Evening star., 1924-07-20
Tales of We'll Known Folk
In Social and Official Life
Prince Of Wales, Coming to United States In
cognito, Will Pay Visit to President and
Secretary of State in Fall.

premier OF Great Britain. Prince
Serge is one Of the legion Of .xles
! from Russia who has selected the
British capital as home and where
| struggle for eXistt nee. The marriage
probably will cccur in the early win
| ter. Miss Astor has never been ro-
bust and she passes part OF each
year in the high, dry climate of the
Swiss Engadne. She has tidy for
| millions went to her brother. the
| present John Jacob. Her father, it
| will he remembered. was one of the
victims of the Titanic and one who
gallantiy aided his young wife, who
lad been Madeleine Force, into the
| 'ifoboat and turned back to meet
death in the icy waves. Prince Serge
| Obolersky, as he is known, though
| he has a half dozen other appella
| tions, comes of the most ancient
| the Ruriks, and which preceded the
| Roumanoffs by more than 500 years
Rurik, the founder Of royal Russia,
and who centralized the wild and un-
ruly factions of the steppes, regned
| toward the end of the ninth century.
His desce ndants held the Russian
| throne until 1898. when the last
| Rurik was defeated by Ivan the Ter
rtbie, the founder of imperial Russia
| and the Romanoff line.
Mr.. and Mrs Francis Bowes Sayre
and their children have started on
| t"eir long journey from Bangkok to
Washington and are expected in
| this city the early part of September.
Mr.. Sayre accepted a position under
| the SiameSe government and had just
arrived at his post when the news
| of former President Wilson's death
arrived to disturb his wife's pleasure
in what would under other circum-
| h p,,I
perience. Certain clauses OF the late
I PRESIDENTS viii make the presence
of Mrs. Sayre essential before the
year ends. and then. TOO. she longed
to get home for the exciting events
connected with the coming elections.
though in her case the failure to
nominate her brother-in-la law, MIR. VIII
| liam Gibbs McAdoo, robs the quad
rennial struggle of much of it's in
terest. Mrs. Sayre has always taken
a keen interest in civic affairs and
she could not renounce participatio
in the November elections unless
there was urgent necessity. Then,
too, Mr.. Sayrc found that he preferred
his usual scholastic pursuits to those
of diplomacy and he resigned his po-
sition definitely before leaving Bang
kok. He may, however, remain at
tached to the Siamese government in
this country In an advisory capacity.
The Sayres will be confronted with
equipment, since they disposed of
/ their household paraphernalia before
setting out on their eight-week voy
age to Bangkok.
Senator and Mrs. William Edgar
Borah of Idaho do not think much of
a Summer which does not permit a
visit to some of those isolated noun
tain passes in their State which now
make the last outpost of civilization.
One of their favorite retreats is that
region of mystery, romance and leg
end, the. Thunder Mountain, d peak
which thrusts its head more than
5000 feet above the tableland and
which was one of the discoveries of
Lewis and Clark on their famous
journey to Oregon. Thunder Noun
tain and its surrounding peaks make
last stand against the encroach
ments of man and may answer best
to what was commonly known fifty
years ago as the frontier. 1t was
here that Gen. Howard pursued Chief
Joseph and his band of Nez Perces
warriors, a feat considered unique in
military annals. Such rivers of pis-
catory fame as the Snake and the
Salmon steal through it's Businesses,
and happy, indeed. is Senator Borah
when ne can count d month of his
own and pitch his tent wherever he
feels disposed to follow the stream
under the primeval forests. This
country is. however, only for those
who can rough it, and who can swing
an ak and manage a boat or pitch
tent. For it lies many miles. and all