The Washington times., 1921-06-12

vegas, Lieutenant Hairabarne. and
Lieutenant Sardinas travel with the
team. Nine. Colva and Mime. Jiminez
are also with the party. which Ia put
ting up at the Shoreham Hotel.
The members OF this polo team rank
as high in the social world OF Cuba
as In her sporting world and conse
| qpently they are being made much OF
here. Last evening Colonel and Mrs.
Patton gave dinner for them out al
the Chevy Chase Club: Major Queke-
meyer had an informal party for some
or them one evening last week, and
numerous other festivities are ION the
| fire."
All the games, practice as well as
| tournament, will be held in Potomac
Park, starting at 4 o'clock, and the
public will be made welcome. the
buss line, starting back of the Treas
ury and running down into Potomac
Park, is now in operation, so the polo
grounds are easily accessible to per-
sons afoot as well as to carriage
company"
While society folk are beginning to
7lip away TO Newport or tho North
Shore. Bar Harbor. or Canada ever
SO many people seem to be planning
| to remain In town all summer ano
Chevy Chase, Cleveland Park. Edge
moor--a beautiful little 81 Element
which now comprises about twenty
families. all of them OF special inter-
est socially--and other attractive su-
burbs offer many advantages as sum-
Mrs. EvanS Browne, who has been
abroad for several months, has re-
turned and has taken the little cot
tage on the Girvin Peter place In
! Edgemoor. The Peters big house.
you know. was burned last winter and
Comdr. and Mira. J. w. Barnett. tr.
who were occupyingNt. barely escaped
with their lives. The Barnetts now
have the home OF Mr.. and Mrs. ciar-
ence L. Harding just across Edgemoor
lane from the Peters house. which. by
the way, Mr.. and Mrs. Peter propose
to rebuild. The Hardings came to
town last fall and have been living at
the Kenesaw apartments. Mr.. Hard
ing, I believe, was the architect who
designed the Franklin MacVeagh
house in Sixteenth street.
Mrs. Brownies own house in Edge
moor is leased just now to DR.. Conrad
Jenny. secretary Of the Swiss legation,
and his bride. That house has always
been rather popular with brides. II
was occupied by Mona McAdoo when
she became Nine. de Morenschild. and
later by owen Johnson and his second
wife, who was Cecile Denis do La
garde. She died there at the time Of
the birth of her first baby. II was
after that the Brownies took the house
where they lived until Mr.. Browns
sudden death last fall The Girvin
Peters have the home of Comdr. and
Mrs. Hugh Mclean Walker. Mrs.
Walker was Elisabeth K Dodge.
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Harrison
| Dodge Mr.. Dodge is superintendent
of Mt. Vernon and belongs to the old
aristocratic Georgetown family of
that name. The Dodges have a house
in Edgemoor. too. and their widowed
daughter. Mrs. Elvin II. Heiberg, lives
there with them. Major Heiberg died.
| you will recall. several years ago.
| while serving as military attache at
Rome.
EdRemoor is now at the height OF
it's summer bloom and there 10 surely
40 more charming place to be found
than this artistic suburb. The owners
seem to vie with each other to see
which can produce the most artistic
effect in gardening. The walled gar
den of Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Lindsay
Mrs. Lindsay Is the one who Is so
active In the Girl Scouts, you know
L
| ly. Leading from the house into a
grove of giant oaks, 1t Is framed In
high wall OF stone over which the
great trees loom and spread their
shade The stone has the appearance
cf great age and Is softened with
| trailing clematic and Virginia creep
er. Bright beds of flowers in formal
PATTERNS are edged with close-clipped
| harbor vitae and traversed by little
paths of sparkling white gravel. Al
| one end of deep stone pool, large
enough for a child to paddle in- Civ
ing a delicious sense Of coolness to
the whole place.
The Walter Tuckerman house 10
tuilt around a court. Spanish style,
and Is framed in lawn of three acres
set with perennial shrubs. New ar
rivals in Edgemoor are Mr.. and Mrs.
Edward Morse, who formerly resided
at the historic old Fairfax home, on
the Mt. Vernon road. Mt. Eagle, In
Virginia, on the heights of Hunting &
creek and overlooking Alexandria and
Washington. They sold IT and bought
the handsome home on Exeter road
formerly owned by Mrs. Harry st.
George Tucker. Tho extensive plant
lirg which they are inaugurating
shows that they have no intention of
being outdone by their neighbors.
The Edgemoor tennis courts are per-
fectly fine and are in constant use.
Tea is served by members of the
IFdgemoor colony at the courts on
Saturday afternoons. Play will short
Iy begin in competition for the Edge
moor cup. There is talk of building z
a swimming pool near the courts. too.
-
American diplomats seem to spend
more time In Washington than al
their posts" This plant. recently
expressed. was inspired by a read
ing of the society columns In which
the names of Richard washburr
Child, recently appointed American
ambassador to italy" Peter Angus
tus Jay, minister to Roumania;" 'Trs
Nelson Morris, minister to Sweden
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