Evening star., 1922-12-17
Holiday Viands Here
Disappoint Diplomats
Small Variety of Fruits Especially Displeasine to
Latins-Goose to be Piece de Resistance
in Many Legations.

lights. known as Olivia May, who
married Lord Angleseys only brother
and heir. Sir Victor Paget. recently
severed her alliance with the captain
Of Royal House Guards at White
hall and plunged anew into matri-
monial waters. the bridegroom this
time being the Earl Of Drogheda,
owner Of the famous Moore Abbey.
Victor Paget,, the present Countess Of
Drogheda was the sister -in-law of
Mrs Richard c. Pennoyer of the
American embassy in Berlin. 1t will
be remembered that the Countess of
Drogheda. with her friends. the
Countess of Annesley. was in Wash
ington during the disarmament con-
ference last year and the countess.
because of her prowess and gen
erous patronage of aviation. was
consulted frequently by the con-
ferees. But this lady divorced the
Irish. peer last spring and is now
married to the enormously rich Mexi-
can. Don Guillemo de Landay Escan-
don. said to be slated as the next
Harding and President Obregon get
on more amicable terms. The Escan-
dons remain i'll possession of their
great OIL properties. among the few
aristocratic Mexicans whose estates
We're not confiscated. Don Guillemo
the cousin of Senior Don Louis de la
Barra, one time ambassador here and
now a professor in the Sorbonne in
Paris. The Earl of Drogheda and
his new wife are now In Dublin.
where they have opened a handsome
home for the season.
With social leaders here and in
many other cities devoting hours to
learning the intricacies of Nah
Jongg; the royal Chinese game, a
daintily prepared little book called
"The Game of the Hundred Intelli-
gencies" is proving an acceptable
Christmas gift. 1t comes from some
Chinese importers in San Francisco
and New York, with which it is of
fered for sale together with the i'm
plements of the game. Mah-Jongg,
which threatens to assume the popu-
larity OF ping pong. is described in this
small volume as resembling somewhat
the British game of tummy and has
some features of bridge, of poker and
of tennis. No wonder it requires a
full hundred demands on the brain
for the student to master its details
even before acquiring the necessary
mechanical skill. The book Of Nah
Jongg contains complete history of
the fascinating sport and gives a list
Of all the royal adopts down the ages
and some statistics of their perfor-
mances. II Washington is to Mah-
Jongg with its customary regard for
its reputation a profound study of
the game must prccede the perfor-
nance.
Exchange Of garden amenities this
year are taking the form of prettilv en-
broidered little bags done after the way
OF knife and fork covers but instead of
receptacle of silver, these little open
ings are filled with flower seed with
. ~s&k.-
each flap. Many Of the eminent gar
dencrs along the sound are making such
to exchange seeds with friends. and in
variably the seed is gathered from a
species which has won a prize in the
autumn or spring flower shows Thus.
II. w. Hardinge Of Forest Hills, Long
Island. has perennial garden of phlox.
calliopsls and rubeckia, which is famed
In the countryside. At Christmas, Mrs.
Hardinge gets ready many little seed
bags and presents some very valuable
gifts to heighboring gardeners. For
many years, the splendid hollyhocks,
which grow on the water front of Buz-
Yards bay at Marion, Mass. have fur
nished seed which is sent all over the
country. Mrs. DENLY, who was born in
this picturesque little town. was given
some few years ago and it blooms
riotously in her home in Detroit Mrs.
Larz Anderson frequently exchanges
seeds and roots with friends and neigh
bors and happy. indeed, are those who
receive some of the celebrated Japanese
served briefly as ambassador to Japan.
Mrs Harding. since coming to the
White House. has received SO many re-
quests for roots or seeds from the
lovely flower pots about the mansion
that she would welcome permission to
scatter such treasure among flower
lovers of the country. But the White
House gardens are under almost mill
tary rule and seeds and extra bulbs and
roots are carefully taken to the propa-
eating gardens for the innumerable de-
nands which come for flowers through
out the entire year.
Nine. Anna de Loria Norman OF
Lyme. Conn. is an American. who has
climbed to the very heights of the
art of Illuminating manuscripts and
of embroidering in the method Of the
twelfth. thirteenth and fourteenth
centuries. A native of Lawrence
Kan. as a young girl Nine. Norman
studied art in Paris, but her natural
preference was for reviving ancient
Illuminating and she studied for sew
eral years in the School of St Mark
in Venice, then patiently spent years
taking lessons in converts and in lace
and embroidery schools. meantime
keeping the pot boiling by water
color sketches of familiar italian
scenes and designing patterns for art
embroidery. Wltnln tne past week
her most extensive work has been
placed on exhibition in the New York
Public Library. "Ecclesiastes or the
Preacher and it is pronounced by
various art commissions the most per-
feet Illuminating since the middle
ages. There are margina! and full
mage illustrations, and the book is one
Of ten printed on vellum by the Bal
jantyne Press in black and red and
is what Is known as kings font, pat
ented by Charles Hickman. But all