Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1925-09-27
Tales of Well Known Folk
In Social and Official Life
Continued from Ninth Page.)


delphia. DR.. Antonin sum, cotem'
porary of Dr. Kuraz, was for a time
in the diplomatic list as social vel
fare attache. He was accompanied
to Washington by Nine. Sum, and
both labored indefatigably in gather
ing sociological data. DR.. kuraz prob
ably, like his former associates in tech
meal knowledge and social welfare
studies, will have no successor as ag.
ricultural attache. He and Nine.
kuraz have been popular during their
sojourn here and their absence will
be much regretted. There are two
charming young daughters whose
dancing Of the native steps has been
one of the joys of those getting up
charity fetes. The retiring attache
belongs to an ancient family of Mo-
ravta and he processes that faith. the
members of which found asylum from
persecution in Pennsylvania in the
eighteenth century and settled the
thriving industrial city OF Bethlehem.
Mrs. Harold E. Talbot, who is de-
scribed as one Of the .loveliest brides
OF the Autumn, was Peggy" Thayer,
n lovely little maid of 8, when, with
her mother, she was rescued from the
Titanic, but her father, John Borland
Thayer, went down with gallant men
for whom there was no room in the
lifeboats. Peggy Thayer's marriage
to her comrade of many hunting trips
i'll the Canadian Rockies was a bril-
liant function of mid September at her
mothers home, in Bryn Mawr. Pa.
The brides sister. Polly (Mrs. Henry
Hoffman Dolan, who Is one of the
Quaker City'S most talented musicians.
gave a violin recital, standing at the
foot of the stairway, while awaiting
flNn r,p, A ~
proper moment she laid aside her in
strument and took her place as matron
of honor. Mrs. Talbot is of Mary
land. and has the unique distinction
Of being the thirteenth of that mystic
number of the children of the late
Henry Elstner Talbot OF Baltimore
all of whom are living and prominent
in the business and social world. With
his bride and her mother. Mr.. Talbot
has passed several Winters in the
Rockies. The dining room in the new
home in New York will be adorned
with a moose head brought down by
Miss Peggy Thayer last November. -,
II the Secretary of State ever has
need of the Boy Scout vote-that is.
OF present scouts when they attain
voting age-he will get it to the last
man" Mr.. Kellogg some weeks ago
received request to smooth the way
of the International Board of the Boy
Scouts of the World and a large dele
cation of the executive board of Amer
lean scouts in their contemplated tour
of South America. The genial Secre-
tary at once asked information Of the
cities which the scouts intended to
visit, and when young Arthur d. Jami-
son Of Dertoit. who is American man.
ager of the tour, accompanied by Don
aid MacGill of Glasgow, Scotland, man
ager of the international board, called
at the State Department about the
middle of September they received the
most agreeable surprise of their lives.
They were received by the kindly head
of the department, given nice little
speech about the marvels they are to
see in the Southern Hemisphere, and
were then handed personal letters
from the Secretary to every ambassa-
dor, minister or consular officer of the
capitals and chief cities they are to
visit. The scouts sailed on the Pan
American on September 20, and will
pass through the canal, stopping
first at the capital of the small re-
public Of Panama, resuming their voy-
age and landing in Colombia. They
then go by rail or boat to every capt.
same ship on which they sailed, the
Pan.America. December II, from Bue-
nos Aires. Mr.. Mortimer L. Schiff.
international scout commissioner, and
a group of New York bankers have
financed this tour.
Mrs. Stuart Duncan, who is one of
the leading hostesses of Newport and
whose musicals in Bonniecrest, the
Ill,
built 10 years ago on Bellevue avenue,
have been the most popular events of
the Summer in the younger set, is en-
gagged in a notable reform. Like all
genuine lovers Of music. Mrs. Dun
can deplores the prevalence of jazz
to the exclusion of better offerings,
though she grants that jazz has its
place and fulfills a good mission. She
is clever with both banjo and guitar
and she can improvise an accompani-
ament to those haunting negro melo-
dies so beloved of the past generation,
like Darling Nellie Gray" 'Massa s
in the Cold, Cold Ground "Lorena"
and some 20 others, sentimental and
lyrical, which reached their height of
fame in the 70s. To listen to this
talented songstress sitting on the
marble terrace of Bonniecrest IN the
moonlight is to realize how worthy
cially those from Stephen Fosters
fertile pen. The most ardent lover of
jazz can realize that some songs are
better at times. and that a perfect
waltz may be danced to those lifting
tunes Of 80 years ago. Mrs. Duncan
can sing the Mexican songs, like GO
londrina" and La Paloma." most en-
trancingly, and under her skillful
guidance her young friends are TAX
ing up the music Of the past and
verandah musicales in the moonlight
and to the accompaniment of ukelele
banjo and guitar are becoming fire.
uuent at Newport. This charming re-
former was before her marriage Miss
German Stoddard daughter OF the
Rev. Charles Augustus Stoddard, for
many years editor OF the Observer.
Mrs. Richard Derby, who was Miss
Ethel Roosevelt and a near Washing
tonian. since she passed the first half
of her life here, has recently been
elected the secretary Of the Bird Club
of Long Island, founded by the late
Theodore Roosevelt about 10 years
ago. Col. Roosevelt had from boy
hood been interested in the feathered
tribes of Oyster Bay, and one Of the
first Of his published nature studies
had them as a theme. He had been
q ruSIllDGE VI the AUDUBON society,
quite popular among the boys and
girls of his generation in New York
City, and had contributed continually
to its literature. But in his later
years this versatile former Chief
Magistrate desired to make the birds
Of Long Island better known to the
residents and so he issued a call which
was enthusiastically answered. Col.
Roosevelt was elected first president
II.
cessor was Mrs. Robert Bacon, who
aerYed until two wears ago when she