Evening star., 1925-03-08
BY MARGARET b. DOWNING.

BY MARGARET Ii. DOWNING.
When Alanson Bigelow Houghton
presents his credentials to King George
he will rank as the ninth Ambassador
sent from this Republic to the court of
st. James. Sir t,sme Howard has ex-
actly the same numerical rating among
British Ambassadors who have served at
the Capital, and it becomes apparent
that diplomacy under the older monar-
chical governments is subject To as
varying fortunes as under the political
rule which holds in this Republic
But this applies only to the past ~
years in Great Britain. as, for in
stance, the United States has. since
! Washington as President sent Thom-
as Pinckney of South Carolina to
London in 1892, dispatched no less
than IS envoys of the first rank, and
in this time IL or II eminent charge
daffaires have filled that post. Among
the latter was Washington Irving
who acted for about a year after
President Jackson had recalled Louis
McI.aue of Delaware and before the
arrival of Martin Van Buren,. Great
Britain. in this same interval. has
sent but 81 envoys of the first class,
including the nine Ambassadors who
have served since Lord Pauncefote
of Preston was elevated in 1888. This
Government has also sent nine Am
bassadors to the French republic, but
NJ DeasChner is only fourth on the
list of French Ambassadors who have
served here, and in the strict sense
there might be counted only three,
since the first NJ. Patre notre, already
had been transferred to CONSTANT
. nople and served only few months
= after he was elevated to the rank of
amba basSador. Ee had been Minister
for two years and the late NJ. Louis
Thibaut acted as charge d'affaires un-
til the arrival of NJ. Jules Cambon.
Baron Won Maltzan, who arrived on
American soil yesterday, will be the
fourth of the six Ambassadors who
are scheduled to join the foreign col
ony in Washington, the French, NJ.
Daeschner, is the first and the Mexi
can, Senor Manuel de Teller, being
the second. The Italian Amba Ssador
and Dona di Martino came to Wash
ington during the past week and Ba-
ron Won Nathan, his wife and small
daughter, disembarked from the Al
bert Ballin on her last voyage. Baron
; ess Won Nathan possesses, so her
friends state, an accomplishment
which will serve her little in Wash
inEton. She is the champion skater
of Berlin and was the founder of an
exclusive club in Pekin and can cover
her skating togs with as many medals
and tokens of skill as World War
hero can with decorations. She is
quite dark, rather petite and in every
way a splendid foil to her husband,
who is a blonde giant of the Nordic
type. The Ambassador is the direct
descendant of Freiherr Joachim de
Nathan. who was ennobled by En-
peroT Charles V, and the history OF
his family, in a ma gnificent set of six
books, is to be found in all the refer
ence libraries of Germany. He comes
from a north German family, as to-
does the baroness, who was Miss
Edith Gruson of Madgeburg. There
is one child, a daughter of 10. who
has accompanied her parents.
Mrs Richard Porter Dawson
formerly Miss Elizabeth Hanna. was
perhaps better replica of the young
bride of the son of the second Presi-
dent than as the wife of the sixth
President, Mrs John Quincy Adams,
when she assumed that role In the
splendid charity inaugural bail at
the Mayfiower. the evening of March
4. For Mrs. John Quincy Adams, who
was Miss Louisa Catherine Johnson
of London, was just % when in 1877
she married the eldest son of Presi-
dent John Adams and became part
Of the brilliant coterie which sur
TOuUdcu llldI E-A6CUllNE H
phia and for the brief period that his
term passed in the Capital at Wash
ington- 1t was exactly % years later
that she became mistress of the
White House and time had mellowed
her blooming appearance and no
doubt had lent lines of care to her
rounded cheek. Mrs. Dawson who
has quite a taste for paseantry, plan
ned her costume and dressed her
which may be seen in the historic
group of presidential ladies in the
National Museum. This collection
is proving one of the valuable ad-
juncts to historic costume balls
which are having such a vogue in
Washington. The figure is modelled
absolutely on the lines of the per-
son represented and the head in wax
is copied from a good and authentic
portrait. A gown which was actual
, ly used during White House amenities
is always the raiment. The late Mrs.
Julian James was the principal agent
in getting this famous collection in
place and she had the able assistance
Of Mrs. Rose Gouverneur Hoes.
Miss Muriel Mccormick has added
TO the gayety of the nation and en-
phasized the intense rivalry between
Florida and California by deciding to
purchase a permanent home in
Miami. Miss Mccormick has been
the guest for the greater part of the
Winter of Mr.. and Mrs. L. G. Nc
Kinlock of Chicago and she has
fallen the victim of the glories of
the Bay of Biscayne and the magic
sea thereabout. Palm Beach and
Miami are taking large toll from
former denizens of southern Cali
fornia
Mr. and Mrs. Edward L. Ryerson !!
and Mr.. and Mrs. Robert q. McGann
own handsome places It Santa Bar
bara, which are now for sale, and
they are about ito build palaces on
the lake front of Fort Worth below
Palm Beach Less than five years
ago, from Santa Barbara down to San
Diego, were scattered magnificent
homes of Chicago people, and they
were occupied annually from Noyem
Der until April. Now, with few ex-
ceptions, all these fine places are
about to change ownership, or have
already done so, and the leisurely
class from the second city hasten to
the closer Summer weather 10 be
found in Florida. Mr.. and Mrs.
Joseph Cudahy have this Winter
taken possession of their neW villa
on Palm Beach and a dwelling for
Mr.. Otto Lehman is close by. Since
Florida in addition to eliminating
inheritance. and income taxes has
never passed a speed law, this is
deemed the paradise of motorists
. who live in cities where the reguia-
tion is very strict and is likewise
strictly enforced and where the Win
ter conditions make travelling in an
automobile unpleasant half the time.