Evening star., 1925-10-25
Envoy to France to Find
New Embassy in Paris
Miss Dorothy Schurman Forsakes College Career
for Year to Aid Her Mother In American
Embassy in Berlin

! ana Sir Reginald StubbS VIII prove
! sufficient reason for variation from
| the usual route to Nassau and Hamil-
| ton In favor of Kingston. Jamaica s
new executive Is the youngest son
| of the iilustrious historian, William
| Stubbs, who was for more than half
! century Bishop of oxford. Lady
| Stubhs is "a practicing physician and
| followed her profession with great
| success in China and the South Seas.
| She is the daughter of one of Lon
| don's most renowned medicos, DR.
| Francis Womack.
Senator and Mrs. Robert Beecher
! Howell of Nebraska, are among the
| travellers from the Upper House Of
Congress who left the beaten track.
They passed the Summer i'll Central
Africa. They had planned a tour of
the Barbary states and thence to the
desert which may now be crossed In
de luxe motor car and in few days
instead of the dreary parching weeks
on a camel. But conditions In Nor
pcco made change imperative, so
they went up the Nile and saw the
| marvellous falls and then struck in
land to investigate the rising kingdom
of mid-Africa.
i Senator and Mrs. Wesley l.. Jones
| went to South America and saw all
its principal cities and many of its
natural marvelS. Senator and Mrs.
Capper made their first trip to Europe
and enjoyed il hugely. Often they
made arrangements for such a tour
but until the past Summer the fates
seemed to have been against them.
Senator and Mrs. Key Pitman investi-
gated the lure of the South Seas. Incl
dentallv stopping at Hawaii and the
~
abroad almost every Summer when
Congress is not in session, spent most
of his vacation nlthe newly establish
ed republic of Turkey and he will be
in position to take up the question
OF ablishing diplomatic relations
with the former Sublime Porte with
knowledge gained at first hand. Sena-
tor Walsh. of Montana and Senator
Robinson, of Arkansas spent much
of their sojourn abroad studying the
questions now before the League of
Nations. Reinforced by their col
league. Senator Andrieus Jones of
New Mexico. they spent a memorable
month in Geneva.
The new Secretary of War ranks
as the youngest member of the cab
met In point of actual years as we'll
as tenure III office. But he will stand
number three in the matter of prece-
dence as the heir, FIVE times removed
from the presidency. Mr.. Davis did
not make history for his State as Mr..
kellogg did. for Minnesota never be-
fore had a representative in the cab
met. Missouri being of an uncertain
quantity in the political sense is near
ly always honored in the presidential
cabinet. President Harding being the
first Executive in % years who did
not invite son of the show-me
State" into his councils. But few
chiefs Of the land defense have such
an interesting young family as the
Davises. Mrs. Davis can very ably
represent the Presidents State in the
boudoir cabinet since she is a native
Of Worcester, Mass, and spent nearly
all her life in Boston until her mar
riage 20 years ago. There are three
young daughters, Alice, Cynthia and
Helen, 16, IA and II. who will, as
they have in past years, participate
in the holiday life of the cabinet, and
there is young Dwight, who is Is. and
will be a most welcome addition to
the dancing contingent of the young
sters in the Christmas and Easter
holidays. Mrs. Davis has been In
rather fragile health for two years
past and it is unlikely that. she will
attempt an ambitious program this
Winter. She was Miss Helen Brooks
and her family and that or Mrs. Gill
lette, wife of the former Speaker and
present Senator from Massachusetts,,
have been on terms Of intimacy for
many years.
Sir Robert Horne, whom British
publicists invariably name as the like
ly successor to the premier. Mr.. Stan
ley Baldwin, made a special trip from
Victoria. where he was being enter
tanned with other Interparliamentari-
ans. in order to attend the dinner
which the Pilgrims of the United
States rendered Friday last, October
%. and which was the eve of his sail
ing for home. This eminent states
man is considered a great authority
on mining, and his sympathsuc inter
est in the question has been invalu-
able for Britain during the many re-
cent strikes. Sir Robert proved one
of the most likable of the distinguished
visitors, and he had the faculty while
in Washington of finding what he
wanted without a guide. He and the
Secretary of the Treasury are old
friends, and though. as the expression
goes, they went to the mat over the