Evening star., 1925-03-08
Tales of Well Known Folk
In Social and Official Life
Alanson Bigelow Houghton Ninth Ambassador
From u. S. to Enaland-Sir Esme
Howard Equal Record

a career man in the British service,
began at the foot of the ladder and is
now in the direct lire of promotion
to be minister. The Craigies and
their charming ia n1ily OF youngsters
lived in Washington fog nearly FIVE
years, most Of the time on Massachu-
setts avenue at the bend of Sheridan
Circle, and they were important mem
bers of the foreign contingent. A
charming oil painting of Mrs. Craigie
by Russian artist is now on exhibit
tion in London and photos of it
reaching here show this young
matron iI radiant health and spirits
and with most becoming cut of
hobbed hair.
Mrs. Kenneth oBrfen, who as Miss
Katherine Maclxay was as much a
belle of Washington as of New York,
has several lovely miniatures of her
self and her small daughter, done
by the fashionable artist, Mr.. Carroll
Wainwright. Little Miss OBrien.
who now is just six months old, is a
bonny little bit of femininity and has
been named for her great-grand-
mother, Marie Louise Hungerford
daughter Of an emipent physician of
New York. Mrs. Mackay, sr.. mother
of Clarence Mackay. though far into
% D.
but this = past Autumn she was
not courageous enough to cross the
ocean, and has remained quietly in
her sons New York house on East
Seventy-ffth street. Mrs. Mackay still
retains London residence which her
grandchildren use more frequently of
late than she does, and she likewise
clings to the fine old mansion in
Paris which she bought almost 40
ha af
Miss Ellin Mackay is fonder Of
foreign parts than her sister, Mrs
y Brlen, and has never shared the
latter's preference for Washington as
a Winter resort. Miss Mackay prefers
Roslyn to New York in Winter and
she is proficient in Winter sports, in
duiging in all that are possible about
Long Island. and often opening the
camp in the Adirondacks when Ahe
mercury hoyers 10 below.
Lady Astor's famous tri-corner
hat has within the past week been
replaced by a French model with up
turned brim and long, drooping
plumes, but so unfamiliar did she
seem that member of the Com
mons called sn usher and gave stern
direction that 1.-The adyenturesome
female in feathers be asked to leave
the floor. Ever since she was elected
to the Commons the former Miss
in one-piece frock of wool, silk or
lawn, as the season went, with i'm
maculate white collar and cuffs
white kid gloves and the tricorne hat
OF felt, velvet, silk or straw and in
this guise she was painted on that
canvas which caused such a commo-
tion when hung in the British Parlia-
ment. That painting was ordered
taken down on January l and was
temporarily committed to Bedford
College, the woman's auxiliary of the
University of London, until such time
as the government may again return
it to the Commons. That, of course.
means when Lady Astor and her
career have become history, and she
has thus the consolation of knowing
that though at present denied a place
in the halls Of legislature, her por-
trait will, when she has gone hence,
be triumphantly restored to the walls
of the chamber OF which she was the
first woman member. Bedford Col.
lege, where the canvas has found an
a asylunf, is the oldest institution of
higher learning in which women may
in the British Isles. The
most distinguished member of its
alumnae is George Eliot. The daugh-
ters Of Charles Dickens took the en-
tire course at Bedford and received
the 4. 3. degree.
Mrs. Robert Livingston Gerry was
the first Of a group of prominent
New York women to entertain the
Lenten sewing class, which aims to
keep the nursery and Ch:ldren's Hos
pttal supplied with clothing. Mrs.
no dy-ov n
Of her mansion, on East Seventy
sixth street, thrown open and the
members of the sewing class fore
gathered in practically its total
Three hours of work was followed by
creamless tea and unbuttered toast
and Lent in all it's rigors is well es-
tablished in this branch of New York
society. These Decreases include the
more conservative and aristocratic
of Gotham, but there are no
religious barracks. Mrs. Hamilton
Fish will be the hostess of the club
next week and after that in turn
come Mrs. Lawrence Gillespie, Mrs.
Ashton de Peyster and Mrs. Frank
Witherbee. This particular group of
ne eedlewomen repre- eSents q patriotic
association which worked all through
the Revolution in keeping soldiers
and sailors supplied with woolens.
and as a rule it's members are lineal
d descendants of these mothers of
the Nation. Sewing classes affiliated
with the fresh air fund of the Cathe-
dral of St John the Divine meet
every Wednesday morning from No
until May in the little Stan
.on street cathedral basement
But there are some eight or ten sew
Ing classes which confne their ac-
tivities only to the season of penance
Sunday. Gother Catherine Drexel's
Lenten class meets at II West Forty
sixth street and its president is Mrs.
Kenneth O'Brien.
Right Hon. Edward Hilton Young,
former secretary of the British treas
lry and chairman of the Liberal
party, has just arrived in New York
by his wife, who was
Lady Scott. widow of the intrepid
Antarctic explorer, Capt. Robert F.
Scott of the royal navy. whose tragic
end in the frozen regions caused
wide regret. Lady Scott, now
the Hon. Mrs. Young, was married
two years ago in the chapel of the
House of Commons with Mr. Austen
Cha mberlain acting as bridegroom's 9
best man. The former cabinet min
lster under Mr.. Asquith, now Earl OIL
Oxford, and later under Mr.. David
Lloyd George, is a handsome man Of
IS. tall and erect, and with iron gray
hair. He wears an empty sleeve, q
memorial of the service rendered