Evening star., 1922-03-05

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MISS HENRIETTA e. LANCER,
Who has accompanied her mother.
Mrs. II. A. LANCER. to Palm Beach to
spend several weeks.
where the inmates in oppressive
weather may get breath of ocean
ozone and walk in the soothing sands
about the sea. Lord Nevill was well
in the Duke of Devonshires suite in
Ottawa. He is about forty. good look
ing and unmarried.
Mrs. Sarita Sanford Ward. who has
recently presented the National Mu-
scum of Natural History. in the
velous collections of African and
miscellaneous subjects. was few
years ago a frequent visitor to her
daughter, then Mrs. Colville Barclay.
wife of the councillor of the British
embassy. some time charge d'affaires.
Since New Year. however, he has
been knighted. and as Sir Colville
Barclay is the British minister at
Stockholm. Mrs. Ward is the daugh-
ter of the late Charles II. Sanford Of
New York. who. having amassed q
fortune building railroads in Argen-
country. financing vast haciendas
and commercial enterprises until his
name became household word in
the great Latin republic. He also
gathered many specimens there. and
later in Africa. which his daughter
has added to the splendid collection
of her husband. the late Herbert
Ward, sculptor, scientist and travel
err Mr. Ward was with the Stanley
expedition. and was the last survivor
of the Emin adventure. He died In
1917 as the result of wounds and eX-
haustion received as an ambulance
officer in the great war. His widow
returned to THIS country, but spends
much of her time with Lady Colvllle,
in London. and with her son. Capt.
Herbert Sanford Ward. member OF
the British flying corps. who was
wounded in the German lines. His
captivity and almost miraculous es-
cape has been written in vigorous
style. and makes one OF the most
fascinating stories of the great war.
Mrs. Ward has recently been In
Washington supervising the unpack-
ing and exhibiting of her treasures.
They are of historic Importance as
we'll as unique, and Will be DIS
played to the public within a fort
night.
would be difficult to imagine that the
adoption of the breakfast in the open.
announced in the Virginia. Pennsyi- j.
yania and New York exclusive hupt
clubs. That at the Middleburg Club
in FauQuier county. already in use,
NAV be described as ideal. On firm
ly placed broad and high pedestal is
fixed a round piece of wood. daintily
covered in damask and laden with all
that is tempting when the riders are
fresh from a canter through thS
fields. Ham SLICED or as sandwiches,
%0ll CT q
and strips of bacon. coffee. which
would tempt an anchorite, together
with conserves and relishes. are with
in easy reach Of the mounted guest
who takes immense pride in controll-
ing his horse SO we'll that drinking
ALL And the horses are not forgotten.
for at various intervals are placed
piles of apples and heaps of cut
sugar. carrots and all the things
which an equine considers proper 1ol
fine breakfast. Such merriment and
and such a riot for the eye, the scar
let coats of the riders and the green
and scarlet of the club attendants
and the more Subdued colors of the
feminine attire in the open and under
a sunny sky make picture to IN.
spire the painters of those hunt
sketches which adorn grills and
country homes the world over.
1t has been an opinion almost uni
versally accepted that king Albert Is
one of the most gallant men Of the
age, and his recent recommendation
that the Countess de Noailles be elect
ed to the newly created Royal Bel
gian Academy of Letters has proven
it. This latest addition to the sew
eral institutes long flourishing in Eu-
rope has taken the broad view of
modern times that genius knows no
In
the countess. though married to one
of the ancient regime of France.
Count Mattieu de NoailleS. comes of
the same distinguished line of Bessa-
rabia and Bucharest as the present
minister from Rumania. and her
father, Prince Michael Constantine de
Brancovan, is the head of the house
of Bibesco 1t was the younger sis
ter of this esteemed poetess, Princess
Catherine Helene de Brancovan. who.
now married to Count Alexander
Caraman-Chimay of Brussels. ac-
country as her lady y-in-waiting.
Countess de Noailles has passed near
ly all her life in Paris. and from ten
der years has been absorbed in lit
erary pursuits. No account of CO.
! temporaneous French authors is
ly added novels and poem dramas
to her long list of achievements in
French letters. King Albert, who es.
tablished the Royal Belgian Academy
and contributed most generously to
it's endowment, held fast that in hon.
oring a candidate in the domain of
the French language and literature it
mattered not in what country that
author resided and still less that
whether he or she were Belgian
subject, which is a long leap ahead
of the famous Academy of the Inn
fv1 po oric Il.
nit women, and clings tenaciously
to French authors living in France
and citizens of the republic. In the
lengthening list of the honors COM
ing to women the Countess de No
allies assumes that Of being the first
academies of letters in the old world.
From Copenhagen comes the pain
full news that the quaint old house of
Adam Oehlenschlager, the chief of
Danish romanticists and intimate
friend of Longfellow. after being
maintained a half century as a lit
erary shrine is about to be demolish-
ed to make room for a large modern
apartment. 1t was in this mansion
that Longfellow and his friend
studied deeply those old sagas and
heroic poems which form the founda-
ton Of Scandinavian literature. That
most delightful of American classics.
"Hiawatha," is undoubtedly the re-
sult of the Cambrtdge's poet asso-
citation with Danish sources and
the enthusiasm enkindled by. the res
nowned Danish writer. All. Amer
leans visiting the capital city of
denmark Invariably sought out the
domiciIe of Oehlenschlager, which
was at a junction of streets as i'm
nortant as those meeting in front of
the treasury in Washington. All
the relics of the illustrous author and
his extensive correspondence with
Longfellow and autographed copies