Evening star., 1923-02-11

tance all up a mountain on sleds.
Besides, he accomplished the distance
| in one-fifth the time. MegiVe is a
charming little village. secluded in
| the mountains and boasting few tour
| lists to enjoy the winter sports.
All the other resorts about Cha-
mounix fairly TEEN with people, and
the king and queen longed for some
| privacy to skate and coast and enjoy
! the open with their children and just
a few chosen friends. Queen Eliza
| beth as girl was one of the in
trepid skaters about the Bavarian
! Alps. and could manage a sleigh with
| a firm and skillful hand. The young
crown prince is an adept at winter
sports, too. but his younger brother
| and sister have had few opportuni-
| ties To try their mettle. After ten
days in Megive. counting the three
hours in which the flight was made
| from Brussels and the same time
back, the royal family is In the city
palace again and deep in the heavy
| cares of state.
| News comes from London that the
proper authorities have at last COM
| pleted the purchase of a comfortable,
| though by no means imposing, home
In the Isle Of Wight for the eN-
EMPRESS Zlta Of Austria and her
| family The estate is near the ocean
at Ryde, and has a fine, allthe-year-
| around climate. so necessary for
young and rather delicate children.
| The former Empress of Austria has
been pondering the problem ever since
! her widuwhoud, for her income IL
| meagcr, and she had many phases,
political and social. to consider. Many
members Of the deposed and exiled
| royalty of Europe have found an
| asylum in England, and she will have
sympathetic friends In the former
Queen of Portugal and the Princess
] itlemcntina Bonaparte, both of whom
have summer homes in Wight. One
attraction, however, was the Benc
dictine convent of st. Cecilia, OF
which the stbbcss is a member OF
1 the royal house of Parma, to which
Itta belongs and maintains an cN-
elusive school for young children of
exalted rank. Following the advice
of sincere and disinterested friends.
ut is more than probable that the
older of the sons of the late en-
peror of Austria-Hungary will be
; entered in a public school of London
and prepared for professional careers.
The nuns of st. Cecilia's will educate
the younger children, both boys and
girls until they are ready for higher
grades.
y crisp controversy is in progress
in certain London papers over the
origin of Golder's Green, now the
modish suburb OF the British capital,
which is becoming what Chevy Chase
is to Washington, Brookline is to
Boston, or SewiCkley to Pittsburgh.
Heated letters appear. and each corr
respondent takes issue with the pre-
vious one, without however, produc-
ing any convincing evidence which
would settle the controversy. The
general belief is that the village was
once the resort of goldsmiths, and
that golders should be gilders. Other
Colder owned the hill, which appears
in the London maps of 1900 as
Goulder's Hill. Certain historians OF
Washington, city SO much younger
than London, and therefore with
more accessible records, would like to
know who the Jenkins was that
owned the hill which is now crowned
by the United States Capitol In
!eVery paper written by the august
patriot for whom the city is named.
! fns tructions to the commissioners or
iengineers, or merely d memorandum
In his diary. Washington names the
confines Of the federal city as ex-
tending beyond the fiat back Of
Jenkins ever owned that hill or any
land close to it. In fact, all this part
of the federal district was comprised
IN Dudolngton manor and pasture,
and was owned by Daniel Carroll and
by Motley Young. These two men
were the descendants of that Motley
Rozer, one the grandson and the other
great-grandson, who received the
tract from Thomas Motley. who in
by CeclliuS, second Baron of Baltf-
more. No Jenkins owned any part of
/ the District of Columbia until after
it's purchase by the government. Yet
on the records 1t is Jenkins Hill, and
was known by that name for at least
half a century before washington's
commissioners appeared in its vi
cinity.
France. though in the turmoil of
the German problem, is not entirely
neglecting the lighter side of life, and
news of great interest comes from
prove that there is something new
under the sun. The latest novelty liz
what is called paddock field polo and. as
played at LIE Touquet, it is making a
instead of the hard one opens possi-
bilities of the game on any sort OF
ground, turf. sand or a rutty com
mons. Not one-fourth the space is
which the East Indians made fashion,
able centuries ago and which is
played so superbly by the ARMY men
on the Mall England has already
taken up the new idea and within the
past two weeks has staged a game on
the hard, narrow space in front Of
the Hyde Park barracks, with the
International expert, T. B. Drybrough,
in charge, An admission fee to the
spectacle broght a tidy sum to the
depleted Golfers of the hospital fund
and the game was received with such
enthusiasm that paddock field polo
will be witnessed in England far
more in the coming open season than
the old way familiar now.
/ Mrs. Harry Payne Whitney, who
spent a few days in Washington
lately presumably to dip a little into
the QayetjeS Dlanned by Mrs Dim.
ock for her daughter. Miss Barbara
and for Miss Joan Whitney, passed
much Of her time in the Army
museum studying accoutrements for
preparation as war memorials. The
heroic figure which is to be the
4th Division memorial was not mark
edly military in his makeup and
the sculptor was mildly criticized in
this regard. Mrs. Whitney, though
war memorials which take the. form
of figures and bas-reliefs are going
out Of fashion, is engaged on three
other statues ordered by various
parts of the New York soldiery
His Last Charge" the pathetic
statue of the stricken infantryman,
is already in place in Mrs. Whitney's
studio and is visited by hundreds of
interested people. I'm the Trenches
almost finished. seems to touch popu-
lar fancy more than the other, and
there is some discussion about her
entirely recasting the negro in "The
Co1ored Soldier since his features
! answer to no recognized African type.
Mrs. whitney has recently held an ex-
hibition of her work, and fifty distinct
pieces of sculpture now placed In
every part Of the Union could be ad-
mired in replica.
| Though New York gownmakers and
1.-The large area which is influenced by