Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1924-10-19
Tales of Well known Folk
In Social and Official Life
President Coolidge Admittedly Persistent Pedes-
trian-Secretary Hugh Also Good Hiker
Notes of Other Prominent Personaees.
to which he invites only his most
intimate and congenial friends.

to which he invites only his most
intimate and congenial friends.
The newly appointed Amba ssador
to Mexico. Mr.. James Rockwell Shelf
field, has arrived in the Capital and
already regathered the threads Of So
cfal intercourse where Mr.. Charles
beecher Warren had laid them down.
Mr.. Warren has refurbished the long
closed American embassy and given
10 It's living quarters a gay and
spr1ghtly air. Though but briefly the
envoy OF this government to that OF
PRESIDENT Obregon's, he had accom-
phshed much In restoring confidence
and good will. Mr. Sheffield has al
and has begun his weekly receptions
to the large staff OF foreign CORE
spondents and writers who are as.
signed to the old city of the Monte
zumas. such feteS would create wide
establishment in Washington, where
such exalted persons as amba ssadors
rarely meet news ScribeS in the pro-
tessional way. and are, in fact. ex-
cept Tor social purposes, rather yelled
mahatmas, and expend much energy
trying to keep their Views from pub
LEGATION. But in Mexico City and in
nearly all the Latin American capi-
tals the members of the Diplomatic
Corps are on easy terms with the
Fourth Estate, and the corps of news
writer's cuts quite a figure in the
scheme Of things. Ambassador Shelf
field having been man of affairs.
welcomes this state of things, and his
first amenity after his reception at
the foreign ONCE and by the Presi-
dent OF the republic was to invite the
several hundred correspondents who
make permanent headquarters in the
old city to be his guests
Gen. Pershing slipped out of town
very quietly week ago and has
sailed for France to pass through
unobtrusively and join his son, War
rem. who is at school near Frieburg,
in Switzerland, for a fortnight's vaca-
ton. Young Warren is being pre-
pared for a commercial career, and
Switzerland is the place to train for
this. il pedagogical estimates are ac-
cepted. Young Pershing has decided
against the Army. and, in view OF the
universal disarmament talk and the
steady efforts to abolish war 1T would
seem rather futile for even Gen.
Pershing's son to pursue martial
glory. Eventually Warren will go to
Cambridge. England. for a year or
two, or to Oxford. If he prefers, but
between this last chapter OF his
academic studies and the present
there will be course in an American
university. possibly at Columbia, Mo.
his fathers alma mater, and a term
or two in Paris. This for the lam
guages. for the former. head OF the
Army learned what handicap it may
be to one in a foreign land not to
speak the tongue of its inhabitants.
1t seems evident that Gen. Pershing
intends to return to Washington after
his brief outing. for his apartment is
in readiness. and all his cherished
trophies and souvenirs haze been
taken from their Summer retirement
and occupy their accustomed places
on the shelves and walls
President Doumergue of the French
Republic is unmarried, and. rumor
has 1t, Is rather an enemy Of senti-
ment and the subtle charms of love-
So his present residence in the
Elysee Palace, the scene Of the burn
ing passages between Louis XIV and
Nine. Pompa dour, afford him opportu-
nifty for much amused comment. All
traces of this royal intrigue have
been carefully erased from the beau
tiful Elysee, and the exquisite heads
Of the lovely Pompadour which were
painted into corners Of the main
salon have all been discreetly COW
cred with emblems of France in the
third republic. The new French
Dor Of Gen. Joffre. who is from the
same corner OF southern France. The
grateful government in making over
to the victor Of the first battle of the
Marine a suitable domicile in Paris,
chose that which was formerly occu-
pied by Nine. DuBarry when she was
such a violent rival of Pompadours