Evening star., 1925-05-10
Senior Yanes, Acting
| Venezuelan Minister.
l.. Takes Over Legation
Likely to Remain in Post as
Charge d'AHaires for Year.
/ Trained in Diplomacy.

senor. Francisco Gerardo Yanes.
who has been charge d'atfaires Of
Venezuela since the departure Of Or.
Aracaya November 10. 1924. when he
was called on q special mission to
to q position in the cabinet, Is one
OF the ripe scholars of his country
and besides being q trained diplomat.
was for many years professor OF In
ternational law In the venerable Uni
versity Of Venezuela, which since the
opening of the seventeenth century
las been educating the youth of that
country in the professions and in the
classics.
DR.. Yapes was in the late Winter
joined here b. his wife, who was be-
fore her marriage Senorita Maria
Amengual Anlalia, and their only child,
a charming young girl Just entering
her 18th year. The family has taken
over the lease of the former Venezu-
elan legation on Massachusetts, avenue
at the bend of Sheridan Circle. AS
there is no immediate prospect or the
appointment of a Minis0er Resident to
succeed DIR. Areaya, DR.. Yanes; as
sumes important rank in the Latin
American counselS, and his tenure as
charge will be prolonged. for perhaps
Il year longer.
Senorita Elisa Yanes, who has
been a notable addition to the ranks
of Latin maidens, was much inspired
by the accounts which her father
gave her of the accomplishments and
efficiency of American maids, so that
when she came here in February, in
stead of plunginG into the social
whirl, she entered q private school
and has diligently studied English and
literature, has entered all the ath-
letic classes and Is a candidate for
belleship when she is presented here
daughter plan to leave Washington
for New York early in June. In fact
both have delayed their departure
for the reception which the Pan
American Union is extending to the
President and Mrs. Coolidge May 20.
They will spend a month in New York.
mostly In sightseeing and visiting
some old friends there.
July l they will sail on the Cara
boba for Caracas, where Sonora de
Yanes will visit her mother and other
relatives. Senorita Elisa will enter
convent school, that of San Josef
de TarbeS, outside the Venezuelan
capital, at which she has already
spent six years and will apply herself
strenuously to her studies all through
the Summer. She hopes to have COM
pleted her course by January and will
then return to Washington. and figure
among the buds of the Winter. DIR.
Yanes' only daughter is of rare beauty
and grace. She has the clear pink
and white complexion more associ-
ated with the Scandinavian or the
Scotch than the Latin and her hair
which she wears in the prevailing
bobbed style, is of pure golden sheen
!. and naturally curly. She is very
fond of pets and the Venezuelan le-
cation possesses many under the
present regime. One white cat, Liz
zie. is her special companion and has
been trained more carefully than the
feline is generally. Sonora de Yanes,
like her husband, is a native of Cara
cas- and has lived there most of her
life. She has travelled extensively in
Europe and this country. AS is her
daughter, Sonora De Yanes, is en-
gagged in studying English, and she
hopes soon to use the language more
easily than now. She studied English
and knows it in the theoretic sense
and writes pleasant note, but she is
timid about speech. She will return
to Washington in the early Autumn,
leaving her daughter in Caracas, and
will go there at Christmas time to
bring her to America.