Evening star., 1924-06-15

raincoats and binoculars, and not an
inch was given up to feminine hnery as
| at present. Then the supreme events
of the summer were the coming of the
fleets from Iceland with the first
cargo OF halibut.
| Unless some of the diplomats change
their plans. the Hungarian minister
and Countess Szechenyi will be the
sole representatives of the Washing
ton corps passing the summer at
Newport. Time was when many i'm
portant embassies and legations
! sought a home in Newport and the
bachelor membe rs were in pursuit of
quarters from the end of one season
explain adequately why this lovely
old resort has lost its vogue in Amer
lean official life. Time after time it
has been announced that various
Presidents had accepted invitations
TO visit there. only to have the ru-
mors fatty denied. The latest was
that relating to the late President
Harding, but he never touched the
ancient town. though he was cruis-
ing close to it on the Mayfower
diplomats take their cue from the Of
1cial world. and so they find what will
seem more consistent with public SEN
timent in other localities. the North
Shore, the splendid resorts of Maine
and New Hampshire and less illus
trious points in Rhode Island. The
Newport because of its proximity to
the kindred of the countess and be-
cause she had passed the summer
there all her life until she went TO
live in Budapest and the Carpathians.
Queen Wnhelmina of the Neither
lands has been interested in several
recent celebrations on this side of the
water and in the instance of the Wal
. loon Huguenot Quadra centenary, her
~ Robert
de Forest was one of the most inter
estinS documents connected with
that event and will be a percious
heirloom OF the New York association
of Walloons. 1t was the remote an
cestor of Mr.. de Forest that led the
heroic fifty signers who petitioned
the British king 10 permit them to
adventure to Virginia This historic
document is preserved in the public
records office in Chancery Lane, Lon
don. 1t bears many names which
have become eminent in the asylum
which the eXiles reached on the stout
ship Nieu Netherlands, built by the
Dutch West India Company. Among
these are Kip, La Montaignc, De Witt
and La Fargo. Jesse de Forest was
man of affairs in New Amsterdam
and his descendants keep pace with
those of the Dutch who had settled
what is now the greatest city of the
world. Queen Wilhelmina shows
looms and their present day sons and
daughters and her letter is full of
references to the voyage of the Nieu
Netherlands from the Hook OF Hol-
land and their sturdy defiance OF ma
ture and Indian foes when they
reached a haven in the new world.
AS she is one of the most democratic
rulers in Europe and travels almost
continuously incognito, there is much
hope that she will make the voyage
to New York next Mothers day to un-
veil the statue Of the immigrant
mother and her babe. the latter the
first white child born on Manhattan
and citizen of the Lowlands.
Social gatherings in Washington
are sometimes enlivened by the ap-
pearance OF doubles" Mrs. Lansing
is often kept busy explaining that
she is not Mrs. Raker of California
and vice versa. Several times during
stolen into the eyes of those who
have known Mrs. James Byrnes of
South Carolina, president of the Con-
gressional Club, when they have been
presented to lady who certainly
bears a remarkable resemblance to
OF dressing and at casual glance
would pass for her any time. This
is Mrs. David Blair, wife of the COM
missioner of internal revenue, and
Sne mas CedSeo 10 tApidiH tHtl SHe
is not the president of the Congress
sonal Club. She just smiles, and
says a few words, and usually the
mistake is rectified without trouble
some explanations Mrs. Byrnes is
in Aiken-has been for some weeks,
for she is aiding her husbands cam
paign for the nomination to the Sem
ate. To her great regret she missed
the entire series of garden fetes at
tne wnlte rouse, one OF "hicn
NJ L. rrSe
hands with peoeple whom she had
never met and trying to answer ques-