Evening star., 1922-06-25
Tales of Well Known Folk
In Social and Official Life
Continued from Eighth Page,

can statesmen who appeal to the ma
tional ideals Of the kingdom Of Serbs.
has paid several visits to the Wilson
home. The former executive has
given him as prolonged sittings as
his health will permit, and he has
| expressed satisfaction with the re-
| suit. 1t Is likely that President Hard
ing and Mr.. Hughes, his Secretary Of
State. will be added to the line Of
benefactors which adorn the great
hall of the Belgrade seat of learning.
At present the sculptor Is engaged on
religious subject for the national
| cathedral Of Belgrade. He will re-
main in this country six months
longer.
With tall skyscrapers rising in the
immediate vicinity Of the celebrated
now the property of Truxton Beale.
1t is but logical that the old land
! mark will soon follow others of its
era and which have been leveled.
| Many who still live in Washington
remember social events connected with
the occupancy by Gen. Edward Fitz-
gerald Beale, the debut and mar
riage of his daughter, one to John
! X. Mclean and the other to an attache
of the Russian legation. who later be-
came its last ambassador under the
Car Nicholas, NJ. George Bakhme-
teff. But the mansion has a varied
history from the moment Of its oc-
cupancy by the original owner and
builder, Commodore Stephen Decatur.
1t was paid for with the prize money
which the hero of Lake Erie re-
ceived for his share in that gallant
action and it was the first private
building erected near the White
House after its destruction by the
British. At the time of his tragic
death Decatur was living in Kalo-
lYV10 hn hn
of Joel Barlow. He was. however.
taken to his own mansion, when he
died and where the funeral services
were held. Baron de Tuyll, Prussian
| minister. leased the mansion furnished d
from Mrs. Decatur and so did Henry
Clay when he served John Quincy
Adams as Secretary of State, 1925
90. Martin Van Buren, leased 1t for
several years. as did Edward Liv-
| ingston of Louisiana, another of Jack
sons Secretaries of State. Next came
! the tenancy of George NJ Dallas as
| Vice President. and then judah P. Ben
Jamin. who cut such swath in the
| Confederacy. Sir Charles Vaughan,
British minister. leased the house
when Gen. Beale became the pur-
| chaser. but the British had then be-
gun their handsome establishment
now occupied in Connecticut avenue.
N. Lamdros Coromilas, sometime
. Greek minister to the United States,
! and who married Miss Anna Ewing
\ els Marion Cockrell. for more than
| thirty years senator from Missouri.
| has recently been transferred to
| Rome. serving for some time in the
| foreign Office in Athens and recently
! in Belgrade. Nine. Coromilas has
! never visited this country since her
marriage some fifteen years ago, but
! she is planning to do next autumn and
will be the guest Of her sister. Mrs.
| Edison Gallaudet. at New London.
Conn, we'll remembered in Washing
| ton as Miss Marian Cockrell. Both of
these ladies were born here during
| their fathers term in the Senate, but
the younger. now Nine. Coromilas,
! spent all her girlhood in Paris study
ing music and art. NJ. Coromilas was
Of the royalist branch in Greek pol
| itics, and. falling under the dis
| pleasure of the Venizelos regime, he
was in practical exile until the return
! of King Constantine and the crescent
to the throne. He is considered one
! of the conservative statesmen OF the
| ternational relations. The mission to
| Rome Is distinct promotion.
A unique and touching ceremony
occurred few weeks ago in Samoa
| when the body of Fanny Osborne Ste
venson was buried beside her dis
| tinguished husband on the great rock
! OF Mount Yea, which towers almost
a thousand feet above the Pacific. In
| the few days of his Samoan life,
| enough to tramp and climb, he made
| the ascent of this isolated peak.
] which rises from the ocean about 500
j feet off the mainland, and. struck
| with its solemn grandeur. its remote
! ness from human contact, he asked
4 4, i, IL s<rI,x ~ Ii
| Stevenson in her last testament pro-
| yided for the conveyance Of her re-
mains to be placed beside her hus-
| bands, and this has recently been full
filled. OF the many illustrious men
1 who have selected rock tombs in iso
are by far the noblest and most re-
mote. So stormy has been the sea-
son about the Samoan Islands that
for nearly eight months Mrs. Steven
sons body has lain in the local
cemetery awaiting a chance to con-
| and to make the ascent of Mount Yea
in safety. A grand tomb is pointed
out to the strangers off Saint MaIo
| on the Breton coast, where the emf
nent French author. Chateaubriand.
had a rock jutting into the sea hol-
sary of his death. July 4, each year
| a cure from the village says mass on
the shore directly opposite and re-
cites the office OF the dead, z cere-
mony which attracts the tourists all
; over the north of France. Sarah
! Bernhardt has recently purchased a
spot similar to Chateaubriand's and
adjacent to it and will be inferred
where the Breton waves will dash
over her tomb ceaselessly and recite
her requiem.
A fragment of news coming from
! London is that. owing to the strenu
| Gus efforts of certain health reform
ers, more than 400 gallons of ice
cream are now consumed daily in the
British metropolis, and there is every
hope that the habit will become as fixed
with the public of the isles" as it
| is with the citizens of the states"
Mrs George Harvey has been much
amused by this crusade to establish
| the universal eating Of ice cream and
| naturally she has done her bit in
establishing it. All Americans who
80 to London for a prolonged period
carry all the necessary utensils to
make their own, since until quite re-
Gently frozen sweets from one end
Of the continent of Europe to the
other meant ices with fruit or
brandy fiavors. but never frozen
cream. Mrs. Harvey has habituany
served the varieties popular in her
own country, and some Of them, like
strawberry and raspberry cream.
have created a furore in English
| kitchens. Likewise frozen custard,
delicately favored with French
brandy, is deemed the height of culi-
Medicos Of Britain are engaged in
1o,son;po tho tea-drinkinor hohit of