Evening star., 1922-09-03
Tales of Well Known Folk
In Social and Official Life
Romantic ENLARGEMENT Announced in Montreal
Recalling British Admirafs Visit Here-Mat-
ter of Interest to Audubon Society Circles.
Other Notes.

Since the Audubon Society had its
inception in Washington and one OF
its first presidents. DIR. Robert Ridge
way curator of birds at the Smith
sonian Institution, was largely in
strumental in making the capital
center for the activities and develop
ments of the feathered songsters. Mr..
T Gilbert Pearsons visit to England
during this present month. is arous-
ing much interest Mr.. Pearson Is
the present executive of the national
organization of Audubon circles. and
his object is to hear the nightingale le
in itsanative haunts and to regiStc"
its notes for comparison with the
beloved singer of this country. the
mockingbird and it's saucy cousin
the catbird. 1t has always been a
bone of contention between Ameri-
cans and their overseas kindred. the
British. whether the nightingale S
song was worthy of all the praise
of poets and whether the mocklnS-
bird did not surpass it in volume.
sweetness and range of notes IL
has never been scientifically tested
Another warbler over which the
British poets rave, is thel biack-cap'
which has no counterpart in this
country. The blackbird of wash
ington and of all the Atlantic sea
board is a beauteous creature, but
destructive to fruits and vegetables.
and its notes are utterly lacking III
sweetness. Mr.. Pearson will look
into the alluring possibilities of eN-
changing nightingales for mocking-
birds and black-caps for wood
fhrushes. Scientific methods have
shown that with care climatic rigors
can be minimized for the song BIRDS
houses. beef suet put out regularly
during the cold months. with plenty
Of table scraps. not alone bread
crumbs but minced meat. vegetables
aud fruits. Time was when the cardl-
nal winged his way south with the
first severe weather. Now he and ms
thickets near homes in the suburbs
aud subsist on the kindness OF their
friends.
Though no romance followed the
visit of Admiral William Pakenham
and his staff to Washington last
SpIing. a very pretty one developed
ia Montreal. where the ill,fated nag
ship. the Raleigh. since destroyed IN
- West Indian storm. spent several
y ceks The engagement has recently
been announced of Miss Rita Macken-
ne. daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Allan
Mackenzie and cousin of the
premier. Mr.. Mackenzie King, rscently
in Washington, and Lieut.. Charles
NsShetou Curzon Howe of the royal
navy, son of the late Lord Howe.
ninth of the line. who was that dis
tiuguished sea lord, Admiral Assheton
Gore Curzon Howe, who died in 1911.
Lieut. Curzon-Howe has many reia-
tivcs bearing the name of CurZon, and
he is the brother of that Earl Howe
who recently married the former Miss
Flora Davis of New York, who was
the widow of the late Marquis OF
Dufferin and Ava. Miss Mackenzie is
one of the younger bellies of Montreal
through Lord Allan. maternal grand
father of both. The wedding will
occur in December and possibly IN
Bermuda. where the Allan Mackenzies
spend the winter months. Admiral
Pakenham and his staff. after barely
escaping with their lives after the
disaster to the flagship, proceeded to
London. where all are at present await
ing the usual investigation into such
accidents.
\ whimsical effect quite apparent
in the countryside this present sea-
son is obtained by the novel weather
Vanes which adorn houses and barns
and which proclaim to the passerby
the avocation. hobby or particular
pastime of the occupant. If anything
could be funnier than the COW which
Mrs Medill Mccormick has placed
over the barn of her model dairy at
Lake Forest. ILL.,. few people have
seen it. This COW stands on vane
high UP. and her distorted head sways
with every breeze and her tail flaps
up and down in the most diyerting
poses. a householder outside of Bal
timore has handsome garage, and
his vane is a satirical collision be-
-
the law, and 1t must make every po-
lceman who passes in sight burn
with indignation to see how his
authority is Haunted by the occupant
of the machine perched high on the
pole. Some of the country clubs have
fights of duck as their vanes. and
they are both pleasing and suggestive
to the gunners lollng below on the
grass. Others have demure pond
ducks waddling across long rod
over the clubhouse. Many are the
devices of fishermen to inform the
passing disciple of Izaak Walton that
II conGenial spirit may be found with
In Some show a fisher tilted on the
edge of the roof with his rod swing
ing in the air. Others have a fish or
two crossed. while another familiar
device is a rod with a fish dangling
on the hook.
American architects might profit by
the efforts of their British brethren
10 revive the fanlight and the stately
doorways of past era5 on the thou
sands of new residences now being
built in every part of the old world.
rs we'll as the new. Viewing the out
put about Washington. the doorway
is treated very slouchily. and the fan
light is a s defunct as the brass knock
or or the iron scraper against the,
Vestibule. Except In the most ancient
of Georgetown houses, handsome door
ways in this section could be counted
On ones fingers. 1t is inspiring that
some British architects have offered
that mansion in the Beacon Hill sec
ton of Boston, known as No. SO and
n part of the Thayer estate. as the
most perfect specimen produced in re-
cent times. 1t is of the past century,
and the fanliGht is hooded by a deep
cream proje elton, and the outer rim.
which covers the light proper, is pro-
drced on each side of the door and
" it'll imposing results. The door it
S"lf is heavily beamed and-paneled
and of two shades of mahogany, with
2 long brass knocker and big brass
knob. Another Boston house. also in
the Beacon Hill section, reproduced
tre fanlight over all the windows, as
well as the doors, with ornate and ac-
ceptable effect. An eighteenth CEN
tury fanlight and doorway at Sid
mouth. in Devon. England. pleases all
manner of architects, since 1t has been
copied into several hundred houses.
most of them. however. in Canada and
australia. Philadelphia ranks next to
Boston in the beauty of it's entrances.
aud there are entire streets where fine
effects are reached by fanlight over
p paneled door. The capital possessed
one of the loveliest of fanlights and
doorways In the old Slidel1 mansion,
recently demolished. and there were
many in that block of buildings which
were torn down to make room for the