Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-10-17
Stories of Well Known Folks.


especially on the theatrical stage.
Mrs. Gardener spent many years in
Japan and she is one of the firmest
friends which the little people have
on this side of the water. s Conse-
quently, whenever japanese play is
offered. or one remotely relating to
Japan. SHE invariably arrangeS her
affairs that she may attend. And
invariably she is dissatisfied by the
way even painstaking managers
present the dainty CARRIED little maids.
The manager has yet to appear. she
says. who makes a girl on the stage
walk as she does in Japan. But, on
the contrary. waddling. jumpy
locomotion is presented which is a
caricature on the way japanese
does walk. and fills them and their
friends with Indignation. Now, says
Mrs. Gardener, the garments fash
Toned for the feminine in the land of
, the rising sun are fashioned neither
with hooks and eyes nor buttons and
| corresponding eyelets, nor even with
! pins. But they are made to overlap
and are held in place with a wide
sash. The woman in walking turns
her toes in to unfold her garment and
! to keep it from spreading apart.
! hence that graceful undulating mo-
ton which is perfectly fascinating
when the genuine is seen and that is
not seen in this country on the stage.
at least. unless one goes to a Jap
anese play staged by master artists.
Mrs. Joseph Rucker Lamar. who
has been an occasional visitor to
! Washington, has a unique collection
of passports, gathered in various
ways from members of her family. and
some which she and the late justice
| used in their journeys in foreign parts.
! The first of these cherished bits of
official paper is card which bears
! the signature. of that famous Score
! Gated March 8. 1851. and was obtained
; by Judge Leicester King of Ohio for
his daughter. Catherine King. whom
| he desired to take to Europe to finish
| her education. This lady was Mrs
/ Lamar's mother. Being closely related
to Dwights. Lymans and Hintingtons
| of Connecticut. Mrs. Lamar has many
ancestors who travelled in Europe in
days before this became universal
/ custom. Her father was William K
| Pendleton. member of the illustrous
family which has given generously to
I, the statesmen of three common
wealths. and soon after graduating
from the Packer Institute of New
, York she made the grand tour of Eu-
rope with fhim. and her passport on
this occasion was signed by William
NJ. Evarts.
wedding in which Washington ex-
hibited sympathetic int6est was
u
lottesville, Va, when Miss Ellie Wood
! Page, daughter of Mrs. Wood Newton
Page. became the bride of Mr.. Arthur
Morson Keith of Fauquier county.
Every detail was arranged according
to the rooted colonial tradition, with
/ the ceremony set in the severely
classic chapel of the University of
Virginia, daintily decked in the SIM
pie garden flowers which luxuriate in
the historic gardens at Montpelier and
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cousin of Thomas Nelson Page of this
city and uncle of the bride, officiated
and he was aided in his duties by
cousin of the Page family. Rev. Bev
erly D; Tucker of the Virginia Theo-
| logical Seminary at Alexandria.
! James Murray Mason of Charles Town,
W. Va. gave the bride in marriage,
and the most attractive feature of the
| function was the crowd of lovely
youngsters who were the attendants.
F., short clothes and bearing the ring on
a cushion, and with the attending
page carrying the prayer book from
which the solemn words would be
read in the same way.
! Lovely little flower girls walked be-
/ fore the bride. in her delicate old
satin and lace which had done service
! for many Carter, Beverly and Page
/ bride, and other pretty maids holding
| the satin streamerS which divided the
/ wedding party from the general
:, guests. It might have happened in old
| Virginia of Lord Fairfax's time so
! faithfully were all the ancient GUS
toms revived. There We're three
! groomspen, as used to be the custom
and they wolked abreast and looked
qite formidable.
! All the gentry of the surrounding
country attended the reception, and
|: the fine old home was adorned only
with flowers from the gardens under
4 the windows-asters of every" color
? and nodding stately dahlias and great
4 clusters of Snapdragon in century,
j old vases, and heliotrope which filled
/ the rooms with delicious perfume.
| From Rio de Janiero comes the
word that Mrs. Cecil Clark Davis has
| carried that remote capital by storm
i and her art exhibition in the Amer
! lean embassy under the patronage of
Mr. Edwin V. Morgan was an event
, of stupendous Importance socially and
/ in the art sense, and drew crowds of
patrons during an entire week. Mrs.
! Davis is the first wife of Richard
1 Harding Davis and after her divorce
4 from the author and his subsequent
| marriage to Bessie Mccoy. the ac
tress. she devoted herself entirely to
/ art and has made a notable success
| of portraiture in water colors. Her
\ studio is at Marion, Mass. and with
! her parents, she was of the intellec--
| tual colony gathered around the late
/ Richard Watson Glider and Mrs. Gill
| der, and the talented sister. Jeanette
\ Glider Mrs. Grover Cleveland spent
I her summers in Marion in those years
l and another eminent resident was
Joseph Jefferson. Mrs. Davis went to
1 Rio at the request of some Brazilian
. friends whom she had met in Massa-
chusetts, and Mr.. Morgan cordially
aided her enterprise. \She has sailed
recently for home and will make
/ brief visit to her parents in Chicago
yards bay.
H These are gay days in Hot Springs.
II Va, and some of the prominent hos
H tesses turn back a pleasant leaf .in
II the social history of Washington. Mrs