Evening star., 1922-12-03

| IOreSatnereu last December, or these
! hostesses Of the Supreme tribunal,
| two are recognized as Washingto-
! nians-Mrs. Taft. who came here in
her early girlhood to spend many
happy months as the guest Of Mrs
| Rutherford B. Hayes. and who in
later years filled successfully the role
| attaching to the wife Of the solicitor
| general Of the Department of Justice,
| of the Secretary of War and Of the
President of the United States. and Mrs
Sutherland. who spent nearly twelve
years as 4 member Of the senatorial set
! and then lived for two more in a resi-
Dental sense. Mrs. Pierce Butler,
| who was Miss Annie Cronin of st.
Paul, wife of the recently named
! successor to Justice William r. Day,
| comes as complete stranger to Off
cial society. though she is very well
known to the Minnesota circle in
Congress and her husband has been
frequent visitor in the past fifteen
years. Quite q contingent of Mime
sofa educators reside near Washing
| ton and Judge Butler was frequently
the guest of DR.. William Turner. now
Bishop Of Buffalo. but then pro-
fessor of philosophy at the Catholic
University. Mrs Butler, having reared
a large family. is now enjoying great
| er leisure. and has recently been we'll
known in welfare work and i'll phil
T.; anthropic activities The new justice
will bring the largest family the Su-
! preme Court circle has known since
! the days of the late Chief Justice
| Fuller, whose eight daughters made
brilliant chapter of social history.
Judge and Mrs Pierce Butler have
nine children. one under ten. and this
group will present a new and un-
usual interest to the sedate court set.
| Excepting the House of Representa-
| tives, no portion OF the official world
| has grown SO rapidly the diplu-
| ma tic corps When the Secretary Of
State and Mrs. Hughes preside at the
| breakfast which ushers in the new
year many guests will appear. No
! private home is now adequate for this
! traditional courtesy. and even the
J spacious precincts of the Pan Amer
! lean building begin TO look crowded.
J AT the numerical progress with which
the foreign corps leaps forward now.
| the diplomatic breakfast of ten years
hence will call for the largest hotel
. ballroom in the city. There are three
! vacancies in the ambaSsadoria corps.
! The next representative Of King VIC
/ tor Emmanuel will arrive shortly. but
] no successors have Yet been named
! for DR. lie Breton of Argentina or
| Baron Snldet2ra of Japan Cuba lacks
| a representative to serve in place of
| Senor Cespedes lately made minister
of foreign affairs There are contra
dictory rumors from The Hague about
!; the next minister from the Neither
lands. and constant allusions to the
| calling OF the German ambassador
DR.. Otto Wiedfeldt to become min
lister of finance in Berlin. NJ. jus
serand has set at rest the stories that
; he will be recalled. He Will serve
/ here until his voluntary retirement.
; possibly two years hence.
/ Prince Gelasio Gaetani, the mem-
Der of the Italian chamber of depu-
| ties recently appointed ambassador
! to this capital to succeed SlSnor Ro-
landu Ricci. is suffering the fate of al
| those who bear we'll known given
j name in an extensive family. namely,
/ he is being confused with his cousin
i also a deputy and resident in Naples
, The ambas assador. who is expected III
! Washington about the middle of De-
cember, is that Prince Gelasio Bene-
| detto Gaetani who belongs to the
major branch of the family and was
born in Rome and has always resided
| there. His brother. Prince Leo Ana
tolia Gaetani. is the Duke of Ser
moneta and the head of the family.
! His brother next in age. Michael
! Angelo francesca Gaetani. is Prince
Z, of Ba ssiano and is chevalier of the
! Legion of Honor and commander
! of the knights of Malta and re-
sides with his wife and family in the
venerable Palazzo Gaetani. in Rome.
over which his widowed mother pre-
sides. Prince Michael Angelo married
! in 1911 Miss Marguerite Chaplin of
j New York and has two small daugh-
ters;: The dowager Princess Gaetani
is the daughter of the late Earl of
Lathom and the aunt of the present
earl. who is a poet and litterateur
of London. The new amba ssador has
spent much time with his mothers
kindred in Sussex and speaks Eng
lish perfectly. He will find some of
the kindred of his elder brothers 8
wife in the several Chaplin families
esta blished in Washington. And most
interesting of all. he is unmarried
and though in his forty-fifth year
and of handsome presence and genial
, nature. he is alleged to be unattach-
ed and without any matrimonial ru-
mors connecting him with the old
! world. He will make second bache-
lor in the amba ssadorial set, Dr. Coch-
rane de Alencar. the envoy from
Brazil. being at present the only un-
| married member of his rank.
E; the popularity of Baroness kathleen
: Moncheur, daughter of the Belgian
ambassador and the stepdaughter of
the baroness. who was Miss Charlotte
Clayton of Arkansas: The Baroness
! Kathleen is of dashing type and af-
fects the immense hat of black vel
| vet with sweeping plumes which has
! been having vogue this season. She
goes in for athletics and has become
famous on the hunting field. She
prefers the American wing of society
to the resident British and is leader
! in the set dominated by Miss Ethel
! Field and Mrs. Beerbolm Tree, who
are spending the winter with Lady
Beatty. AS shy little maid: the
whom Baron Moncheur had by his
| first wife. the sister of Mrs Padel-
| ford, the present belle of London, at
tended convent school here and was
. afterward sent abroad to study in
passed the years of the war in a
convent in Spain and having Joined
her father in London she was pre-
sented at court two years ago. The
elder sisters live in Belgium, one
the other in the home Of an elderly
relative Of Baron Moncheur.
Mrs. Charles A. Munn's tragic
death fey fey weeks ago s,ov viii p1sss p1sfs
street and Scott circle In the list OF
notable homes soon to be sold. She
had resided in Washington only oc-
casionally during the past five years
and mono Of her children care to live
here, even briefly. They all have
homes Of their own and have estab-
lished their own activities. Charles
A. Mum, jr.. who married Miss Paul
of Philadelphia. has taken over the
interests Of his wife's family in the
country life of what 10 called the
| Main Line" suburbs Of the Quaker
City Gurnee Mum prefers life
abroad and he and his wife. who