Evening star., 1925-02-15

hounds blessed by tho pastor ofsthe
neighboring church, and then set
loose for the first hunt of the year.
which was through the royal forests
of Compeigne and Chantilly. st. Hu-
| bert Is the patron Of hunters, and he
was the pagan in the time of Clovis
who was converted by seeing a shin
Ing cross appear between the antlers
OF a giant stag he was pursuing in
these same woods. Small statues Of
st. Hubert are worn in the pockets of
the hunting coats, just as motorists
carry st. Christopher, and woodland
shr1nes to him are always hung with
garlands at his feast and during the
| season that the hounds run. France
has not suffered the soul-racking
Winter that has visited this country
and hunting has been almost con-
tinuous since the last weeks of Janu-
ary and all of February thus far.
Mr. and Mrs. T. Suffern Taller have
been adding some spice to the va
riety of dinner parties, in that their
series given in their suite at the
Plaza in New York City are distinctly
studio banquets. Studio musicals, teas
and receptions are commonplace in
every social center, but a formal din
ing in studio surroundings Is a nov
city. MIR. and Mrs. Taller take the
occasion of their banquets to display
in the most ornate environment GER
tain Of their marvellous collection of
miniatures. This collection, which
was begun some 20 years ago. ap-
proaches the number and celebrity of
that gathered together by the late
Pierpont Morgan and which was dis
persed by his son, the present head
of the family. Mr.. Taller, who has
inherited much of the artistic. trend
of his father. the late L. N Taller,
purchased heavily of the Morgan
miniatures when they were placed
on the market and ne has now the
entire number of Renes, among which
is that exquisite ivory showing
Marie Antoinette in the radiant bloom
of her beauty. He has likewise Louis
XVI and the dauphin and the young
Duchess d'Agouleme, the sole sur
vivor of that royal family that per-
ished on the guillotine. When these
masterpieces of the miniaturist's art
are displayed Mrs. Taller has the din
ing room in French adornment, with
candelabra of the late eighteenth
century for lighting and many ex
quisite Vatican screens and fans
about the hall. All the miniatures
are shown on black velvet framed in
Tuscan gold, after the manner of the
celebrated miniatures in the Borghese
Palace in Rome. When her Roman
pictures are shown banquet hall Of
the Eternal City is presented, and
when some of the beauties of the
Spanish court hold the place Of
honor on the walls there is sug-
gestion of the patio and f1owery gar
dcns of old Seville. The stringed
orchestra fits into the scheme on each
occa sion, and these dinings are among
the genuine novelties of this present
brilliant season in New York.
Lady Barrymore, who is such a dis
tinguished hostess in London and who
is among the powers of the Anglo
American social circle, was before her
marriage Miss Elizabeth Wadsworth
of Geneseo. n. Y. She is the daughter
of the late Gen. James Samuel Wads-
worth and is the aunt of the Senator
from the Empire State, James w
Wadsworth, jr. She married first the
late Arthur Post of New York and
then Lord Barrymore. This peer also
was married before. His first wife
dead some 80 years, was the daughter
of the Earl of Dunraven and had ac-
companied her father on one of those
trips when he challenged the New
York Yacht Club for the famous cup.
There was one daughter by this first
marriage Of Lord Barrymore. a hand
some daughter, VINO is now the
Hon. Mrs. William Bertram Bell
Maj. Bell is with the 1st Lancers.
and he and his wife are
among the fearless riders to the
hounds in his section. There are
three children to whom the present
Lady Barrymore is devoted and who
spend as much time with her as they
do at their own home.
Alexander Graham Bell is so firmly
intrenched in the esteem and affec-
tions of the American people, and
Westinghouse in particular, as the
| inventor of the telephone that II
caused utter bewilderment to read In
recent cablegrams that the small VII
lage of st. Cere in the Department of
Lot, has unveiled a life-siz bronze
statue of Charles Bourseul and on it's
| base may be read. In honor of the
Father and Inventor of the Tele-
phone" But 1t appears that Bour-
seuPs seniority is acknowledged in
| this country and in France, and that
both Bell and his associate, Thomas
| A. Edison. gave him credit for the pre-
| vision which has made that most USE
full and yet tormenting OF modern in