Evening star., 1922-03-19

liant service when it was legation and
when 1t became an embassy. He was
retired about fifteen years ago and is
officially carried on the State Depart
ment rolls as the honorary counselor
and first secretary of the American em-
tassy in Paris, an unique and unpre-
cedented honor. Mr.. Vignaud gives
luminous details Of many episodes in
American annals which would serve
well for pageant. and they are fresher
presented endlessly for the past fifty
years. This memorial volume of Mr..
Vignaud's ninety-first birthday will soon
reach this city. and it is to be hoped
1t will open new Vistas in scanning the
story OF the past years.
servatism Of the old world compared
to the ruthlessness of this. some loud
walls reach across the Atlantic re-
garding the imminent destruction
threatened an old and historical part
Of Baker street. London. 1t must be
confessed that the name recalls to the
general reader only the location
which Conan Doyle selected for Sher-
lock Holmes. and Baker street fairly
bristles on every page of those blood
curdling detective tales. But Baker
street. it seems, had such an amazing
ly interesting history, which concerns
SO many sorts of people that protests
from every quarter stir the civic au
thorities. Americans in London, and
they number some twenty thousand
as at home. object to the demolition
Of the old house, which proclaims in
neat brass tablet that Gen. Tecumseh
Sherman resided there, and that it
was he who made the famous march
through Georgia, in the war between
the states. 1861-1s65. Church folks
object to the razing of the houses
which sheltered Cardinal Manning and
the eloquent Wilberforce in the days
of the great Oxford controversies.
who lay rude hands on the shrine
wherein Mrs. Montague accomplished
for political, social and intellectual
London what George Sands had done
Lord Lytton of "The Last Days Of
Pompeii" fame and Of Lord Napier,
both of whom served at this capitol.
Despite all this. the work goes forward
of leveling old houses to make room
for wider streets and moro modern
edifices.
Princess Mary on her wedding trip
seems to focus affectionate regard
quite as much as in the sunny days
Of her wooing and its brilliant cul-
mination. One point which has inn
pressed Americans Is that though the
royal bride will in a few weeks cele-
brate her twenty fifth birthday. she
had never been to Paris until she
reached that city Of delight on her
bridal jaunt and she had, of course.
never been to Italy: in fact, never out
of the tight little island where she
was born except on sailing trips with
her father when several times the
coasts of Norway and Denmark were
touched. For her the bloom was on
will taste the joys of foreign travel
under ideal circumstances. for the
Viscount Lascelles is a globe trotter.
a man of culture and connoisseur
of art and literature. If it were need
ed to convey. lesson to the young
Of Princess Mary would not be more
pertinent and to American parents.
too, who begin to indulge every pro-
pensity not only in adults. but in the
small children. Few of the charming
debutantes of this season or any
the winter without an air of boredom
and of the necessity of following a
tiresome routine. Princess Mary. on
the contrary, has life all before her
when, unhampered by the etiquette
surrounding unmarried royalty, she
can partake of a brimming cup.
Mrs Richard wainwright is one of
the leaders in the various avocattons
which women have adopted in the
widening of their sphere and she is one
In whom w WdSnlnStOn, where SHo HAS
resided for many years, takes a
pardonable pride. The wife of a hero
N a war which seems remote now,
the Spanish-American. she took over
seriously the obligations which at
tach to fame and becoming a repre-
sentative woman. She was in the
vanguard of those who undertook
to Improve the conditions under
which the Washington working
women and children earned their
daily bread, and her quiet dignity and
forcefuf arguments persuaded the
most hardened employer that it would
be courting unknown dangers to re-
fuse to listen to reason. AS the
circle Of feminine activities widened,
MRS. Wainwright took up other lines
and, with the same success which
marked her course in the civic league.
For SO many years q native of the
District Of Columbia, her concern for
suffrage had to be academic, since
under the present laws she could not
enjoy its privileges. But she has
been a sympathizer and an active
worker in some Of the branches where
notifies do not overwhelm the usual
feminine outlook. The only son Of
Admiral and Mrs. wainwright, Rich
ard. IT., married that Miss Alice Blech
who was for q time SO acceptable a
social secretary to Mrs. Taft and the