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! nished for the past year. Mrs. STAN
| field is an avid collector of old furni-
| ture. and she is bringing some of her
! most cherished possessions to WASH
! ington in order to enlarge her speci-
] mems. especially in the colonial ma
noSanE, which is possible to obtain
! IN authentic form. whereas the works
| or sheraton. Adams and other >illus-
trlouS English masters are never on
the market. Miss Barbara Stanfield
| continues her studies in violin music
and is already accounted one of the
| most promising young amate on
! that instrument. Her mother, who is
| as accomplished a pianiste as her
daughter is 4 violinist. is always the
accompanist. and an afternoon in the
Stanheld apartment in Stoneleigh
| Court means rare treat
! Mrs. Charles Joseph Bonaparte.
/ though long past tn years when ac-
i've service is obligatory. socially or
/ otherwise. is spending much of her
tell1gent for the casual visitor the
important collection of Napoleonic
relics bequeathed by the late Attor-
n.y General to the Peabody Library of
Baltimore
This collection had been gathered
! by that intrepid Betsy Patterson. who
made so many chapters of history.
poiitcai as we'll as ecclesiastical.
during the regime of the first Napo-
leon. Her many years OF exile viii,
Struggling for the recognition of the
rights OF her son. Young Jerome
Bonaparte. included those Immediate
~ after Waterloo. when it was not
difticult to get souvenirs of the most
personal sort of the fallen emperor.
or his empress, Marie Louise and of
tne former empress, Josephine. There
are some exquisite miniatures of the
various members of the Ronaparte
! families and of the marshals and
other distinguished men of that era,
together with documents rare and
interesting. Swords. small arms. and
some flags are also in this collec-
tion. with few articles OF jewelry
and the costumes worn by Miss Pat
terson and the faithless Jerome on the
! occasion OF the marriage py Bishop
Carroll of Baltimore, December so.
1903. Some of the historic CORES
spondence which Mm- Jerome Bona
parte had with the Vatican about the
validity of her marriage is also IN
Pope Plus VII. who upheld the
action of the vicar of the Catholic
Church in the United States in marr--
ing the brother of the emperor to
Miss Patterson. was subsequently
imprisoned by Napoleon.
Old Glory now floats alone over
the public buildings of Washington.
but the liberal education received
through getting familiar with the
flags of other lands will it is to he
hoped. remain permanently. Many
women in official life have collected
miniature flags of the major and
associate nations participating in the
conference on limitation of arms
Perhaps the least familiar of all the
standards was that of Portugal. but.
according to the explanation given
by NiScount d'Alte, the minister
from that republic and dean of the
of iSta
capital. it is one of the most ancient
as well as ornate The flag of Por-
tugal was adopted before Columbus
had sailed westward and it is of
of which. on silver shield. are
the arms of the country. Around
the, Portuguese arms are placed five
smaller shields set there by AL
fonso I, to commemorate the defeat
of as many Moorish princes. And
the white spots on the small shields
are to recall the sacred wounds of
Christ, the emblem of the army
fighting against the Moorish inva-
sion. All the other flags of the ma
tionS which were associated in this
holy war. Arragon, CASTLE, Leon and
minor Spanish Kingdoms, have be-
come merged in greater Spain and
their standards no longer figure
among the flags of the nations. The
colors, green and red, have the SYM
bolic meaning of conquering the
things of earth and receiving the
reward of heaven.
The Prince of Wales on his way to
India wrote SO enthusiastically of
Malta. where his ship tarrIed for
several days, that the tide of travel
has set that way for the first time in
quarter Of a century. Valletta. the
capital. offers SO many attractions
fer the invalid, for the pleasure
seeker and for the antiquarian that
it seems wonderful that il WAS not
invaded long ago in these days when
every other desira BILE spot is over
crowded. 1t is possible to rent fine
old houses of white Maltese stone for
q consideration which would not Sc
cure II clothes closet in New York.
and that, too. on a sea always blue
and famed by summer breczes. Then
fruit. flowers and vegetables are
plentiful and cheap, fowl may be oh
tanned reasonably. but other meat.
espe cially beef. is high. while mutton
is good and abundant. These are
roomy old monaSterieS and converts
all fitted with guest houses where life
takes on picturesque aspect at
small outlay. Daniel Chester French,
whose winter home is near Palermo.
was recently in Malta and had the
rather grueSome experience of assist
ing at a funeral in d Capuchin monaS-
terry where the dead friar carefully
mbalmed was placed in kneeling
posture in the chapel. All the dead
members of the community thus await
the last call. in kneeHng posture. in
a great mortuary room chiseled out
of the solid. rock and lighted from
the church above. 1t is thrilling
experience to go into this vault, for
the faces of the monks. some dead
these 200 years, are turned toward
the visitor and the expressions are
quite well defined. This mode of
burial, formerly common in monastic
orders. survives only in Malta.
Sir John and Lady Harrington, who
We're guests of Mr.. and Mrs. Larz An
derson in their Italian home on
Massachusetts avenue one of the
impressive spots of the city, have
been familiar figures at intervals for
the post ffteen- years and before that
Lady Harrington, as Miss Amy Nc
MILAN. daughter of the senator from
Michigan, was among the resident
bellies. Her marriage occurred In
1901. when her husband, a gallant
member of the Indian service. was
lieutenant colonel. with the fifth Bat
talon of the South Lancashire Repi-
ment. He has since been kniehted.
Sir John and Lady Harrington have
char rming villa near the channel Is
lands. but they reside princiDalIv i, a
roomy mansion in Lennox Gardans
southwest London. A member nf ~
official circle and well placed IL, the
social sense in her home CITY. Detroit
Lady Harrington was never con-
sumed with ambition to rule in Van
lty Fair. In fact. like her parents
me revered Senator and Mrs James
McMilian, an her energy tended to-
ward useful philanthropic purnoses
and she WAS also PS'SS