Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-11-23

his wife for several years and took
out his naturalization papers. He de-
cided, however, to return to his own
country and enter politics. The CAPT.
tai city man can make another claim
to a chatelaine in an important Eu-
ropean legation. Mime. Ekengren, wife
: of the Swedish minister, who was
Miss Laura Jackson, and is connected
with some of the prominent New Eng
land families now represented among
the law makers. Nor will Baroness
Avezzano find herself the only Amer
lean in the Italian embassy. for the
wife of the counselor, Signor Gui-
Seppe Brambilla, is the daughter of
a former Secretary of the Navy, the
late George Won Lengerke Meyer. So
many Americans are scattered among
the embassies and legations from Eu-
rope that it would seem only the
South Americans and the orientals
for absolute happiness it is necessary
to choose a maiden of your own peo-
pie.
Two hostesses in the senatorial set
fill their exalted roles in the third
sense, that is, they preside over
stately homes by reason of being the
mother of lawmakers in the upper
House, and they have in their day pre-
SlQeu HTSl DIS daughters anu tnen as
wives. These ladies are Mrs. Eugene
Hale, who acts as chatelaine for her
son Frederick, one of the senators
from Maine. and Mrs Stephen b. Ell
kins, who fills the same gracious of
fee for Davis Elkins from West Vir-
ginia. Mrs. Hale is the daughter of
that robust statesman of an early
day. Zach Chandler of Michigan, and.
-; he being a Widower for the greater
part of his service, the handsome
young daughter was the feminine di-
rector of the home. 1t was social
center then as it was for many years
succeeding, when Miss Chandler be-
Der of the lower House and then for
SO long period senator from the
! Lone Pine state.
| Frederick Hale now fills his fathers
place. proving that though this coun-
try has not hereditary legislators. it
recognized hereditary qualities in
| their choice. Mrs Elkins is the daugh-
ter of Henry Gassaway Davis, senator
from West Virginia at the time she mar
ried Stephen B. Elkins, also some years
! later in the Senate from the same
state. AS daughter. wife and mother
, of a senator, she has witnessed the
making of much history. social and
| political. Her son. serving in the
Army in France when he was chosen
; to wear the toga of his father, is, like
L.
Both occupy homes rich in traditions,
where their parents dispensed a hos
pitality which has become part of the
annals of the American capital Mrs.
Hale and Mrs Elkins can recall when
. Washington was a small provincial
town, often of less Importance to the
; law-maker than the capital of his
! own state. They have seen il expand
into cosmopolitanism and grow in
physical beauty. and their reminis-
cenceS are among the genuine treats
| their friends occasionally enjoy be-
i fore an open wood fire in II library
where three generations of law-mak-
ers smile down upon the guests.
| Mrs. Wallace Radcliffe, who was
recently chosen to succeed the late
Mrs Richey as president of the Wash
ington Club, the oldest and most con-
servative woman's organization in
Washington, is familiar in many pleas
ant roles. Her husband is prominent
| in every civic sense and is the pastor
Of that Presbyterian Church known
, from it's situation on New York ave-
| nue. and which owed it's origin to the
! turbulent ways of Andrew jackson,
Mrs. Radcliffe had been acting presi-
dent during the prolonged illness of
her predecessor and took hold of at
fairs with firm and experienced
grasp. The Washington Club Is rich
in historic treasures and its library
is one of the best private collections
in the city, having now something
more than three thousand volumes
The new president has been affiliated
with every recent philanthropic en-
deavor in Washington and was
among those honored by private au-
Hence with the Queen of Belgium.
who sought the representatives Of the
} farfiung line of Belgian relief. MIA