Evening star., 1921-07-03
Tales of Well Known Folk
In Social and Official Life:
President Often Ambidextrous When Greeting
Friends-Gen. Anson Is Interesting Figure.
Incidents In Bonapartes Career.

count some of the amusing ex-.
periences. which are always the lot
of doubles.
Mrs. Lansing. too, has frequently
been called on to be pleasant to peo-
pie whom she did not know. but
constituents Of Mr.. Raker in Modoc
county. Mr.. and Mrs. Raker were
closely associated during the forma-
tive period. as her husband entered
| the law Office Of her father. Judge f.
". Spencer OF Anaheim. in southern
California. after finishing the gram
mar school course in San Jose.
He conquered the law in short
space and was soon Junior mem
Der OF the firm and he is known as
one of the brilliant legal lights OF
his section. The marriage to his
senior partners daughter occurred in
1859 Mrs. Raker is prominent
! member Of the Congressional Club and
| is active in all affairs OF the legis-
| Iative set and of the Pacific coast.
. A distinguished visitor from Lon
| don, now in Ottawa and soon to come
! to Washington. is the Hon. James
Lowther. the retiring speaker OF the
/ house OF commons. Mr.. Lowther has
| been sent by the more ancient popu-
| lar assemblase of the British gov
crnmr.t in Westminster to present
| speakers chair to the house of rep
! resentatives OF the Dominion or Can
| ala, which is an exact replica OF the
one which sits aloft in the chamber
| of the commons. Mr.. Lowther, FOL
, lowing the established precedent of
the British parliament, has been
given a seat in the house of lords,
and will take his place among the
peers of the realm at the next sit.
ting. His elder brother. Sir Cecil
Lowther. who served with distinction
| with the army in Flanders and at
! tanned the rank of major general.
has been elected to represent him in
| the family boroughs which comprise
Westmoreland and Cumberland.
Lowthers represented these counties
that 1t would seem a startling innova-
| ton II a member of another name
| were to secure the honor. The new
| member. Maj. Gen. Lowther. was at
| tached to the British embassy under
Lord Pauncefote. in 1902. The former
| speaker Of the house of commons will
| be received in Washington with every
| honor, and will be specially feted by
the Speaker Of the House. Mr.. Gill
lette.
| Mrs. Richard Pretlow Ernst. wife of
the junior senator from Kentucky, Is
one of the recent arrivals in Wash
ington and is pleasantly located in up
per 18th street. Mrs. Ernst is return
ing to the neighborhood of the first
American home of her ancestors. for
she was. before her marriage some
| thirty-flve years ago. Miss Susan
! Brent, daughter Of Mr.. Hugh Taylor
Brent of Covington. Ky. All of the
| large family of Brents in Kentucky
are descendants Of Thomas Young
Brent. grandson of Charles Brent Of
Stafford county. who followed the course
of empire early in the nineteenth CEN
tury. and married Miss Elizabeth Tay-
lor.
The next generation was the Taylor
Brents. so numerous in the Blue
Grass state. in Missouri and down the
Mississippi to New Orleans. Mrs.
Ernst. after the arduous duties Of
fitting into her new environment, in
tends to visit the old home Of the
Virginia Brents. which is, at Wood
stock. opposite Aqua creek. in Stafford
| county, and where the first member
| OF the family. George Brent, erected
! a stately home. Senator and Mrs
Ernst have two children. William
Ernst. who is practicing law in Ken
lucky. and a daughter Susan Brent
Ernst. now Mrs. John Palmer Darnall,
who, with her husband. is the guest
Of her parents. Mrs. Ernst and Mrs.
| Darnall are as active in the cosmo-
politan society of Cincinnati as in
Covington. and all through the war
were conspicuous in Red Cross and
1
| !f the member from the first dis
tr1ct OF New Jersey lived in Great
Britain or any part of the older world
ne would be known as Patterson Of
PATTERSON" for he stands two hum
dred and fifty years removed from
| that Francis Patterson from whom
the thriving Jersey town takes its
name. His father. however, removed
! from the stronghold of the clan to
w hnr ha
ancient name received his education
al! that he would accept-from the
local public school. after which he
graduated into life as a printers
Mr.. Patterson is among the news
paper men who are seated in the ma
| tional legislature and Is the owner
| ana general manager Of that brisk
| daily known as the Camden Post
| Telegram. He is distinguished in an
! large bachelor group entered after
last November,s election. Naturally
Mr.. Patterson thinks highly Of the
state of New Jersey, and there are
| few incidents connected with it's long
| and honorable history which he can
not relate in entertaining fashion;
whether the query concerns the Swede
immigration or the thrilling episodes
about Trenton staged during the rev.
olutionary struggle.
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hotel and has taken but a 1anguid in
terest in social affairs.
Cornelius Vanderbilt, jr.. whose pro-
fessional career is beginning with
journalism is conducting such a
vigorous campaign in behalf of See
America First that the Canadian re-
sorts are sharing with those of the
United States in this onrush Of tour
tets tha x{roI h,,o
Vanderbilt paints very alIuringly the
paradise to be found in the deep Rock
les of Alberta. where fish and game
abound, but where human kind is rare.
a different condition from the general
| run of things on the Atlantic side.
There are splendid lakes about VAN
couver where all conveniences for tent
ing may be obtained and where tooth
some fish frolic at your feet and big
and little game dart in and out of the
| mountain passes.
According to this enthusiastic young
writer. mosquitoes and other insects
are not so abundant in this primitive
country as. on the older coast, while
other tempting adjuncts are more
abundant: cooling breezes. limpid
streams, superb mountain passes.
which are just few of the reasons
should stay on 1t. instead of rushing
OF to Europe to things much less at
tractive Then the Canadian resorts
have Swiss cha lets, with the priceless
treasurers, Swiss innkeeperS and
guides, and general factotum. All
about Alberta. emigrant Swiss have
! farms where they make cheese almost
as good as that to be enjoyed at Ter
matt or on the Rigi.
Mr.. Vanderbilt has obtained such
| fine results through his descriptive
! articles, that some of the progress
| siye Latin Americans are soliciting