Evening star., 1924-03-16

ono Of the best established. 10 now
natricuiating tho third generation OF
the same family. Cornelius Wander
foilt sent some Of his numerous young
| sters to Newport, and there are sew
etnl OF his great t-grandchildren In st.
Georges now-the younger Burdens
and Soanes and the small son OF the
Jehn Henry HAmmonds. James Cor T
sssns.s sna Tss "a. patsS.
Gordon Bennett Douglas. has recently
been chief performer In Z school pa
geant, and his relatives galore came
the. occasion. Mrs. Douglas. who is
the sister Of Mrs. william White
house. resides in her handsome villa,
1 known as Stone villa, :. the year
around. while Mrs; Whitehouse spends
her winters In home she purchased
i twenty years ago IN Boulevard Hauss-
| mann, In Paris.
celebrate an anniversary which. viii
farouse attention all through the
/ world It Is the 125th year since a
resident Of the pretty little city. one
Mrs.. Sarah Proutt, put the first cigar
known in the history of tobacco on
] before Mr& Proutt's memorial expert.
ment had been snoked exclusively in
| pipes or had been chewed, much as
It 10 today. Mrs. Proutt made a mod
to a manufacturing concern. of New
! Bedford, Mass. She did q good turn
for women in her discovery, for from
the first the rolling OF cigars and
nine pursuit.. and thousands upon
thousands OF girls and mature women
find employment about Tampa, Fla.
and In Key West. not to mentton
| Virginia and the Carolinas. Some
figures seem to show that women and
| girls also smoke most of the cigar
cites. while the men hold the record
for cigars. Seven billions cigarettes
is the number ascribed to have been
pulled by the fair sex last year. a.
/, against 1000, ,00O,0 600 the year previ-
Gus. Ten billion cigars were smoked
in the United States last year, and
about the same amount was exported
Cigarettes will also celebrate their
obtained during the world war. Their
popularity. once established and le-
galixed, as 1t were, the industry goes
| forward at prodfgtous rate. Mrs
Proutt will be honored. and an old
brand of cigar. named for her in
1893, is to be revived and given spe-
| cial prominence in the forthcoming
commemoration.
ST. Moritz, which is crowded with
returning Olympic contestants from
Chamounix, is skating and skiing and
enjoying other ice sports, according
to recently returned travellers, alter
nately baking and freezing its visi.
tors, a blazing sun in midday playing
hob with complications and making
even the lightest sport suit uncom-
Portable. while at night the ther.
mometer falls rapidly to fifteen below
zero. But 1t is crowded to the last
inch. and many washingtonians arr
in the number. Mrs. r. Sep<imus
Austin and Miss Madeline have re.
Gently returned from st. Morftz, and
| are at their home in the Dresden
Capt. and MIS- John X. Edie and Mrs
Pendleton Beckley have spent the en-.
tire season at the Kuhn. AMONG
other celebrated visitors are tht
Maharadjah of Beroda and severa,
lesser potentates Of India, and .hey
have been learning to skate and to
ski, though they rarely venture ou,
in the intense cold of the evenings
The mah&radjah has ordered a mas
sive silver cup from Baroda for be.
ginners in the art of skiing, and he
| will conduct international contests
mex. January. Hall Caine. the nov
eist. is at the Grand Hotel, and a.
he is q member OF the Alpine Clut