Evening star., 1924-11-02
BIZ MARGARET b. DOWNING.

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Changes which are inevitable after
the quadrennial struggle over the
presidency have been augmented this
season in the executive circle by the
hand of death in the instance of the
head of the Agriculture Department
and by the restless spirit in the diplo-
matte corps which seems to mark
all the governments of the world. 1t
now seems possible that when the
inauguration comes about two thirds
of the mbassadorial corps in Wash
ington will be strangers to the scene
and large percentage of new men
will adorn the ranks of ministers
plenipoteniary. Three ambassadors
are due here at the beginning of the
year, for in addition to the successors
of the present French and Brazilian
envoys successor to Prince Caetani
Is soon to be named by the Italian
government and doubtless will arrive
just as Don Gelasio is about to de-
part The Cuban, Argentine and
Peruvian Ambassadors have arrived
within the year An Ambassador from
of this country toward healing the
hoped, soon after Christmas, and as
suredly Japan will meet the efforts
of this country towards healing the
wounds caused by the recent imml-
grafton law and send an envoy mere
Just about the time that Mr.. Edgar
Addison Bancroft presents his Gre
dentials in Toxic.
Some of the traditional ambassa-
dorial posts remain vacant and this
seems probable for many years 10
como. Austria has not under the re-
adjustment caused by the peace OF
Versailles the status among the ma
tions to maintain an embassy IN
Washington and will continue her
present policy of keeping only
charge d'affaires. Soviet Russia has
no place in the diplomatic corps at
washington, when for many years
the envoy of the Gar was one of the
great personages in the foreign
coterie. Nor does this country hold
other than commercial relations with
the new Turkish government, "hen
once upon time an ambassador came
from the Sublime Porte and Con-
stantinople was deemed the plum ol
the American foreign service given
only 10 its most astute diplomatlSts.
AS the diplomatic corps grows IN
numbers and Importance the group
of churches attended by these
strangers within the gate begin TO
attract attention. For the first time
since the days of Lord SackVllle
West the Ambassador from the Court
of st. James is Cathoic oI
church at present and is the oniy
one which Sir Esme and Lady lsa-
bella Howard attended during their
former residence and where thelr
fourth son, Anthony, was baptized.
That picturesque vine-clad monas-
terry, Mount Carmel. on Rhode Island
avenue northeast, is the official place
of worship for the Spanish AmoaS-
sador The Carmelite Fathers there
in SnaDiSh and Is tnert
that Senior Riano and his staff seek
spiritual refreshment. NJ. and Nine
Jusserand are regular attendants at
St Paurs, on street, and so, too.
the large contingent of diplomats
resident in Washington Heights
Nearly all the Latin Americans at
tend St Patrick's. The numerous
Lutheran coterie in the corps, and
which contains all the Swedes, Nor
wegians, Danes and Firms, attend st.
Pauls Lutheran Church, Eleventh and
n streets. while the Lithuanians have
brought a chaplain with them
King George and Queen Mary of
Great Britain are firm believers in
the efficacy of the Christmas card
and both are lending their patronage
to the exhibit of the earliest Speci-
mems in the Victoria and Albert Me-
mortal and TO the movement to honor
the originator of this now universal
1y accepted custom. 1t was in 1852
that Sir Henry Coles, royal acad-
emician, sent out to few friends
a piece of cardboard with fooled
edges on which tiny sprays of holy
had been painted. Below was an ex-
quisite Winter scene, d home in the
center, and, beneath the artists
name and the compliments of the
season. The following year whole
shoals of artists initiated Sir Henry
and about 10 years later the Christ
mas card was launched commercially.
But for a long time it was entirely
proper to send out homemade cards,
as it were, those painted by capable
hands and much decorated with snow
and ice and frosted trees, with holly
wreaths and other Christmas devices
plentifully added to the acceptable
legends. The exhibit in the Memorial
Hall in London shows the most in