Evening star., 1924-07-13
Tales of We'll Known Folk
In Social and Official Life
Mrs. Whitelaw Reid Recipient of High Honor.
Secretary and Mrs. Hughes on
Vacation in Europe.
Vacation In Europe.

lillian X. Vanderbilt. jr. and her
wo pretty daughters have arrived
London from the continent and
ave a suite at the Ritz. Miss Grace
anderbilt. who passed so much
ne i'm Washington, has become
tentified with the Anglo American
nciety and Is a conspicuous member
her clubs. She Is to pass part of
he autumn at Stair Castle with her
ousin. the Duchess OF Roxburgh. and
WI then make visit to the home OF
''e Jean Ba'Hans. near Nice. in Oc-
ober. Seemingly Miss Grace intends
take to British and continental life
'ermanently. though Gen. Vanderbilt
New York in November.
Mrs. Charles D. Sabin, who was
Polly Morton and we'll known in
Wa 'htngton. keeps a kindly eve over
he art village as 1t was in past years,
which nestles at the foot of the Shin
necoCk hills and adjacent to Ba rberry.
Mr' Sah,n's show place on Long Is
land. Washington is not 20 numer-
onSlN Represented in this art villa re
fhIs summer, though Mr.. zolnay. the
'cu'ptor. and his fanfi" are cinve by
md Miss Ze'la de Mihau. who re-
mained long intervals here during
the war designing and executin e
posters for the liberty loans and
n
charming place c"lled Lsffalot and
the leader of artistic activities This
quaint little village Is grouped In
tlny cottages of Il living room and
studio, on both sides of a wide street,
and was once filed with the en-
thusiastic students OF William NJ
Chase who followed him during the
period usually devoted to rest and
recreation and passed the long sum-
mer days sketching the exquisite bits
along shore. No other master took
up the work and the colony gradu-
ally dispersed, many returning to
their former haunts about Gloucester
Nearly all the cottages have been
enlarged to meet domestic require
ments and Mrs. Sabine's interest Is
centered mainly on the members of
the woman's Republican. party, in
which she is such a capable director.
She secures the homes at nominal
price and thus has working con-
tingent at her elbow. with the COM
forting assurance that she is aiding
return to this considerable tighten
ing Of the labor of holding meetings
in New York City. :
Mrs. Anthony Wayne Cooke, the in
defatigable president general of the
D. A. r., comes to Washington the
first week of every month to hold
her conferences with the national
board of directors. and this in sum-
mer just as regularly as in winter
Time was when the chief executive
of this vast patriotic organization
could adjourn board meetings from
June until October. and this was the
regular procedure until the last few
years. Now, however. President
Coolidge's cabinet has seemingly no
more need to hold sessions in sum
mer than are Mrs. Cookies far-flung
daughters. Their interests. are 80
vast and extend into 80 many other
branches of the patriotic societies
as well as directing hand, that
this post carries with it a tremendous
burden. Marking and restoring his
toric places has assumed such ,large
passes that Mrs. Cooke, besides her
routine journey to the Continental
Memorial Hall here, is not asked to
ceremonies which may range from
Maine to Florida and from ocean
to ocean. Two memorable mansions
have within the past year been fpur-
. chased by the p. A. r. as a national
society and not in the local sense
kenwood- the home of Betty Wash
ington, only sister of the first Presi-
Lewis. which is near Fredericksburg.
and the Josiah Quincy homestead
near Medford, Mass. In both in
stances the local daughters have
undertaken the work of restoration
and gathering the original furniture.
so far as possible, with funds fur
nished by the national society
Mrs Burnham Lewis. who was Miss
Edithe Macy and whose marriage
occurred last week at the home of
her parents at Scarborough. on the
Hudson, achieved distinct artistic
triumph in that her bridal pageant
departed radically from the conven-
tional and yet remained outside the
domain of the groteSque. AS Miss
MacY. Mrs Burnham Lewis displaNed