Evening star., 1925-07-12
Tales Of Well Known Folk
/ In Social and Official Life
Presidents Coolidge Easily Accessible, Is North
! Shore Verdict-Eminent Personages
+ Noted in the Moving Throng.

ness, and NJ. Jusserand frankly de-
clared that each mission must shift
alone. The painful incident about the
German embassy and the flag at the
obsequies of Woodrow Wilson resulted
from a misunderstanding of customs
and lack of instructions from any au-
thoritative source. In pre-war days
every head of a foreign mission in
Washington would have received
notification to display its national
emblem at half-staff.
The Secretary of State, however, and
the mentors at the American equiva-
lent of a foreign office will no doubt
welcome the innovation of his excel
lency from Cairo and commend his
piety in so solemnly proclaiming the
holy days of the Mohammedan world.
1t would add vastly to the picturesque
aspect of Washington If all the envoys
would follow the excellent example of
the envoy from King Fuad. In an
other capital the company of Heaven
is not excluded from the honor paid
national heroes. Before the unifica-
tion of Italy all the nations sending
ENJOYS to the Holy See, to the King
of Naples, to the Austrian province of
Lombardy and Venetia honored their
patronal saint on the proper day.
Thus the British envoy uplifted the
lion and the unicorn on the feast of
st. George. the Netherlands remem-
bered st. Nicholas, the German states
st. Boniface-in a word, all paid the
same honor to their protector in
Heaven as to the earthly arbiter of
their destinies. II has been pointed
out that every flag should fly in a
Christian nation on December 25 This
Capital displays it's national emblem
OFT 20 i-fh do Y,ix
as quite logically it should. But 1t
appears just as reasonable to display
II on the natal day of the Divine
Saviour Years ago when Korea was
a nation the legation hung out the
nag on the new year, which came in
the early Spring, and for long time
the Japanese and Chinese displayed
their flags, too, at the beginning of
the new year They have all aban-
doned the practice in these later days.
and not one of the SO nations repre-
sented in Washington observes Il re-
ligious feast publicly.
The Hon. Barbara Harcourt who is
about to marry Mr.. Robert Jenkinson
in London. is granddaughter of
that Junius Spencer Morgan who
founded the great international bank
ing house now known under the name
Hon. Barbara is largely American by
descent. in that her grandmother, a
daughter of Junius Spencer Morgan,
married Walter H. Burns of New
York, an associate in the Morgan firm
in London. and 1t was their daughter
who welded Viscount Harcourt in Ok
fordshire. This noble has played an
important political role. His father.
and incidentally himself have also
been glorified in George Eliot's "Cleri-
cal Tales" for Lord Harcourt also is
Baron Nuneham. His splendid coun-
try place, near the ancient town of
Nuneham, in the Midlands, is mi
nutely described in Mr. GilfiPs Love
story, and appears also in The Sad
fortunes OF the Rev. Amos Barton"
The Hon. Barbara Harcourt is very
fond of her American relations, and
has frequently been the guest of her
cousins, the young Junius Spencer
Morgans, and of the Pierpont Nor
gans. She is rather bookish in taste.
and has declined to get mixed up in
politics. Her father was in several
recent cabinets, and in the last AS.
qufth regime he held the post of min
lister of public works and later of
secretary OF state for the colonies
Mr.. Jenkinson is well known on this
side, where he served for a time with
the special military mission in early
war Gays. Formerly an officer of the
Second Life Guards, lie now is in busi-
ness in London. He has a fine coun-
try seat-Lampton Grange-in North
amptonShire, in close proximity to the
Washington and Franklin patriotic
Shrines.
Senator and Mrs. Wadsworth. who
fingered for the last possible moment
in their new home. the beautiful place
which Mrs. Charles d. Wetmore had
established in Woodland drive, are
making the acquaintance of their first
grandson. in Rochester. where he ar
rived at the Stuart Symington home
two weeks ago. Mrs. Symington was
Evelyn Wadsworth. a former belle,
who occupied an exceptionally impor-
tant position in national and local
affairs. Washingtonians are not as
tonished that the naming of this
youngster is calling forth family coun.
ellis galore, for there is material among
his grandfathers and great nd
fathers ample enough to supply sew
eral unnamed infants. Mrs. Wads.
worth, wife of the Senator from New
York, called her first son jeremiah.
though he is known as Jerry" after
Il heroic member of her husbands
family who lived in Revolutionary
days. Her sister, Mrs. Payne Whit.
ney, named her daughter Joan and
her son John, the latter for the re-
vered poet, diplomat and statesman.
John Hay, father of Mrs. Whitney and
of Mrs. Wadsworth. There have been
James Walcott Wadsworths who
climbed to high places in public es.
TEEN during the past 100 years, and
the youngest son of the Senator bears
this honored name, and figures as
Junior" Mrs. Symington. however.
could follow the honored custom of
beginning a new family with her hus-
bands appellation, and, as he is a
Junior. this would place this young
scion of distinguished lineage quite
accurately in his proper generation
Mark Twain's home in Hartford.
Conn.,, is at last to be purchased by
group of his admirers and kept in
perpetual commemoration of the Ma
tion's greatest humorist This is fol.
lowing the suggestion of that cele-
brated literary critic, the late Charles
Dudley Warner, who, with Harriet
Beecher Stowe, was a neighbor of Mr..
Samuel Clemens in the Pennington
avenue home. MIR. Warner has placed
ii on record that his gifted friend,
world famous as Mark Twain, never
wanted to go to bed, but preferred to
sit up and talk. and that he talked
better than he wrote. Mr. Warner
lived in quaint little cottage on the
hillside, and the same stream which
trickled past his door performed the
same service for Mrs. Stowe and for
the Clemens household. Nearby lived
a man immortalized in the writings of
all three literary lights-Warner.
Stowe and Mark Twain-Joe Twfchell.
who is the beguiling Harris in THE
Tramp Abroad" Mrs Twichell, ac-