The Washington times., 1921-11-13
WASHINGTON CROWDED WITH BRILLIANT, :.
WOMEN. ADVISERS, WRITER'S, 0NL0OKERS,
FOR ORNAMENTS CONFERENCE PERIOD
Many English Women Here-Signora .Agresti
+" Serving With italian Delegation-Ameri-
-.< can Advisers Buckling Down to Work

; wife Of the Minister to the Court Of
St James. whose husbands are dele
gates. Nine. SIZE. OF course. Pre-.
sides over the Chinese legation. and
Nine. hoo Ii chatelaine Of Mrs. #.
B. MorAn's big house IN Aassaehu-
sets Avenue. where the ranking
members of the Chinese delegation
are domicilsd,, l..,4
Nine. Huang. wife Of General HUI
ang. the chief military adviser Of
the delegation. is also stopping ther-
and Nine. Tyau. wife of the score
tary general Of the delegation, will
:oin the party upon her arrival from
Europe on the Aquitania.
But one lady. Nine, Gather. 10
with the Belgian delegation. The
Portuguese party. I believe. has
none. However. Nine. van Karne-
eek. wife OF tho Foreign MiniPter
Of the. Netherlands. Is with her bus.
hand. who heads the Dutch ddsgA-
lion. and Nine. van H. dewitt and
fine. van starkenhorgh stachouwsr
are also IN the party. Nine. van
StArkenborgh. whose husband IN
secretary, to the delegation. was
Miss Christine Marhurg, Of Balti.
more. an intimate friend Of Miss
Helen Taft. and Jonkheer van Stark
enborsh was at ono time attached
to the Netherlands legation in Wash.
ington.
MIME. KOMATSU and Nine. Tail.
both of whom have husbands
connected with the naval advisory
board, are with the japanese delega-
ton. Then there's venerable Nine.
YAKIMA, who isn't a bit venerable
except in her recorded years. She
is not here officially-far from 1t.
The official Japanese evidently high.
ly disapprove of her. The embassy
doesn't know she's aliveAand gives
the impression of resenting her.
For whatever else they may do
and they are scrupulously polite 20
far as American women are con-
csrnsr-the Japanese are not femi-
nists. They don't take kindly to
women wanting q place in the sun.
or a hand In their government.
For all that. Nine. YAKIMA II one
of the most picturesque figures In
all this crowded town. She's q won
derful old woman. whom one accepts
as ninety years old because she says
she is-and that's a subject on which
women usually don't exaggerate.
But she DOESN'T look 1t, and she
doesn't. act II. When I meet such
an one az she feel there's . whole
lot to be said in favor Of q uni
vsrsal language. It's 30 unsatisfac-
tory to try to get at a person
through an interpreter.
Mime. YAKIMA had been feted all
across the, continent. She had travel
ed more than half way around tho
world to a country Of whose Ian
KuaRe she spoke, not a word. She
had arrived quite exhausted toward
the end Of last weck-and had man.
aged to lie in hiding for two or three
days while she rested, and got her
breath. And. then. after she had
discharged herself Of her Grand
delivered her mesSage from 100000
Of her countrywomen to the Presi-
dent of these United states-seemed
ready to do 1t all over again. She
went to luncheons. dinners, recep-
lions. teas-did practically every
stunt that was suggested to her
with the zest and energy of nine
teen rather than ninety.
IT will be good to welcome Signora
Agresti again. had the pleas
ure Of meeting her at the women's
National Press Club when she was
here some months ago. represent
ing the International Institute Of
Agriculture. An amazingly inter-
esting person. with a woman's in
tuition and a mans knowledge and
a tremendously active brain. She's
to be with the italian delegation in
some sort of an advisory capacity
and undoubtedly she'll make her
self felt. for she knows all there
Is to know about international
cbmmerce-the direction In which
Itaiy's interests lie in this confer
ence.
A niece of Dante Gabriel Rosetti.
the poet-painter. and his equally
talented sister, she was brought
up In England in tho days Of the
pre-Raphaelites. with whom she
was closely associated. Consequent
ly she speaks English like hsr
native tongue. Indeed. she has
command of many tongues and Ia
invaluable a. an interpreter. in
which capacity. by the way. she