Evening star., 1921-02-20

mother, Mrs. Whitelaw Reid. recent
ly left Dudley House, in Park Lane.
London, and will pass a few weeks in
Cannes and then take steamer from
Several new and entirely sanitary
hotels are now accessible to the Holy
city. but many British visitors bring
tents and all paraph ernalia for life
in the open, and are granted full
space in the sand hills, which rise all
R about the capital Of ancient Israel:
he American contingent in Paris will
also be largely represented about
Jerusalem in few weeks. and to
pass Easter in Palestine is replacing
the old desire of the piouS to pass
it in Rome.
One of the most beautifully ap-
pointed dinners given this winter by
the Lotus Club in New York occurred
last week and was in honor of Baron
RoSen. former ambassador from Rus
sra who has made such a brave strug-
gle, first with failing sight and then
with the total loss of his fortune
Baron Rosen and his daughter, the
young Baroness Elizabet who was
conspicuous leader in the diplomatic
SET IN the middle years of the Roose-
neit regime. have been living quietly
IN IN New York for three years. The
baron has been keeping the wolf
from the door by his clever pen. and
the baroness by giving lessons in
lnterpretative dancing and the ar
ranging Of tableaus and Russian ball
let effects for masked balls. Bar
ohess Elizabeth was one of the court
lddies of the unfortunate eldest
daughter of the czar and was her
close friend. She had received many
nonorS and decorations besides hand
some gifts from the grand duchess,
among them an exquisite jeweled
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tew treasures she succeeded in bring
ing with her into exile.
Lord and Lady Chalmers and their
young daughter. Lady Hermione who
VIII spend some months in Washington
during the financial negotiations with
which Lord Chalmers is charged, will be
notables of the post-inauguration sea-
son. Lord Chalmers is in the realm Of
BRITISH finance what John Pierpont Nor
gan is in American, and he knows
whom he will be associated in Washing
ton He has filled every role in the
British treasury, having organized the
national insurance system of the United
Kingdom and reorganized the inland
revenue system. He is now auditor of
the civil list and has been blue-penciling
some cherished benefactions to scions
o: royalty. In the literary world Lord
Chalmers is known as the greatest liv-
ing authority on the native tongue OF
ramifications, the dialects used in Bur-
ma, Siam and Ceylon. Lady Chalmers
is one of the powerful social sponsors
OF the Lloyd George ministry and has
been conspicuous in entertaining the
coalition ministry which served during
the crucial days of the war.
While nearly all Of Washington is in
tereSted in the new cabinet, there is a
large contingent tremendously concern
Oh
ture, and that he is to be another Iowan.
friend and neighbor of the present in
cumbent and presumably like him as far
as republican can be like a democrat.
is hailed with joy. The Merediths are
keenly fond of flowers, and their apart
can lure Mrs. Meredith from flower
exhibit when she thinks her presence
will aid the good cause.
Now Washington in its rosariaps
is cherishing an ambition to give
show which will place it on the map
beside Los Angeles and Portland, Ore.
The directors of the national expert
mental rose garden at Arlington
farms, after visiting private estates.
rose-loving suburbs and governmental
gardens, say that If it's resources were
unified Washington could present
rose display of stupendous size and
beauty. Mrs. Meredith has been ap-
preached on the subject. but mod
estly pointed out how recently she
had come and how short was to be
hersojourn, and suggested that the
wife of the next Secretary of Agri-
culture would be the logical person
to inaugurate such happy movement,
or some one who could represent
him. There are famous rose gardens
about Washington that would make
a splendid display. There are sew
eral outlying towns about the capi-
tai where rose lovers cultivate many
hundred bushes SO intensely as to
draw, forth wonder from florists. If
the Secretary of Agriculture smiles
on the movement and the Chamber
of Commerce and the Board Of Trade
recognize how fine thing such an
exhibit would be for a greater and
more beautiful Washington, half Of
the work is already accomplished.
NJ. CASTOR Vidal, formerly a. poilu.
but since the war an outstanding
figure in the chamber of deputies. is
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