Evening star., 1921-09-25
Tales of Well Known Folk
In Society and Official Life
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when the skating is especially fine.
Last year Lady Ribblesdale returned to
London for the Spring season with
bright eyes and rosy cheeks. and her
| daughter Miss Alice Astor, who is
somewhat fragile. looking robust as a
Swiss lassie, while many friends who
| had played auction or danced night
after night in crowded bathrooms did not
present such trig appearance. All the
| smart young debufanteS of London ana
! their mothers this season are down for
| several weeks of the winter sports and
many are coming to Canada for this
| purpose.
Time was when the tired business
| man of New York sought comfort and
recreation fishing along the Florida
about the delectable waters of Bermuda
or Bahama. This year the man who
| seeks strength and endurance for the
grind of the business is going to join
parties which hunt grizzlies either in
the Canadian or American Rockies, and
| that too, when the thermometer runs
| 10 thirty below zero. Lord Byng has
! caused furore of interest by talking
! up hunting trips, and not only are many
| bankers from Montreal Ottawa and
| Toronto coming to join him. but many
from New York and Boston have. so to
speak. signed up for the venture. Mr..
| Arthur Flynn of Greenwich. Conn. who
mas planned SO many successful winter
I trips, is busy getting his parties ready.
and SO, too, is Mr.. Thomas b. Clarke,
| jr.. of New York, who is getting cotil-
Ion leaders and habitual diners-out to
foregO the round for several weeks and
! track bruin to his lair. Many Of the
| polo experts are in for this way of gain
| ing skill and experience together with
Drawn and muscle for their work next
summer. Lord Byng hopes to go on
his first hunt during the Christmas
holidays.
| Nassau. capital of the Bahamas and
seat OF a large British army post. is
| as rule as quiet and decorous as a
small city in Massachusetts and its
! of Americans spend the winter there,
attracted by the low rental of lovely
coral cottages set right against the
sapphire sea and the advantages of
surf bathing all through the year.
| Last year a section of the Westches-
| ter Hunt Club established a wing for
training and exercising it's best horses
! and some highly creditable racing
events were staged. Noted golfers.
| who wanted to keep in trim all
through the winter. found fine sport
| at the links maintained by the Army
Club, and tennis players fiocked there
in large numbers. 1t was said that
a permanent winter colony of some
thing like eighteen hundred Amer
leans was established about the gar
rison and the excellent hotel outside
Nassau. Now all is changed and even
the British gloomily wonder what is
to become of their playground and
favorite haunt If the United States
cannot find some means to curtail the
activities of those buccaneers of the
trade wind seas. whose cargo is dark
brown casks and stout jugs and bot
ties. Nassau is frankly given over to
these brigands, and the citizen finds
life hard indeed. not to say hazardous.
fate in land where no law prevails.
Wild tales are told of balls on the
scows, and many of the British officers,
whose wives and daughters hoped to
spend the winter in Nassau. have
sought the Quieter ports around
Jamaica and Cuba.
According to some Americans who
are lingering in China after par
ticipating in the celebrations attend
efeller Foundation at Canton, one of
the most charming spots in the old
city is museum dedicated to chill
dren's toys. Some Of these are thou
sands of years old, and show the way
the Chinese ines youngsters have progress;
by the imperial children Of China
are arranged chronologically and with
as great care as that bestowed on
the jewels of the emperors and en-
presses. Even paintings of pet dogs
and cats and dwarf elephants adorn
the cases. and little shoes and bits of
embroidery. and strings of beads are
kept in their proper place. Young
Mrs. Rockefeller, formerly Miss AID !
rich, is said to be SO impressed with
this Chinese idea that she con-
templates a collection of American
toys, going back as far as she can
trace them and including all those of
Indian origin. 1t is a branch of COL
lecting in which this country, not
even the government, has accomplish
ed nothing at all.
Since social amenities form so i'm
portant a part of statesmanship, it
is happy coincidence that not only
the delegates selected by President
Harding to represent this nation at
the conference, men Of supreme abili-
ty, but the ladies Of their household
are experienced and accomplished.
Though Senator Lodge may perhaps
be said to have taken only a per-
functory interest in social affairs
since the death Of his wife some five
years ago. nevertheless his daughter