Evening star., 1925-11-01
Tales of Well Known Folk
In Social and Official Life
Genuine Colonial Home Aspect-Per-
sonal Notes of Interest

see in this tendency toward dyn-
astic legislative service. the ma jority
regard the selection of Mrs Kahn
and MIS-. Rogers as the chivalrouS
attitude of the voters in their districts
In recognizing the aid and intelligent
support each gave her husband. Sen
| ator LA Toilette. I'd, is very well
known to Washington IS the secretary
and unfaltering assistant during the
latter years of his fathers stormy
career and the many recent and eX-
citing campaigns. He adds another
TO the swelling list of bachelors In
the Senate and though he will re-
VOlve in a mach more circumScribed
social circle :han his brethren of the
regulars In the two political parties,
he will nevertheless be a lion in his
own sphere. He will receive able
social support from. his mother who
still retains her home on Wyoming
avenue and who will continue to call
Washington home. Young Bob" like
the former Assistant Secretary of the
Navy, Young Ted" Roosevelt will
! have the handicap of being constantly
compared with his father and for d
few years at least he will have a
| hard row to hoe. il he is To attain
even relatively the political reputation
. the late Bob.
NJ. Samy. the Minister of Egypt. and
his family have received so cordial a
welcome from the denizenS of the
Capital and have mingled with them
so generally that a knowledge of the
ancient Nile land. quite apart from
its archaeological aspect, was a logical
conclusion. Many Washingtonians
who propose to spend part of the
Winter in Egypt know that district
from social pleasure and the interest
of meeting people from the four quar-
ters of the globe; they may find excel
lent sulphur baths right at the edge
OF the Libyan desert almost under the
nose of the Sphinx and within a few
moments walk over the soft warm
sand to the Great Pyramid All
through the Autumn come visitors
from Europe, who have been engaged
most of the year in social duties. to
relax and - drink the water and pass
hours buried in the sand. Italian
physicians send their patients to the
sulphur springs of the Libyan district.
and the Mena House, large entirely
modern hotel, is filled with semi-in-
valids doing double duty in sight-see
ing and taking the cure in between
times. Another spa just becoming
known To the outside world. but which
has been used by the Egyptians since
the very dawn of civilization. is at
Helouan, not far from Cairo. but on an
unbeaten track, where the water
permeated with sulphur and other
health restoring properties bubbles
forth as hot as in the geySerS OF the
Yellowstone.
NJ. Caillaux. the Minister OF Finance
recently in this country at the head
of the French debt funding commits
sion. awakened the keenest apprecia-
tion in New York City by his request
TO be called plain Mister instead of
the usual attempt at Monsieur. "
This was seemingly an unnecessary
act of amiability since to the great
majority of Americans he would have
been Mister" anyhow. but the Incl
dent has led the metropolitan jour
nails to remark that in no country
save this is there any disposition to
address foreign guests save In the
vernacular. Throughout all the Latin
nations in the Old and New Worlds.
citizens of Uncle Sans land are Senior