Evening star., 1915-03-14
Gossip Of Society.

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| present Austrian ambassador. Nine.
! Dumba, has made
| Nine. Dumba and several changes In
/ the old embassy
AoI oolue. building on Con-
necticut avenue Just above n street.
| The room at the left of the entrance,
which has always been used as sort of
writing room. a large desk being situated
in the bay window. has been considerably
| frightened by a change in the color
scheme The walls are now done in
vivid light shade of old blue and the fur
niture is upholstered in the same shade OF
| velour
The dominant note now in this
| room OF the embassy is new portrait
| OF the emperor. 1t fills the chimney
| toned. 1t is framed in gold, bearing
! crown In the center, and Is full
| length likeness. but not life-size. In
| the portrait there is an artistic blend
| hangings, table cover and rug being of
deep. dark red, while the uniform of the
| emperor is of scarlet and white.
In the drawing room. the salon., as
Nine. Dumba calls it, clear vivid blue
| is again in evidence. several of the
| chairs being covered in that color. She
| is personally very fond of blue and is
wearing q sapphire ring set with a
| ulhlllonu on ellneT SlQe ana a sapphire
| bracelet. the stones cut square, and set
| in flexible links of platinum, the sap
! phres extending all the way around
| the bracelet. a hospital BILE note of the
drawing room is the grouping of chairs
| and ia bles around the fireplace and
| everywhere there are flowers. On the
table near the fireplace the other day
there were bunch of violets and a
pot of growing, blue hyacinths, and
! 50 fond is Nine. Dumba and so we'll
! does she know her flowers that she can
detect a distinct difference between the
perfume of the blue and pink hya-
| cinths She says she can tell the
color of the blossoms, with her eyes
! shut, by their perfume.
| The Austrian ambassador and Nine.
! Dumha have not yet decided upon what
1 they will do this summer, where they
! will go for the heated term" and
may not decide for some time. They
/ want to be somewhere near New York,
| where the ambassador can go back and
! forth to that city. They intend to go
J to quiet place, not to one of the
| fashionable summer resorts.
| There are three perfectly good signs
that spring has arrived in Washing
ton. One is the old
Spring Is black crow that takes
up its abode in the
heally Here. tower of ST Thomas
Church near Dupont Circle, and takes
| a benevolent interest in the doings IN
Church street. II has arrived ana Is
established in it's airy retreat.
Another sign is flock OF purple
srackles which come with the first IN
timation that winter has gone ana
swarm over the White House lawn
their raucous cry being the first busie
call Of the young spring. And, third
| and last, the crocuses are up in all
| their white and yellow glory IN the
garden of Miss Freeman and Mrs. Buck
| inghan1, back Of the stately brown
| sandstone house next to st. John
| Church in Fl street. Their garoeh'
| which extends across the back of the
] house and over to 18th street, between
/ St Johns and the parish hall, is one
of the oldest gardens in Washington
and the flowers that make their nome
| there are quite familiar with the
Washington climate and seldom make
d mistake.
Mrs kutz. wife of Maj. kutz, En-
ginecr Commissioner of the District.
decided that she can
Mai. Kutz and not serve two masters.
~. as it were, in the mat
His Family. ter of giving her time
and attention to her children and to
! society, so she has decided in favor
| of the former, and she and the major
4 and the young fry have most charming
/ times together, and are SO compan-
4 ionable that they arc taken for broth
! ers and sisters, when they go about
together; in fact, Maj. and Mrs. kutz
/ are so young in appearance and thought
and action, that Emily, the oldest girl.
aged seventeen, says she is seriously
| considering adopting older-looking
parents, as one will believe that
! hers are really her father and mother.
| The other two children are Marion, who
| Is fifteen and Charlie Randolph, who
| is nine.
| Mrs Randall Hagner. who. with Mr..