Evening star., 1924-02-10
Tales of Well Known Folk
In Social and Official Life
Representative and Mrs. Wainwright and Daush-
ter Notable Additions to Congressional Circle
Other Prominent Personages.
BY MARGARET II. DOWNING.

BY MARGARET II. DOWNING.
Representative and Mrs. Jonathan
Mayhem Wainwright and their
daughter. Miss Fonrose Wainwright,
are notable additions to the. congress
sional contingent. and are continuing
the popularity achieved when they
formed part of the official and social
family of the Secretary of War. Rep
resentative Wainwright belongs to
the New York branch of distin-
guished pioneer family. originally in
Pennsylvania. but now having men,
bers in almost every state Of the
Union and many in most important
civil and military capacities. 1t is
eminently featured in Washington
bearing the name. who descend in
unbroken line from the immigration
of William PENIS day. One of the
Wainwrights of the closing Of the
Bache, granddaughter of Benjamin
Franklin. so that the blood of that
revered patriot and philosopher has
added to the virile qualities Of the
early stock. Mrs. Wainwright is a
Baltimorean and possesses the social
charm of the daughters of that emil
nentlE social city. She was Miss
Laura Wallace Buchanan. daughter
of Mr.. James A. buchanan. and the
marriage took place so,1e thirty
Laura Fonrose Wainwright. who is
her mothers constant companion and
exceedingly able social aide.
Miss Anne Morgan turned trick in
that dinner dance which she plonned
in honor Of har niece. Eleanor Satter-
lee. and staged in her home in Sutton
place. Few who received a bit of
paSteboard TO this unique amenity felt
they cou'd afford to ignore it, though
many are on record as expressing the
utmost dislike OF Sutton place and
all its works. Once within the old
house. which Miss Morgan calls her
New York home. the most stubborn
advocate Of living in the convention
ally Fashionable streets was apt to
experience a change of heart. This
mansion dates from the early lS30s.
when entertaining required spacious
quarters and when the double houses
contained rooms forty feet wide and
corridor of at least twenty feet.
Thrown together for the dancers. it
made a superb salon. not duplicated in
the 9th avenues or those on Riverside
Drive. Raa' estate Is too valuable in
Gotham to waste on wide street front
ages. On the contrary. to get an ade-
quate number of rooms the house goes
up in the air. Miss Morgan's home IS
perfect type OF the colonial of the
intermediate period and the great hall
is finished in cherry rsd brick with
bright green shutters and the
sDrigged muslin curtains of that day.
The fireplace is a splendid revival of
more gorgeous days and has been ar
ranged precisely as 1t must have been
when the merchant princes who built
In Sutton place relied on the stout
logs to heat the spacious rooms and
the hall as well. Miss Morgan has
hitherto mingled but seldom in sgay-
cites arranged for the buds. But Miss
Satterlee is a favorite niece and has
spent much time in France assisting g
in the work of restoration in which
Miss Anne Morgan has been engaged.
Miss Barbara StanfieId, daughter of
Senator Robert Nelson Stanfield of
Oregon and Mrs. Stanfield, who is in
Rome studying violin under a famous
master. Signor Zuccarini, is writing
some delightful letters to her parents
and friends in Washington. While
her attention is largely centeTed on
her art and much of her time not
spent in lessons and practice Is
passed hearing the Sistine Choir and
other famous choirs and orchestras OF
the Italian capital. she is managing
to catch some absorbingly interest
ing glimpses Of historic events. She
witnessed the parade of the facistl on
the anniversary Of the victorious
march into Rome. and from the top OF
over for that event by the king to the
many Americans in Rome, she saw
the renowned leader pass and then
mount the steps of the Roman Forum
to review his troops. The faciSti now
use the Roman salute. and. carrying the
people back through centuries, as TINS
salute does the populace went wild
with JOY. Miss Stanfield has several
times seen the Roman pontif and was
present at the colorful ceremonies
he rf1j invested
with their red garments. and she has
become quite accustomed to the re.
sounding salvos in st. Peters OF
Long live our Pope King" and to
cheer King Victor Emmanuel and the
young Prince of Piedmont to the
echo. Miss Stanfield will not return
to this country this coming autumn.
work and SO consumed with ambi-
tion to become violinist OF dis
tinction that she will remain another
year under the tutorage OF her
maestro.
Wakefield National Memorial Asso-
citation, which is the latest group OF
sincere patriots to organize in order
to preserve the homestead of the
Washingtons in Westmoreland county,
seems to have taken over this matter
at the psychological moment. For
the manor Of Wakefield was the first
home of the illustrious race in the
new world and remained in their
possession for almost two hundred
years. 1t was given to John Wash
ington, the immigrant, at the instance
of Earl Spencer of Althorpe, his pa
tron, because of valuable public serv-
ices at Binghamton, and it had been
owned by a white man before John
Washington surveyed it in 1850.
Mount Vernon, where SO many cher
ished memories of the great patriot
are centered, was part of the domain
of Lord Fairfax and came to Gen.
Washington through the will of his
brother, Lawrence Washington, who
had married Lord Fairfax's daugh-