Evening star., 1922-12-31
Andrea Boncompagni, has rejofned his
regiment and is now serving in Turin

Mr. and Mrs. Edward Laurence
Doheny @ passed through Washington
| the Honorable Anita Weir and her
| sister. the Honorable Isabella. daugh-
tiers OF Lord Inverforth, who had been
visiting them in California 1t had
been their intention to take in some
OF the sights OF the capital and to
pay their compliments to the chate-
| laine of the British embassy. but the
visitors We're summoned home rather
hurriedly by the illness of their
rather. knowing Mr.. and Mrs Do
| fornia, they had hoped to join them
| in trip to Mexico and perhaps down
fucatan to Panama. But travelling
| in the southern republics does not
yet appear to be an affair for pleas
| ure, and now rarely planned except
for urgent business. SO beyond a
; brief excursion into Southern Cali
fornia, the Honorable Anita and Isa-
bella Weir have not seen the land OF
| their desires. They are intrepid trav-
elerS and have several times pene-
| trated into the regions beyond the
British jurisdiction about Cape Town
and into the desert which lies south
I of the Barbary states Lord Inver-
| forth is land magnate of consid-
isles on the Scottish coast. one of
which is Thule. Mr.. and Mrs. Do
| heny will entertain their guests for
| few days in New York while they
are awaiting bookings for the passage
home.
This season of peace and good will
does not seem timely for these sordid
discussions in progress in England.
France. ITALY and other European
! countries affected by the world war
about the utility and artistic value OF
| war memorials. The London press
| seethes with excitement over the in
| creasing number of tablets. busts and
statues in the British capital and ad-
jacent rural districts, and vainly
| tries to call a halt. 1t has been
lists that the great monument in
Trafalgar Square is too ostenta tious
| for its purpose. since the realm
passed through many worse crises
! than that represented by the Nelson
| victory over the Napoleonic feet, and
that now the memorials of the late
! conflict threaten to occupy every
available spot in the islands. The
| quaint little city of Gloucester has
| taken these suggestions to heart, and
in honoring the memory of its gal
liant regiments almost wiped out in
the last drives of the summer and
autumn of 1918 the memorial is, TAX
ing the form Of handsome fountain
in the French village of La Boiselle,
where SO many fell. This artistic
excellent system of providing water
for the villagers. and is in reality a
| pump with cleverly devised move
ment. The committee which is over
looking these war memorials and
giving them direct supervision rate
this fountain at La Boiselle as the
! most pra ctical yet conceived and the
four miles Of good roads outside of
Urbana, Ohio, also a world war memo
rial. is given second place in this
crusade to rid all countries of these
futile cenotaphs, tablets, urns and
statues.
In the passing fashions of the older
years, London. this winter includes
the liveried retainers and notes the
that city and on the continent, which
made a speciality of such raiment. 1t
is noticed that only at such rare cere-
! monies as the opening of parliament
or the installation of a new lord may
or is the velvet-clad footman in evil
dence, and then in meager numbers,
and to call these servitors flunkies. as
, the old term was, would be to invite
all manner of political ruin. Not
ducal household now boasts of the
gold-laced, safin-clad individuals who
lent color to the fetes for hundreds Of
have naturally followed this example.
There are some gorgeous military
| uniforms. like the Beef Eaters" who
guard the crown jewels in the Tower
OF London at whitehall, and such
places. but none in domestic service
are now seen except in dark clothes.
sometimes with distinguishing but
tons and cockades. Washington has
had but few liveried servants in ten
years past. Baron Rosen. when am
bassador from Russia, had four su-
perb-lookins Cossacks gayly clad in
satin and VelvetS but these were the
last even in the Russian establish
ments. M. George Bakhmeteff. the
last czarist ambassador. had Persian
servants, with no distinguishing mark