Evening star., 1925-07-05

anticipate so lengthy a vacation from
his post as to enjoy part of the Sum-
mer in The Oaks, the lovely old
Colonial place which he purchased In
Georgetown when he was Assistant
Secretary of State. The elder Mr..
Bliss is one of the most widely known
lawyers and railroad men of the Mis-
sissippi Valley and lived for many
years in st. Louis. The first Mrs.
Bliss, mother of the diplomatist, was
Miss Annie Louise Woods, daughter
of Robert Woods, a pioneer manu-
facturer of the Mound City. She died
many years ago and in 1894 Judge
Bliss married Mrs. Anna Blaksley
Barnes of New York City. Mrs. Rob
ert Woods Bliss is the daughter of
this lady and the romance and mar
riage of MIR. Bliss to his step-sister
occurred after he had graduated with
distinction from Harvard and had be-
gun his diplomatic career in San Juan
de Porto Rico. Mrs. Bliss, who was
Miss Mildred Barnes, was educated
abroad and has spent nearly all her
life in foreign parts. She inherited
large fortune from her father and she
has always been prominent in the
social way in the various homes In
which she has lived Both she and
Mr.. Bliss have spent much time and
money in restoring The Oaks to its
Colonial aspect.
Mrs. Woodrow Wilson and her
companion in travelling, Miss Belle
Baruch, are having quiet but thor
oughly delightful visit to Paris and
they are living in a secluded spot
just outside the barrier of the French
capital. in the southeasteriy direction,
and on the edge of the mighty Bois
10 ha ncfU of
French municipal parks. President
Wilson showed marked partiality
for the woods Of Vincennes as against
the more frequented Bois du Boulogne
and he rode in them almost daily. He
was accustomed to stop for refresh
ment at celebrated cafe on the side
of the larger of the two lakes which
are situated right in the heart of deep
woods, and Mrs. Wilson, recalling her
many visits to this charming inn, in
vited Miss Baruch to accompany her
there. She was much touched by the
reception given her by the venerable
proprietor. who recognized her at
once and led her to the balcony where
the war President loved to sit and
gaze upon the scene-at all times a
veritable Carrot landscape with the
soft water tapping the shore and the
gray haze rising from the lake and
back or all the dark, dense forest
filled with birdlife. The balcony is
covered with ivy growing over the
rail and below is a lovely rose garden.
The restaurant keeper roped off this
balcony from general use because of
it's associations and before he invited
Mrs. Wilson and Miss Baruch to eat
their luncheon there he had permitted
only Gen. Pershing and a party of
friends last Spring to use it. The
chair in which the war President
habitually sat is in the private quar-
ters of the innkeeper, and the last
napkin is framed in the same apart
ment. Naturally Mrs. Wilson was re-
joiced to find a part of Paris where
her husbands memory is so revered.
NJ. Hjalmar Stauning, the Socialist
premier of Denmark, who is the only
remaining Laborite who assumed power
at about the time Ramsay MasDonald
did in England and NJ. Herriott in
France, leaped into fame almost over
night as a playwright. The premier
wrote his play more than 20 years
ago, when he was a cigarmaker, but
opportunity to present it never came
until recently. 1t is called "Life's
Lies" and is founded on the disagree
ments between employers and en-
ployes. This drama Is presented on
the stage of the Workers Theater in
Copenhagen, but as vet the general