Evening star., 1922-05-07

viscountess Acheson, wife Of the heir
Of the fourth earl, who was before mar
riage Miss Mildred Ridgley Carter,
daughter Of Mr.. John Ridgley Carter of
Baltimore The marriage took place
June q. 1910. whilst Mr.. Carter was
minister to Rumania. and 1t was q bril-
Hant social event, the ceremony being
performed at st. Margarets, West
minister. with Mr.. William Phillips.
undersecretary of state, then second
secretary of the embassy in London, as
one Of the bidegroom's attendants. Wis.,
count Acheson. now fifth Earl Of Goss-
ford, has brilliant war record, having
served In his cadet days under Lord
Roberts in South Africa. He was
captain in the Coldstream Guards all
through the late war. and after the
armistice he was sent to China to con-
Acheson inaugurated a brilliant regime
in Peking and Shanghai and was a CEN
tral figure in the large Anglo American
society there. The home Of the Ache
sons was the handsome residence known
as Falmouth House, Clarendon place,
in Hyde Park, and the country seat is
in Surrey. There is one son. Archibald
Alexander John Stanley Acheson. who
now becomes the viscount and who was
born in 1911 and baptized at st. Georges
chapel, Windsor. with Queen Alexandra
standing sponsor. Mr.. Ridgley has re-
tired from the American diplomatic
service and maintains an establishment
near his daughter in Hyde Park and
has in addition spacious apartment
in Place Vendome in Paris.
That Paris has declared in favor of
the plain linen blouse in preference
to the ornate, much embroidered and
belaced affairs Of seasons past calls
attention to the fact that this style
has never gone out of fashion on this
side of sthe world. especially among
the women who are referred to as
tailormade in every sort Of apparel.
from hats1to the trig boyish-looking
oxfords. Hundreds Of such may be
seen on the streets in New York and
other big commercial cities where so
many business women are abroad and
who dress invariably in plain, severe
fashion during the hours Of their en-
ployment. Many well known women
wear tailored gowns and blouses the
entire day until they dress. for the
evening, and have ignored the pre-
vailing cult of one-piece dresses and
graceful but, fancy wraps. In Eng
land the populace would scarcely
know Queen Mary If she appeared in
daylight hours except in a trim cloth
suit and the snug small hat familiar
the world over through her photo
graphs. On dress occasions she wears
the same shaped hat with an aigrette
Of ribbons or ostrich plumes, while
her evening gowns are invariably cut
princess style. Mrs. Thomas Jex Pres
ton, jr., is another devotee of the tai
tornado garment, and the second Mrs.
Woodrow Wilson never wears any
other on the promenade, and she has
kept an assortment of plain white
blouses all through the yeras when
they were presumed to be unfashfon-
able.
Miss Helen Frick. daughter Of the late
Henry c. Frick, Is devoting her time
and splendid income to the creation of
a reference library for the masterpieces
assembled in the various galleries in
New York, which WHY be comparable to
the splendid undertaking Of Sir Robert
Witt in Porunan Square in London.
The British metropolis has an abun-
dance of art reference volumes. but Sir
Robert spent the greater part Of twenty
years collecting data in regard to the
artists and their works represented in
the London Collections. Miss Frick has
set about her task in the most methodi-
cal way, studying library classiflcations
under the most advanced specialists and
engaging a staff of fifteen practical
are, besides, celebrated artists engaged
in criticism Already Miss Frick has
some $4,000 descriptive paragraphs, each
making unit and presenting photo
graph Of the painting or etching treated
Beginning with the schools Of art in
Europe in 1900, some Of the data reaches
down to 1850. For the present Miss
Frick does not attempt the Intricacies
Of oriental art SO numerously presented
In the Metropolitan Gallery. But she
aims to make complete history of
each work, with a description of the
artist, where he lived, how he obtained
his training, to whom he sold, and the
various wanderings of the picture. il it
had one. before reaching a haven in
New York.
A distinguished and most interested
visitor during the past week was DIR.
Grace Richie England, who was the
official representative of Canada at the
Pan-American Conference Of Women
and who spent a few days in Washing
ton.~en route to- her home in Ontario.
DR.. England is the first graduate of
medicine to be carried on the rolls of
McGill University Of. Montreal. While
taking her course one Of her teachers
was DR.. Auckland Geddes, who In now
British ambassador to Washington, and
with whom she Immediately renewed
the old ties. But DR.. England was
here in her extreme youth, when her
uncle, Hon. Sydney Fisher, SECRETARY
of agriculture in the cabinet OF Sir
WilSrid Laurier, accompanied that
statesman to Washington some twenty
years ago. Besides being the first medi-
cal student OF McGin. Dr.. England is
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