Evening star., 1920-05-23
S O c. | E T Y
Continued from Sixth PageD

Mayfair. The Kents had quite circle
of children and they were too prac-
| tical to risk the soundness of their
| education by changing school a part
of each season. Most of them have
| graduated into life by now. but the
| home which their parents selected re-
mains as useful to them and as ac-
! ceptable as in their school days. The
| Kent home is another of those south-
ern mansions which were erected IN
the first quarter of the last century
| and by family whose annals are ex-
| tensive in the District of Columbia,
| the Rays, whose homes are in Mont
gomery county as well as IN the
more ancient section of washington.
| Mrs. Kent is among the indefatigable
| workers for suffrage and she was one
| of the dignified exponents OF II VINO
| have held firm public esteem Sne Is
I essentially domestic and gives atten
| tion to every detail of the large ana
elaborate household machinery. Mrs;
Kent was Miss Elizabeth Thacher OF
the Ojai valley. Calf. and she is en-
tirely in sympathy with all the ldeaIs
| of her husband in the permanent up
| building of his adopted state. ME.
! Kent is a native of Chicago and came
| to the Pacific coast in business way
and as the associate of his father "A.
T.. Kent. He became a foremost Il.l-
zen in a brief time. One of his splen
| did gifts was that of nearly three
hundred acres of redwood forest
which had come into his possession
through litigation and which ne pre-
sented to become the nucleus OF .ne
magnificent preserves Wnich .ne
tended from San Francisco down TO
Los Angeles. The sons Of MI ana
Mrs. Kent are settled in business In
California, except William. jr.. who is
at Yale studying Saw. There Is one
daughter, Adaline Dutton Kent
named for her paternal grandmother,
who snends as much time with rela-
tiyes in Chicago and in California as
here.
That Prince Michael Cantacuzene
and his wife, who was Julia Dent
Grant. granddaughter of the liiustri-
Gus warrior President. are seeking
home in Washington for at least part
of the year is welcome news 10 mn t
many friends and as numerous rela-
ties here. Since their thrililne es-
cane from Russia in the wake OF the
peasants revolution two years ago
the Cantacuzenes have been living IN
Florida and giving their attenuon 10
splendid orange plantation. former
| lv the property of the late Mrs. Pot-
ter Palmer. Prince Michael is afford
ling another example or the courage
and resourcefulness of the titled ex-
| lie, which may be observed IN the oeau-
tiful gulf state. Florida gave cor
dial welcome and unlimited opportu-
nity to many exiles of the French en-
| pire after the downfall of the first
Napoleon. There are Murats. Talley-
J rands, Richelieus, who fed the WRATH
| out their fortunes in the southern
state, and their descendants are
among il most u useful and ipat e
atonement to this ancient family OF
Cantacuzene and perhaps restore its
| hereditary lands. Prince Michael
traces his origin directly back to EN-
peror John ", who reigned over the
western Roman empire from his capl-
tai. Constantinople. from 1855 to 1871.
He was a Cantacuzene. and. having
patriarchal family. he made over GER
! tain crown lands in Moldavia to some
sons of a second marriage. These
| iCantacuzenes eventually acquired vast
landed estates in what is now Great.
er Russia and which formed part or
the patrimony of that Prince Michael
who married the only daughter of
Gen. Fred Grant There are now five
Michaels who are Princes Cantacu-
zenes and in the direct line. But the
iprince, who has become an American
citizen and a valuable citizen of Flor
/ ida is also by imperial decree Count
Speranza, title which came to him
| through his grandmother. who was
born Countess Elizab beth Speranza.
sole heir of the titles and estates and
! who married Prince Cantacuzene;;
i head Of the family Prince Michael
! and his American wife have three
ichildren-one. Michael. would be dub
bed the twenty-f1fth if his immediate
! forbears bearing the name of the
| great archangel special patron OF
/ Russia, were counted chronologically.
| He was born in 1900 and probably by
| special act of Congress will enter
West Point. The second son. Prince
Barbe, is about nineteen. and there
| is a lovely girl. Princess Zenaide. who
possibly will be among the buds of
next winter. if her parents find
suitable domicile here. This semi
American princess has resided in
| Washington with her grandmother.
| Mrs. Fred Grant, for the past four
| years.