Evening star., 1923-07-15
Tales of Well Known Folk
In Social and Official Life
Former President and Mrs Wilson May Visit
McAdoo and Sayres Families in West
During Summer.

Rumors come insistently from Santa
Barbara that former President and
,Irs. Wilson have definitely deter
mined to visit Mrs. Francis B. Sayre
md Mrs. McAdoo sometime in August.
Prof. and Mrs. Francis Bowles Sayre.
with their children. took possession
of the NJ A. A. Postley house, on East
Arellaga street. June Is and will re-
main until September I5. The Nc
Ndoos still reside in Los Angeles. but
last summer they bought an extensive
;atate, Ell Encanto, on the high buns
tscing the ocean, TO the south of the
ity. There is roomy ranch house
on the place, and the two little daugh-
ierS of Mr.. and Mrs. McAdoo spent
yearly all of last year there. Miss
Sallie Houston McAdoo has recently
Joined her family at El Encanto after
successful year at Bryn Mawr. Mrs
,lcAdoo is busy with plans for hand
come residence to replace the ranch
house, and in this she will be aided
by Miss Margaret Wilson, who Will
elso arrive about August /. Mrs. Nc
Ndoo. who as Eleanor Randolph Will
son when Il young girl, showed an ar
t. site trend and inherited much OF the
architectural talent of her mother. is
designing some parts of the house
herself and will do considerable of
the mural painting. She has already
t series of charming views of Santa
Barbara and Monterey, which are
beautifully framed and just the
sdornment for the sun parlors, WHICH
form so large 4 part of home in
southern California. President VIII
son has done no travelling since MS
health failed in 1919. but as he has
shown marked improvement of recent
months. il is altogether probable that
he and Mrs. Wilson will accept the
Invitation of Prof. and Mrs. Sayre and
from Mr.. and Mrs. McAdoo, and make
the trip.
That excellent example set by
Admiral Aaron Ward in placing his
handsome gardens near Islip, Long
Island, on. exhibition for charitable
purposes has been emulated all
through that wonderful legion and
about Tarrytown and north of New
York city generally. Boston was
owners of handsome gardens now an
nounce exhibition days with the regu-
larity that well known hostesses
name their reception days during the
winter. Mrs Lars Anderson's splen-
did place. Weld. is frequently thrown
open for the public. and refreshments
are. sold for charities. for Mrs. An
derSon diSlikes asking fee to see
her flowers. However, on the sound
so many of the floral devotees have
SrlnQlnS OpllBdllpHS, ppilllCdl anu
civic. that they are glad to enter
tain the public and at the same time
gather in the sinewS of war. Mrs
Robert Bacon. wife of the memb ber
elect from WeStchester, y. Y, has ex-
tended her garden Thursdays until
the middle of this month. and Mrs.
j. c. Phipps at Roslyn, Long Island,
has named Sundays in August as the
time to see her blue garden, and
thus to aid the Junior League. Miss
Eilin Mackay. Miss Millicent Rogers
and a number of other bellies have
chosen Saturdays to show off their
garden beauties, and the village i'm
provement society is to receive the
admittance fees.
Representative Ira c. Copley of
Illinois. who. with Mrs. Copley, had
such an unusual visit to Europe,
spent some six weeks in London, and
of all the things which impressed
him most was the utter lack of straw
hats on the masculine heads in the
street. In fact, so conspicuous did he
feel that he laid aside his comfort
able panama and even refrained from
an occasional use of.his light fedora,
for all about him he saw only the
bowler" and the topper" the latter
as often of light gray as of black
shining surface, known on this side
OF the ocean as the silk, or stove
pipe" or beaver. The bowler is the
derby so rarely seen on American
shores. only the English fashion of
the hour is a wider and more curling