Evening star., 1925-01-18
Tales of Well Known Folk
In Social and Official Life
President and Mrs Coolidge Favor Period Furni-
ture for White House Living Quarters.
Prominent Personages Grouped

to have contained a complete bibli-
| ography of books on Connecticut 1t
| seems oversight that Yale did not
have a representative on hand to pur-
| chase this invaluable collection as a
whole and not permit it to be broken
irreparably. The aloof. almost satur-
nine, statesman from that State. seem
ingly loved his native heath more ard
entity than his friends knew, for no line
of print worthy of preservation seemed
| TO have escaped his notice and he went
to the pains to collect the various cele
| brations in remote villages In order
that the annals of commonwealth might
| be presented from every vantage. Col
! leagues of the former statesman say
/ that less than a hundred men knew
him, but the auction of his household
effects. his collection of books and pic
lures have barred the secret recesses of
! his soul to thousands. That he
close student Of the old philosophers is
painfully evident since like Cato he pre-
! ferred 10 end all when life had lost it's
| flavor But his love of gaudy Colors
| came almost as a shock, for he was so
silent, so cynical and inclined to frown
down emotion OF sentiment. Yet the
! jeweled vases, the vivid red and orange
! glasses, the multi-colored hangings, the
! French equipment in rugs and brocades
! displayed to the public during the
recent auction revealed characteristics
never suspected. But in his books he
showed only legal preferences and
Chivalrous affection for the State. which
so long admired and honored him.
Miss Katrina van Dyke, the bonny
20-year-old daughter of DR.. Henry van
Dyke, has turned her face from the al
lurementS of Gotham, and with q party
| of congenial friends has sailed for New
Zealand. where only sylvan joys are in
contemplation. Miss van Dyke is, as
should be the child as such an ardent
disciple of Sir Izaak Walton, enthu-
siastic over fly fishing, and some re-
turned travellers have described the
beauty and warineSs Of the trout which
rises in the limpid streams of the
antpodes. Not only are the trout more
beautiful in New Zealand, but there are
fine specimens to be caught which rise
to the surface in no other waters. Miss
Katrina is the baby in her distinguished
family, and has been her fathers com
panion on fishing expeditions since her
9th year. She is the dainty little lady
to whom DR.. van Dyke dedicated that
winning tale, "Fisherman's Luck" and
with hey mother she appears in the text
Of My Lady Graygown' and divides
honors with Mrs. van Dyke as the best
piece of luck the fisher had In catching
you" Miss Katrina graduated two
years ago at Miss Farmingtons school,
and she tried her hand for a time at
dress designing. Now she intends to fol-
low her father into the field of litera-
ture, and is to write a complete ac-
count of her fishing trip to New Zealand.
Edmund and Henry Howard. sons
of the British Ambassador and Lady
| Isabella Howard, have within the
past week been entered in the Cath
olic lay school at Lakewood, y. J.,
| called to honor Cardinal Newman.
| Edmund is Is and Henry II, and the
latter has but recently recovered from
a serious illness which kept him here
after his BROTHERS had sailed in Sep
tember to Resume their studies in
England. All of the five sons Of Sir
Esme came to Washington for Christ
mas, and the three eldest returned
to their several colleges soon after
| New Year Lady Isabella was averse
| to parting with her youngest boy
! when his health was not entirely re-
J stored, so it was decided to keep Ed
mund as A companion for his brother
| and to place both at the Newman
| School, where a course similar to that
! they were taking in London could be
| procured. Both boys are accom-
plished skaters and have been quite
the heroes of the frozen waters about
Lakewood Edmund has shown de-