Evening star., 1925-03-29
Tales of Well Known Folk
In Social and Official Life
New Structure Reported Likely to Replace Presi-
dents Church, Now Vastly
Overcrowded

| floor leader of the dominant party is
a mighty figure and in some respects
| overshadows the Speaker. Repre-
sentative Tilson is tariff expert and,
| like the late Champ Clark who was
majority leader before being Speaker,
he knows the ins and outs of all
previous legislation pertaining to that
vital theme.
| Washingtonians take kindly in
terest in the approaching marriage
of Capt. Charles Spring Rice, nephew
| of the late Ambassador to Washing
ton. Sir Cecil Spring Rice, to Miss
| Emily De Kosenko, daughter of Mrs
| Edwards Brooks of Philadelphia.
Young Charles visited the British en-
| bassy several times during his uncle's
term, and he had just obtained a post
| under him when the World War sent
| him TO the front He has since joined
the military establishment, and will
| take his bride to Malta, where his
regiment is now stationed. The father
| of Capt. Charles Spring Rice was that
! Lord Francis, eldest son of Lord
| Monteagle, who had married the only
| daughter and heiress of the Knight of
Kerry. Sir Peter Fitzgerald Mrs.
| Brooks, mother of Miss De Kosenko,
| is English by birth, and married the
| Philadelphian after the death of her
| first husband, who was Greek diplo-
! mat. The Brooks family has home
! in the Palais du Bourbon in Paris.
| and the marriage is to take place
| there during Easter. week. Capt.
! SPRING Rice is a younger son, but he
/ recently came into tidy fortune
through the death of Fitzgerald re-
lation who had emigrated to South
! America and made a successful min
| ing venture. Young Arthur SPRING
| Rice, only son of the former Ambas-
sador to Washington, has followed
| his father into diplomacy, and is in
the colonial service of the Downing
Street office. His only sister. a
charming young maid in the Wash
| ington days, Miss Betty SPRING Rice,
| took a college course at Cambridge,
and is also now in the foreign office,
having secured a place in the decod-
ing service under the minister of
foreign affairs.
DR.. Robert T. Bridges, the poet
| laureate of Great Britain, who has
spent nearly two years as a lecturer
on English letters at the University
of Michig gan, recently celebrated his
S0th birthday anniversary in his Lon
don home, and the occasion was made
memorable by the gift of a clavi-
chord, an instrument of a by-gone
day, but which the poet plays with
indescribable charm. DR.. Bridges de-
lights in the musical vehicles of a
| century ago and in the music which
was then in vogue, and he has a
harpsichord which yields the most
plaintfve tunes under his manage
ment. The laureate maintains rooms
In that celebrated neigh borhood in
which literary men were so numer-
Gus, in Chelsea, though he has also n
suite in st. James Palace and at
windsor. His music room is fire.
quently the scene of gatherings of
those who appreciate the music of a
century ago and who like to sit in
the gathering twilight and hear from
harpsichord and clavichord airs which
solaced Addison when wearied of his
eXertlons, or Thack cray, who, being
an artist, must needs also be a lover
OF music. Then many collect to hear
the love ditties which were all the
rage when George III was the first
gentleman of Europe. Those lovely
ola music makers like .harpsichords,
which are never seen in this country
except In museums, are having such
a revival in London's music-loyine
circles that an eminent artist, Arnold
Dolmetcsh, is now engaged in max
ing clayichords, and one of his or
nate efforts was the gift presented to
DR.. Bridges when he rounded out
his fourscore years.
Another musical event in London
this past month has been the tender
removal of the organ which Handel
presented to the Foundlings' Asylum
In bloomsbury, and on which he
played his first public rendition of
The Messiah" from the chanel of
that institution to the Kensington
Museum. This Founding Asylum,
which figures in so MANY of the
Dickens books, has just sold it's site
in Bloomsbury for more than $1,000
600, and has purchased a tract of 40
acres on the Surrey side of the
Thames, and will erect the most sub
stantial buildings. and then have
more than half the purchase money
as permanent endowment. The asy-
Ium was given to London in Ho-
garth's time by a charitable mer-
chant, Thomas Coran1, and he paid
exactly $1,000, or about s35,OO0, for
the y II acres of green field which
Bloomsbury was then. When Charles
Dickens was first married, he lived
close to the Bloomsbury orphanage,
quite genteel neighborhood for the
struggling author, because of the
spacious grounds. and he took the
liveliest interest in it's welfara He
and the first Mrs. Dickens attended
the Sunday services regularly, when
the Handel organ was played by vol
unteers and the choir was formed of
the foundlings whose fate appealed
so strongly TO the great writer of the
London slums. This Founding Asy-
lum is viyidly pictured in Dickens
literature, and will survive the actual
demolition of the buildings
Sir Charles Higham, the genial
head of an extensive and fiourishing
firm of East Indian tea merchants.
has come to this country recently
on the mission of making tea more
popular as a morning beverage. No
one can explain why the Inhabitants
of this country, SO numerously des-
cended from English, Irish and
Scotch immigrants, are almost to q
unit coffee drinking people where the
first meal is concerned. Sir Charles
who is now in New York, but has
many friends in the British embassy
in Washington and will soon visit
here, paints an alluring picture of
the British housemaid serving tea to
the entire family while IT still re-
mains in bed, thus heartening them
for the trials of the day. After dis
tributing the piping hot tea, the
maid collects the family footwear
for polishing purposes and thus pro-
vides another kick" as the baronet
serves. Tea, states Sir Charles, in the
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