Evening star., 1920-03-07
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!
the Misses Cumnins. Mrs Emmett
| Gudger presides over the home OF
| her father, Senator Walsh or Mon .
! tana. and the several daughters or
! Senator Hoke Smith rotate in living
in Washington for a few months at
a time. Senator Lodge, who occupies
so exalted a position in the diplomatic c
division. has placed the amenities IN
the hands Of his daughter-!n r-!n-law:
Mrs. Bessie Davis Lodge. widow OF
I his son. George Cabot. His grand
daughter Mrs Grafton Minot. is
spending the winter in Washington.
and. her mother. Mrs. Augustus CARD, :,
! ner. is here for long periods. and
! they occasionally appear at the Lodge
entertainments Senator Phelan. who
has one of tho most hospitable homes
IN Washington has his sister. MISS
Mary Phelan as hostess part or the
, tlme. and then there is a constant
succession Of charming nieCes and
, cousins from the west who visit him
And there is sizable list of unat-
tached senator's who live habitually
at ast clubs and entertain only in stag
fashion. and hence have no need to
can on sisters, cousins or auntS.
Letters received recently from Mar
Euerite Countess OF Suffolk. so fa
milIar to many friends in Washing
ton under her maiden name of Daisy
Letter. tell of elaborate preparations
IN charlton Park. willis, for the cele-
braton of the fourteenth birthday Of
me young earl. which took place on
March > 1t is difficult to visualize
the vivacious youngest daughter of
the late Levi Il. Letter in complete
retirement. devoting all her days to
the three boys. the youngest of whom.
the Honorable Greville Reginald. is
not yet eleven. But such is the pic
ture presented by those who have
visited England lately and who have
hnn NJ rIf
The countess. has one of the finest
estates in the midlands and takes an
interest in dairy and stock, and is
quite the Lady Bountiful to the ten
ants During the minority Of her
son. she remains chatelaine of the
Then. say her friends, she may return
to her native land. for long visit
If not for more or less permanent
residence. provided, of course. she
does not follow the lead of so many
of the titled British war widows and
remarry. There is another doWaEer
Countess of Suffolk, the mother of the
Earl. who was killed in action in 1917.
She was the Lady Eleanor Lonsdale.
daughter of the Earl of Coventry and
has since her sons marriage to the
Washington belle and heiress resided
in the dowager house near Charlton.
which, though a splendid rambling
tudor mansion with extensive grounds
and stables. figures in the holdings
of the estates at the cottage. The
Earls of Suffolk are of the same
Howards of which the Duke of Nor-
folk is the chief. and as earls have
existed in unbroken line since 1909.
The Earls of Berkshire became in
cluded in thei title in the seventeenth
century. The young earl. who Is
and so is the second son, Cecil John
Arthur Howard. who is the heir of
his brother. and who was born in
1908. The British law prevents the
countess from leaving England ex-
cept for brief periods during the
would have accompanied Gen. and
Mrs. Colin Campbell. the latter Nancy
Letter, during their protracted visit
in Washington and Chicago.
Mrs. Michael Francis Phelan. wife Of
Mass. who was before her marriage
Miss Marie T. Van Depoele. is engaged
during odd moments in preparing
biography of her father, who was
Belgian scientist of high attainment
intimately associated with Alexander
son in their worldrenowned expert
ments. Mr.. Van Depoele eventually
specialized in electric street cars, both
cable and the overhead trolley. and he
under his system in Baltim1re Phila-
delphia and Boston. He was also here
in 1SS9-90 in the interests Of those
electric cars which ran to lexington.
Brookland and thereabout. and which
were Of the now abandoned double
deck sort. He died about fifteen years
ago. and left in his daughters posses
sion a wealth of papers relating to his
various experiments and much bio
graphical matter which pertains to
d. I,f, ri. r,N.
portation from horse cars to the cleo
trio system. Just year before the
great war devastated that part Of
Brabant from which her people came.
Mrs. Phelan, with her husband and
children. visited the old home in one
of those tiny villages directly south
Of Brussels. Here they found the
house in which the scientist had been
born. and in the garret. under the
traditional gabled roof on which
which undoubtedly were the original
telephone system of Belgium still
crossing to the garret of three old
aunts who lived nearby The elder
Van pepoeles were not impressed
with the inventive genius of their
son. and all his experiments were
made secretly with the connivance of
his sympathetic aunts. Like nearly all
great geniuses he finally ran away
from home to seek his fortune in the
nc" "oTiu, anu III MS naSte ne left
some well thumbed note books which
recorded his experiments from the
first, when he was less than ten, down
to the time when he had regularly es-
tabiished telephone communication
with his aunts from their garret into
his. All these Mrs. Phelan gathered.
and will, when her work is completed,
present to some museum which is
specially disposed toward scientific
beginnings. The old houses were com
N1.fn
rrmies year later. but Mrs. Phelan
1as some excellent photographs of
hem, which will be reproduced in
good time.
The British cousins put much imag-
ination into the homely tasks. as. for
instance. the man whom so MANY
! Americans viewed with hostile feel
ings, the food administrator, they call
! the lord of the mamma" Now, the
| committee in London which is
wrestling with the high cost of liv-
| ing. just as that group of efficient
| woman who has ever wat ched the nea
| ing the past week. has christened it.
| self the Society of the Wrens." Any
| woman who has yer watched the neat
little wren and her energetic, indus
trious and aggressive ways when it
| comes to the caring for the home
| must be inspired to better work un-
| der such banner. And to read the lat =
| est report of Viscountess Rhondda,
who is the daughter of that Lord
, Rhondda who was the first lord of
| the mamma" will be to make Ameri-
can women more content with their
lot. as. for instance, so few homes in
large cities of the United States are
! dependent on coal ranges whereas SO
per cent of all the cooking in the
kingdom is done by coal or it's
| equivalent in Scotland and Ireland,
| peat, and the ranges. according to
| the fuel administrators waste more