Evening star., 1920-07-11

thought her duty in life was to be
| a foreign missionary and redeem the
| heather, but she never even at
tempted to realize this ambition
before she too surrendered at dis
| cretion. There was quite a pleasant
| meeting between the two friends in
San Francisco Mrs. Maheney has
| been in Washington recently as the
guest of Judge and Mrs. Timothy
| Ansberry. also friends and neighbors
eight years ago. Mr.. and Mrs
| Franklin Roosevelt are part of the
their quota to official activity. They
are cousins, the running mate of
| Governor Cox having married Miss
Eleanor A. Roosevelt of New York,
but the Roosevelt connection is
rather involved, and it would require
gle the exact degree of kinship.
However, the assistant secretary of
the Navy would not permit his chill
dren to duplicate and hyphenate the
name as other members of the family
ihave done. becoming Roosevelt -Roose-
yelts, after the manner of the Chi
cago family of Chatfield-Chatfield
Taylors and many others. The young
daughter of the Roosevelts attends
the Cathedral School and cherishes
the memory of the visit to 1T of the
Prince of Wales. The candidate for
has resided for several years in r
street near 22d, locality. quiet and
elegant and identified with stately
functions in the official world 1t is
| in the immediate vicinity of some of
the most pretentious homes in Wash
ington, that of Mrs. Scott Townsend
| and of the long line of celebrities
| who have made Massachusetts ave-
nue.. r and s streets prominent spots
| in Washington's Mayfair.
| When Enrico Creel was ambassador
| from Mexico to Washington he was ac-
counted one of the richest men in the
| world and with assets which might
make him the rival of Rothschild Bar
| ney Barnato, any of the superabund-
antly opulent But when Diaz fell his
| fortune was swept away like mists
| before the sun and for the past ten
years he has been living modestly in
Los Angeles. and the sons, whom he
trained so carefully to administer his
vast fortune. have been filing small
clerical places .thereabout. But now
Mr.. Creel, with other distinguished
exiles. is homeward bound and, pos
sessing phenomenal business acurnen.
he will no doubt realize something on
his land holdings and possibly on his
mines. Gen. Terassas, father of Nine.
Creel and the leader of the Mexi
can army which defeated the hosts
of Maximilian. lost nearly all of his
| HldleTidl pOSSeSSlonS ana tnree OF his
sons. and has been living simply in
Ell Paso. He also has been invited
back Another distinguished exile
bidden home at his first opportunity
is the accomplished Francisco de la
Barra, for several years ambassador
to Washington. and now a professor
| of the Latin languages at the Sor-
bonne in Paris. Senor de la Barra
was provisional president in the in
terim between the death of MADEIRA
I and the election of Hnarfa
most satisfactory official. But he
belongs to the old noblesse of his
| country and was not acceptable to the
reformers who were in the saddle.
Arizona, New Mexico and Texas have
been filled with the penniless refugees
from below the Rio Grande, and a
curious evidence of how the little
number of lovely and gently reared
girls who had to seek any means of
| living which offered. Some of the
best hotels in San Diego and in San
Antonio employed mattresses who had
figured in the loftiest social circles
before the change of the Diaz regime
They filled their duties faithfully and
it was unique feature of the enter
tainment that the guest who had been
| served gracefully to his viands could
ask the pleasure of escorting the same
maid to the dance, which inyarfabIv
followed the dinner. All the pretty
mattresses preserved some evidence
! of their former state in dainty ball
gowns and slippers. and, of course.
| resplendent fan They have proved
| so valuable to the hotels that the
managers view with dismay their
wholesale departure
| Mr.. and Mrs. Isaac T. Mann. who
| have enlarged the Washington COLONY at
Manchester. N. H, have been recentIv
entertaining their friends in their fine
estate in West Virginia, which is hut a |
comfortable ride in powerful motor
car from Washington. Mrs. Mann. who
has many accomplishments and is
popular and hospitable hostess in her
18th street house. is an earnest
member of the guild of gardeners, and
she has reveled in the glory of her
| aquatic specimens. Though loving ali |
growing things, Mrs. Mann has spe
cialiZed In water plants and of the iiIy
variety. and perhaps nowhere out Of |
Egypt may such glorious lotus flowers
be admired as those which spread their
indigo blue petals on the mirror of the |
tiny lake which lies in a sunken gar
den. The bulbs came from the Nile and |
possessed pedigree which was as
founding. and they were a gift, for the |
genuine old historic lotus plant is an 4
exceedingly difficult plant to secure in |
the usual commercial way. For years il |
has been a fad of this f1ower-Ioyer to |
make an aquatic garden which would |
rank with any in the world: and it may
be that Mrs. Mann had in mind rival !
ing the splendid garden of the Prince |
Borghese in his villa outside of Rome, |
for he. too. has myriads of lotus |
blooms and of family tinted lily of
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