Evening star., 1925-10-04
Iales Of Well Known Folk
In Social and Official Life

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which the great towers OF the cathe
oral brood. which is a special favorite
OF Mr.. HerriCk's. and the chef once or
time conducted fashionable place
on the Partisan boulevard. But being
wise man he saw less rivalry and 4
surer patronage on the line OF motor
travel out Of Paris than at his ole
stand. The Amha ssador. often &C
c"mpanied BY an American friend
stays with this old-time acquaintance
and enjoys every delicacy ne could
wish. in the midst OF peace and seclu
sion.
Judge Arthur NJ. Robnson's India n
Springs. at the foot of the Graylock
foothills near Williamstown, Mass.
has become familiar to the visitors Il
the Institute Of Politics and MANY
have been the guests OF its host
Judge Robinson has just sold thai
part Of his estate from which 1t de
rives its name Of Indian Springs and
these mystic waters from Hancocl
Mountain are to be piped and carried
four miles to the residence recently
erected on the outskirts OF Williams
town by Mr.. and Mrs. E. Parmalee
z Prentice. Now the interest which lies
in all this is that Mrs. Prentice Is the
daughter OF the aged f1nancier. John
u. Rockefeller. and he proposes tC
pass the Autumn with her. The leg
endary glamour cast over this roman
tic spring in the heart OF the noun.
t7in from which 1t trickles is tiny
-'ream until 1t gains reinforcement
in the GravloCk hills. is that any one
who drinks the water or bathes in 1t
habitually for a given number of
l. L. NI.>,.
will pass his hundredth milestone in
perfect health and will attain few
Years in the first decade after ii. In
testimony. there is the grave and
tombstone Of King konkapot in cem-
crery on the crest of the hills AT Grey
lock. testifyins that he drank the wa
ters and lived to he los. Numerous
other rsvestones record the marvel
properties OF the waters in pro
longing the wears past The hundred
mark.
LADY Burn. wife Of Col. Sir Charles
Eurn of the lst Ora coons. has been
ono of the most gracious of hostesses
I" her American compatriots in her
splendid home, Thame Park. one OF
the great estates on the river about
~ miles above London. Lady Burn
Is half American and was born in ST.
Louis at the home Of her grandfather,
Mr.. Derrick Algernon January. the
steel ma gnate Of that city. Her moth
er was the beautiful Laura January. a
belle and toast of the Mississippi Val
ley in the 1S70s, and her marriage to
Capt Forbes Leith Of the Royal Navy.
now Lord Leith. was a brilliant event
In the January home near Forest Park.
in St. Louis Lord and Lady Leith
have large domain in Aberdeen.
Scotland, where their Castle Fyvie
dominates that venerable city. The
only son OF the Leiths. the Hon. Percy
Leith, was killed in the Boer War.
and their daughter. Ethel January,
now Lady Burn, will inherit the vast
wealth OF her grandfather and her
parents. but the title of Leith. going
back to the border wars. will become
extinct. The home OF Sir Charles and
LADY Burn at Thame Park has been
h,iilt about a Cistercian Abbey conse-
Grated in 1885 The domain has 900
acres. at least a third Of which fronts
on the Thames and has been laid out
as villa sites. Col. Burn lost his heir.
Arthur Leith Burn. before Ypres. but
he has another boy in his early 20s.
Charles January Burn. and daugh-
ter Ethel who IL just is. Lady Burn
ts handsome as her more celebrated
mother, but she has quite domestic
tastes and has not essayed either q
conspicuous social role nor become
affiliated with any Of the political
clubs for women.
Mrs. Stanley Mccormick has recent
" purchased the splendid estate,
pranrine, on the shores of the Lake
If Geneva, which she has leased for
the past two Summers. This historic
chateau with It's hundreds OF acres
wooded. and on this lovely Swiss lake.
was ordered sold a few weeks ago TO
satisfy the creditors Of Prince Louis
Bonaparte, who inherited the prop
erty from his great-srandfather. that
Prince Louis Bonaparte who married
Hortense, the daughter of the En-
press Josephine. Pragins has been
the abode of royalty for many cen
turtles, and II was the home OF Queen
Hortense and where she reared her
two sons. the younger of whom be
came Napoleon III. More recently
il offered an asylum to the late Karl
former Emperor Of Austria, and his
family Prince Louis Bonaparte lost
his possessions in the Soviet turmoil.
he having been Russian subject ana
y member Of the cars court since
his childhood Mrs. Mccormick pur-
chased the estate and all its acces-
sories. and she proposes to do some
extensive entertaining OF her country $
people during the sittinss Of the
League Of Nations. This lecturer and
social worker. who Is also leading
member Of Chicago's fashionable set.
Was before her ma rria &c to the son OF
the inventor Of the reapinc machine
Miss Katherine Dexter of Dexter,
Mich. pretty lake city. founded
end quite largely owned by her kin
dred She has long considered Geneva
the most delightful place in the world
To live Her marriage to Stanley Nc
Cormick occurred there In 1904, dur
ing a Summer in which she was
studying in the old university as a
postgraduate course to the training
she had received at the Massa chusetts
Institute of Technology. Mrs. Nc
cormick is active In suffrage affairs
and Is al present the corresponding
secretary of the international Suf-
frage Alliance and member of the
hoard OF management of the League
nf Women Voters.
Young William r. Leeds and his
imperial lady, who was Princess
Ienia Of the Romanoff dynasty. have
finally purchased an estate on Long
island and will keep this home all
through the year. This is Strathhrae.
hult and greatly beautified by Mr..
Francis y. NJ. Strachan and it lies
In the cold Spring Harhor at the
extreme north point of the isla nd.
This place was for several years the
home Of Rodman Wansmaler. and it
was here he entertained the Prince Of
Wales in the Summer of 1924. But
Mr. Wananraker this season bought 4
beautiful place AT Nentnor in Atlantic
City. and .hr Strachan in putting the
property on the marker found u ready
purcha sed in MIR Leeds. New York
and therea bouts is fun of eyileG Rus
slams, many of whom are the kim