Evening star., 1922-08-13
Tales of Well Known Folk
In Social and Official Life
Miss Mary Wallace Aids Her Father, the Secre-
tary Of Agriculture, in Crusade to Establish
Bird Havens Along Golf Courses.

clubs. Such bold and sociable warblers
as robins. martins. blue jays and spar.
rows. flickers and catbirds will build ir
! the trees. no matter how dense the
population under them, but the bes,
songsters will not do so, and this in.
cludes the meadow lark, the bluebird
the song sparrow and the purple mar
tin. II the refugees which Mr.. Wallace
urges urges are provided with hedges like
those which encircle every preserve In
England. this idea of the Agricultural
Department will bear the best of fruit
for defending the song birds from cats
dogs and bad boys. each variety OF
enemy as destructive as the other
Miss Mary Wallace. who takes a keen
interest in such matters. has been en-
thusiastic over this latest activity In
defending the songsters and Is making
point Of looking over inclosed club
courses with the idea Of suggestions II
the proper sort Of environment is not in
as Turing inhabitants for the bird
houses which are to be abundantly sup
piled. The water hazard already at
tracts many birds out at Chevy Chase,
but they are visitors with homes in the
deep woods beyond the golf course.
Lady Astor is faring nicely at the
hands of her constituents in Plymouth
and her friends on this side believe she
will represent this venerable town in
the house Of commons as long as she
desires the honor. Another American
member OF parliament, only naturalized
some ten years ago. and for the express
purpose Of standing for parliament for
Brixton. is Mr.. Joel Herbert Seavins OF
Boston. Junior partner in the London
firm of Henry w. Peabody & Com
pany of London. Mr.. Seavins was sent
20 z
war and bought a fine estate in Brix-
ton, and then becoming profoundly in
terested in righting certain affairs
among his neighbors, became a subject
Of his Britannia majesty and was elect
ed by the Brixton constituency. This
time no one entered the lists against
him.
Mrs. Seavins was Miss Helen Brown,
daughter of the international banker,
H. S. Brown. formerly Of Portland. Me-.
and she is among the influential Amer
lean hostesses Of London. one Of the
ems Club and director of the Lunch
con Club for Strangers. Mr.. Seavins
and his wife are frequent visitors to
their old home in Boston and keep up
many Of their activities there. Their
home in Brixton Is one OF the most ex-
well kept. They are among the fire.
quent entertainers during the boating
sea son and when the races are on.
Two Of the loveliest young princesses
in Europe are the Infantas Beatriz and
Maria Christina. daughters Of the King
OF Spain and his English queen. who
Is the granddaughter Of Victoria and
the first cousin Of George V. The Queen
Of Spain invariably passes n few months
in opening the summer season at
Cowes. where her royal spouse enjoys
the yachting and her group Of children
mlngle with the utmost freedom with
the little Brtishers who are there
habitually during the summer. Princess
Beatriz Is the older OF the two daugh-
ters Of Alfonso and is just entering her
fourteenth year She is altogether
Spa nish In appearance. without a trace
Of her half English origin. Her sister
who is eleven. is fair and blue-eyed and
bears a striking resemblance to Prin-
cess Mary. with whom she is a prime
favorite.
King George. for economy sake, last
summer sold the royal residence at
Cowes acquired by Queen Victoria. but
the purchaser has proven to be the
Viscount Lascelles. who made over the
place to his bride. Princess Mary Is in
particular manner devoted to Cowes.
for here she learned to yacht and row
and manage a canoe, Is we'll as to con-
troll sailing vessel. The little Spanish
princesses are quite near the LascelIes
mansion and in care Of duenna, their