Evening star., 1924-06-29

many voyages in their yacht. She is
the granddaughter of that Mary Nor
gan who married Walter H Burns, ms
Morgan interests. The bride-to-be
of Mr.. Barring has passed as much
time with her American relatives az
in England. Her father. the Hon:
for the divi
sion of Lancashire, and his home
Nuneham Park, Oxford. is beautl-
full country seat. we'll known to scores
nf Americans who have been enter
tained there.
When John Hay and his family
spent every summer at their lovey
home on Lake Sunapee. n. H, their
closest neighborS across the water
were Mr.. and Mrs. Rudyard hipllng'
There is much interest in that section
just now because the rumor persists
that the poet and his wife are con
templating returning to their ola
haunts, hoping to restore Mrs. KIP
ling to her normal health and vigor.
1t will be remembered that early in
the world war the only son OF TINS
eminent couple was reported among
the missing" on the battle front be
tween Ypres and the French bound
ary, and though every known methoo
was employed by three governments-
the British, Belgian and French-hls
fate never was known.
Mrs. kipling has not recovered from
this tragic blow, although her daush-
the debutantes of last season in Lon
don and received an unwonted share
of attention. The Kiplings spent the
winter and early spring in Algeria
and penetrated into the desert, VISIT
ing all the French garrisons and the
noted spots along the coast. They
went to the Azores and Madeira for
a few months and are now thinking
of visiting Mrs. kipling's old home IN
Brattleboro. VT, and then taking
up their residence on Lake Sunapee.
Mrs. Kipling was Miss Caroline Starr
Balestier when she married the emf
nent Htterateur in 1892. A warm
friendship exists between her and the
daughters of John Hay. Mrs. Payne
Whitney and Mrs. James W. Wads-
worth, and she may spend some OF
the summer at both their summer
homes in Southampton and the Gene
see Valley.
The Secretary of War and Mrs.
Weeks are the only members of the
present executive set who maintain
home in New Hampshire, although
some years ago both the Hays and
the Ethan Allen Hitchcocks had beau
tiful places near Dublin and, in Pres
ident Taft's administration, Franklin
McVeagh acquired large estate
there also. Mrs. Weeks entertains an
affection for the Prospect Hill farm
near Lancaster, for she feels imme-
date benefit from its bracing air. no
matter how jaded she is on arriving
there
The Coolidge place, near Plymouth.
VT, they consider a home and not a
summer resting place. They, too,
represent the executive set in YER
mont. which acquired quite a fame
for the vacation of statesmen when
President Woodrow Wilson spent the
first and second summers of his adj
miniStration in the Winston Church.
i'll estate in the Green Mountains.
When the Secretary of War bought
Prospect Hill he had some idea of a
stock farm. The ranges have a COW
or two to keep the family supplied
with milk in summer and several
sheep which are pets of the Davidge
youngsters. who always pass the
summer with. their parents. The
woods thereabout are SO wonderful
that Mr.. Weeks, who delights in
tramping and in spending some of
his leisure in experimenting the cut
ting of saplings and looping off
branches, could not consent to acting
as pioneer and having them cleared
for pasture land.
Walter Titles exhibition in dry
point and lithograph, held all during
June in the Kennedy Galleries in New
York City has created the same en-
thuSiasm which greeted these memo
rable sketches of the members of the
arms conference on their appear
ance at the Corcoran Gallery here
some months ago. TWenty-fi five of the
principals in this supreme effort to-