Evening star., 1922-10-01
German ENJOYS S Wife
to Delay Entering
Capital Social Life
Delay of Cargo Containing
Personal Possessions
Cause of Inconvenience at
New Embassy.

Nine. Wiedfeldt, wife of the German
ambassador, will not enter the social
life of the capital until the arrival
of certain of her personal possessions
from New York, where, through some
mishap. the cargo has been delayed
all these weeks. though the furnish
.ngS were on the same steamer COM
ing from Germany When the en-
bassy is again perfectly equipped the
German ambassador and Nine. Wied-
feldt will give the usual reception to
the ambassadorial corps and begin
the rounds of official calling in the
diplomatic corps and in governmental
circles.
The German embassy has been COM
pletely furnished by the government
and is excellently equipped in every
mains unfurnished, nor is it the pres
ent intention to fit this out. DR..
Wiedfeldt during the present financial
stress of his country desires to lead
as simple life as possible COM
patible with his position. The house
rooms will be of immense interest,
however, to visitors, since it was
shipped from Berlin and is part of
the iRperial furnishings in one of
the city palaces of the Hohenzollerns
in the German capital. The curtains
are of pale-green brocade, bordered
with deep insets of gorgeous silk
tapestry, while the chairs, lounges.
tables and smaller pieces Of furni-
ture are of gold, heavily carved and
upholstered in pale-green brecade.
but all Hohenzollern arms have been
removed. The rugs and carpets are
marvellous old pieces from Persian
factories. perhaps century or two
tion.
Nine. Wiedfeldt intends to tighten
palace furniture by the addition of
curios, screens, panels and brie-a-
brac which she had collected during
a four-year residence in Toxic, and
which. when installed, will give the
embassy a semblance of it's interior
residence, and whose Chinese and
Tibetan collections were of interna-
tional fame. The spacious and splen-
didly furnished home of the ambas-
SduoF III AsSeH mas beeh 1eAseu 70
several families of personal friends,
for in that city, as in nearly every
other part of the world, dwelling
houses are at q premium and none is
permitted to- stand vacant.
The new chatelaine of the German
country presented Count Won Berns-
torff with his letters Of recall, was
before her marriage to DR.. Otto
Wiedfeldt, some twenty-efght years
ago, Miss Anna Biey, daughter Of the
late DIR. Gustave Bley Of Bernburg,
hood she went with her parents to
Dresden and lived there throughout
her girihood. She was educated in
that city and on the completion of
her gymnasium course she became q
teacher; In its public school. She I Is
man fraulein attracted by higher
education, and she was fitting her
self for loftier courses when her
marriage interferrsd with this part
Of her career. Since her marriage to
tensively and has lived in many for
Engaged in Industrial invsstiga-
tions in China and Japan. the ambas-
sador and Nine. Wiedfeldt were in
Toxic in 1919 and, getting ready for
Francisco in June Of that fatefui
year and were on American soil
when the world war brokA They
passed several days in washington
during early September and spent the
time calmly sightseeing and entire
ly lacking knowledge Of tho trend
to Washington, eight years later, in
such q role and under such mo.
menteus changes in Germany 10 Of
great interest. DR.. Wiedfeldt was
not trained as diplomat, but had
economy and social questions.
Madam is a type of the homeloving
German matron, absorbed in the
problems Of domestic life. though In
her case .lsavtped .hy sau, ntelteetual
training, md -desp tbtefsst hi ssancss