Evening star., 1923-02-11
Tales of Well Known Folk
In Social and Official Life
Many New Entertainment Features Give Pre-.
War Appeal to Practice of Making Calls-Ori-
entail Hospitality Soon to Be Revived.

Making calls in Washington is, this
winter, assuming the cosmopolitan
aspect which marked it's drawing
rooms In the pre-war days. but with
many delightful new adjuncts. Orien-
tai hospitality, lacking for many
months, will soon be inaugurated by
Nine. Hanihara, wife of the Japanese
ambassador, who is the latest arrival
in the corps. But the Persian min
lister. always a gracious host. has been
giving a few afternoon levees and
some very important dinings. But
there is no chatelaine to his home
and no women of his country at pres
cnt in Washington, so that he fails to
attract the general social contingent
which goes calling. At the Polish
legation, open for the first time last
Friday under the present hostess.
Nine. Wroblewska, a delightful air of
hospitality greeted the visitors and
the beautiful mansion was ablaze with
lights, and handsome Polish drapings
OF deep reds and yellowS added to the
richness of drawing room and dining
hall. In the latter a great table
stretched the length of the room and
fafrk groaned under its weight of
Polish dainties. 1t was possible to
things, so praised by travellers. all
produced in the kitchen of the lega-
ttou and so fresh ard bounteously
provided with ice cream that the most
hurried caller was tempted to sit at
the table and par;ake of the dainteS in
the most leisurely way. Many of the
guests of an older day in Washington
were reminded of the early years of
the Pauncefotes, when all official So
Ciety was not as larg" as the legisla-
tive branch is now. The callers of an
afternoon at the British establishment
would be seated at a table and given
; IL great smoking dish OF cream toast
covered with cinnamon with all the
paraphernalia to consume it and with
many cups of tea
Washington rose lovers are alert in
these opening days of February and
taking stock of their gardens. For in
the matter of rose growing. the anna
teur now has the floor and the profess
sional florist or the cutf1ower man sits
meekly by and listens. In 1916 there
were so few amateur roSarans and SO
scattered that their influence was
negligible. In 1922, when the last census
WAS taken, there were more than 2,00O
amateur roSarians organized into So
cieties, with Il large proportion MEM
Sers of the American Rose Society and
contributors to the Rose Annual. Wash
ington has its quota in this amateur
list and some of the notable rose gar
confines. Then the Arlington rose gar
den, maintained by the Department OF
Agriculture, is everybody'S garden, since
roses from amateurs all over the coun-
try are tested here and praised or con
demned, according TO results. All the
roses from Mount Vernon have been
nerpetuated by this means and recently
some of the old roots of that American
Beauty which the venerable George
Bancroft produced in the small plot OF
his mansion Oh II street were planted
In the governmental garden and the
offspring of this notable American rose
will he admired by the thousands OF
visitors in the spring and summer.
Fortyt three states now have members
in the different rose societies and there
are more than 500 community flower
growing sections with correspondents
In foreign countries.
Mrs. CaSsius ". Clay, who is chate-
laine of Auvergne, the fine old country
place Of a younger branch Of the family
from which the sage of Ashland came
has recently been entertaining the state
chapter of Kentucky at her home, which
is in the environs of Paris in the Lex.
ington district. Among those who at.
tended the meeting was Mrs. Ben John
son. wife of the veteran member from
Bardstown. and who is frequent visi-
tor to Auvergne. This is among the
many fin" ante-bellum mansions in the
Blue Grass regions and is filled with
relics vi IL SiOTlOuS past anu Will
which the Clays of the last two or three
generations collected during foreign
travels. A most interesting document
IS the framed parchment. a little faded
now, but which bears the great seal OF
Virginia and sets forth that Patrick
Henry, governor. had granted many
hundreds of acres to Gen. Green Clay
the first of the illustrious family tc
emigrate from the Old Dominion to the
new state beyond the mountains. The
old graveyard where six generations OF
Clays rest is an object of deep venera-
tion and is kept in the most imma aculate
order. 1t is among the few still retained
on a private estate as the family bury
ing ground and il is somewhat removed
from the house and on knoll where
growth of young oaks screens the
solemn shafts of granite from the view
Newbury, VT, has been holding
a community festival to finish raising
the funds for war memorial which Is
TO adorn the square in Montpelier
The festal week was devoted to q
reproduction of the arts, crafts and
housewifly accomplishments of the
great Observation-Disclosures of those in
charge of the fund. An old brick
schooihouse lent itself admirably for