Evening star., 1925-08-02
BY MARGARET b. DOWNING.

ington diplomatiStS in point of years
and In point of service. He has al
ready entered his 73d year. but Chile
has no age retirement, and the men,
bers of its foreign service may con-
tinue in the harness as long as they
feel inclined. The Chilean Ambassador
first came to Washing gton when the
Grover Cleveland administration was
young. and he is the only member of
the corps who can point to a service
that far back in the national history.
He remained as secretary of the then
Chilean legation until Cleveland had
given way to Benjamin Harrison,
when he was elected 70 the Chilean
Congress and departed for his own
country. He served in Congress from
1889 until 1896. and was then named
Minister TO Ecuador and later to the
Central American Union of Repub-
lies. He was minister of war and of
the marine in the Chilean cabinet,
1908, and then served for a time as
Minister to various South American
capitals, La Paz, Buenos Aires and
Bogota. Since 1918 he has been Am
hassador to Washington from the
Chilean Republic
Senior Matthew is a most accom-
plished orator, and his address at the
gathering of Latin American diplo.
mats when they were the guests of
the State OF Virginia was a splendid
eHort which deserves to be universally
circulated in pamphlet form in this
country as well as his own His glow.
ing tribute to the Old Dominion and
TO her sons, Washington and Jeffer-
son, who furnished both the sword
and the pen Of the Revolution. was re.
celVed with tumultous applause.
sonora de Matthew. who is one OF
the most popular leaders in the e:dipIo
q native of Conception. Chile, and be-
lore her marriage was Senorita Elena
Serrano. The marriage took place In
santiago In November, 1896, and the
young couple passed the early wears
OF thelr union in Buenos Aires.
Inc Ambassador from Argentina
mas abandoned his idea of touring the
country by motor because his uifa
and daughters preferred to mass fau,
weeks in Newport before the two mar.
rieo daughters of the household ioin
them later. He was among the dis.
unguished guests last March at the
opening or the fine new boulevard or
dVenlda. as it's called in Buenos
aires, which passes the new Salvation
army Building and which has been
named 10 honor Gen. Booth. Senior
Pueyrredon was among the orators
OF the occasion and felicitated the or
ganlZation on completing 35 years of
most successful effort in Buenos Aires
Ihe ArSentinidn capital is in the van
guard OF all philanthropic enterprises
ana recently opened night classes for
hed cross nurses who are to be
trained for service in interior cities
and who are busy during the regular
hours of the day. Many ladies' high
IN social life are taking advantage of
these classes TO prepare themselves
for first aid and other preliminaries In
civic disorders.
Sir Alan Johnstone of West Riding.
York, whose wife was Miss Antofnette
Pinchot, sister of the Governor of
Pennsylvania. enjoys a tremendous
vogue in Paris not at all associated
with his creditable performa noes in
diplomacy. Sir Alan, who wears
many medals and decorations. some
conferred by his own government.
others by grateful foreign rulers who
were benefited by the British envoy's
prudence and sagacity considers his
most distinctive talent that held in
common with the class known as
maitres de cuisine, or head cooks
lie can turn out a marvel of salad
or sauce in the wink of an eye and
when he dimes at Maxim's the walters
hover about to hear his orders and
to observe his way of dressing the
lettuce. This courtly envoy, who be-
gan his diplomatic career in this city
under the genial Sir Julian Paunce-
fote in 1919. was about to be raised
to the amba bassadorship when he re-
tired at his own request. He achieved
his greatest culinary triumph in the
Metropolitan Club when he concocted
what is now world famous as the
club sandwich. There are different
versions of this feat and Sir Alan
has not Yet given his. but according
TO a story in "Recollections of a
Happy Life" by Maurice Francis
Egan, who was the associate of the
retired diplomatist in Copenhagen, Sir
Alan went late into the Metropolitan
Club. tired and very hungry. but the
entire corps of cooks and walters had
decamped. He raided the larder,
pulled forth cold chicken. cold ham,
lettuce and tomato, and the club sand
w1ch was produced instanter. DR..
Egan says that none of his imitators
could build a club sandwich quite as
well as Sir Alan, though Lady John
stone soon learned to initiate him
rather well.
Little Paulina Longworth, daughter
Of the Speaker and Mrs. Nicholas
Longworth, will. if the plans of her
parents go according to form and her
own health permits, make a brief visit
in September to Sycamore Hill, the
Oyster Bay home of Mrs. Theodore
Roosevelt Paulina is the fifteenth
grandchild of the late President
Roosevelt. and she is the youngest of
the group, though her mother is the
late Executives oldest child. Young
Theodore Roosevelt and his brother
Kermit each have four children. and
DR.. and Mrs. Derby, the latter Ethel
Roosevelt. have had four, but they
lost their oldest son, Dick. who was
his Erantfather'S special Chum. Archie
and his wife have two youngsters and
the Longworths one eve lamb. Mrs.
Roosevelt, sr.. has a fund reserved
from her income which she uses to
enter the names of these youngsters
on worthy subscription lists. Thus
she contributed 500 each for her 13
grandchildren in the Wakefield Me
mortal Foundation, and within few
weeks has made another offering for
Paulina LongWorth, possibly the first
entry OF this young lady's name on
such momentous record Mrs.
Longworth Is coming to Washington
shortly to superintend the remodeling
Of the new home on Massachusetts
avenue, formerly occupied by her rela-
tive. Mr.. Robert Roosevelt. But she
hopes by September to have all going
forward we'll enough for her TO take
her small daughter to visit her Oyster
Say kinsfolk.
When the Interparlamentary
Union meets in Washington in Octo-
Der there will be some celebrities who
will receive honors quite distinct from
those proposed in the $50. 900 appro-
priation made by Congress for the
proper entertaining of such eminent
visitors. The only Labor premier