The Washington herald., 1922-04-16


Dora Call, Miss H II. Arnold, Mrs.
John Z. Wright, Miss Edith Merry.
Miss Faustine Dennis, Miss Ethel
Champion. Miss Lindsey and Mrs.
s. Porter.
says she Is going to take II up in
earnest this spring. Gen. Sawyer,
who for years has made the Presi-
dents health a daily study, coun-
sells a brisk ride as we'll as a Wig
orous game OF golf. Mrs. Albert
B. Fall, wife OF the Secretary OF
the Interior. is probably the most
accomplished horsewoman in the
present official set. for she lives on
a vast ranch where raising horses
is the chief business and the Sec
retary OF the Interior keeps at
least eight good saddle horses al
ways IN his stables. The Falls
have closed their apartment at
wardman Park Hotel and have
gone to their ranch for an extend
ed stay. Mrs. Herbert Hoover, wife
OF the Secretary of Commerce, COM
ing from California where the cult
OF riding is assiduously cultivated,
is an expert in the saddle but
stress of circumstances has kept
her from indulgipg in this pleas
ure and for years she has not kept
a horse.
HORSE RIDING PROVES
POPULAR IN oFFICIALDOM.
In other divisions Of officialdom
interest in the horse Is great. Mrs.
Roosevelt. when she was in the
White House. was as partial to
horseback riding as was her hus-
band. Mrs. Taft never rode, but
her husband frequently did when
Secretary Of War and also when
President. He was a familiar ng-
ure on the Rock Creek Park bride
paths and one could never fail to
recognise him In the distance be-
cause of his size. President and
Mrs. Woodrow Wilson rode to-
gether occasionally when in the
White House but not regularly at
all like the Roosevelts did; they
rode almost daily.
Mrs. Wilson comes OF horse
loving family and formerly spent
much time in the saddle, and after
she became mistress Of the White
House she accompanied the Presi-
dent. as said. occasionally, but
they did not find time as often as
they wished for the sport. Like
Harding, golf was Wilson's usual
form of exercise, but he played
almost always Just with Mrs, VIII
son and not with a bunch of men
as Harding does: he goes off
usually with his political buddies.
One party I forgot to tell you
about-lve probably forgotten sew
ersI others. too-was the supper
party which the Secretary OF the
italian Embassy and Nine. CeIesia
gave last Monday In compliment to
the Warren Delano Robbinses. 1t
was one of those beautiful sum-
merry. balmy moonlight nights and
the guests spent practically all the
evening in the garden OF the old
home in Georgetown, where the
Celesias are residing. Georgetown
has so many charming old homes.
II was jolly party: too. all young
married people and mostly those
that run around" with the Rob-
binses. like Maj. and Mrs. Bridge, of
the British Embassy staff: Mrs.
Grafton Minot, the George Carrots
and the young men from the Slate
Department; about twenty four in
all.
MANY DIPLOMATIC
WOMEN AMERICANS,
Mr.. and Mrs. Celesia are spend
ing Easter with her parents in New
York. She Is an American. you
know. but then the wives of the
majority of the members Of the va
rious diplomatic STATS stationed in
washington are Americans. hear
Nine. Kwapiszewska, wife OF the
counsellor of the Polish Legation, is
an American; she came from St
Paul or Minneapolis. She looks
foreign and I believe her parents
came from Scandinavia or some
such place. I think someone told
me that Countess de Sieyes de
Veynes, whose husband is an at
tache OF the French Embassy, is
also an American. They" were
saying to me the other day that
II astonished them" to see the way
In which these American wives of
foreigners have become absorbed
In their husbands lands and have
adopted their husbands countries
ideals and way OF looking at things
and that most of them have re-
tained-or acquired-the so-called
old-fashioned notions that a wom-
ans entire duty Is in her home,
and so forth, don't you know.
While on this subject of interna.
tional marriages. Rome's old pa
trician houses OF Ruspoli and OF
Colonna have achieved note for the
number of their matrimonial alll-
ances with Americans, and their
future generations will be able to
boast of very considerable strain
Of New World blood In their veins.
During the last week or so the
cable dispatches have brought the
news of yet another marriage of
this kind on the part Of the Prin-
ces of Colonna. and shortly after
Easter Don Fabrizio Colonna, cap
tain of Italian cavalry. and 20