Evening star., 1925-11-08
Tales of Well Known Folk
In Social and Official Life
Plans of Consrega to Replace President's
Church Recall Fact That Few Places of Wor-
ship In Capital Have Actually Been
Attended by Chief Executives.

| the friendship and complete approval
| of Queen Mary and other conservative
| members of the court. For she was
actually widowed in deed as we'll as by
legal decree from John Jacob Astor
before she married King Edward s
stately friend, Lord Ribblesdale. She
| was Miss Ava Willing of Philadelphia
| and she can claim high descent from
/ her own forebears, all Of whom are
| lofty in colonial annals and eligible
| to every patriotic society in the land.
| Thus she is the granddaughter five
| times removed of that William Bing-
| ham who was President Washington S
intimate friend and she is descended
| on the distaff side from David Ritten-
| house, the celebrated scientist and
, astronomer. Lady Ribblesdale has been
| looking up the genealogy Of her ances-
| tors and she can claim kindred to
many of the old families of the mid
lands. Another great-grandfather of
American fame was Edward Shipper.
mayor of Philadelphia in lT01, while
her fathers line comes directly from
Thomas Willing, who founded VIII
mington and was its first corporate e
head. Lady Ribblesdale's only son
is Vincent Astor and her daughter
Alice Muriel married. last Winter,
Prince Serge Obolensky of the most
the Romanoffs by five centuries.
Mrs. Edward d. Brandegee, so well
known in Washington when she was
the wife of Representative Sprague
of Boston, is bowling to the new con-
ditions. that bud must be as phys
ically fit for her strenuous routine as
an athlete. such as a tennis, golf or
fisticuff champion. She has recon
sidered introducing her daughter, Mar
tina, In November, and instead Of a
round of teas and balls during the
early Winter, Mrs. Brandegee and her
prospective belle will spend all of De
cember, January and February at
Saranac, going in for the Winter
sports with absolute abandon. Two
other buds have decided on this course
also. Miss Dorothy Forbes, daughter
of Mr.. and Mrs. J. Murray Forbes of
Boston, and Miss Marta Braggiotti.
third daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Isl
dore Braggiotto of Brookline. and the
trio after hardening themselves in
snow drifts and trudging over miles
of ice will be in condition for the
whirl of the Easter season and the
very gay life Of the Summer on the
North Shore. Mrs. BrandeGee is the
first cousin of Mrs. Larz Anderson
and she inherited a considerable part
Weld. She, too, has a splendid home in
Brookline, where she is one of the i'm
portant hostesses. Mr.. Brandegee is
the cousin of the late Senator Brande-
gee and he owns a fine estate near
Norwich in Connecticut. Both were
frequent visitors to Washington 90
years ago.
Sir Frank Baines. director of public
works in London, has just submitted
carefully prepared estimate about
saving the House of Parliament from
utter collapse, and the immediate re
suit of his solemn warning is that
already 80 tons of cupolas, turrets.
tabernacles and other lesser objects
have been taken down from that much
over ornamented building. the fifteen
hundred-weight lion and unicorn
over the central entrance having
tumbled down on its own account
and barely missed killing several work
men. AS the Legislative halls of Lon
don are good half century younger
than the United States Capitol, much
surprise is expressed. since the uni
versal belief was that when the vast
building overlooking the Thames at
the Westminster Bridge was finished
in 1841, it would outstand the
ages. 1t was popularly supposed to
have been built of magnetism lime
stone, d substance which was reputed
qualities of the Roman travertine, of
which was built the Coliseum and
the Pantheon. But evidently Queen
Victoria, under whose auspices the
Parliament houses were built. was de
ceived, for London has dozens of
twelfth century churches and older
chapter houses of this limestone, which
harden with the passing years and
show not a trace of crack, still less
of a crumble. But it has been neces-
sary the two years past for the guard
ians of the Parliament houses to have
the cleaners gather up great baskets
of stone and sand which fell at every
high wind. The work of supporting
the whole edifice and of gradually
restoring the present substance with
harder and more durable stone will
begin at once.
Miss Alicia Patterson, the second
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph
Medill Patterson, is to be among the
buds Of the little season in Chicago,
though, like other members of her
family, she is not oVer-fond of social
pleasures. She prefers horses TO
beaus, or at least SO her inclination
runs at present, and she Is one of the
leaders of the younger hunt club which
has its headquarters AT Lake Forest
To the chagrin of some of the more
serious denfzenS of this section Sun
day afternoon is the gayest part of the
week and the horn of the hunter is
heard on the hill and the baying of the
hounds begins soon after luncheon.
MIR. Donald Ryerson is NJ. +. H. and
he feels that since so many members
of the club are business people and
will not give a regular working day
to pleasure, If they wish fox hunt
a paper trail, of course-on Sunday
afternoon 1t is no more desecration
of the Sabbath than to go to a base
ball game or to play golf. Miss Pat
tecson has been riding since her child
hood and is among the most graceful
and fearless of her sex. leapng every
sort of obstacle and always coming in
at the finish. She is the great grand
daughter of the founder of the Chicag 90
Tribune, Joseph Medill. Her father
is brother of the former Eleanor Pat
terson. now Mrs. Eleanor Schlessinger,
who was for years belle of the Cap
ital and who married here her first
husband, Count Gizyski.
Canon William Hartley Carnegie
of estminister Cathedral and bv
, virtue of that Office the chaplain of
the House of Commons. has just been
promoted to the place left vacant
by the death of Bishop Henry Ryle
and becomes head of the cathedral
chapter with official headquarters in
the picturesque old Deanery. So, for
the first time in history, an American
will preside over this marvellous old
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