Evening star., 1922-11-05
Tales of Well Known Folk
In Social and Official Life
Capt. Tottenham, Recent Addition to British EN-
bassy Force, of Distinguished Irish Family.
General Notes.

Capt. F. L. Tottenham, r n, who
has recently come to the British en-
bassy as naval attache with the des-
ignation Of wing commander" comes
Of one of the most eminent county
families of Ireland and is the squire
Of Tudenham Park, Westmeath.
Capt. Tottenham's line is the junior
of the famous family of Ballycurry.
County Wicklow, the head of which
Is always known as "Tottenham in
his boots" because OF his ancestor
riding madly from his country estate
north straight into the Irish parlia-
ment and still astride and covered
with mud laundering his vote against
union with England. The new naval
attache has many relatives In this
country and was in pre-war days
frequent visitor. Mr.. Charles Fred
erick Tottenham. his cousin. owns
fine stock ranch in Placer county.
California, and recently became a
naturalized citizen Of the state. The
sister Of the rancher, formerly Miss
Violet Tottenham. married into the
well known family of Post in New
York city, and her husband is John
Norris Post, son of Mr.. and Mrs.
John Post of Westchester. The ma
val attache is a bachelor and will
make an agreeable addition to the
unit of the unattached in the Wash
ington corps, lately quite depleted
both through Cupid and changes In
the British government. He is about
forty-five and has won every kind
Of honor in the air service of the
late war and in subsequent sklr-
mishes which the British airplanes
have had in various parts Of the
world.
Prince Almone. second son Of the
Duke of Aosta and his wife-Who
was Princess Helene of Orleans
would. were the First Lady In more
robust health. have been feted at the
White House just as his illustrious
uncle. the Duke of Abruzzi. was. The
prince is, however. very young and
comes quite unofficially. while his
relative was sent to command an
italian warship at the naval rendeZ-
yous which preceded the jamestown
of royal prince. particularly one
who belongs to a friendly nation like
Italy. the late ally CT this country in
the world war, always calls for rec
ognition from the Executive. but the
President in the present instance is.
as President Wilson did during the
visit of the Prince of Wales. permit
ting the honors in the social way to
this season of the year society In
Washington is rather Rnorganized.
with many notable absenees. the am
bassador from Italy being conspicu-
GUS one. But the young prince, both
in Washington and the cities he had
visited previously, seemed to like the
informality OF his reception and that
he may come and go undeterred by
curious throngS or embarrassed by
multitude OF invitations which he
etiquette
which is followed by the royal house
of Savoy this Prince Almone as heir
presumptive of the Italian throne is
of much consequence. and will so re-
main until the young Prince of Pied
mont marries and has an heir.
1t is the rare season, indeed, which
does not witness the blooming of at
least one bud in Gotham who bears
the name of Vanderbilt. Two years
ago there were four who claimed 1t
either as last or middle cognomen
Miss Consuela Vanderbilt. daughter
Of Mrs. William X Vanderbilt, I'd, will
divide honors with her cousin. Miss
Reginald Vanderbilt, who will be pre-
sented by her mother. The latter
since her divorce, has married Mr.
Sidney Colford. A tremendous lot of
entertaining will mark the bowling in
of these two and the festivities may
many connections and scores OF
friends. New York has a formidable
list of buds and they will include
demure little girl who took peep a,
things social for few months dur
ing the world war. Miss Betty Ste;-
tinius, daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Ed
ward Stettinius. who lived here dur
ing 191S-19. These buds will have to
be content with the traditional series
of the junior assemblies and the vari-
Gus holiday dances. which begin on
Thanksgiving eve and puncture the
calendar until Easter. Boston. which
boasts of a long and brilliant list of
buds, is inaugurating series or sup
per dances which are less formal and
more congenial to the buds than the
origin. Mrs. Ronald Lyman is the
executive of the supper dances and
she has dates enough to keep the
debs busy. Miss Fances Weld. daugh-
ter of Mr. and Mrs. Bernard Weld. is
considered among the more important
Of the young people at the Hub. who
will bow this winter. She is the cousin
of Mrs. Larz Anderson and list Of
fetes has been planned in her honor.
which include Boston, New York and
Baltimore. where she is widely con-
nected.
The Essex County Agricultural So
ciety, which has staged a country
fair in the closing days or August 1or
one hundred years, postponed that
important event this year until mid
october in order that the Mypopia
Hunt Club might add vim to the occa-
sion by having drags, balls and hunt
breakfasts, while the agricultural ex-
hibit was in progress for the live
stock this year included blue rib:
bon steers of lengthy pedigree as well
as the faithful dranghs horses horses and I'd
plump cattle. Mr.. F. s. Moseiey or
Newburyport. was chairman. with aids
chosen from prominent citizens OF
Long Island. among whom were e. j
Peabody, George Eustis Corcoran,
Henry Platt Mexican and Frances Ap-
pleton of Ipswich. The entire popula-
tion Of the island was represented at
the fair. While the live stock dis
play attracted crowds OF sporting
folks as far removed as virginia and
Kentucky. the enterprising commits
sion merchants of New York were IN
hand to buy the mammoth vegetap,es
and fruits which had been aWa' oeo
prizes. The Essex County fair began
it's life when the neighborhood poast-
ed many prosperous farmers '-nd re-
tired shipbuilders from New ork ana
they planned their initial snow aiter
the celebrated country fairs or Essex
in old England. The fair iasteo d
week and closed with general re-
ception and supper to the entire COM
munity.
The former friends and associates OF