Evening star., 1915-02-28

borders is a graceful grape design in
the natural color of the leaves and the
purple fruit.
These panel windows form a group
midway between the floor and the
ceiling. Above them are transom win
dows of stained glass, the design
medley of grapes and foliage. the green
of the latter predominating. Below
the windows is wide shelf which
is formed by a deep wainscoting of
| dark oak. On this shelf are potted
ferns In luxuriant green freshness.
carrying out the color scheme employed
in the windows, and thus framing the
group of glass panels in green.
| So much for the beauty side of the
| feature; the practical is not immedi-
ately apparent, but a second glance
| reveals the fact that the grooves of the
deep oak wainscoting are formed by
| drawers. a multitude of them. de-
light to any housewife. The other
/ side walls of the room have vain
scoting which reaches to about two
! feet of the ceiling. that two feet being
| decorated with a frieZe OF green
| foliage, which harmonizes perfectly
with the transom windows of the same
| depth which supplant the wall fr1eze
! on the south side.
While many women are slipping their
coffee over the breakfast table, and
others are still get
Does Escort Duty ting the last forty
winks, Mrs. Pom
for HUSBAND. creme. wife of sena-
tor Pomerene of Ohio. is driving her
husband to Capitol Hill in her nobby
| little electric.
| Mrs Pomerene only owns up to one
! hobby, namely. her husband. and every
L do sho rfS n q l.
tol No matter what the weather. she
! is on hand with her motor and her hus-
| band, and one could almost set ones
| watch by her appearance, for $3.50 is
| the hour when she and Senator Pomer-
enc wave goodbye to one another as
he enters the Senate wing, and she
turns her machine westward toward
the city.
Senator and Mrs. Pomerene are from
Canton, and were next-door nelgnpofs
of President and Mrs. Mckinley.
While many congressman motor to
the Capitol, most of them take the
democratic street car to arrive at their
desired destination. and still others
walk for the sake of the exercise.
Senator Henry Cabot Lodge is among
the latter. He walks every pleasant
morning from his comfortable and
| English-looking home on MASSACHUSETTS,
avenue, taking the long walk for
institutional Senator Lodge Is also
fond of riding, and one may often meet
him astride horse, sometimes followed
also by favorite dog. He Is fond OF
, the quaint byways of Georgetown, and
often takes the road connecting r street
with Massachusetts, avenue extended,
known as Lovers lane.
~
The near neighbor of the French am
bassador and Nine. Jusserand, Nine.
Riano, wiz e
| Uncommon Ornaments of the Span
ish ambassa-
OF doWes. dor. has a
collection of porcelain animals, bits of
lbric-a-brac gathered mostly in Sweden
and Norway, curious conceits. all OF
which she has placed on a round cen
ter table in her boudoir, all but one,
china bulldog, which guards the
fireplace, beast grotesquely ugly
enough to effectually guard any sacred
| fire.
A more serious and valuable collec-
tion of Nine Riano's Is of old desks,
wonderful antiques from Spain, CEN
turtles old and redolent with sugges-
tionS of romance and history. There
| are three such desks In her boudoir,
besides tiny chlldS desk. PROBABLY
| in it's early days the wee desk was the
dolls furniture of some Spanish in
fanta, now it's present owner keeps 1t
| for the use of her two small dogs.
Their collars, brushes and blankets
are kept there in the little drawers,
which really make a most convenient
receptacle for such things.
| Col Robert NJ. Thompson is another
collector. who has among other treas
ures a gathering of porcelain birds.
4 nj Cnl
Thompson keeps his china birds all on
| one table. This is in the drawing
room, their painted plumage making q
bright and attractive variety of color
above the marble top of the French
gilt table.