Evening star., 1924-11-09
Tales of Well Known Folk
In Social and Official Life
Mrs. Coolidge Longs for Day When She Can Sit
In Upstairs Window in Kimono and
Look Out Over Potomac

FOR her nephew in her home in Riv-
erside Drive and Mrs. Theodore
Roosevelt. ST.. made Sycamore Hill a
| meeting place for the various Repub-
! lean units OF Oyster Bay. All
! through the land except in Washing
! 'on there were drawing room politics
| nlayed assiduously and certainly as
adroitly as IN the public halls and on
street corners. One activity Of women
| in politics, which will engage all the
committees laboring therein, will be
| to play the game In important homes
and under the compelling influences
! which British women know so well
| how to muster. Mrs. Moran's expert
ment will be used to point the moral
| The young Cornelius Vanderbilts
are in New York City. resting for q
season from their journalistic en-
deavors in Los Angeles. and have
recently been the guests of Mr.. Mon
roe Won Mayhoff in his villa at Gar
rison- on the Hudson. This young
man. who was a friend of the junior
Cornelius in prep" days. is Well
known in Washington. where his
mother, Mrs. Carl Won Mayhoff. acted
as hostess for her brother, the late
! Jefferson Levy, then Il member OF
| Congress from New York City, and
celebrated principally because he was
Won Mayhoff was a tiny lad then and
he frequently appeared in the draw
| ing room of Monticello, for in those
days Representative Levy was wont
| to take carloads of congressional
and other guests to Thomas Jeffer
sons beautiful home near Charlottes-
Vile, and which, it will be remem-
bered, he wanted the Government TO
| buy from him for half million dol
! &c Or,
| ing person and she made a pretty
! picture with her son. always clad in
! velvet and lace after the manner of
| the Gainsborough pictures. Mr.. Levy
inherited the famous estate of
Thomas Jefferson from his uncle.
| Commodore Uriah Philips Levy,
whose career in the Navy has fur
nished many tales similar to that told
| in "Pinafore," for from a cabin boy
he rose to the highest rank. 1t was
| gratitude for the friendship and aid
| which President jefferson bestowed
when religious prejudice retarded his
rightful promotions which prompted
him to buy the Monticello property
when it was thrown on the market
and to restore is so magnificently.
! That wonderful new clubhouse.
| which is scale reproduction of
ganized National Horse Show of New
York City has opened just in time for
| the great exhibits in midOctober.
makes an instant popular appeal.
+, For If there is one activity outside of
! war and the honorable discharge of
civic duties with which the memory
of the great Washington is associ-
| ated, 1t is with the horse Gen.
! Washington's official journeys were
I..1l styif fa h iS he
| NAL occasions in New York and Phil
| adelphia when he rode in the state
equipage. To make his beloved home
| familiar to the modern horse ioying =
| contingent, many Of whom have
never seen Mount Vernon, was indeed
a happy thought. There are carriage
houses filled to the door at Mount
Vernon, and no doubt the great pa
| triot occasionally rode in them, but
it is on horseback that he passes
through history. He is peculiarly in
that role in all that relates to the
| city which he founded and which
bears his name, the National Capital
Thus, the first entries Of the COM
! mfssioners' report TEEN with such
! items as Gen. Washington rode VI,
! from Mount Vernon to inspect the
| work, and he and his steed were ac-
eommodated at Suffers Tavern in
| Georgetown" The first appearance
! of the District Militia under it's gal
| liant captain and instructor, the tai
ented Irish architect, James Hoban,
was in connection with Gen. Wash
| ington's return from Philadelphia
| after the Inauguration Of John Adams.
| and he made the entire journey on
! horseback. Mr.. Hoban and his troops
met the patriot at the Maryland
State line and accompanied him be-
yond Alexandria, when the Virginia
Militia formed the guard Of honor.
II the King Of England could COM
mand the presence Of American citi-
zens as he does his loyal subjects, one
of the celebrities from this country
| who would be received in the priva cy
of Windsor or of st. James would be
| Billy Sunday. Mrs. John William
| Davis tells a characteristic story of
| the evening the then Ambassador to
| Great Britain and herself dined their
| majesties, an event of vast import in
| their lives and every detail of which
| is well remembered. King George
suffers from a bronchial trouble and
| he had a painful attack just at this
| time and he kept up running fire
| of distressing coughs. He conf1ded to
| his hostess that, like one of his far
| off predecessors on the throne of
England, he would give his kingdom
| for a man who could stop his cough.
| Mrs. Davis told him there was one in
her country, and she related how the
| Evangelist Billy Sunday would STERN
| ly command all coughing to cease
| when he began to talk, and that,
strange to relate, not q sound would
| issue from the vast audience which
| had been sneezing, clearing its throat
| and barking volubly moment be-
! lore. The King was vastly amused,
for, of course, he expected the name
| of some marvellous throat specialist,