Evening star., 1925-11-15
BY MARGARET B. DOWNING.


Mrs kellogg is by virtue of her po-
sition the leading lady in the boudoir
cabinet, and there can be no doubt of
her influence in the renewal of the
olden way of holding small informal
receptions on at least three NedneS-
days in the month, instead of the
rather stately functions twice year.
when the rooms become too congested
for the pleaSu of hostess or guests.
In London Mrs. Kellogg could not
help being impressed by the quiet ease
of the great political hoSteSseS, who
received callers two or three times
each week, at the customary time,
from to Z, rendered d cup OF tea and
a small sandwich, with perhaps some
tiny cakes or sweet biscuits. all with
out the least fuss or effort at enter
tanning. More than once Mrs. Kellogg,
her sister and nieces We're asked to
tea by Queen Mary. and in Bucking-
ham Palace they found the same quiet
atmosphere prevailing. the Queen
pouring tea, Princess Mary or the
Duchess of York serving cake, the
favorite dog shipping about to gather
up stray crumbs and not an attendant
in sight. For several seasons cabinet
receptions on Wednesdays have been
somewhat overpowering. genuine Of
ticial functions lasting for several
the hostess and a hardship to the
guest who came to call and perhaps to
chat a moment, but who instead had
10 wait for some time for a handclasp
and then be rushed by Mrs. kellogg,
IN advising more frequent and simpler
Jays at home, will find a chord re-
sponsive, for that was the old idea
when cabinet calls were in order every
Wednesday and as part of the official
routine of the Winter.
The Secretary of Commerce struck
a warning note when he made that
we'll justified comment on the rising
price of coffee. The Secretary and
Mrs. Hoover have an established rep
utation for being able to use substi-
tutes for anything. for they went
through the famine attending the
Boxer insurrection when they We're on
their honeymoon. as well as expert
encing the fearful conditions which
confronted all during the German in
vasion of Belgium. SO that when the
Secretary broadly hints that the
American public would be wise to con-
slider some other morning beverage
unless the international purveyors %
coffee reconsider their present tactics,
these commercial gentlement had bet
ter look out for squalls. Let the
public become aware that the Herbert
HooverS no longer drink coffee be-
cause they wish to protest against the
inflated prices asked American re-
tailers and the chapter of stormy his
tory concerning the reasons which led
the coloniStS to depart from the tradi-
tionS of their tea-drinking race will be
wiped out overnight Traditionally
the vast majority of residents of this
country should be tea drinkers morn
ing, noon and night. like their ances-
tors. Everybody knows that the
Briton. the Scotch and Irish do not
drink coffee in the morning and very
few drink it at all except occasionally.
Colonial records rarely ever men,
ton the fragrant mocha as a beverage
until after the thrilling affair in Bos-
ton Harbor when it became patriotic
duty to refrain from buying or drink
f0g tea. The n fst fervent efforts of
the Englishspeaking unions and the
hauds-across-t -thI-sea associations, not
even the genial presence of Sir
Thom\s Lipton has availed to turn
the tid> E>ck in favor of tea since
1775, but with Mr.. Hoover in the lead
and influential factors favoring his
campaign. relief in this particular ex-
tortion of the price of coffee is plainly
in view.
Mr. Joseph Widener. the millionaire
L
of its most famous horsemen. has
opened within the past month the
most unusual sort of school and one
absolutely unique in world annals.
since 1T has in view the mental and
physical training of jockies. This
school, which is in reality an activity
of the Widener stables is located in
comfortable buildings in Erdenheim
in the exclusive Chestnut Hill section
of the Quaker City. and has three di-
rectors. so TO speak. Mr. Bert Null
holland, the manager of the Widener
stables. is the overload in that he
opens the scholastic day very early
with intimate details on riding with
n good three hours of practice on the
track. Then comes Mrs. Clinton
Aldred. who holds the highest of
pedagogical Endorsement. and imparts
such knowledge to the boys as mathe-
matics. geography general outlines of
history and literature and a minute