Evening star., 1922-09-17
Tales of Well Known Folk
In Social and Official Life
Miss Wilson. Daughter of Late Secretary o4
Agriculture, Ardent Promoter of Garden
ing-Personal and General Notes.

another 1t Is garden club, such as
thrive and make for central interests
In almost every town Of fifty thous-
and in habitants throughout the land.
There are many prominent women
who take personal pride In their
produce, practical and esthetic, and
who would welcome an opportunity
to compete for prizes and distinctions.
Miss Flora Wilson, daughter OF the
late James Wilson. for sixteen years
Secretary of Agriculture. true to
family traditions, is one Of the inde-
fatigable gardeners along Potomac
Park. She Is up betimes and rides
|down to the river bank and works
Iamong her vegetables for an hour or
two before breakfast, she returns to
her apartment in the Highlands laden
with baskets of good things not only
for her own use, but for her negh-
bors.
There are dozens of others promi-
nent in the social realm who work
small plot in Potomac Park and thus
solve the problem of living in cramp-
ed quarters with room enough for
lcounts of flowers. fruit and vege-
table exhibits on the North Shore Is
to discover that the entire population
is engaged in fighting the high cost
of living and that the owner OF pala-
ttial mansions displays his produce
|along with the modest cottager There
are plans afoot, in which the Sec
|retary of Agriculture is deeply In
jterested, to begin a garden club this
iopening autumn that is to organize
lactual labor of getting a garden un-
tder way.
Those lovely youngsters of Baron
and Baroness Amaury de la Grange.
the latter formerly Miss Emily Sloane,
who lived here for two years in the
delightful old Georgetown home
known as Bellevue, are spending the
summer with Mr.. Henry T. Sloane in
his Southampton villa. The baroness
| France. but will sail over next month
with her husband-who is now filling
an important post in the air service
Of NJ. Poineare's cabinet-to bring the,
all girls. and so dainty and lovely
that they are favorite subjects OF
Partisan artists as cherubs and fairies,
and are constantly appearing in art
journals in fancy guise.
| Baron de la Grange was stationed
in Washington for two years as part
of the military commission maintain
ed here during the world war. His
ancestral seat was on possession OF
the Marquise de La Fayette, and
! "ncT6 tne general TSt1Teu dltci uc hia
lost all of his own fortunes through
the action of the revolutionists. The
chateau of La Grange, occupied by the
La Fayettes, is now owned by group
Of patriotic Americans, who maintain
an invalid home for the world-war
sive, and the larger mansion is remote
from the one to which Americans
journey increasingly to pay homage to
the chivalrous friend of their coun-
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second daughter of Mr.. Sloane of New
York and Southampton and of his for
mer wifS now Mrs. Perry Belmont
Mrs. Joseph stickney. who was Miss
Caroline Foster, daughter of the late
Reuben Ball Foster of Waltham.
Mass, and chief heiress Of his. vast
fortune, was a stately figure in Wash
ington society fifteen years ago, and
the news of the death of her second
husband, Prince Aymon de Faucigny
Lucinge of Paris, is of considerable
interest. Prince Almon was great
parsonage in French society. and his
| widow will be among those who may
during her married life. Her late
husband was the grandson of the
royal French duke of Berry. son of
the Bourbon King, Charles Y. by
morgantic marriage with an English
girl named Amy Brown. The French
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daughters of this union and they
were reared at court and given titles.
Prince Aymon is the son of the sec
ond Of these, Louise. who married the
head of the noble Sardinian and
French house de Faucigny Lucinge.
The late husband of the enormously
rich heiress of Foster and Stickney
millions was the president of the In
ternational Sporting Club Of Paris. in
which so many Americans retain a
| ,hoy. ole oSi1
Of the. popular and up-to-date or
ganization, L'Enfant of Paris. and
had conducted its affairs with notable
success. He was in his seventy-fifth
year, and died at the splendid chateau
of his family at ChardonneuX on the
Sarthe. fourteenth century strong
hold, modernized. enlarged and beau
titled by the handsome income of the
princess.
Visitors to East Hampton on Long
Island take much pleasure in the
many-gabled house which stands on
the main street of that picturesque
hamlet. which is known throughout
the world as Home, Sweet Home"
the residence of that William Payne.
father of John Howard Payne, author
of the pathetic ballad. But like
many traditions accepted eagerly.
fact now proves that though Will
liam Payne owned this substantial
house for a time. he had sold it and
was living in Pearl street, New York
when his famous son was born. All
the indications are that the poet
painted a composite picture of many
homes. among them that old man
sion at the waters edge in Anacostia
overlooking the navy yard, owned by
Payne's intimate friend and COM
panion. George Washington Talburtt,
and where he spent many happy days,
perhaps. the happiest of his stormy
lifa Roth musicians and
both devotees of Bacchus, and they
passed many a summer evening be-
meath the trees which still shade the
ruined mansion, singing and playing
and entertaining large companies of
friends. In the sense of owning the
title deed. John Howard Payne never
possessed home, nor did his father,
William Payne, except for about ten
years. But that he received in the
old town of Anacoatia a very ac-
ceptable substitute for home was