Evening star., 1923-05-06
Mexican Counsellors
Charming Wife Now
Embassy Chatelaine
Sonora de Tellez Was Daugh-
ter of French Native Who
Lived at Vera Cruz and
Later at Mexico City.

For some months past the Mexican
embassy has been in charge OF the
counsellor. Don Manuel de Tellez. and
1l,,. present chatelaine is his at
tractive young wife. who came here
as a bride about two and half
years ago. The American capital is.
therefore. associated with the hap
piest events of their life. their honey
moon and the birth of their daughter.
Emilia. now little more than
year old. Sonora de TelleZ, who has
been rather fragile, is almost re-
stored to health again and is min
cling more freely in the active af-
fairs Of Latin America and in the
;.ayetie. of the waning season. She
Vas before her marriage Miss Emilia
Eenoit. daughter of DR.. Emilio
rcnoit, a native of France, who had
located some thirty years ago in the
l,usy port city of Vera Cruz. Her
mother is also of French descent
and was Miss Virginia Loisel. In her
early s.irlhood DR.. Benoit removed.
with his family to the City of Mex
leo. and Sonora de Teller was edu-
lated there, first in convent and
liter taking the full course at the
Colegio de las Nizcaines, an institu-
iion of higher learning for women
" hich ranks in Mexico with Bryn
Mawr and Nassar in this country
Senior dc Teller comes of an ancient
FIRMLY Of the Mexican capital. which
tor generations has been identified
with the foreign service. and he was
irving in the office of the secretary
"f state when he met and married
tho former Miss Emilia Benoit. He
lad served in China and Japan and
Ii hnI hn .
illcd with discriminating evidence
OF his Sojourn in the orient. Sonora
de Tcllez. who hopes. when she is
more robust and her daughter of a
letter age to travel. to accompany
her husband to the picturesque and
remote spots of the world where
ltc gathered treasures to overf1owinS =
and which make his home one of
tie rlost attractive Imaginable.
Carved iadeS. worries and lapis aZula
are his specialties and Sonora de
TelleZ has a wide choice of necklaces
ard of bracelets. One of his genuine
antiques is Chinese vanity box,
Nhicn goes back centuries before this
part Of the world was known, but
which does not differ greatly from
the ones in use today, there being
Al mirror set in silver which slides
open and displays fascinating little
ieCeptacleS for such accessories as
rlc ladies in about 1000 AID. used
t. make themselves more alluring.
Eut Sonora de Tellez is intensely
loyal to her native land and to the
artisans who fashion some of the
lovelieSt jewelry to be found in the
/ world. Gold and almost every preci-
Gus gem is dug from the earth in
Mexico. and there are scores of cap
able workers in the flligree industry
Sonora de Teller has several mar
relous necklaces of delicate filigree
gold in which rubies, sapphires and
lIG @ do
ful effect IIer assortment of brace
let's offers al fine study of the native
Mexican goldsmith.
Mexico City is now quiet and beau
tiful as in the days before the wave
OF civil war, and to Senior and Sonora
de Tellez it is the most beautiful city
in the world and its street life the
most fascinating. Sonora de Telle7
delights in roaming in the old streets
where the humble laborers live. but
where is always that trace of beauty
and of culture which is prevalent in
peoples of Latin blood or of Indian
In the dark recesses of the room
where perhaps a large family lives
and sleeps. there is always a taper
cleaning before some statue or lit :
Il" picture. usually that of the patron
saint or that most revered national
guardian of Mexico. Our Lady of
Gaudelupe. The venerable shrine of
Our Lady of Gaudelupe has, says the
sonora. never loSt Its appeal nor its
popularity, for people of all classes
Iow as in the centuries past. as pill
Grms toll up the steps and into the
shrine which is so dear to all Mex
leans, since all about is their very
own.
Senior and Sonora de Teller expect
to pass the summer in Washington
but to make brief trips into the
country for the benefit of little
Emilia. who reaches that trying
period known in maternal phrase as
the second summer"