Evening star., 1924-06-15
Tales of Well Known Folk
In Official and Social Life
CONTINUED from Tenth Pase.)


dust and noise. Don Gelasio will fol-
low this local precedent, though
italians-and, in fact. nearly all Euro
peans. build on the street line and
give all available space to the walled
garden behind. The grounds of the
new Italian embassy will be as
notable as the white marble building
and are claiming as much attention
from the ambassador. when he has
the work well on toward progress
during the summer. he will sail for
Naples to remain until early Novem-
her. During his visit to Rome he will
procure the interior embellishments s
and the household equipment for the
embassy, to be shipped during the
winter
Dr and Nine Antonious Pip the
former minister from Esthonia and
the first envoy which this newly
created Baltic republic has sent to
the United States, arc contemplating
a brief trip to Europe in the later
summer. where they will visit the
parents of Mma. Pip in Dorpat and
see their little son August Adolphe
who will accompany them on their
return trip. DR.. Pip. who is a dis
tinguiahed international lawyer, who
served as judge advocate in the west
ern dlVislon of the Russian army un-
~ the rail- OF the Romanoff dynasty
had contemplated attending the great
convention of legal lights in London
IN July, but he has pressing affairs
IN this country and it will be per-
haps August before he can seek a
vacation. The Esthonian minister
ana Nine. Pip have succeeded ad-
ntiratly in interesting those whom
they nave met at the American cap
Ital in their-to Washington-almost
unknown country. Their living
rooms in the legation are filled with
thetGnes IKE OF The beauty, spots about
the bay of Finland, where Estronia
Principally lies. and they have pretty
water color sketches of the vast
forests which look as solemn and
'atelF as those in the great north
west. Nine. Pip. a native of Dorpat
was pupil OF her husband in its
great university. the largest in north
europe, and she still is tremendously
Interested in scholastic affairs and
the intellectual life rather than in
the frlvols. She is one of the best
'questrians In the diplomatic corps
The Sia ameSe legation is one of the
Few diplomatic establishments which
can boast a permanent summer home
some hfteen years ago the envoy
from this mysterious land of further
atmosphere which envelops Glouces-
ter. on the extreme point of the North
Shore. as the Bay of Massa achusetts is
Colloquially called. that he secured a
rretty home there, which has served
MS successors ever since Toward
the end of June the Siamese legation
VIII take up its summer quarters, the
second season for the minister and
the first for the majority of the
Young student-attaches. But for the
secretary. Edward H. LOTUS, and Mrs
summer on the cool. quiet shore
where the contour of old Mother Ann.
as the cape is called, dips into the
ocean like the frill of cap. Mr.
Lotus will soon round out a quarter
of century in the diplomatic serv-
ice of his adopted country, Siam.
spent in Washington. He is by birth
an Englishman. a graduate of Oxford.
who entered the oriental service of
his country, and later that of Siam.
1t was in the sad weeks after the
and the induction of Theodore Roose-
Welt that Mr.. LOTUS was sent to the
Siamese legation. He has been here
without a break ever since and is
thus the ranking diplomat in Wash
ington, his papers having been signed
by John Hay. in November. 1901. He
and Mrs. Lotus have witnessed some
signal changes in the Capital City.
and likewise they have seen Glou-
cester transformed from a fishing
village into a fashionable resort. Not
that this change appeals to them very
much, for naturally they liked it best
in the older day, when shops, or what
passed for such in Gloucester. con-
tained nothing but fishing tackle and