Evening star., 1925-06-21
BY MARGARET B. DOWNING.

problem TO solve ana, tnOuSn JuSt dt
this particular time not so confusing
will grow more so as the years go on.
Every member of the family. includ-
ing the Secretary and Mrs. Davis and
their four children, boast the same
initials, j. D. so that strategy Is
required to solve the difficulty. Ihls
particularly applies 10 such articles
as are adaptable to any age.
Young Jimmie Davis is vet too small
10 claim the garments of his father.
but 1t will not be very long before
liberty, and Mrs. Davis believes in
preparedness. So the chief OF the
Labor Department claims the right
10 everything marked j. D." and his
lady, who was Jean Rodenbaugh be
fore marriage, marks hers j. X. D.
Then Jimmie is No. l, Jane is No. =.
Joan is No. and Jean is No. 4. so
all Is happily settled. When Elihu
Root was Secretary of War, and later
surplus of "E. Rs" in the family, the
senior and Junior Elihus, Edward and
Edith. Mrs. Root. who was the
daintiest of persons. solved her prob
lem by allowing each member of the
household TO have the monogram on
intimate articles and then l---3 in a
small circle after each. 3ut both
ladies' noted that it makes for con-
fusion when home circle has one
or more members with the same ini-
tials, especially with tiny tots. like
lane, Joan and Jean Davis. with their
scores of tiny garments, seemingly
all of size.
The Attorney General. Mr.. Sargent,
has failed to solve one mystery in his
department just as his immediate
predecessors have failed as far back
a. the Oldest retainer in that executive
branch of service can remember. In
The outer Office of the head Of the
Department of Justice, as it is in the
fine new building on the corner of
Vermont avenue and h street. a
handsome bronze statue of an un-
known youth rests on tall black
marble pedestal He might have. been
Spanish prince. such as Velasquez
painted or one of the juvenile over
lords of Italy. like a Gon2aga, d
Borgia or a Medici. from the way
he is garbed and the naughty stare he
directs AT the populace passing in the
streets below. But Mr.. Sargent has
discovered that no one is sure who
this statue represents or where II
came from or under what circum-
stances. II has been suggested that
in times gone by before it's fine new
home was erected the Department Of
Justice led q nomadic existence and
retained quarters first from one
private landlord and then another. Il
has been hinted at. but it is an awful
thought in connection with the De
partment of Justice, that possibly iN
one of these moves some of the arr
possessions of a landlord have been
scooped in by Uncle Sam. As the
Attorney General can md no entry
of purchase or gift of this aristo-
cratic bronze youth. he has determined
10 trace him down and md under
what circumstances he was made part
of the FURNISHINGS of his outer Office.
The Chief Justice and Mrs. Taft
will have close neighbors in their own
circle for this Summer. Justice and
Mrs. Willis Van Devanter have leased
a pleasant cottage on Murray Say
and Justice Sutherland is seeking a
restful spot close by. Mrs. Suther-
land and her daughter. Mrs. Elmorc
and the young son of the latter are
spending this month at Eaglesmere
Pa, but will join the justice in
Canada if he is successful in getting
a suitable house. Mr.. Justice and
Mrs. Pierce Butler have a charming
little retreat near the Falls of st.
Anthony, Minnesota, besides 4 corn
Portable home in st. Paul. where they
will pass six weeks. at least, before
going to the cottage. Justice and
Mrs. Oliver Wendall Holmes have not
missed a Summer in their Beverly
Farms place in 40 years and they are
already established there. For many
years, too. the Brandies family has
spent all the Summer months III its
shack on Cape Cod and will do the
same this Summer. The marriage OF
Miss Elizabeth Brandeis 10 Prof. Paul
Rauschenbusch of the University OF
Wisconsin will be celebrated very
quietly in this modest home some time
during August. Justice and Mrs.
Sanford find the Summer in their
old Tennessee home all they desire
and they are now in residence at
Knoxville. Justice NcReynclds has
no particular abode, but he claims
delightful retreats in the Tennessee
homes of friends and relatives, where
he can spend the pleasantest sort of
vacation. The latest recruit 10 the
supreme tribunal. Justice Stone. has
a much loved cottage Al Isle-au-Haut,
Ne. where he spends the long Sum
n,er days afoat with his sons. casting
the line or ranging the coast. fishing
and hunting alternately. Mrs. Stone
already is at the cottage and her
man folks will join her next week.
Young Herbert e. Hoovers mar
riage to Miss Margaret Watson of
San Francisco is the first nuptial
event in the Coolidge regime since it
came in on it's own account and
serves to emphasize how much more
plentiful are cabinet sons in this ad-
nlinistration than cabinet daughters.
The oldest Of the four sons of the
Secretary of the Navy and Mrs. Will
bur married a brief six months before
l,;e f,tt, NFi nd aS
the news OF another marriage in the
male portion of the Wilbur family,
when, on July G, Lyman d. Wilbur
will wed Miss Henrietta Shdttuck.
Sons of cabinet officials have a way
of opening the nuptial events in new
administrations. Going back as far
as President Tafts opening year. the
son of his Attorney General, young
George Wickersham, was married in
Albany and this was one Of the few
nuptials in the executive set during
The terms of the twenty seventh Chief
Magistrate. Francis Huger AlcAdoo.
son of the Secretary of the Treasury
under President Wilson. led the MANY
and important marriages which oc
CURED during that administration.
The Harding administration had the
hrillian mt nuptials Of Miss Catherine
Hughes, daughter of the Secretary Of
State, during its first year. With so
many gallant youths in the circle
now and two charming girls. Miss
Ailsa Mellon and Miss Edna Wilbur,
there are interesting events to fore
cast.
Mrs. Woodrow Wilson. who visited
Carlisle. the border city between Eng
land and Scotland, during her trip TO
Great Britain when her distinguished
husband, the twenty-eighth President,
was attending the sessions of the