Evening star., 1924-08-17
Tales of Well Known Folk
In Social and Official Life
Precedent Set by Secretary Hughes in Unofficial
Visiting ng=Personal Notes of Prominent
People,

called The Lore and Lure of Travel"
which was we'll received. She has
written many critical essays on var-
Gus themselves. and handles a delcat.
but effective vein of satire.
Mrs. Nrooman has known Wash
ington in the official sense since her
early childhood, when her uncle. the
late Adlai Stevenson, and his family
were conspicuous denizens of the
CaritaL She has been intimately as
$ociated with many senatorial fami-
lies, so that curiosity will run high
as to which particular solon she has
selected for her hero. For he is
hero in every sense, and a type of
public man fortunately not rare in
American annals.
Newport this Summer has succumb
cd to a fad relating to gate posts.
and the more bizarre the variety the
more the householder seems pleased
Some of the older homes still cling to
to their stately bronze lions. The
rloiSterS. one of the finest estates in
the resort and the home of Mrs. VIII
liam Woodward. the latter one of the
celebrated CEydcr tripletS. the Elsie
of those three names beginning with
''E." including Ethel and Edith. which
Mrs. Cryder conferred on her daugh-
entrance of the CloiSterS. three mas
sive lions and one very fierce lioness
all Snarling over tho posts. Mrs.
SylvanuS Stokes. jr.. has just mount
ed two monStrous green porcelain
dragons uplifting awful heads over
the entrance to her mothers home.
and at night they are quite horrify-
ing and apt to make the hilarious
dread when passing that way. Gro
feature of the lodge entrance to Mr.
Clarence w. Doans beautiful home.
Seaweed. Mr.. Dolan has just install
ed these ferocious looking guardians
of his gates. and they are of ingen-
iously wrought iron. colored in life
hucs once on a time MIR. Dolan
preferred bronze buffaloes at his
gates. Mr.. Edison Bradley Is to in
stall two of the Crusaders formerly
in the hall of his Washington home,
to adorn the gateway into the pri-
vate drive. They are fully accou-
tered as titling knights of the
Richard III era.
The minister from the Netherlands
and Nine de 6raeff. who are passing
the summer quietly and with much
profit to their general health on the
River Severn in Sherwood Forest. .
ferent vacation in tho late Autumn
when diplomatic affairs will rest
easily during the national preoccupa-
tion in the quadrennial struggle 20
elect a Chief Magistrate for the Ma
ton. They plan Il motor trip through
what is called the American wind
mill country, Cape Cod. which is
reached along delightful route
from NaraganSett Pier or from New
Ia
through the beautiful city of Fair
haven in which the late Henry RoG-
erS erected so many beautiful civic
memorials to his wife, his parents
and to Il deceased daughter. Cape
Cod from Wareham might be in the
realm of Queen Wilhelmina. SO sx-
actly does it reproduce the dunes.
the low rolling land covered with
Shrubby trees and at every point the
familiar Windmill. many doing the
same sort of labor which is expected
in Holland. At West Yarmouth is
the famous Miller-Pilgrim mill oc-
cupying an isolated plot and quite Il
conspicuous feature on the landscape.
1t is built of unStained and now
weather beaten boards. with shin
ged roof. and if some kindly-lo
ing Storks were perched on the Chin
neys. the visitor might indeed imag
inc that the sea which rolls gray
and somber from the fiat shore was
the Hook of Holland or the Zuyder
Zee. All of this has been explained
to Jonkheer de Graeff and his daugh-
terS and all being fine artists with
camera. they intend to fill a scrap
book Of Cape Cod pictures against
their next visit to the Netherlands.
Miss Ruth Rose, assistant of Prof.
William Bebbe of the Geological So
ciety of New York Museum of His
tory. who is known as one of the
most intrepid scientific explorers of
the new world. has just accepted a
position under the British Guiana
government to gather some dozens of
specimens of the poisonous BUSH
master snake which makes life so
perilous in many regions of South
America. Miss Rose is in her early
twenties, is charming in appearance
and took high honors when she COM