Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1923-06-17
Tales of Well Known Folk
In Social and Official Life
Victoria to Entertain President Harding in
Hotel Noted for Great Five-Acre
Garden of Roses

same lovely suburb. If the weather
permits it will be an al fresco affair
in the celebrated rose garden, which
deScends to the water. The bridal
pageant is to stand under an arbor
of creamy Mary Washington roses.
which are being trained and treated
to be in readiness for the day, and the
clergyman. who will read the nupt1al
rite will stand against background
. of rale rhododendronS and sweet
lavender which will harmonic with
his robes of Tyrian purple. Mr.. Nc
Laughlin is the eldest son of the
George y. McLaughlins of Chicago.
substantial citizens and leaders in the
elder set. Mrs. Mclaughlin was Miss
Edith Frost daughter of the late Gen.
D. M Frost of ST Louis. and grad
uate of the Visitation Convent IN
Georgetown. Two of her sisters mar
ried into the British nobility. Lady
I Wordsworth and Lady Beresford Hope
The young couple will include Il visit
to these relatives during their honey
moon jaunt to Europe.
Count Charles de Chambrun who
! has returned to Washington after an
absence of some months and will act
| as counselor and charge d'affaires of
the French embassy should NJ. Jusse-
rand decide to make his annual visit
| to France, has been placed i'll mourn
| ing through the death last month of
| his venerable relative. the Marquis
! de Lasteyrie. This nobleman passed
away in the beautiful chateau of
La Grange. in the department of the
Seine and Marine. and has been sue
ceeded by his son Guy. whose wife
was Miss Constance Warren of New
York city. The new Marquis de Las
| and estate of his father, but also to
| that most priced possession. the
| membership in the order of the Gin
cinnati which was held by his grand
father five times removed, the MARQUIS
! de Lafayette. There seems no eX-
! PLANTATION of the reason that this
hsnor passed through the distaff side
, rather than through the descendants
| of Georges Washington Lafayette.
/ who was the only son of the patriot
/ and from whom collaterally the
de Chamhruns and many other dis
i tinguished French families claim
origin. The first Marquis de Lasteyrle
married Virginia de Lafayette, the
lovely young daughter born in. the
year of the Yorktown victory and
! named in honor of Washington s
native state. The son of Virginia be
came a pow erful leader in the French
parliament during Napoleonfc times.
and his son was that Senator Jules
de I.aSteyrie. most famous of the line.
| who received in person the 1eweled
| insignia of the Cincinnati which the
/ venerable Marquis de Lafayette had
given his beloved daughter Virginia.
| a notable visitor is Lord RoSSmore.
| who arrived in New York a few days
| ago and will visit all the seaboard
! cities hereabouts before departing for
! Mexico. where he will pass the au-
! tumn and winter. Lord Rossmore is
an Irish peer and sits in the lords.
and all tourists to the Emerald Isle
are familiar with the famous Ross
/ more Castle in County Monaghan.
! which occupies a site of the celebrat-
| al hi h N
, ancient annals Mount Mario The
| young peer was almost fatally
: wounded while serving as a reserve
| officer in the navy before Gallipoli.
| Later he was a military secretary 10
| Field Marshal Haig. and in this way
| became acquainted with all the lead
| ers of the American eXpeditionary
| forces. He will be entertained by
! Gen. Pershing when he comes to
| Washington, and during his New
! York sojourn he will be the guest of
Gen Clarence f. Edwards. Lord
! Rossmore is unmarried and is the son
of that Lord Rossmore who wrote the
rollicking book, Things Which l Can
the late King Edward. and whose
| battered copy is now, among the
] treasures of the big library at the
castle in County Monaghan. The peer
is to study economic problems in
Mexico and also to visit the famous
ruined cities of Yucatan.
A gay little colony of foreign
| youngsters will enjoy the unique
| pleasures of Atlantic City this sum-
| mer. Among these the three little
| ones of the Polish minister and Mme.
| Wroblewska may be deemed the pio-
\ neers of the movement, for they ac-
| companied their parents to the ia
nous resort during the Easter holt
| days and became victims of its charm.
/ After those memorable six days no
] other place for the summer could
| even be discussed. Before coming to
! Washington the Polish minister and
| his family had been living in War
saw, an inland city, and before that
| their home was Cracow, so that the
| sea makes a holiday worth having for
| all the family. besides the thousands
| of reasons why children like Atlantic
/ City. The minister from Venezuela,
with Nine. Arcaya, Senorita Maria de
! Almenar and the four children, have
! selected Atlantic City for the vaca-
! ton and have obtained a roomy cot
! tage toward Longport. The charge
! d'affaires of Austria and Nine. Procii-
mich have the same resort in mind.
! but their plans are as yet Uniformed,
! as Nine. Prochnich may join her re1a-
! tives near Boston for some weeks.
| Nine. Oracle, wife of the secretary of
the Brazilian embassy, and her small
] daughters are partial to Atlantic City,
| but she is waiting her husbands va
| cation before making the journey.
| The Brazilian ambassador is a devo-
| tee of Atlantic City and since his adj
vent here has spent all of his leisure
\ in one of it's fine hotels. The Latin
1 Americans seem to divide their sum-
mers between the popular New Jersey
| resort and Bluemont and the adjacent
villages in the Blue Ridge. OF the
twenty odd diplomatic households of
1 the Latins, all those which have es-
| tablished summer quarters have chos-
| en- either the one or the other of
| these places.
| Mrs. Henry P. Dawson has recent
| ly endowed six scholarships in mem