Evening star., 1925-03-22
Tales of We'll Known Folk
In Social and Official Life
Sir Esme Howard Prominent Among Pedes.
TRANS of Diplomatic Corps-Personal Notes
of Other DISTINGUISHED Personages.

sides killing lions, Col. Patterson has
written many valuable treaties about
them,
Baroness Won Nathan, wife Of the
German Ambassador. who arrived at
the Capital the early part of March, is
the poSsessor of some famous Jewels.
and the Won Nathan pearls are his
torcally among the oldest and most
superb in Europe. One string of pearls.
eSpuisitely matched, appears in the fam
lily annals as long ago as 1888. and
must pass from father to oldest son. al
ways carefully protected from harm
and always unbroken and untarnished.
To depart from ii is, according to the
legend, to invite disaster. In conse-
quence if the baroness chooses to wear
her famous pearls in Washington she
Will create quite sensation among
the Supersttious. The Won MaltzanS
have been globetrotters ever since
their marriage, and they think nothing
of bringing the contents of one of their
handsome palaces on the North Sea
across the seven seas. The German en-
bassy is. however. completely furnished, j,
and they must be content only with some
of their canvasses and their many pieces
of historical bric-a-brac Baron Won
Maltzen always keeps in his office Il
magnificent bronze Buddha, the gift Of
the Late Emperor of China, and he has
some marvellous porcelains which came
to him while he was recently serving in
Toxic. When diplomatic relations were
re-eStablished between this Republic
and Germany with the coming of DR.
otto Wledfeldt the entire embassy was
equipped from the former imperial pal
aces III Berlin, with the exception of the
ballroom This remains unrurnished.
but no doubt the Won Maltzent will see
to this acknowledged necessity in a
Washington foreign establishment The
salons are not extensive. and the use of
the ballroom as Lady lisa bella Howa rd
has done as a part of the drawing room
suite will relieve congestion at large
fetes.
Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas Fortune RYAN.
Mr.. William Thaw and a large social
contingent from Chicago. st. Louis and
Cincinnati. have placed an entirely new
spa on the map. that of Hot Springs.
Ariz. Baron and Baroness Rosencrantz.
for so long connected with the Swedish
legation here, have turned their back
squarely on their former favorite, Hot
Springs, Va, and are spending all of
March and April on the edge of the
Arizona desert, where some curative
springs have recently been discovered.
The warm, dry air. with healing
qualities of Arizona. in this part Of
the state is well established. and
sufferers from bronchial rheumatic
and febriie ailments, not to mention
the dread tubercular troubles have
heen hooking to Arizona for years
But the Hot Springs is now the at
traction for the mildly i'll, and every
modern luxury is provided in cot
tages and hotels. There are diver
sians quite unique, and the populace
OF the State see a great resort on the
edge of the desert, much like those
which flourish in French Algeria, and
where the delicate of Europe fore
gather just as soon as the snow flies
and the cold wind blows. Baron and
Baroness Rosencrantz have a charm
ing home at Hot Springs, Va, which
they occupy from about May until
November, but for Winter Arizona
seems to make a universal appeal
because it is really warm and dry and
not subject to violent atmospheric
changes.
Signor A. Geisser Celesia di Veg
liasco, some time secretary OF the
Italian embassy here, and whose
charming American wife, formerly ~
Miss Margaret Erhart of New York
was so accomplished a hostess, is oc-
cupying position in the foreign
office under Premier Mussolini, which
Is called chief of personnel OF the