Evening star., 1922-12-24
Tales of Well known Folk :.
In Social and Official Life
Senatorial Women 5 Club Provides Hostesses to
Aid Mrs. Allen J. Dousherty in Keeping Open
House at Red Gross Building Sundays.

,.ingly described In Bleak House a.
| Chesney Void. home of Sir Leicester
| Deadlock. and he had rebuilt the cele
brated old innrst the gate OF the parl
| called In the novel. Deadlock Arms
but in reality The Village Green
That other American peer. Albert
Kirby Fairfax. twelfth Baron Fair.
/ fax of Cameron, Jared better, and en-.
tiers the present parliament from Car.
Isle. This American noble wislds a
! graceful pen and has lately been eX.
| Treating himself from the muddle In
| which most British writer's get in re
| gard to his relationship to George
I Washington. The eighth Raroh Fair
tfax was the brother -in-law. so t6
speak. of the illustrious patriot. since
his sister had married Lawrence
Washington. elder brother Of the
! general. and from whom he inherit ed
Mount Vernon. This Fairfax, who
like the ninth. tenth and eleventh
barons, was de jure and not de facto
was the chief mOurner at the Wash
ington obsequies. The present lord
claimed the peerage in 1908. He is
married and has one son. His brother
Charles Edmund Fairfax. who under
British law Is the heir presumptive
of the title of Fairfax of Cameron,
lives quietly at Landover, in Prince
George County, Md, and declares that
his domicile forever and never the
Union Jack
Shadow Brook, the splendid domain
of the late Anson Phelps Stokes in
one OF the loveliest parts of the
Berkshires and adjacent to Lennox.
was sold recently to the Provincial
of the Jesuit order and will here
the novices domiciled at St. Andrews
on-the- Hudson at PoughkeepSie,
y. Y. No estate in the Berk-
shires has more brilliant social
history than the mammoth mansion
and estate which was the last
which he spent more than three mil
lion dollars. The mansion was SO
spacious that the sons of the family
would bring. a hundred or more
school friends for few weeks out
ing and the parks and grounds
tired Of it. however. and even the
Rev. Anson Phelps Stokes. Jr.. who
clung to it longer than his brothers.
finally permitted its lease as hotel.
Andrew Carnegie and his family lived
at Shadow Brook for some time and in
1912 he purchased it. But Shibo
Castle lured the Scotchman in sum-
mer and he finally relinguished it
on a lease to the. then Mrs. Alfred
6. Vanderbilt. now Mrs. Ray Baker
Mrs. Baker once thought it the per-
feet home at any season. but lately
her camp in the Adirondacks proves
more attractive. Mrs. Carnegie never
and Mrs. Roswell Miller. her only
child, recently built summer home
after her own ideals. at Millbrook
n. Y. The Jesuit order pur-
chased from Mrs. Carnegie and at
a sum which is less thatl Mr.. Stokes
Yn.pI fn ncio
Another we'll known estate changed
hands within the month, when MIR
Frank A. Munsey purchased the
Louis Sherry farm on the north shore
of Long Island, and known through
out the world as the most perfect
replica in existence of the Marie
Antonette diary and lodge at Little
raised famous cows on the place and
his dairy was as dainty as that of
the unfortunate Hapsburg princess
who donned rustic attire and froliced
with her maids. A charming group
of houses was built against the wood
entertain his notable patrons when
social life reached the crest of the
wave in Hampstead. Mr.. Mlunsey is
known to be hospitable and will no
doubt keep alive the old traditions.
but the lovely boudoir and salons in
tHe retreat ol ltlc, FcJlCu SSueSH.
which are true to every detail at
Trianon will be lost on a group of
journalistic. capitalistic men who
prefer racing and sports to such mild
amusement as playing at milking
cows or making butter. A cascade
spots near the royal dairy and it
has a pool equipped with every bath
facility. a modern accessory not to
found in Trianon, although there are
many cascades part. of the wonder
full fountain system which reaches
and the building of which the histor-
ians now believe brought on the
French revolution.
The Cercle Franchise of Harvard
gave on Saturday last one of the
finest Of their annual productions.
lie Occur Dispos" and the cast was
known In Washington. Henry Cabot
Lodge. I'd. and Jack Davis Lodge took
star parts and Mrs. Bessie Davis
Lodge. the daughter-in-law of the
senator. gave a luncheon to the
younger members Of the cast pre-
ceding the play. Young Henri de
who is at Harvard this
year, proved an excellent heavy viii
lian and so too John Radolph Robin
son of this city. The feminine cast
included Miss Ruth Thayer. Miss
Margot Amory and Mrs. Jack Bolt,
who was Marion Sprague and passed
her childhood in Washington when
her father was in Congress Her
mother is now Mrs. Brandegee' and
Is the first cousin Of Mrs. Larz Ander-
SON. Miss Betty Bea1. who Is the
daughter of Mr.. Boylston Beal. for
some time in the State Department
and now secretary OF the American
embassy in London. is home, for the
holidays and she and Miss Mariana
Lowell and Miss Helen Scott were
In skit which served as a curtain
raiser. All Of Boston and the North
Shore turned out for the play and a
big company came over from New
York, for several New York youths,
Chandler Chairman. Alfred Merriam,
and Alec Hamilton had conspicuous
roles. and there were some friends
and relatives from the Quaker City
to applaud Eugene Hinkle and young
Stephen Green.
Sir Charles Ross, one Of the great
land owners of Canada and so fire.
luently in Alberta with Lady Ross.
son. daughter Of Mr.. Andrew Ellison
of Louisv'"e. has been entertaining
! party of his friends and his wifes |
in a hunting expedition in darkest
Africa. In the party was the ex-
plorer T. A. Barnes and the indefatig- |
able travellers, Mr.. and Mrs. Freder-
ck Dalziel of New York. Sir Charles |
central part of the continent and to |
I region known as Ngoro, a genuine |
garden Of Eden, which stretches some
zen miles over the crater of an ex-
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