Evening star., 1921-10-16
Tales Of Well Known Folk
In Social and Official Lite
Continued from Tenth Page.l

! ming boat last summer about the
,, wild waters Of Wales. 1t Is shall
low affair with big sail but. addi-
The vessel fairly dances on the sur.
race of the water much as gull
does and goes prodigiouS rate when
the wind Is swift. without the least pos
sibiiity of capsizing. The young heir
OF the Spanish throne is at st. Briac.
and he too has a skimming boat de-
signed after his cousins, of Wales,
ana he may be seen any morning
wrestling with his sail or steering
when the motor is going. 1t has
mer at San Sebastian. where the
Spanish court is domiciled from
1 June, and the royal family has sought
I.cooler quarters. King Alfonso and
Queen Victoria have been much in
Scotland and at Dinard. the guests of
Queen Marie of Roumania. Quite
colony of American young people are
at st. Briac and enjoying the un-
| usual experience of riding and sailing
with future king.
One Of the delegates which China
will send to the conference on the
limitation of armaments is the son
.of Dr., WI Ting Fang. that clever
his parents left Washington. But he
Is now a grave statesman with the
title Of doctor himself and an envi-
able record for statecraft. Like the
present minister from China, young
Or. Wu Chang Flu is former Central
High School boy. but he belonged to
the pigtail era and to the pacifist
days Of his country. SO he was uncon-
nected with any of its athletic activi-
! ties. But he was an honored student
for all that and was formally elected
to all the societies. military and lit
| erary.
! Young WI mastered English in
brief time, and he always accompa-
MED Madam WI in her social rounds.
making an entirely acceptable inter-
longed to an era which is now his
toric. She was the last Chinese lady
resident here who had the bound
feet, and her shuffiing mode of walk
ing always excited both pity. and
tional ways of China and to it's gar
ments. though she was intensely
interested in the ways of western
women and asked innumerable ques-
tions about the mysteries of their
with high honors at Oxford and
studied also in Paris and Vienna.
He will be one Of the most interest
ing and much feted visitors drawn
to Washington by the November con-
iference.
With the woman in politics a domi-
nant issue everywhere. Washing
tonians are profoundly interested in
| the career of Mrs. Charles II. Sabin.
who as Polite Morton was leading
spirit in the younger set when her
father. Paul Morton, was Secretary
of the Navy. Mrs. Sabin was an
aggressive partisan of equal rights
gingerly voted them fun rights Of
| citizenship. After obtaining the
| vote, Mrs. Sabin began a career which
| promises the most brilliant results
From her home in the Shinnecock
Hills of Southampton she conducts
vigorous campaigns. thus far princi-
pally in behalf of such aldermen or
local officials whose election relates
to the welfare Of the community.
Her latest triumph was to secure
Of Southampton. to be assemblyman
frcm Suffolk county district, and in
cidentally to defeat the ambition of
the former official who showed slight
concern over the prosperity Of the hill
eaged se in ONE; one ' Of those ssS traditional DsH
feuds about a road which touches the
south end OF the estate and which
immemorially the public about have
freely used. The justice Of the peace
the road should be kept open and in
good repair. Mrs. Sabin thought
otherwise. and she aroused SO much
feeling on the subject and got to-
gether such enthusiastic support that
this particular justice is now among
, the missing. and his successor is
willing to submit the matter to a
popular vote, something for which
Mrs. Sabin has contended from the
first.
One of the curious reminders Of
royal days in Bavaria was the old
silver bowl used by Mr.: and Mrs
Mark Lawrence Requa, of Piedmont.
Calf. when their grandson, John
Lawrence Russell, through the proper
sponsors. renounced the evil one and
all his works and pomps. Young
John is the son Of Mr.. and Mrs. John
Henry Russell, who were in Wash
ington for the past two winters and
order that the venerable bowl used
at many royal christening at
Nuremberg. Bayreuth and Munich
could hold the sacred waters of bap-
tism. Mrs. Requa found this beau
tiful example of the carved silver of
Nuremhurg at a public auction in
Munich and eagerly bought against
such uses as John Lawrence Russell
furnished. The water used for the
ceremony came from the Jordan. bot
tied more than thirty years hssp ago rer
fully doled out during all these years
for the children and grandchildren
| on their baptismal day. The Russells
will pass nearly all the winter at
Piedmont and will not come east until
after Easter.
One Of the notable books Of the
autumn is "Other Days." by the Hon.
and Rev. James Wentworth Leigh.
brother of Lord Leigh. both of whom
passed several years in this country
and both of whom wed Americans.
The reverend author is dean Of Can.
terbury and has been giving much OF
his leisure to collecting his reminis-
cences. which extend over a half
ana Hs 1slate ata wife SG tyee c9a miss
Frances Butler, daughter Of Mr.: and
Mrs. Pierce Butler, Of Philadelphia.
the latter known to histrionic fame
as Fannie Kemble. An entire chapter
of "Other Days" is devoted to memo
additional sidelights on the American
stage when she was in the height OF
her power.
The marriage of the English actress
to Mr.. Butler proved unhappy, and
after living in retirement some ten
at last obtained a divorce and re-
turned to the stage, Her home dur
ing her declining days was with the
Dean and Mrs. Leigh, and some
amazingly clever letters Of Miss
Mrs are sh sss some pane 81 tese ese
years ago, and the only daughter wed
her cousin, Maj. Pierce Butler of
Cloughgrenan. Ireland, and at pres
emit with the Twenty-ninth Regiment
Of the EsE,sn 1nfantTy pn.n y:xps new rssn, sta
Of Washington in 1856 and Of Phila-
delphia during the latter half Of the