Evening star., 1922-07-02
Tales of Well Known Folk
In Social and Official Life
(continued from Ninth PaEe.l

tivated and once boasted Dutch cot
tage of the fashion some sixty years
ago. Mr.. Hughes is partial to rural
pleasures and he plans y bit of every
thing in his place. fruit. flowers,
vegetables poultry and perhaps COW.
But he intends also to plant fne
tulip garden. which is an essential
for the colonial. house of this par
ticularly sort. cross between what Is
enthusiastically called Dutch colonial
and the New York variety versus the
New England. All the Hughes fam
lily love flowers and their cultivation
Is always deemed a rare Joy rather
than labor. The young hughes Fam
lily will not take possession Of the
new home until October. 1t is an
all the -year-round place and some ad-
ditions like glassed porches for win
ter and screened ones for summer and
a hothouse or two for flowers to
bloom in are to be made.
st. Moritz is proving a magnet for
many travelling Americans. attracted
perhaps by it's celebrity as the scene
Of the international romance between
riding master, which is still in an in
conclusive state. Mr.. A. b. Hough-
ton. the American ambassador to
Germany, is staying there at present
of e chasoanss mas rsceny ana
the Palace Hotel. which includes Mr..
Edward T; Gibbons. Mr; and Mrs.
J. B. van der Carr and Mr.: and Mrs;
Jayne ifSS Hill. Who rec; recently ai closed their
Washington home, will stay for
weeks at suyretta House. when they
conclude their visit to London. Az
seemed an exhoritant price compared
with pre-war rates. and this summer
sees no decline. But the Swiss at
tssx mases and ,Se vs,oF fhsFe foo S
worst at once. That department Of
the Italian cabinet which looks after
hotels and pensions is almost
of the hotels in the lake region and
in Turin and Milan, which charge so
per cent for light. towels. etc. Mr..
beseiged that 1t looks as though the
American embassy will get entangled
IN this tourist rate controversy. Prices
in Genoa have called forth protests
at that International conference
which recently adjourned, On the
whole whole Americans a abroad find d.,,i5 It
Belgium. Holland and FRANCE. leav-
ing Switzerland and italy for hap
pier and more composed days.
not fear any annoyance. for they
have leased for the summer one Of
the loveliest villas in that enchanted
region along Lake Como in Italy
After passing some days in London
and Paris they will leave for Milan.
in the vicinity as Villa Philiana. which
lies over the exquisite lake so dear
to romancers and on the southern
boundary of the tiny bay of Molina.
The villa Is Of white marble and re-
sembles strongly the palaces along
n rav yv
wide flight of stairs leads down from
inner court to the waters edge. The
present villa Is presumed to occupy
the site of the pleasure house of the
elder Plini. was erected in 1547 by
Count Aguissola and was frequently
the home of the tyrants of Milan. the
Farneses. Its present owner is
Partisan who purchased 1t during the
months Immediately after the armi-
stice. but who prefers life on the
boulevards rather than the sylvan
joys Of the Italian lake region. A
close neighbor to the Laughlins is the
villa OF the American foundry mag
mates, the Clark Fishers, and at the
other side is that exquisite jewel
called villa Taverna, owned by a ia
vorite lady in waiting Of Queen Mar
gharita and where she frequently
When Mr.. Oscar T. Crosby Of New
York and Virginia was assistant sec
retary OF the Treasury, his daughter.
formerly Miss Miriam Crosby, and a
well known belle Of Washington in
the late nineties. now Countess Garlic
ciolo de Melito. and her handsome
husband, Count Mario. were fire.
Quently seen in the cosmopolitan set
Of Washington. Count Mario pos
sessed romantic personality and a
hne baritone voice. and the news that
he has adopted stage career does
not surprise his friends For a few
months he was a military attache of
the Italian embassy during the world
war. but martial career did not ap-
peal. The Caricciolos sde Melito are
a cadet branch of the feudal princely
line OF Caricciolo de Castagneto OF
Naples and where they once held vast
estates. These were swept away. and
even the famous palaces of the family
in Naples. Palermo and Rome are now
In allen hands. Count Mario will ap-
pear on the silver screen under his
stage name Of Mario GARLIC, the head
Of his family the Prince Marcello
Ignacio, who lives in Rome and is
one of the directors and a chevalier
of the Knights of Malta. not relishing
such occupation for one bearing his
ciolo has tidy fortune, which her faith
er. who was president of the interna-
tional councill of finance during the
late war. has secured entirely for her
and her children. and even the income
must be spent in this country.
In the past three years no less than
eleven American citizens have enter
ed the British peerage through the
laws of primogeniture, the latest ad-
dition being that sedate and reserv-
ed Mr.. Audrey Brisco, who purchased
large orange and lemon groves near
Pasadena and has been one of the
most active and useful ranchers
thereabout. Mr.. Brisco. or rather Sir
Audrey. as he is now, was
born In Gordonsville. Va, and his
mother. Mrs. Fleming Brisco. Is still
a resident of that pretty little city.
The elder Brisco came from England
more than sixty years ago in search
Of health and fortune, marrying a
belle of the tobacco belt. He never
returned to the homeland Sir Au-
drey is in .his fiftieth year and. be-
sides a baronetcy, he comes into an
immense estate from his distant
cousin whom he succeeds, Sir Hylton
Ralph Brisco. who held fine pasture
lands in Cumberland and a residen-
tial section of Sussex, which grows
almost hourly in commercial value.
Sir Hylton disappeared mysteriously
from the Peninsular and Oriental
liner Narkunda about three years
ago and has only recently been off,
cially pronounced dead. The new
American peer Is unmarried and rich
in his own right and without refer
ence to his English estate.