The Washington times., 1925-04-03
TOUR AROUND
THE WORLD
PLANNED
Mrs. Keyes Will Leave
Soon to Encircle Globe
for Good Housekeeping
By JEAN ELIOT.

| BY JEAN ELAOAs
rHE prospect of saying a fare
well to Mrs Henry Wilder
Il Reyes for a year and a half is
something which we in Washington
can not but view with alarm. !"
yet she has such a wonderful trip
1 in. prospect that her friends are
happy in her good fortune.
/ This gifted wife Of Senator Reyes
of New Hampshire, known to the
reading public as Frances Parkin.
son Reyes, is being sent on trip
! around the world by food House
keeping" the magazine in which
her successful Letters of Sena-
tors Wife have been appearing,
with rowing commission to browse
around and write home about what
ever strikes her as interesting Sail
| ing on May IA, she will go first to
Cuba, then through the Panama
Canal and across to Hawaii, with
Japan and China in the offing. The
Philippines are also In her territory,
with Singapore, Java, Siam, Burma,
and India next in order; then Per-
STA and Egypt.
According to present plans it will
take her about a year to complete
this much of her journey; and after
months or so in Europe. She viii
not make definite plans for this
part of her tour, however, until
the time comes, as 1t is hard to
tell what may be going on In Eu.
rope a year from now and what
countries will offer the most fertile
| field for investigation.
Mrs. Keyes has taken passage
on the Dollar line, taking advan.
tage Of their facilities for laying
over as long as one desires at any
point of call and resuming ones
tour on the next boat touching
there. This plan has been care
fully worked out by the steamship
line, so that it is always possible
to secure similar IL not identical
cabins for each stage of the jour-
ney.
The pleasure which Mrs. Reyes
must feel in the anticipation of
such a tour is vastly augmented by
the fact that her eldest son. Henry
Wilder Reyes, jr., is going with
her. A student at Harvard, he has
been granted a years leave OF
absence from college and will ac-
company his mother on her tour
through the Orient. The two are
exceptionally congenial and the
trip will be wonderful experience
for both of them.
The two younger Keyes boys.
John ard Francis, will also be in
the party on the early stages of
the journey. visiting Cuba with
their mother. going through the
Canal with her and returning over
land to join their father in New
Hampshire for the summer.
just at present Mrs. Reyes Is
much occupied with the various
repairs teeth, eyes. innocdla-
tions, etc.-which doctors advise be-
fore setting forth on such long
journey. But she expects to be all
through in time to go to Richmond
en- April Is to cover" the conven-
ton of the League of Women
Voters fn~ her magazine.
COOIidges Visit
COrcOralf> Art Gallery.
The President and Mrs. Coolidge
paid a brief visit to the Corcorar
Art Gallery late yesterday after
noon for a private view of the
painting entitled. THE Only Hope"
by the artist, George Inness, IT., !
who died some years ago.
This large picture was painted
by Mr.. Inness in the interest OF
the peace movement. 1t is here
under the auspices of the New
York Chamber of Commerce.
With the staging Of six separate
special exhibitions the Corcoran Gal.