Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-12-13
Told of the Notables.

The elder daughter of the late Will
liam W. Rockhill, who died in Honolulu
the past week. is Mrs. Joseph c. Hop
pin of Boston and Washington. The
younger daughter, Daisy Rockhill.
lived here as a child with her father
and stepmother This second daughter,
much younger than her sister. is now
Nine. Won Schneedvitch, the wife Of an
officer of the Austro- Hungarian army.
with an estate near Vienna. Her mar
riage took place in Constantinople.
when her late father was ambassador
to Turkey. This former Washington
ian, for so she considered herself up
to the time of her marriage, is as a
matter of fact native of China, where
her father began his diplomatic career
as secretary of legation, and to which
country he was en- route when he died.
She was contemporary of the Cleve-
land children when her parents re-
turned to Washington for a short term,
where her father served as assistant
secretary of state, later going to Ath-
ems as minister.
Here she learned to speak Greek, as
well as the French and German. which
have since become as familiar as her
mother tongue, thus alying the foun-
dation of an education uneQualed by
any of her latter day friends. On the
death of their mother in Athens. the
Misses Rockhill accompanied their
father back to Washington, where the
elder sister married and the younger
was placed at school. On the remar-
riage of her father Daisy Rockhill &C
companied him and her stepmother to
China, to Russia and to Turkey. She
also at intervals Joined her sister in
Paris, Rome or Switzerland, so that
when her marriage took place, less than
two years ago, the present Nine. Won
Schneedvitch had seen society of every
part of the world.
Much entertained visitors passing
several weeks in Washington are the
Misses McKeever,
Remembered by daughters of the
NJ, late Gen. and Mrs
oAo 1AAenuS' Chauncey Mckee
yer, who passed the summer in Europe
with headquarters in Switzerland, and
are now Ell route for southern Califor-
mia. Miss Helen McKeever has been
with her sister, Mrs. Jack" Purdy, at
the latters home on 10Th street, for a
fortnight, where Miss Elsie Mckeever
Joined her in the past few days. Since
the death of their parents the Misses
McKeever have travelled all over the
Rome. Paris, London or Cairo as in
Washington. where their girlhood was
spent in their home on H street.
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A we'll known woman who was
abroad at the time of the outbreak of
the war. tells how
What to Knit for the foreign women
c,1. foresaw the long
struggle ahead, ex-
tending far into the winter and start
ed in at once upon their work of max
ing comfortable garments and things
for the soldiers in the trenches and
those in hospitals. One of the more
elaborate pieces of work Is a helmet
knitted of gray wool, to be drawn over
the head like stocking, fit snugly,
and with openings to expose eyes, nose
and mouth. These are much coveted
articles, and the soldier who has one
feels that it is a regular mine of wealth
in the way of comfort Thousands
upon thousands of pairs of knitted
wrist warmers are also being turned
out, and adjustable knitted bands for
the abdomen. After socks, stockings
timations. for it takes no longer to
knit either of the larger articles than
to knit pair of stockings.
At the Red Cross meeting last week.
when half the women present were
knitting, an inventory revealed the
fact that many were using white bone
needles. knitting heelless ribbed bed
socks, not for use by the fighting men,
but those in the hospitals, for whom it
is hard to get sufficient covering. Mrs
Arthur Lee had finished one ample
stocking since Tuesday night, and
started on another before the after
noon session finished. One little Wom-
an whose needles would slip out and
reveal whole row of mysterious look
ing little loops remarked with true feel
ing that she would be mighty glad when
the war was over
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AT a luncheon given for Mrs. Willis.
wife of the Governor-elect of Ohio,