Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-02-27
Notable Homes and People.

lNOldDle IlOIllcS d1lO COplC.
The home Of Mr.. and Mrs. Foster and
their son-in- law and daughter. Secretary
and Mrs. Lansing. is one that 1t is a
privilege to visit, so filled with charm
ing and individual furnishings is it, OBJ
jects of art that bear the impress of the
taste of the occupants of the home.
With tapestries, paintings. marbles
and bronzes. and countless other things.
it seems fall from the sublime to the
| ridiculous to mention an odd little con-
| ceit which. however. came in for share
| of comment Wednesday at Mrs. Lam
sings at-home.
| This was the holder for the handle
| of a teapot, to SHE'D the hand from
| the burning metal of the silver teapot.
| 1t is fashioned like parrot, being made
| of green satin. the wings of the bird
| folding over the hot handle. Eyes. beak
| and other accessories are picked out in
heavy embroidery floss.
| Among the really important things in
| the house is a handsome desk made
| from an old-fashioned square piano.
Desks of this sore made from pianos
and spinnets are popular, for they are
not only unique but delightfully."- roomy
and handsome.
The outer edge of the top of this piano
desk was left about foot wide and
makes an admirable place for photo
graphs and other ornaments. 1t has one
of Mr.. Foster OH one side and of Mr..
Lansing on the other.
Speaking of old-fashioned furniture. it
| takes no clairvoyant to tell that Mrs.
| McAdoo comes from southern stock, for
| her home bears evidence of <hat in the
| attractive pieces of antique mahogany
which gives to it certain charm.
| on
of the colonial stairway gives one a hint
| of what may be found on the drawing
room floor, where a delightful old timey
mahogany sofa stands on the wide land
| ing which separates drawing room from
dining room, the sofa being placed by
| a wide window which is hung with
valance and curtains of quaint and pref
| tily covered chintz.
| The dining room is lovely with its
gray foliage paper above a wainscot-
| ting of white woodwork, which makes
an excellent background for the fine
| old pieces of mahogany. Sideboards,
side tables and on, with old ances-
| trail portraits above them.
Wednesday. on her day at home. Mrs.
dining room all afternoon and the only
illumination came froms wax candles.
placed on the sideboards and serving
tables and on the table with it's center
| table had little crystal shades. but all
| the others were unshaded and the eff
| IecC was TRULY lovely.
] One of Mrs. McAdoo's guests Mrs
| Cook of Lansdown. near Philadelphia,
told of having grandfather clock
which had not run down in over
| hundred years. The winding of the
clock is.a tradition in the family, the
| eldest son always having at least some
part in the ceremony. Mrs. Cooks
opens the door of the clock and the
winding follows.
When Gen. and Mrs. Albert Mills
| she was too late to secure any of the
old treasure, but Bishop Brent came to
her assistance and contided to her just
| where she could find some rare old
chairs: These are high backed chairs
carved round the edge with the beads
of the rosary with cross at the base
| of the chair back.
Mrs Mills also has wonderful din
ing table from Manila the top of which
is of one solid piece of wood. and her
sideboard is over $50 years old and put
| together with pegs in place of nails.
as the truly genuine old pieces were,
| as they were fashioned before nails
(, were made.
Mrs. Roscoe Carlisle Bulmer has
gone to Portsmouth. n. H., the home
port of her husbands ship, which has
been ordered home for repairs from
Haiti. Mrs. Bulmer left Washington
with a cane and wearing a big black
slipper on one foot, for. unfortunately.
she stubbed her toe the other evening
/ coming home from a dance. BY
morning the pain was SO intense
doctor was sent for and an N-ray ex-
that, though no bones were broken, the
bruise was serious enough to warrant
her keeping perfectly quiet and, of
course, off the injured foot.
| Mrs. Bulmer kept quiet all day, but
that evening, the one following the
accident. was off to dinner, with one
! foot clad in a dainty silver slipper the
| other in the roomy old black one, and
a cane to keep the weight off the in
jured member. After the dinner an
evening. at the Playhouse wound up
| the night, ard, undaunted, the plucky
Mrs. Bulmer left Wednesday for New
England to meet her sailor husband
who, all unknowing of her hurt. had
made a dinner engagement for her at
the end of her journey.
| Every one who attended the German
fete is enthusiastically talking of the
wonderful Turkish coffee made and dis
pensed by Nine. Panaretoff, wife of
the Bulgarian minister.
| Turkish coffee is something that no
one but Turk is supposed to know
how to make in it's perfection. but the
beautiful American wife of the min
| lister from far-away Bulgaria has mas
| tered the art in the characteristic
manner that American women have of
finding out what they want to know
\ why they lowered SO around the booth
where Nine. Panaretoff dispensed her
| oriental brew, whether it was to get
| the delicious coffee or to have the
the diplomats wife, whose beauty is
of the madonna type, which was en-
HANGED on this occasion by her Sc