Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1924-04-13
Mrs. Stone Expected
To Select Home Here
Within Two Weeks
Attorney General and Wife
Held High Position In
New York Social Set.

New York city is so vast, and its so
cial Tamifications so far-6ung, that the
handsome, quiet-looking home of At
torney General and Mrs. Stone in River
side drive, on the upper reaches of the
Hudson. does not figure prominently in
the ordinary chronicle of the day. Yet
it has been a center of immense infiu-
ence in the intellectual way, and few
have been more sought for their own
| inherent worth than the present Attor-
ney General and his wife. Mrs. Stone
has found the closing Of this home, or its
REIMBURSEMENT to run for a time without
her guidance, such task that to her
deep disappointment she was not in
Washington to witness the solemn in
vestiture of her husband with the honors
and responsibilities of the Department
of Justice.
But she is expected in the next two
weeks, and meantime all such serious
matters as the selection of a home here
await her coming. Nor will either Of
the sons, Marshall and Lawson, come
! to Washington Immediately, though
| they may accompany their mother for
! a few days survey of the new field of
activity. Both are in Harvard. The
elder filing an instructors chair whilst
| he takes a postgraduate degree in law,
d
! legiate department Harvard has a few
| days recess just about the time that
! Mrs. Stone plans to join her husband
! in the Capital.
Were Childhood Chums.
Mrs. Stone comes of a family which
| has written its name in large letters into
! the history of the Anglo-Saxon race
vile, N J., and she was born and reared
] in a pretty little home nearby that of
( her husband, and the two had been
dummy in their earliest years They at
tended the primary schools in Chester
vile. and then their ways parted for a
/ time. But the moment the young attor-
new, who had finished a collegiate
| course in Amherst and then his law
course in Columbia with signal honor,
saw success peeping over the horizon ne
his boyhood's sweetheart The life of
the Attorney General and his wife in
New York city is one OF those hearten-
! ing records of diligence and frugality
| and an intense cultivation of the more
| essential things, culture and intellectual
! when Judge stone was offered the
| exalted role which he is to play dur
| ing tho remaining months OF the
| Coolidge administration - and per-
hans for a. longer term-he had
climbed to the top. His home on
| Riverside drive is one of the stateif-
est and best equipped in that region
| of sumptuous abodes-not that he or
| Mrs stone go in for extravaganza or
! display. but their position has called
for a certain dignity, and both have
I achieved it in a signal way.
/ interested in Pkilanthropies.
Mrs. Stone has been much inter-
l ested in civic phflanthrppies and
| she frequently entertains committees
! charged with certain divisions of the
| CITY charities She is a. member of
half a dozen hospital boards, found
ling asylums and working girls home.
| she is active also in the benevolent
| movements of the Congregations
I Church in Morniingside Park. which
| ali the Stone family 4 attend. But
when Mira stone really likes to en-
| ioy an evening she invites q. company
| of her husbands former classmates in
| Amherst-and New York Is full of
| them-and she has an old-faShioned
| supper, In which sweet cider, soft
ginger hread and hard suSar-ooated