Evening star., 1915-04-11
Gossip Of Society.

The walking stick is the thing. Not
the jaunty. little. swagger sticks that
off and on have
Women Garry been affected by
Walking Sticks. Rrummels N n : such as
Mrs. Longworth, when Miss Alice
Roosevelt, first set the fashion for. but
the real. genuine article, the mans
stick.
OF course, a stick is really very
useful thing to have on tramp or
climb, but milady of fashion does not
carry a stick for use, but for show.
When she sails out in all the glory OF
her new spring fnery. the last touch
is the cane, and husbands and brotners
and fathers are hiding away their pet
possessions in this line, for mlladS IS
no respecter Of canes nor their associa
tions If they match the gown or the
hat, off they go to serve as the ias'
touch to a pretty costume.
Mrs Baldwin, wife of CAPT. SaluM aI;i,;an ~ y, ,
her sister, Miss Judge: Mrs. WllHa1i W,I,:s..
Barrett Ridgely, Miss Helena Einot..
and even the conservative MISSES
Sedgely are among those MhGn, IN
may meet any day promemaaahs nth ~
and down Connecticut avenue Win WIN
their walking sticks. And WY no.. ,'sa
| A man does not carry a cane lot uss'
either, they assert. except IN sioS
when he finds 1t convenient 70 .han mn
the heads off of daisies ana oexe. x
nosies when the heroine jilts him for
another. ,r,, a.
tractive, and among these IS one s'aI,s. Mns.
Ridgely, carries: II na Is ,varv stick. the
ivory, Just old enough to be mellow, W.
being inlaid in long parallel INES up
and down the stick, broken at the 'liio
die by an ivory knob. 49, ,,nea
Of ebony running off into that. the
rosewood is the reddish brown ina.
goes with any frock, and 1t makes q
very smart accessory to an attractive
toilette.
The sale of the Ryan residence at
18th and I streets northwest during
the past week
Interesting Stories has caused some na
Of Ryan House. sip in society.
largely connected with recollections oi
Mrs. Harriet Lane Johnston. VINO llveu
there for many years, entertaining
with the grace and dignity OF the
erande danes of the old regime. Mrs'
Johnston was the niece of Mr.. bu-
chanan, and as such presided at the
White House when he was President
as the first lady Of the land"
It was during the time that sne was
at the White House that the Prince
of Wales visited this country anu ana Mas as.s
days. Mrs Johnston had the distinction
Of being the only American woman
who entertained a member OF the oIlt
ish royal family in her own nome nome;
n n
of Queen Victoria, and as intimate as
any American could be with SOW
ereign, the friendship having begun
in England when Mr.. Buchanan Was wa
visit Of the Prince Of Wales added to
the friendship between the British
queen and Mrs. Lane, as she tnen was
She married Henry Elliott johnston OF
Baltimore, a member of one OF the
prominent old Maryland families. IN
1866. and from that time on made her
home in the winter in baltimore ana
in the summer at Wheatiand, near
Lancaster, Pa, at the old colonial man
sion of the Buchanan family, where
she spent her girlhood
After Mr.. Johnstons death she came
to Washington, to remain as per.
manent resident here and as one OF
the leading hostesses of the city until
her death some eight or ten years ago.
Many changes have happened in the
neighborhood of the Ryan house in the
last few years.
Many Changes Although num-
in Neighborhood. have b changed hanged
hands in the last few years. the neigh
borhood still retains its social prestige
in a way that is truly unique, because
that prestige has been of such long
duration. There are some residences
in this neighborhood which contain
families who can remember when civil
lization. so to speak. ended only two
blocks north Of I street, the country
beginning there and extending toward
the section known in old days as "Kal-
orama.'
On a similar corner in the next block
to the Ryan house is large. old-fash-
ioned square house which was once the
Russian embassy. and where. during
the regime of Count Cassini and his
niece, Countess Marguerite Cassini,
some of the most brilliant and pictur-
esque functions of the capital have
taken place.
From this house the Cassinis made
move that constituted one of the feats
of it's kind in the annals Of the capital.
An intimate friend of Countess Cassini.
Mademoiselle Irene de Planque, came
to Washington to become the bride of M.
Pavlo, a protege in the diplomatic serv-
ice of Count Cassini. The wedding was
to be one of the largest social nuptial
events of Washington for many years
and the family concluded at the last
minute that the old house on I street
was not large enough and fine enough
for so brilliant a wedding.
-.
Count Cassini therefore took the Levi
p Morton house on Scott circle. and in
the short space
Wedding Arranged of time Of three
in Three Days. ths house @ ss,1 n4
tied and all arrangements for the we'd
ding completed and the marriage took
place on the third night.
1t was a bitterly cold, snowy night,
and every room of the embassy was