Evening star., 1925-04-05
Tales of Well Known Folk
In Social and Official Life
Summer Home for President and Mrs Coolidge
Present Necessity-Notes Of Prominent
World Personages

ter of much-loved Presbyterian
minister who died in New York City
about 1850, leaving dependent
family Anna Caroline was the old
est and she took up nursing to aid
her mother and sisters and soon
gained front rank in her calling. She
was for years superintendent of
nurses i'm the Presbyterian Hospital
in New York City. and with Miss
Linda Richards, the pioneer trained
nurse of this country. she labored for
wears to obtain uniform training for
all who were to be enrolled in the
prcfession Miss Maxwell lived in
Washington for some years and has
a wide acquaintance with its medical
fraternity as well as among its rep
resentatiVe citizens. Well advanced
in her sixties, she gave up active
work about 10 years ago and has
resided since in pleasant villa near
Geneva and devotes her leisure to
looking after American Red Cross
interests in the international council
while resident in the Swiss city.
Mr. r Charming Moore of West
chester, y. Y, has recently intro
duced bin into the New York AS
sembly for the preservation of Wild
flowers, and he has succeeded in put
ting sharp teeth into the legislative
measure. Though many contend that
it must be a campaign of education
and the arousing of civic pride which
will save the wild flowers, Mr.. Moore
and his associates believe that the
threat of arrest and fines will go
a long way toward protecting the
beautiful trees and shrubs which have
been all but eXterminated in New
York. The mountain laurel, once
such a glorious sight when in bloom
back of the Palisades of the Hudson,
has entirely disappeared in many
places, and it is so sparce in others
that the beauty of the bloom is lost.
Much of the present destruction is
believed to have occurred during the
last Christmas season, and this de-
spite the fact that many guardians
had been stationed at intervals where
the laurel was the most prolihc ana
that mo treSpaSs signs adorned
trees and fences at frequent intervals.
Mr.. Moore wishes to save as far as pos
sible the lovely native ferns found in
the glades and ravines of West
chester but which are gathered by
the hamperful by those who wish
to make bouquets offered for sale
more attractive. The mounted State
police of New York are to be given
control of the new law, and with
orders to enforce it without fear or
prejudice Other States Will watch
the success of this law during this
opening Spring and during the Spring
and Summer with the greatest in
terest
Two semiAmerican buds of the
Spring season in London Will next
Autumn visit their relatives on this
side of the Atlantic and enjoy the
gayetieS offered the American debu-
tante. Miss Edith Lowther, daughter
of the late Sir Gerard Lowther, is one,
and Miss Phyllis Spender-Cl is the
other. Miss Lowther's father was for
many years a secretary of the British
embassy under Sir Julian, later lord
Pauncefote of Preston. 1t was dur
ing his Washington days that he
married Miss Edith Blight, daughter
of Mr.. Atherton Blight of Philadel-
phia. Mr.. Lowther, as he was then,
climbed rapidly in the diplomatic
service and has been promoted to the
ambassadorship, had served for many
years in Constantinople and had been