Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1921-11-20
Tales of Well Known Folk
In Social and Official Life
Continued from Tenth Page.)

some nineteen years ago and educated
in private schools of London. The Duke
of Uzes Is premier duke and noble Of
France and his grand chateau at Bon
nelles, surrounded by 5000 acres. Is
celebrated In French history for Its
name Dues Is pathetically associated
with the MarQuise de Lafayette, for
the duke and duchess Of her time, her
grandparents, were victims OF the gull
lotine, and 1t was this close association
with royalty which led to her own
peril In the Conciergerie, and from
which James Monroe, then minister to
France, rescued her:
At a period when New England is
conspicuously before the public,
hostesses In the senatorial circle from
this historic region are singularly
few. Mrs. George Payne Mclean of
Connecticut and Mrs. Henry Wilder
Reyes of New Hampshire being
first three of the sextet of states
which bear the name of the mother
country. Mrs. Mclean, who was Miss
Juliette Goodrich of New York and
closely akin to the Pinchots. Enos
and others SO we'll represented In
local society. has never taken prom
inent part In the general amenities.
But sh0 performs her official duties
punctiliously and is type Of the con7
sentative chatelafne from New Eng
land, so familiar in social annals.
Miss Alice Page Is the sole represent,
alive from Vermont. and her aged
fathers delicate health limits her ac-
tiviies. OF the two senators from
Massachusetts. one. Henry CABOT
Lodge, Is widower. and dlspenses
only the most formal hospitality with
his daughter n-law as hostess. and
the other. David Walsh, is unmarried.
Neither of the Maine senators has
an establishment Of his own, though
the mother of Senator Hale frequent
ly presides over his social activities.
Mrs. Colt and Mrs. Gerry lift Rhode
Island high into the active ranks, and
there the list ends. Mrs. Reyes Of
New Hampshire plays dual role-in
the general amenities and In the in
tellectual field.
In the face Of the tremendous out
lays needed for practical purposes,
only the most optimistic hope that
Congress will look with favorable
eye on the project of making Month
! cello part of the national domain and
preserving the splendid old mansion
| as a perpetual memorial of the writer
Of the Declaration. In letter re-
| Gently received by Washington
| friend from Mr. Myron Herrick, am
| bassador to France, he told of the
| pleasure conveyed in visit to the
villa Of Malmaison. pathetic reminder
! of the unhappy love of Napoleon and
Josephine. Despite the demands made
! upon France at this juncture. certain
| needed repairs were made at the villa
Just as soon as conditions after the
| armistice allowed. and relies Of Ma
poleOn crowded in the old palaces by
| the avalanche of new souvenirs
! thtther. Less than third of the
mansion which served as refuge for
| the deposed empress now remains.
! but that fragment has been carefully
| treated to fit in the surroundings
| and presented charming picture to
Mr.. Herrick. who viewed it in the
| early autumn. Napoleon. in the role
of the great lover. Is paramount about
Malmaison. for his bust adorns a
| marble pillar at the entrance of the
on posts where usually satyrs or
| fauns are seen. He wanted to be
| ever present to the mind of Josephine,
even after he had divorced her.
! A lovely painting OF the creole
| empress of the French, as she was when
| she first came into Napoleon'S life, by
! Pierre Prudhon. adorns the main salon.
Such touches az these. in Mr.. Herrick' s
opinion. are what endear France to the
world: her infinite pains that the coming
generations shall share the glory of her
memories. Monticello. with every scrap
| Of personal souvenir to be gathered to-
+. gether. is well worth an effort by Con-
gress in behalf of the coming American n,
| il not for those OF today. Certain
publc-spirited women are already form
| ing society to promote spirit of his
torica1 reverence in the lawmakers as
well as in the citizens and in the juve-
niles.
f! When Miss Adelaide Kip Rhinelander
! recently became the bride of Mr.. Julien
! ST. George Shackno of Brooklyn, in ST.
| Thomas Church. New York city. with
| her cousin. Bishop Philip Rhinelander,
F., sometime rector of st. Adams in Wood
ley lane. officiating. the good wishes OF
many Washington folk followed her.
For she blends some families well and
| favorably known at the capital. and her
J mother, Adelaide Kip. was frequently
| here. during the late Cleveland admins
| tration. as the guest of her aunt, Mrs
Violet Van Rensselaer, Cruger. The
Rhinelanders and kips are both of the
| old noblesse of New York and they
! figure on almost every page of it's his
torical chronicles and in the writings
of Irving and others who wrote satir-
/ ically Of the burghers who ruled New
Amsterdam about 1876. Mrs Shackno
! is prominent in Junior League affairs
| in New York and on Long Island, where
! the summer home is situated.