Evening star., 1923-04-22

If the President and Mrs. Harding
really attain to their desire and make
the trip to Alaska. it will be exactly
seven summers since the idea nrst
captivated their fancy. For six sue
rsssive years. it has seemed to the
First Lady tnai the stars have gone
out of their courses to fight her plans
10 accomplish this. and all to do with
public affairs, which kept her husband
fast to his desk Since the lively
summer of 1920, that may be well
understood and also the preceding
summers when the Senate sat tight
almost from December to December.
The President and his wife always
have been travellers. and II was part
of their winter schedule to get travel
books and pamphlets from agencies
and map out a route. Both found
this the ideal indoor sport when the
snow fell deep about their home In
Marion, and the wind too piercing to
move very far from the CHEEKY wood
fire. Naturally their imagination has
been stirred by the tales from Egypt.
and when their movements are not
40 hampered by tradition. they may
Journey to the Nile again. They
passed one delightful spring there
some fifteen years ago. had their own
boat on the celebrated river and
poked about all the spots in Luxor
and the ruined cities lower down the
Nile. Mrs. Harding does not antici-
pate touring the world with her dis
tinguished husband, as SO many have
done when the executive burden has
been transferred to other shoulders.
for she likes to be home at least
two-thirds of the year. but a summer
and part of the autumn in foreign
ln2c ic hnp lsn i'm hpr fro n n
rectionS.
Undoubtedly, Washington will ex-
perience its first quiet summer in at
least fifteen years, and the Cabinet
circle will he more widely dispersed
than has been the custom in recent
wears. That part of the legislative
branch kept here while the young
Sters of the family are at school will
scatter to its own bailiwicks to en-
JOY prolonged sojourn. Whether
the Secretary of State and Mrs.
Hughes will get farther away than a
suburban home such as they have
maintained for the last two summers.
depends on many vexatious questions.
But the Secretary of the Treasury is
looking about Southampton for "A
domicile which will appeal to his
daughter Miss Ailsa and his son Paul.
The North Shore of Massachusetts
The Secretary Of War and Mrs
Weeks have a summer home near
boston, which they have occupied for
many years. The Secretary of the
Navy may if things go well, be able
TO pass part of the summer with
Mrs. DENLY and the youngsters at
MIL Pond Farm at Pontiac. Mich.
The capriciouS weather has prevented
Mrs Denby making an earlier trans
fer of her house hold, but she homes
to get away in May. The Secretary
of Commerce and Mrs. Hoover have
beautiful home beyond Santa Bar
nara, Cal. and they count all vaca-
tions lost which do not include a
other cabinet families are tentative
except that they are determined to
so somewhere away from the regular
routine at Washington.
Echoes of an older day were awak-
ened in New York last week when
the marriage of Count Rene de Fon-
tenilliat of Paris and Mile. Emma
tourot de NoGent was Solemnized in
The rectOry of st. Patrick's Cathedral
Count Rene is the Oldest son of the
late count and his wife. who was
Miss Julia Smith. one of the four
beauties from the south who figured
so largely in social life a generation
ago, and who were, respectively Alya
who became the first Mrs William
Is. Vanderbilt and is now the widow
OF Oliver Fl. ?. Belmont; Mimi, who
was was. Mrs: S Fernandez Ygnago and is
-fii w IiildIIl u. lIIdnH, ana
Miss Armide Vogel Smith. who died
about ten years ago. Count Rene de
tontelliat is the nephew and will
be the heir of Gen. the Count, a
retired officer. who held the post of
chief of ordnance all through the
war and who lives in state in a
vast chateau on the Loire. which has
descended in direct line from A cava-
lier of Henri de Navarro. The bride
is the daughter of the Cant. de No
hn foil iy,t
Marne. She has been in New York for
more than year and the romance had
its beginning when both were engaged
IN war work.
Washington will soon welcome
distinguished visitor. the Earl of Chi
chester, who, among other very in
teresting connections. is on the distaff
4 grandson many times removed of
Oliver Cromwell. His ancestral home
Stamner Park, near Lewes. In Sus-
sex, contains library which has
several books which the grim Cove
nanter reverenced, among which is
the pocket Bible which he carried in
the wars. and which is well thumbed
and almost falling to pieces The
earl descended from Frances Crom-
well: the favorite daughter of the
parliamentary leader, who married
into the historic house of Pelham
The stanchest of the Puritan adhe-
rents. Quite apart from this union
with Frances Cromwell. the Pelham
family is illustrious in English an
nails and it's records go back almost
thousand years. The earl is some
thing of wanderer and rarely lives
at Stammer Hall. His close neighbor
in Sussex is the Dowager Lady Suf-
folk. who was Miss Marguerite Letter
of this city. and for almost ten wears
col. and Mrs. Colin Campbell the
latter formerly Nancy Letter, leased
Stamner Hall because of it's proximity
10 Charlton Park, the seat of Lady
Suffolk. The Campbells now reside
IN Santa Barbara and the earl has
been spending the last two wears
among his treasures. He is ell route
10 the South Sea isles. with a brief