Evening star., 1924-03-23
hARGARET Il. DOWNING.

representative and Mrs John
Jacob Rogers of Massachusetts,, who
hsure so prominently in all functions
where the American foreign service
rs concerned. are among those who
feel peculiarly gratified over the
promotion Of the undersecretary of
state, Mr.. William Phillips, to be
ambassador TO Brussels and the shift
ing of Mr.. Fletcher from Brussels to
Rome. and the further moving on TO
higher places OF MIR. Hugh Gibson
and others of the career" men in
the State Department.
Mr.. Rogers has worked with a
single purpose TO secure such action
and his bill 10 make appointments
s'roni"tlonS and transfer part Of "A
rational system Ike the military
procedure at West Point and An
@Ap"lIs. seems definitely approved
Mr. Phillips is from Massachusetts,
and is the first from it, Of the per-
Inanent attaches Of the State De-
partrnent. to achieve such signal sue
cess. Mr.. Edwin Morgan. amba
dor to Rio, iS career man in the
service and climbed 10 tho heights from
being private secretary to John Hay
In London. MIR. Fletcher is also Il
permanent diplomat. so to speak
who came out of III" west and gained
much popularity during the Spanish
American war as 4 rough rider He
has been conspicuous III state De
partment affairs. with "a !raGing
towards the Latin American prob
lens.
Dir. Phillips was third assistant
secretary Of stat" for about q year
when he Went minister To The
Hague. lie has been undersecrctary
less than a year Possessing an
ample fortune. as well aS the need
ful intellectual qualities. h" seems
entirely worthy OF the high tradi-
tionS of American diplomacy cStab-
hshed in Belgium.
Mrs. William j. Clothjnr and Mrs
Victor G. Mathcr. who are arranging
the Wynnewood pony and dog show
one of the most popular features of
the spring sports season in Fhila-
delphia, will introduce side saddles
as an innovation in the feminine en-
tries. For many wears. those who de-
light in esthetic considerations nave
Strivon to persuade pretty riders to
depart from the masculine severity of
trousers and coats with Stiff collars
and CravatS. but with small affect.
Nov, however many discriminating
women have returned to the flowing
skirt. the soft. lacy blouse and the
velvet hat with long. curling plumes
ana the results have been to add i'm
hehStlS ~ tue bedutS u d iidlhS
scene.
Mrs Clothier and Mrs Mather have
inspired ambition in the pony riders
by offering Il Side-Saddle cup which is
not only the most beautiful and val
uabie prize in the show, but one for
which only those in habits can com
pete Practically the entire juvenile
membe rShip has signed over for this
competition and their action will
without a doubt have its influence ON
their elders. Washington recalls the
last equestrienne first lady of the
land. Mrs. Roosevelt, who could ac-
company her husband on those rough
and-tumble croSS-Country jauntS with
out damage to her flowing cloth habit.
Mrs. Woodrow Wilson the second.
rode exceedingly we'll in her girl
hood and during the years of her
unofficial residence in the Capital
She gave up this exercise after her
marriage to the President of the
United States and became a devotee
OF the motor. Many women in the
present official set ride horse back,
but nearly all use the divided skirt
or tTouSered apparel. Every now and
then, however, a rider appears in
long skirts and eiaborately trimmed
hat and blouse and she makes a
pleasing picture.
Mrs o. H. P Belmont has recently
purchased the old and disuSed Sands
tOlnt lighthouse ana the HVe-dcre
tract on which it stands, near the
shores OF Long Island sound. below
Southampton. The fine country place
where the former Duchess of Marl-
borough, now Mrs. Jacques Faisan,
and William X. Vanderbilt. jr.. passed
their childhood and which remains
their favorite homo is thus enlarged
and made more secluded since the
government employees of the light
house and adjacent activities no
longer have an excuse for cutting
through the grounds to reach the
shore.
Sands point was granted 10 the we'll
known family of that name more
than 200 years ago, and two men,
berS of which, Joshua and Comfort,
were patriots of the war of independ-
ence. Comfort Sands in 1898 pur-
chased extensively of the land in the
new federal city on the Potomac and
he bought of Gen. Washington's COM
nissioners almost an entire city block
where the Public Library now
stands. He also erected a group Of
brick houses along X and I streets
near 9th. He did not, however, reside
in Washington for a lengthy period,
but continued TO reside on the point
which one of his grandsons later sold