Evening star., 1923-10-14
tales of Well Known Folk
In Social and Official Life
ir Auckland and Lady Geddes to Return to
Washington In December-ScottishC Crandee
Recent Visitor Here

grandees of Europe. Her young
sister is Princess de Poggio Suasa,
widow of Prince Emmanuel Ruspoli
/ who lives in Paris. A son of this
sister is Prince Ruspoli, who is
master of ceremonies at the Italian
| court and so well known to all
visitors to Rome who desire an audi
! ence with the king and queen.
| Mrs. Minnegerode Andrews, who
| devotes so much of her time and in
come to pageantry, all for the benefit
| of some worthy philanthropy, is in
cidentally teaching some excellent
! lessons in economy. For her friends
| know that there is practically moth
ing which is cloth. silk: velvet. lace,
| any sort of fabric, which Mrs. An
| drews clever fingers cannot adapt
! for some purpose in her various roles
| in pageants or tableaus. Not long
| ago, Mrs. Marion Butler decided to
! recover her handsome drawing room
suite of French origin and on which
| the lovely rose and silver brocade
| had succumbed to the passing years.
Sending all these tatters to Vaux-
claus, the summer home of Mrs. An
| drews, near Alexandria, Va. with
| apologies. Mrs. Butler enjoyed the
performance of Robin Hood" all the
! more when she learned that the best
+, of Maid Marian's finery had been
| patched out of the brocade, with
strips of silver lace from other
| tains from still another source for
the loose sleeves and veil. Every
| inch of the raiment worn in Robin
Hood" Mrs. Andrews made in odd
moments, and she is gradually evolv-
= ing system which fits into gar
! ments intended for plays of the mid
die ages, like that of the famous
| outlaw which hundreds of people en-
| jOyed last week. She has discov-
cred that with some green silk
stockings and worn-ou underskirts.
| she can bedeck Robin as affectively
as Douglas Fairbanks did, with no
expenditure but Il little time. For
sleeves, the silk stockings are just
the thing, the heel being rounded to
come up to the knuckles as the fash
| merry men played pranks in Sher-
wood forest
Northwood, the beautiful estate of
Mr.. and Mrs. Mortimer l.. Schiff on
Oyster Bay. which is adjacent to
Sycamore Hill, where the widow of
Col Theodore Roosevelt lives in Sc
clusion, Will make a wonderful back
ground for the wedding of Miss
Dorothy Schiff and Mr.. Richard r. w.
Hall, which will take place Tuesday,
in the early afternoon, and on the
superb terrace which may be en-
closed if the weather is not propiti-
Gus. The low rambling house is set
against planting of shrubs which
are crimson and gold and russet just
now and edged by mammoth chrys-
anthemumS of yellow and orange
and white. Miss Schiff is the grand
daughter of the banker and philan-
thropist, the late Jacob H. Schiff, who
was so close a friend of President
Roosevelt This Jacob Schiff married
Miss Theresa Loeb. aunt of Roose-
velt's secretary. All the residents of
this portion of oyster Bay will at
a diversity of fetes. which will in
, clude youngsters and half-grown
boys and girls and many of the
farmers in the outlying country. Mr..
Hall is the son of the late Benjamin
E. Hall and lives in the old family
Wells Hall and Miss Alice Wadshams
Hall. His mother is now Mrs. Ed
ward Wadsworth Hotchkiss of Rye.
A characteristic which Lady Jean
Ward has inherited. from her father,
the late Whiteiaw Reid is her love
of fishing and the regularity with
which she plans long vacation
from the ordinary routine of life to
enjoy some weeks in the open. Sir
John Hubert Ward. her husband, is not
dutifully joins these annual pilgrim
ages in search of the salmon,
which are generally staged in the
tiny rivers Dee and Tay. Lady Ward
does not relish casting line in the
private protected waters which
abound in Great Britain. but she
enjoys the small rivers stocked with
salmon, and with Sir John and d
party of friends, which included Lady
Maidstone, formerly Miss Margherita
Drexel OF Philadelphia and Lady
Violet Astor, wife of Capt. Astor.
NJ. p, she has pitched her tent near
the Glentana pool. on the Dee. This
is in sight of the celebrated mill,
the miller of which became noted in
song and story for caring for no one
Fishing in the Dee, and for salmon.
is not the contemplative easy amuse-
ment 1t seems. So many cast a line
and get established in the best
places that the fishers prowl about
pools when the early dawn of Eng
land breaks between 4 and o'clock.
They fish all day, sometimes at night
If there is moon. Lady Ward can
handle fat-bottomed skiff with
deftness and pursues her fish that
the majority of salmon fishers in the
Dee and Tay, fish from the shore.
Mr.. and Mrs. Richard Reid Rogers,
who lived in Washington for five
years just prior to the world war,
and who are frequent visitors to
friends made then, are entertaining
at their summer home, in Locust
Valley, Long Island, their four grand
children, the youngsters of Prince
and Princess Christian of Hesse, the
latter their daughter, who was Eliza
beth Reid Rogers. The prince and
his wife were called back to Ger
many because OF political upheavals,
but as they expect to return for the
winter. the little folk were confided
to their grandparents. They are a
lively group. The eldest, Prince Wal
demar, is not nine years old; Prin-
cess Marie Louise is almost eight,
Prince Richard Rogers Christian is
five and Princess Elizabeth Reid
Rogers is three. AS Miss Elizabeth
Reid Rogers, the Princess of Hesse.
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