Evening star., 1915-04-25
Told of the Notables.

Since there will be no lure Of Europe
to draw the gay world to foreign wan
derings. those who
No Lure Of Europe are authority upon
the matter assert
4AlS 4edI. that the p r ent
season will be prolonged well into
June; that the Fourth of July will. in
fact, see many here who have usually
made their annual fittings early in
May And that garden parties will be
the favorite mode Of entertaining.
It is even delightfully."- whispered that
not a few Of the later dinner parties
will have the out-of-door setting
wherever there is bit of garden suf-
ficient to warrant this fresh-air dining
and subsequent wanderings through
gorgeous lantern-nt grounds.
In all of this reckoning there comes
in. of course, the Larz Anderson man
SION, for now that the owners are back.
and already dinner-gfving there is at
least somewhat of solid basis for
all this counting on possibilities
1t is a somewhat notable fact that
foreigner walking the length of the
between 21st and 22d streets might
by the merest stretch of imagination
fancy himself going along one Of the
wealthiest sections of Paris-the Bois
French chateau effects than those of
the Townsend. the Larz Anderson and
the Walsh mansions could nowhere In
This country be found so grouped to-
gether. OF course, the Edison Bradley
house is distinctly French chateau
style. but along somewhat different
lines from these three others. And the
Larz Anderson house Is of all the most
stately, the most impregnable-looking
for. once those great arched gates
were closed, the high wall shutting out
the public from SO much as glimpse
of the front facade. could Withstand a
siege.
But at the rear there Is a splendid
belvedere, where the most ideal dinner
parties could be set, and a garden
beyond, where society could wander II
il were SO desired.
Mrs Richard Townsend has the most
perfect garden in the city as well as by
far the largest attached
A Perfect to any private dwelling
c,l. within the District limits.
Years ago she purchased
the old Hillyer place and cut down the
high bluff formed by the street grad
ing. Now, when one looks at the SIM
ply perfect arrangement of terraces
terraces that in less than a fortnight
white rhododendron blooms pictur-
esquely topped by a screening row of
tall evergreen trees-it Is seen that in
the fashioning Of her garden Mrs. |
Townsend selected from the best Of the |
old world models
In the main the garden is italian. |
with sculptured marble seats, such as
made cool lounging places in the gar |
dens Oh the Roman emperors. dis |
tinctive feature of Mrs. Townsend's |
garden is the superb bronze prov of |
galley. the only duplicate to which in
this country Is that in the Madison |
avenue garden of the late j. Pierpont |
Morgan. These are replicas of that |
larger bronze galley Prov about which |
Rome is always grouped the flower
mart of the Holy city.
Lady spring-Rice adores yellow. One
has only to glance at the embassy
greensward at the pres |
Her Favorite ent moment to realize
co1or this no less than the |
fact that her prefer |
ence for spring flowers lies with daffo- |
dils-not the faint whity-yellow vari-
ETY.. but rich. deep golden daffodils, |
which. trimming the embassy and scat
tered through the front and rear lawns, |
mark the frst time since the solid |
structure was built that a flower of |
any kind has been grown on these
grounds. |
Mrs. Edward Townsend. widow of
Gen. Townsend. U. s. A.. will cele-
brate her nine |
Her Ninety-Fourth ty-fourth birth
p;-thd.v day the 2sth In |
''' slant. and. while |
owing to her frail health there will be |
no reception on this happy occasion, |
Mrs. Townsend will undoubtedly well
come many Of her old friends, who are
as proud as are her family of her I'M
usual memory and general cleverness
Miss Townsend and Mrs. Chapman. her |
TWO daughters. will be with Mrs. Town
send on her birthday. |
Miss Margaret Wilson and her
younger sister. Mrs. McAdoo, have both |
laid aside the
Miss Wilson deep black for
Charming Hostess. which ba. en-.
ehrouded them since the death of their
mother in August. and now wear sim
PIE white gowns. When Miss wilson
stood beside her father in the blue
room Wednesday afternoon to assist
him in receiving the several thousand
women and children interested In the
D. A. r. congress held here last week
she wore a severely simple gown of
soft white wooden goods, with a plain
circular skirt cut rather short. and a
waist with large armholes and long
sleeves, only the collar of which was
softened by frilI of white chiffon. She
neither wore or carried flowers, though
she had taken great pains to have the
drawing rooms handsomely decorated
with American beauty roses and other
flowers.
The reception marked an important
incident in that 1t placed Miss Wilson
beside her father at public reception,
and gave her tho place formerly oc-
cupfed by her mother for tho frst
time. Before that she presided over
the home life of the President, but had
not assumed the position of a public
hostess She looked very small and
very sweet in her new-found dignity
and was gracious hostess One of the
thoughtful things which Miss Wilson
did for the Daughters. knowing they
could not be given an elaborate re-
ception, and that many of them were
in the White House for the first time.
was to have the line of march through
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