Evening star., 1924-04-27
BY MARGARET ID. DOWNING.

presidential predictions, most likely
% prove all the summer residence the
Executive family will enjoy during
the coming heated term, its skipper.
Commander Adolphus W. Andrews, is
a parsonage of supreme importance.
The guests who accompany the Presi-
dent and Mrs. Coolidge on those i'm
promptu jaunts down the river to re-
lieve the strain and tedium of official
duties know the skipper only as the
most charming though f-effacing g.
of hosts, and who possesses to the
last degree that happy faculty of
knowing how to blend with the at
mosphere and to contribute snare
of enjoyment to those under his care
as we'll as to look after their safety.
But to a number of people Commander
Andrews is an aStute business man
and an engineer of prodigious achieve
ment He was for many years In
China and the energy gathered up
in those Quiescent days took the form
of building SkySCraperS i'll his home
city. Dallas, Tex. as soon as he got
settled into land duty. Commander
andrews was, in fact, the object or
much ridicule when he began a TWEEN
ty-story building in Dallas. for Texas,
urban and rural, has much land to
spare, and it seemed the height of
folly to rear structures up into the
air after the manner of New YORK,
where an inclt of ground is a fortune.
But the naval man stuck TO his guns;
His venture was Il notable financial
success, and now SkyScrapers for
offices. hotels and apartments are just
as popular and profitable In Texas
as in any other part of the country.
Suggestive of his long SoJourn in the
orient. Commander Andrews has a
deft touch in interior decoration. ana
the living quarters since he took COM
mand of the Mayf1ower are perfect
tion in the matter OF arrangement OF
flowers and a few effective orna-
mentS.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank c. Page. the for
Iner the son of the late ambassador 10
Great Britain, Walter Hines rage nave
recently become permanent residents OF
the Capital and will be notable additions
10 the official and literary branch of So
ciety Mrs Page, who is "A gracelui
hostess and thoroughly accomplished IN
the social sense, was Miss Anna Howard
HARRISON of Lexington. Ky. She was
married during her fatller-in-law's term
in London, and spent one season there
There are two sons. Shelby ana AlliSon,
both natives of Boston, where the Pages
have lived since returning from London
The late Walter Hines Page, though
figuring in such an exalted role all
through the first six years OF the
Wilson administration, never lived IN
Washington, and his visits were brlet
and always on imperative business.
Mr. Frank Page has. however, often
come to Washington, and he and MRS.
Page are looking around TO hnd a
half suburban home which they in
tend to purchase. Mrs. Page and her
small sons are fond of horseback rid
ing. and they are learning all the
bride paths about Rock Creek.
Mrs. Wilfred r. Grenfell. wife OF
the famous medical missionary of 81.
anthony, Newfoundland, is exhibiting
in New York and intends to bring her
display to many other cities, a Won
derful collection OF hooked rugs,
decorated with animal borders, the
work of her husbands patients in
the Labrador hospitals. Nearly all
the materials used in these fine rugs
are strips of homespun. for the art of
weaving still thriyes in Labrador
and Newfoundland and the color and
texture of these colonial revlvals
compare most favorably with those
for which fabulous prices are given
by museums. Orders for the hooked
rugs are reaching Mrs. Grenfell thick
and fast and she anticipates a busy
autumn and winter filling them
properly. DR.. and Mrs. Grenfell were
here frequently during the regime of
the first Mrs. Wilson. Both are inti-
mate friends of Mr.. and Mrs. Francis
Bowes Sayres and it will be remem-
bered that DR.. Grenfell was best man
at their wedding. Mrs. Grenfell was
before her marriage, in 1909. Miss
Anna Elizabeth McClanahan of Lake
Forest, ILL.,, and she is a graduate OF
Bryn Mawr. Her work for the in
valid poor of Labrador, and especially
tubercular patients, has been as un-
firing and Jealous as her husbands.
Every spring she makes a tour of
certain cities. where she has many
friends and succeeds in arousing in
terest enough in the hospitals to in
sure prosperous year for its de-
Pendents.
John G. Leishman, who died in
Monte Carlo a. few weeks ago, was
ono of the trio of diplomats who
some twenty years ago were moved
other in bewildering haste. In less
than seven years Mr.. Leishman had
been minister to Switzerland and am
baSSador in rapid succession to Rome,
Rerlin and ConStantinople. The late
Charlemagne Tower was another of
the same era who figured as American
AMBASSADOR to st. Petersburg Gas it
was them, Rome and Berlin in less
Tengerke Meyer followed the same
routine, and even more hastily, and
vas entering his second year as am
baSSador to Rome when President
Roosevelt invited him into the cabi-
ret as Postmaster General. Mr.
Leishman, like the other two, was a
successful business man. He had
been selected as bright young man
by Andrew Carnegie, and had climbed
to the presidency of the Carnegie
Steel Company when he entered di-
plomacy. His daughters married til
lied foreigners of Observation-Disclosures ha.
Count Louis de Gontaut-Biron, and
on his demise, Mr.. James Hazen Hyde.
Ill a. . =
alliance with the Duke of Croy. de-
spite the efforts of the former kaiser
to prevent the union. John G. Leish-
man, jr., resides permanently in Eu-
Cannes. His wife was Miss Helene
Demarest. daughter of Mr.. and Mrs.
Warren G. Demarest of New York
city.
Miss Glory Thomas. who is soon to
marry Mr.. William Elliot, jr.. of New
York, was an occasional visitor to
Washington when her uncle, Balm
bridge Colby. was Secretary of State.
Miss Thomas is the daughter of .Au--
gustus Thomas, the playwright. and
She is likewise a niece of that charm
ing novelist, Anna Douglas Sedgwick,
formerly of Stockbridge, Mass, but
row a resident of London. But
though so closely allied to such great
ness, Miss Thomas has carved her
own niche, and has been for several
years the capable director of the
players committee of the Junior
League. She must have inherited
considerable of her fathers execu-
tive power, for she has handled high
strung amateur performers with tact
and success, and her impending resig-
ration fills the league officers with
dismay The Thomases and Colbys
are both st. Louis families, though
Gus" as the playwright is known
in his natal state, is another distie-
guished son of Missouri born in Pike
county. Mrs. Thomas was the eldest
daughter of John Peck Colby, well
known lawyer and publicist of St
Louis and likewise the father of
cambridge Colby, Mr.. Wilson's last