Evening star., 1925-11-29
BY MARGARET b. DOWNING.

plans about remaining in this country
until the Spring. and sailed with her
husband from San Francisco on the
President Taft November IA. Mrs
MacNeagh desired to pay the Nip
ponese court the compliment Of par
ucipating in the official gayetieS
which begin on New Year day and con
tinue for almost four months. Then
too, the United States Government is
committing to the Amba ssador the
task of supervising the general ar.
rangement of the new embassy about
to be erected in Toxic to replace the
edihce destroyed in the earthquake.
Congress has appropriated 81 ,250, 600
for the purchase of the site and the
building of the embassy, but a plan
has yet to be decided. There We're en-
thuSiaStC advocates of reproducing
the White House in Toxic which is
perfectly absurd for such a building,
and would look In an Oriental environ
ment as much out OF place as an old
Chinese templA would if set next to
the Presidents mansion in Washing
ton. Leading architects of Toxic are
associated with American eXponentS
OF domestic types of dwellings, and 1t
Is hoped that the result will prove sat
isfaCtory. Mrs. MaCVeagh will have
the final word as to interior arrange
ment, for though. for the sake of har-
moniouS blending with neighboring
illStISlOnSr IIl6 OIlteu states embassy
may show Oriental influence. II is GER
tain that inside it must conform with
The standards which prevail in this
land. 1t is proposed also to furnish
the embassy comp 'etely, task which
will leave few unemployed moments
for the chatelaine of the American es-
tabiShment.
Prince Henry of Britain, the third
son of the King. is one of the most
fearless horSemen in the realm, and
he needs must be, seeing that he is an
officer in the HuSSarS. He IS acknoWl-
edged not only to be better rider
than his brother, the Prince of Wales,
but a keener judge of horseflesh
Prince Henry Is an ardent huntSman
and he follows the hounds persistently
all through the season, and very few
tumDleS are to his credit, and there
have been fewer times when he was
not in at the killing. This Autumn the
young prince has set a new custom,
and one most joyously followed by his
fellow hunters. Waiting in his saddle
for the hounds to pick up the scent, he
whipped out his pipe and began to puff
most vigorously. Smoking while
wearing the pink" was unheard of up
to that moment, but the new fashion
was Immediately adopted by a half
hundred others. and noW huge clouds
VI SillOht 30 up from JTle nOTSe1nen as
they wait after the hounds go loose.
Young Prince Henry does not seem in
CIined to matrimony, though he has
been reported engaged almost as often
as his famous brother. He is an all
around athlete. and takes part in
every activity of his regiment. being
agile in bouts and credited with de
HVerlng mighty blow with his right
arm.
Capt. the Hon. Arthur Stopford, the
successor of Capt. Francis Tottenham
as naval attaChe of the British en-
baSST, is Il younger son of the Earl
of COurtOWn, and has the unusual dis
tnctIon of being a colonel in the Brit
ish army, as well as a gallant officer
OF the fleet in the North Sea- which
saw heroic service under Admiral Jel-
licoe during tbe World War He was
Woundsd in the battle of Jutland and,
after his recovery Wd5 transferred to
the Royal Air Force. in which he at
tained the rank of colonel. At the con-
clusion of the war he returned to the
sea, and now holds a senior captaincy
Like his predecessor, Capt. Totem
ham, he is an Irishman. His family,
originally from Lanca shire, emigrated
10 the Emerald Isle in the reign of
Charles II, and the Earldom of Cour-
town was conferred on them by that
prominently affiliated with County
Wexford, and Courtown House, their
ancestral seat, is situated on that
beautiful stream, the Corey, on a high
emiDence in sight of the Irish Chan
mel. The mansion was the scene of
some stirring episodes during the re-
bell!on of 1898, but though conquered
and reconquered by the insurgents and
by the rOyaliStS, it was not materially
ola ma gad Cant Srnnfnr1'S har
was the daughter of Lord Braybrooke,
and she Is among the most stately
chatelaines in the Irish peerage His
eldest brother, Viscount Stopford, is
married and has five sons, so that a
considerable number of lives stand be-
tween the naval attache and the earl
dom and splendid entailed estates in
Wexford.
DR.. Henry Grattan Doyle. the
scholarly editor of Hispania and pro-
fessor of romance languages in
George Washington University, has
aroused considerable interest by his
paper, Spanish Studies in the
United States" which appeared re-
Gently in the Bulletin of Spanish
Studies published in Liverpool. DR..
Doyle'S clear exposition of the reac-
tion of Americans toward every
thing of Spanish origin, furniture,
architecture, painting and. more re-
Gently, music, has awakened keen in
terest in Britain. There is just a
hint of resentment that this country
has gone over so Fundamentally to
Spain in cultural matters and that
In vast areas of this country no
other type of domestic architecture
prevails save the Spanish. or it's
American adapta ton. the mission. 1t
is not news in this land that large
factories in Spanish cities are de
voted 10 producing So-Called antiques,
or that the splendid silver plate of
medieval Spain is to be obtained in
modern shops. Those who purchase
1t are usually satisfied with the eX-
cellent workmanship and the beauty
of design in these Spanish repro
ductions, and the age and originality
are not such vital factors. DR..
Doyles papers on these themes are
most interesting and there is a dis
tinCt suggestion of times compen-
satiOn, in the way in which the old
kingdom Of CASTLE is reconQuering
the land which civilization owes her,
but which has long since ceased to
be her possession.
Tie Minister from Latvia and Nine
Seya. whose delightful fete in honor
of the eighth anniversary of the indie
pendence of their country was en-
joyed by SO many persons about 10
days ago. are the elders in the group
of dIplomatists who call the Baltic
Republics their home. 1t was inevi-
table that with such a number of dip
lomats with their families, now as
signed 10 this Capital, the total is rap
IDLY anroaching 300. that the members