Evening star., 1923-02-18

derbiit recently arrived at Miami with
his Ara. Mr.. Keith Spalding of Will
mington with his schooner yacht
Goodwill, is In these waters, too, and
there are exciting races almost every
day, besides an informal social inter-
course and much time devoted to fish,
ing. The Roosevelts will cruise a
little about the Bahamas and adjacent
islands and may go down far as
Porto Rico. A sort of sea-going sled,
which Is designated by its builders
as rough-water runabout. is proving
very popular with the wives of the
yach tSmen and appears to be easily
managed. Mrs. Robert Thomson with
plunging about the outer shore at q
great rate of speed and bound for
some point up the coast more accessi-
Bile by water than land. Mrs. Roose-
vent and her children also go about In
this kind of aquatic runabout and
seem to enjoy the strenuous exercise.
Chaplets of gold or silver leaves are
now so numerous and acceptable a
part Of evening regal.a that special
significance is never applied to Such
decoration. Yet that eXquisitely chased
wreath of gold laurel leaves with
their gemmed Centers, which Is so
often described as worn by Mrs. Nor
man de II. WhitenouSe OF New York
at the operas and her evening tunc-
ltions, was the gift of the New York
suffragists and represents the graft
tude OF those striving for civic rights
when victory was finally achieved.
The leaves arc fashioned after the
Chaplets placed on the foreheads OF
| Roman cohquCrorS, SO familiar III
ancient scenes. and is smaller and
more compact than the entwined lau-
Ire!s on the head or poets. from which
the word poet laureate takes It's
origin. Mrs. WhitehouSe is among
in
set and has aided suffrage and many
other civic causes most effectually by
joining the working force herself
rather than, in tho instance OF many
social leaders. merely furnishing the
SinewS of war. Her husband is the
cousin, Of Sheldon WhitehouSe. the
former chief of the bureau OF diplo-
matte intercourse in the State De-
partment and now counsellor of the
embassy in Paris. Recently Mrs.
with commercial enterprise. which
is said TO be fourlshing. and she de-
votes all proceeds to upbuildinG an
Americanization school in the foreign
quarters and to encouraging a friend
lier feeling between natives and their
alien neighbors. She is also well
known patroness OF art and music,
, and. besides her lovely gold chaplet.
she has many tokens of esteem III the
, Eandiwork which adorns her living
/ ipothS III btN SlldlIt VI pllIO" Sui
tains and drapings.
ST. Morit2 continues to he the center
of fashion and the usual haunts III
the French and Italian Riviera are
abandoned, and even the resorts OF
the Engadine are far from crowded.
| The Shah of Persia and many East
Indian nabobS are at st. Mor1z and
iqVarters in the larger hotels ,haye
been at a premium ever since Christ
mas week. The Marchioness Of Cur
zon has been staying at the Suvretta
House and was the promoter Of that
artistic masked ball few weeks ago
when novelty as we'll grace and
beauty counted in the competition for
the prizes. Miss Margorie V. DalIett
of Philadelphia received first honors
as Quakeress, wearing the exact
costume of an ancestress who figures
in the pages of Hugh Wynne" and
The Red City" Miss Sylvia Todd
of Louisville won favor and a second
prize as flower girl of Mexico dane
ing to the dangerous Strains of la
Paloma." Mr.. y. j. II. Jones of Pitts
| burgh, in all the finery of war chief
| of the Apaches, was the hero of the
occasion, and, as he has lived in the
! Indian countries, he several times
electrified the company by genuine
war whoop. Several small American
girls were gowned as pickaninntes,
and they We're prime favorites, too.
Lady Curzon. the second wife of the