Evening star., 1924-04-27
Tales of Well Known Folk
In Social and Official Life
Commander Adolphus w. Andrews of the
MayAower Seen Parsonage of Supreme
Importance-Mr. and Mrs. Frank
C. Page Become Residents

I where some eighteen or twenty diff
! fcrent committees or societies invited
an elaborate banquet and asked him
! to make a speech. 1t required much
| tact and diplomacy to refuse. But
| that powerful club known as the
Cercle Interallie did have the Ameri-
| can expert as its guest two weeks
ago, and a distinguished international
| company foreSathered. Gen. Charles
| Fayot, m associate of Gen. Dawes on
! the interallied board of supplies, was
| chairman of the banquet committee,
| and his aide was the assistant mill
| tary attache of the French embassy
| in Washington. Capt. Lombard. who
| is in Paris for the spring. The Amer
| lean ambassador to France and all
| his staff attended the ceremony. and
all the French, British and American
| army officers within hail who had
| been associated even remotely with
Gen. Dawes during the world war
Gen. Dawes has sailed for this coun-
| try, and is conserving his strength a.
! far as possible for the heavy duties
which await his arrival here.
The thousands of Americans who
spent most of the winter on the
Riviera and who are now filtcrinG
! back report one welcome innovation.
| and that is the appearance Of many
| quick lunch places. even in such
| sanctums as Cannes and San Reno,
| and the possibility now of getting a
monday bite without waiting an hour
| for it. OF course. there was 4 tre-
| mendous outcry against this reform,
| for the tradition Of the centuries in
this part of the world is to order
meal which requires an hour TO cook
! and another to serve. and this in the
hours of glorious sunshine. when a
heavy meal was a drag. Scores of
American polo players have been
about Cannes practicing all winter.
and as tEey vociferouS1y patronized
the quick lunch their example drew
Paris. Mr.. Herrick. quite shocked his
clerical force by ordering the SIM
plest sort of luncheon served at his
desk. and which he ate in between
Parmalee Herrick. son of the ambas-
sador, was recently in Cannes, and
his presence a. one of the serve-me-
over-the-counter cafes and his choice
pie. with a huge bowl of butternilk.
was. in a way, the straw which has
j broken the back of the French res
taurant keepers. But Americans are
break fast, since they simply cannot
tolerate the continental style OF
strong coffee and a dry roll. and their
dinner orders leave nothing to be
desired. But they, dislike losing time
in the middle of the day. and so they
are revising French customs a bit
in this direction.
Lady Guernsey, who has been in
New York for month, the guest of
several of the former associates Of
her husband in the Irish Guards dur
ing the world war, will make brief
visit to Washington during May.
Lord Guernsey. who was the oldest
ford. was killed at Ypres in 1916 in
a charge In which he was company
commander of the guards. His mar
riaEe to Lady Katherine de Ramsay
Of Iiuntirgford had occurred in 1907,
| and there are no children. Lady
Guernsey is at present the guest OF
Maj and Mrs. Maurice Hely Hutchin-
SON. the former younger brother of
the Earl of Donaughmore. Mrs. Hely
Hutchinson is one of the famous
keppell beauties. and she is enjoying
quite a vogue in New York, where
ker husband is now in business. She
is partly American, and has relatives
in Jersey and in Virginia, and she
Guernsey, when the latter travels to
the south: Mrs. George Keppell and
her friend: Mrs: Cavendish Bentinck,
, have also been in New York recently.
and have been the guests of Mrs.
Whitelaw Reid in White Plains They
also feted Lady Guernsey, who is one
of the most notable OF the war
widows who has come to this country.
Mrs Woodrow Wilson is the presi-
cent Of the Democrat tic Women'S Club,
and she occasionally looks into the
new quarters at $50 Connecticut ave-
nue.. Mrs. Borden Hartman is prime
mover in this latest DEVELOPMENT, and
| other feminine kindred of the Demo
! Gratis n Congress or serving in other
| official roles. This organization was
| 4 virilc quantity some twelve or four
I-&
| clined, both in membership and in
| f1uence, all OF which Mrs. Wilson and
Mrs. Hartman hope to remedy. But
so many Democratic women of
Washington are of the south, and the
| political bee buzzes but family in
| that section. Only in recent years
have the women of the old south be-
come Interested at all in the nine
teenth amendment. and Mrs. Wilson
| herself may be deemed Il late con-
| her family show much interest in the
details of governing the nation.
| There is d trend however, among
| both Republicans and Democrats to
persuade their logical votaries to dis
card the fmpersonal element in d GEN.
| tralized feminine party and to work
| for the success of one of the &C
| knowledged political divisions. Mrs.
| intelligent student of politics. has in
variably given the same advice, and
| now Mrs. Wilson and Mrs. Hartman
are out in a fervent appeal to their
| clientele to rally around thci-
standard.
Those of the city's older genera
tion can recall the accomplished John
Bigelow Secretary of State of New
York, returning to Washington for
brief periods of rest during his term
as minister to Paris. Mr.. Bigelow
was invariably accompanied by his
young daughter, Miss Grace Bigelow.
and they held court in the old Airing
ton Hotel. MisS Grace Bigelow shows
the passing years but little. and she
has inaugurate ted her annual spring re-
ceptions in her fathers old home in
Grammercy Park. 1t is not the resi-
| dential section it was when the Bige-
low papers stirred the nations nerve
| center. but the mansion remains un-
changed. On Easter Sunday Miss
Bigelow gave the usual Sunday break
| fast to such of her fathers friends
as remain. and each year they are
| fewer, and the viands were those
which made gala breakfast in the
civil war y2ars and now rarely served
except for dinner or 1uncheon-fried
| chicken in cream gravy, delectable
| pancakes and honey. broiled ham and
| crisp potatoes Mr.. Bigelow's literary
reputation swallows up his other ac-
| COmplfShmentS so completely that