Evening star., 1923-07-01

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PROFESSION much to the chagrin of
HIS father. who had hoped for a lite
rarW successor. He married an
actress of considerable repute in the
British isles Miss Muriel Beaumont.
and There are three daughters. The
du Mauriers live in pretty villa at
Hampstead, a little removed from the
famous heath and its bank holiday
feteS. They entertain lavishly the
artist colonies which are numerous
along the Thames, and also the actors
and actresses whose villas dot the
| riyef banks and the adjacent parks.
| Sir Gerard Is planning visit to this
| country about the end of August. and
he will take in all the sights along
the way from New York to Califor-
MIA, Including a short stay in wash
ingtbn. He was educated al Harrow,
and has several friends and class
mates among the attaches of the
British embassy
The brighter iris on the FURNISHED
dove is a dim affair compared to the
fashions on which Paris smiles as the
very thing for June and July in rural
districts or at the quieter and more
exclusive resorts. Mrs: Ronald Tree
foreI that Miss Nancy Langhorne Per
kins who came direct from the city
of fashion to visit the Charles Dana
Gibsons, had some astounding frockS
in printed linens for all the world
like the slip covers for furniture. but
With hat, hosiery. pumps and gloves
of a. harmonizing color the howered
linens of purple, red and orange took
on The chic air which the Partisan
modssts predicted. All of Mrs. Trees
morning gowns were OF the loose
oneApiece variety, and she wore
wond erful belt made of circles of
brilliant scenes in mosaic. caught by
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silk in shades of tropical violence
likeforange, cobalt blue. crimson and
hunters green make the by-ways and
shady lanes about Southampton
fairly shrek these summer mornings
while the maid in white Is 50 rarely
seen as to be conspicuous Mrs.
Charles II. Sabin. formerly Miss Polly
| Morton of this city and Chicago. has
some summer clothes from Paris
which are all of vivid colors, and her
| pumps. hats. hose and parasols are
| of the same hue. Another fad about
Long Island is the wound turban,
regular Arab fashion and made OF the
same material as the gown. MIS-.
Kenneth O'Brien has worn several of
these, winding them just as she pre-
| pareS to step into her car
That burning issue which engages
London and which is eagerly waged
between Britons. Americans and
Anglo Americans. about whether
| TART is pie. or, tart, Is Dettef
than American pie, should command
the attention of every patriotic man
and woman in this country. For the
women must sustain their well de-
served reputation and the men that
of their mothers and grandmothers,
and they can quote eminent author
| ity like Emerson. Holmes, Hawthorne
and A later laureate of the pie. James
Whitcomb Riley. in upholding their
cause. Not since a recent Satirical
| Frehchman, improving on the cpl
gram of Talleyrand, said that the
United States was the country of
seventy-five different religions and
of only one white sauce. has the
culinary pride of the nation been so
stirred as by the contention that the
tart of old England is the grand
dame, many generations removed. of
the American pie, and that it is
more perfect product in every way.
Scores of enterprising Yankee firms
have sent delegates to Britain to i'm
part the mysteries of making pic
after the ways which caused such
rapture from the Brook Farm lit
erary giants and tens of thousands
of lesser scribes. But tho British
housewife resolutely declined to
learn this method and pointed with
pride to tarts and double tarts, which
even Shakespeare has praised.
Naturally, Col. and Mrs Harvey arc
concerned over this delicate question
of the superiority of the tart over the
pie. for they come from Vermont. the
very stronghold of the pic and where
theanatives eat it for breakfast But