
center where things smell and smoke,
Mr. and Mrs. Knox are like unto the
gentle people who lived in the days
Of our great-grandfathers and great
grandmothers, and their home is like
unto them. 1t is simple but genu-
Inc in all its appointments. and pres
ent-day glitter is absent.
Where Riches and Brains Meet.
Mrs. Knox entertains a great dea
and it is in her drawing-room that the
rich and the politically powerful have
an opportunity to meet poor people
whose only recommendation is brains
The rich and the politically powerful
may have an uncomfortable quarter
OF an hour or so because of this con-
test with the reality OF things intel
lectual, but they wouldn't forego the
Knox hospitality, because to have
their names on the standing visiting
list of the secretary and his family
Is an absolute mark of distinction.
It is said that Mrs. Philander Knox
has reduced adaptability to a science.
She will talk Agassiz and Won Hum
boldt to the man who drops in from
the Cosmos club-the Washington
home of the biologists-and then will
turn pleasantly enough to discuss
with a smile in her heart the beauty
of beredity with the woman who
thinks that her great-great- grand
father was a sutler in George Wash
ington's army.
An extraordinarily rich woman set
up her establishment in an extraordi-
narily magnificent residence. She
succeeded in getting into the swim,
but there were certain ones in the alb
solutely desirable circles who had held
aloof. After a month or two the wo-
man Of riches called, as newcomers
have the right to do. upon the wives
of the cabinet ministers and the wives
of the justices of the Supreme court.
Mistake of Mrs. Magnificence.
Now 1t happened that the billiant
wife of one Of the Justices, woman
whose society is sought for nothing
else so much as her personal charm
of character and conversation, was
the first woman called upon to return
the visit of the magnificent one of
money. The wife of the Supreme court
justice had not been at home when
called upon. and as a result the two
women had never met.