Evening star., 1925-02-22
Tales of Well Known Folk
In Social and Official Life
President and Mrs. Coolidge Quietly Solve Prob
lem of Official Precedence-Congress
and Cabinet Notables

pass part of the Spring here Senator
Metcalf was elected for the full six
year term, as well as for the few
months left of the Sixty-seventh Con-
gress. Like his predecessor, Senator
Metcalf is from Providence, and is a
leading wool manufacturer, besides
holding many posts of honor in banks
and insurance companies of his city.
Mrs. Metcalf is also from Providence.
and before her marriage was Miss
Louise d. Sharpe. The Metcalf home
Is on Woodward road in Providence,
but the athletic activities of the Sem
ator led the family far afield in the
open season. Like the majority of
Rhode Islanders, yachting is the ia
vortte diversion OF the Metcalfs. and
both are members of the Hope and
Squantum clubs, besides of several
others, like the Rhode Island Country
Club. Senator and Mrs. Metcalf have
spent the Winter at the Hotel Hamil-
ton, and have participated quite gen.
erously in official and residential
amenities. Both are members of the
Unitarian Church, and regularly at
tend the handsome new ediflce on
Sixteenth street.
Gen. Pershing's game is, as all the
world knows, polo. and his visit to
Cannes during his last sojourn in
France made a profound impression,
according to his intimate friends in
Washington, as to what golf can do
to town, for in Cannes and for miles
thereabout everybody Is golf mad,
everybody talks the game, everybody
dresses for 1t, and even the bellhops
in the hotel and messenger boys
lettering about the stations and
buildings are Immediately garbed in
the latest golf togs. and will volubfy
discourse on the scores of the big
wigs who play on the green from the
peep OF dawn until black night. The
hero of the A. E. F. confessed himself
a bit bored, for the noble horse Is of
no consequence at all In this other
wise ideal French resort. Polo could
be played all through the Winter, for
the meadows are hard and verdant
and the proportion of rainy days are
very few, but nobody cares anything
at all for this royal exercise, and the
crack players from this country and
from Continental cities attract no
more attention than q group of horse
men galloptng up and down the roads
to give their mounts exercise. But
the spectators about the golf courses
are 10 feet deep, and always struggling
for better views. Cannes has more
than $500 Americans living In their
own villas, and nearly all are re-
tired bankers or other business men
who arc devoting their leisure to i'm
proving their strokes. Some 5000
other Americans live in the hotels on
pensions, and they are all golf fiends,
too.
President Gales of Mexico, recently
an official guest of this country, has
taken the reins of government with a
firm hand, and 1t now seems entirely
probable that the most picturesque
as well as one of the oldest cities of
the New World again will be acces-
sible to visitors. Mexico City is
really four municipalities under one
mayor, but the oldest part, called the
Iberian City, which reached it's prime
under the Spanish occupation, still
dominates. There is no more impos-
ing church in the world than the an
Client cathedral and no royal or state
edtnoe which for historic interest and
stately appearance can equal the mas
sive Chapultepec Palace. During the
era of the unhappy Maximillian and
Carlotta an attempt was made to
transform certain parts of the Mexi
can Capital into semblance of
Vienna. President Diaz frankly at
tempted to turn the newer part of his
capital into a second Paris, and even
yet that idea prevails when the capi-
talist builds his mansion on the hills.
That fine Spanish way OF building
each house the owners stronghold in
the patio style is no longer followed
when new houses are contemplated,
and IL the architect clings to local
traditions something reminiscent of
Lower California is the result. But
enough of the venerable Aztec city
remains to make the capital Of the
republic beyond the Rio Grande a
delight to Americans. The old curio
shops alone offer sufficient in silver,
gold and carved stone to lure the COL
lector South were the nation more
tranquil. For purchasing grand
Spanish furniture, illuminated leather
and canvases which may mean a for
tune, Mexico City of recent times Of
fers the best opportunities on this
hemisphere.
Mrs. Henry 2. Dawson, who has
passed the Winter very quietly at her
home, near Peacock Point. on Long
Island, sailed last week for Europe,
accompanied by her daughter, Miss
Frances Dawson. This young lady
was a mere child during the Wash
ington residence Of the former direc-
tor of the Red Cross and Mrs. Dawson,
and attended the Cathedral School in
Woodley lane. She will be entered in
finishing school in Paris, and will
pursue some branches Of music and
letters.
Mr.. Davison's sister, Mrs. Anatole
LIE Bratz, and her husband have a
charming semi-suburban home be-
yond Auteiul, and they will entertain
their kindred from New York. and
will, with them. leave early in March
for. an extensive tour of Egypt.
Young Henry p. Dawson and his
bride, who was Miss Anne Stillman,
are spending the last lap of the
wedding jaunt on the Nile, and are
making their voyage in their own