Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1924-02-17

lily. and dining parties. Of fifty were
commonplace. But they have long
lost their vogue. though their beauty
ana comfort remains unchanged.
Some twenty of Uncle Sans cou-
rageous sons and daughters sailed q
Few days ago on the President Car
neld. to enter the ice sports at Cha
ule arranged for the Olympian games.
mere are about ten champions
among the men and but two women,
! Dut IN the latter class are several
rels. AS Mrs: Theresa Weld Blanch-
ard OF New York. won all the awards
IN recent sports In that section and
IN Canadian hockey games. she is
deemed the invincible supporter of
American feminine claims. Miss Bea-
close second. AS In all other dtvi-
sions of sport, the supremacy of
Americans on snow fields is threaten
ed. by the residents of Finland. and
also are In the lists for skating,
skiing and snow and ice sports gem
orally. But the defenders of their
country's laurels in ice hockey, the
team on which Justin Mccarthy. Will
nam RICE. Irving W. Small and about
fifteen others whose names are ia
mfliar to those who follow the win
ter contests hold his place. are not
worrying over their records, so much
as to ponder over where they will
rest their weary bodies when the
days labors are over. Chamounix is
packed like an American convention
city and all villages within ten miles
have turned their stables and out
mousse into inns. where for j sizable
sum. the athletes may make his bed
In the hay loft and wash his face at
the horse trough. But for the enthus-
iastir skier this is not so bad, If he
could be sure of 1t. Besides the play
ers. some 500 fans if such an eX-
preston applies to ice games, sailed
with the coiors on the President Ora
field.
Miss Emily Hatch. president OF the
ers and Sculptors, is one of the several
clever daughters Of Alfred Hatch, the.
man known most gratefully to the fed
erai government In 1862. when he issued
the outbreak of the civil war Miss
Hatch has her own claim to fame, in
that with her sister. Mrs. Mary Hatch
Willard, She was one Of the first Amer
after that Hateful August 4. 1914. She
was living in Paris. and within an hour
after the walters of the hotel marched
or to join their regiments she was or
ganizing force OF women to carry on
in the hotel. and in few days, besides
doing the manual labor in the hotel, she
and Nr. Willard and several American
recruits Were rolling bandages and at
tending the wounded. Miss Hatch has,
in the language of New York, recently
retrieved" an old mansion on the sunny
side .! lshington Square, and she |
lives among her humble Italian neigh |
hors comfortably ana happily. Her rear
windows look down on a scene probably |
not to be duplicated this side OF Naples
for color and motion, the rear yards of
the famous old mansions of bygone |
years, now Italian tenements, where |
clothes showing all sorts Of vivid co'ors, |
every window and in every direction.
Mr.. Pierpont Morgan has within the
Fast month presented to the Metro
iIolitan Museum three roomS-a salon,
q library and bedroom-taken intact
from an old chateau in Dijon done III
the reign OF Louis XVI by the emf
nent wood sculptor. Jerome Marlet.
Count Rene d'Auvrillat. but the line
became extinct in the late nineteenth
century. The place. recently put up
at auction. was purchased by Mr.. |
Morgan for the sole purpose of Sc
curing these rooms. which he has
presented to the Metropolitan. Such
a craze for French interior decorating
has swept this country. and so few
really good interiors are open for
the inspection OF artists, still less. for
mined to place a worthy model before
his country people. All the rooms are
finished in carved woodwork. and the
walls and ceilings, doors and windows
are all splendid pieces Of carving, and
are In many instances painted as care
fully and artistically as for a canvas.
The library Is completely shelved in
dark walnut. with massive friezes all
around the outer. edge and merging
into the ceiling. The salon is of
white. delightfully."- carved in cupids
pelting each other with flowers. and
there Is touch of gold still glim-
mering through the ivory after the
lapse Of nearly zoo years. The bed
room is rose-colored in furnishings
recess guiitless of window. and
framed in fiuted columns, whereon
roses Irvine soft and radiant as when
the countess d'Aurvrillat. possibly in
/ 1865. first came into the chateau as a |
bride.
Another great lady Of London, the |
Countess of Wesenoreland. ha:
yielded to the lure of the footlights. /
aud under the name Of "Cathleen |
Moreiand" she is appearing before |
large audiences in popular music |
hall, giving folk songs and clog |
dances This Countess Of Westmore-
land is the step-inothcr OF the pres |
ent earl and was the daughter of d !
Baptist minister in the village where |
his father was principal landlord. |
rental opposition thwarted her am /
bition in her youth, and when she |
married the late Earl of Westmore- |
land as his second wife, after being
for some years the governess of his |