Evening star., 1924-09-14
By MARGARET b. DOWNING.

BY MARGARET b. DOWNING.
President and Mrs. Coolidge have
firmly established the vogue of the
patriotic motor tour. For when they
ride to any distance or travel in the
Mayf1ower by water they have some
objective in addition to passing the
hours. Several times they have made
the trip from Washington to Gettys-
burg and many times have they COM
mended this ride to friends. 1t is the
ideal journey from the Capital and not
fatiguing. The beauty of the hills of
Maryland and Pennsylvania is en-
trancing both to the Executive and
Mrs. Coolidge. for they are keenly
alive to such, being born and bred in
the hill country, and rejoice and grow
young in traversing it. No battle
field nor its approaches perhaps in all
the world is so embellished with
tributes to heroes as Gettysburg
Splendid equestrian statues of Lee and
Meade face each other across the
green meadows where Pickett made
his immortal charge. President
Coolidge and his son when taking
friends to this spot have Invariably
alighted and walked over the ground.
viewing the situation from every
point of vantage. An impressive les
son in history may be studied in the
groups of statues all through this
section and in the several national
cemeteries. Southwark from Gettys
burg, through peach orchards and
wheat fields. lies Seminary Ridge
where the guns and stone intrench-
ments of the Confederate armies are
still visible, and passing these the
traveller comes to beauty spots of
the Blue Ridge Buena Vista Springs
Pen Mar and thence down to Mason
and Dixon's line to the highway
which leads into Washington.
The Secretary OF State and Mrs.
Hughes passed the most active Sum-
mer of any of the Presidents official
family Since neither enjoys ocean
trips and hasty journeying. quite
fatUrally they are now seeking a lit
tie leisure for the things they most
delight in doing The Secretary likes
To walk, perhaps. better than any other
diversion. While Mrs. Hughes and
Miss Elizabeth delight in this exer-
else, too, the head of the family can
leave them far behind after the first
three miles. Then he is apt to wave
jaunty farewell and continue at a
prodigious rate until he is swallowed
In the distance. The favorite walks
of the Hughes family are over the
paths on the high roads in Rock
Creek Park and from there into the
his early years Mr.. Hughes was a
p famous Alpine climber and he won
his spurs on the same difficult peaks
where President Roosevelt acquired
fame, and where, too. the present
Roman Pontiff. Piux XI, trudged his
way into Alpine records with two
clerical friends. If his schedule had
permitted Secretary Hughes would
certainly have visited Mont Blanc
and the Grundewald and have tried
his strength in the old pastime but
he got no nearer the Alps than Paris
and every moment of his stay abroad
was given over to the social obliga-
tions and semi official duties which
took him to Europe. Mrs. Hughes
has never tried Alpine climbing, but
she has enjoyed the exhilaration of
getting to the tops of some of the
peaks of the Adirondacks and of the
Catskills. But all of the family select
Mrs. W. Harry Brown, who has
passed the season in the famous Nor
folk House, the London residence of
the Duchess of Norfolk. will. after a
few months in her Pittsburgh home,
look in on her Washington acquaint-
ances. Mrs. Brown, who is still
alluded to by scores of old friends
as the beautiful Amy HARRISON"
added new laurels to the American
woman as chatelaine of historic Lon
don establishments. Her vast man
sion in ST. James place was imme-
diately adjoining the town house of
Lord and Lady AStor and, naturally,
the latter, vivacious and experienced
Londoner, evinced great interest in
her countrywoman. Mrs. Brown, who
is inclined to literary pursuits, in
vited several relays of guests during
the bar association conferences to
have tea and then inspect the won
ders of the library attached to the
mansion. For seven generations the
Dukes of Norfolk have gathered rare
books. and though the duchess, widow
OF the last holder of the title and
mother and guardian of the 15-year-
old heir, has for years made her home
permanently at Arundel Castle, she
has failed to move the book treasures
They are, however, heavily insured
against any sort of harm. The
library covers an entire wing of the
house, is beautifully wainscoted in old
English carved oak, and over each
niche is painting of the dukely COL
lector of that particular accumula-
ton. Mrs. Browns afternoons in the
library were among the rarest treats
which could be offered her friends
who were travelling in England dur
ing the past Summer. She has re-
Gently yielded her tenancy Of Norfolk
House and is now in Scotland.
That charming little miss, Kath-
crime Mackay O'Brien, who smiled
first on this world shortly before his
royal highness, the Prince of Wales.
sailed on the Berengaria, received
tumultuous welcome from a multi
tude of friends and kinspeople and
she will always figure in the family
annals in connection with the polo
games of 1924 at Meadow Brook. For
because Of little katherine's tender
age, she required all her mothers
care and thus prevented Mr. Clarence
Mackay from having two daughters
to assist in the splendid entertain
ment which he gave in honor Of the
heir to the British throne instead of
Miss Ellin alone. Mr.. and Mrs.
Kenneth O'Brien and little Miss
O'Brien received q full share of at
tention, even though they were not
at Roslyn. The gallant young prince
sent beautiful flowers and congrat-
ulatory letter to the parents, and the
latter will figure among the. souve-
Mrs to be treasured against the time
when the infant will be interested in
royal favors. Mrs. O'Brien as Miss
Katherine Mackay was an enthusias-
tic Washingtonian for two years. The
cousin and close friend of Mrs. Stuart
Symington, then Miss Evelyn Wads-
worth, she came to Washington on
brief visit and remained to find a
chaperon and a furnished house in
which to spend the entire season.
Miss Ellin Mackay has not been so
frequent a visitor, though she comes
occasionally. The daughter born to
the Kenneth O'Briens is their first
child and the first grandchild in Mr..