Evening star., 1925-11-22
Tales of We'll Known Folk
In Social and Official Life
dwight W. Morrow, Long Friend of President, Is
Becoming Familiar Figure Around
- The White House.

in the theater and certainly will not
take the time to do when the play
is ended.
Though Washington only knows by
hearSay that amazing young matron,
Lady Cynthia Mosley. second of the
three daughters of the late Marquis
Curzon of kedleston and his first wife,
who was Mary f. Letter of this city,
there are many interested and as
many shocked by her recent plunge
into socialiStic policies. Oswald Mos
ley, her husband. having been left out
of Parliament by an unappreciative
public, she has thrown herself into
the breach and is now, in the British
way of expressing it. standing for the
borough in the pottery center, Stoke
on-Trent. Lady Cynthia has been
steadily journeying toward her pres
ent goal since her marriage, and two
years ago, by way of preparing her
self for a career among the extreme
radicals, she took a position in the
main office of the Trent potteries at
80 shillings a week. This, she has
often told in campaign addresses. dis
pleased her father so much that he
forbade her his house and even ended
her association with her young sister,
Alexandra, since married and gone to
India. This gay young reformer work
ed for six months and then was pro
NOTED to 80 shillings a week and given
a more responsible post. She always
addresses her audiences in the pot
terry town as Comrades and she
mingles on the most familiar footing
with all in the social sense, as. of
course. she must, if she is to get the
necessary votes. Mr.. Mosley has de-
no tod FREQ, C1n,,anSJta,. 1o
pears to have lost his influence with
the voters, and will begin a campaign
in Birmingham against Neville Cham
berlain. Like his wife, he has sought
occupation in the cloth mills Of the
great industrial city and has Joined
all the unions thereabout.
Formerly Miss Hilda Lyon, daugh-
ter of the late Edward Lyon of New
York City. and now married to Capt.
Arnold Wills of the British army, the
chatelaine of the most famous racing
establishment in the United Kingdom
is for the first time in its history an
American. This estate is known in
the sporting world as kingsclerc and
was the training place of many win
ners of the Derby, including those of
Edward VII, who achieved that
OF the Duke of Westminster and of
the late Lord Rosebery. 1t was then
the property of old John Porter,
whom the horse-loving world of
Britain deemed the greatest trainer
and racer Of his day. The estate was
sold recently and Capt. Wills became
the purchaser. He has just moved in
with his family and as the present
owner comes OF a horse-loving clan,
he has announced that he will retain
all the old Porter hands and maintain
the stables in keeping with the ira
ditions. Capt. Wills is one of the
chief heirs of what is called the Som
erset dynasty of tobacco kings. which
has for nearly two centuries con
trolled the monopoly in the British
Isles. Mrs Wills was of the" West
chester New York hunting set and
is as devoted to equine sports as
her husband
Wotton House. the home of John
Evelyn. the diarist. is one of the few
literary relics of the seventeenth CEN
tury which has been reverently pre-
served in the family of the celebrity.
Nor are the Evelyns of the present
generation over fond of having the
mansion invaded by the public But
occasionally societies of antiquarians
to browse in the library and to inspect
the splendid collection of fine furni-
ture and rare paintings which Evelyn
acquired during his life. The manu-
script of the famous diary was, how
ever, long ago presented to the Bod
ieian Library in Oxford, but there are
some Duplicate sheets in Wotton
House. There is also the we'll known
essay of Evelyn on Gardening"
which in it's day was quite the guide
and support of royalty when it took
to spade and shovel. He likewise
wrote a treatise on architecture which
was highly regarded for some years
Evelyn was the friend and stanch
supporter of Charles I, and a rather
grusome relic in the library of Wot-
ton House is the prayer book which
the unfortunate monarch carried to
the scaffold. Charles had written his
name on the f1yleaf of the book, and
when 1t came into possession of Eve
lyn he added to the autograph the
initials "B. NJ" which meant Blessed
Martyr, and the date of the execution.
AS this prayer book is a marvellous
example of black letter printing, vast
sums have been offered in vain for
the royal memento. But the descend
ants Of the courtly diarist have main
tanned their prosperity through the
centuries. but If they ever fell on evil
days, the contents of their library
alone would make them independently
rich.
A New York bud who will have the
good wishes of many Washingto-
mans is Miss Helen Choate, daughter
Of Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph Fl. Choate
and granddaughter of two highly re-
Vered public men. the late Joseph
Choate, Ambasa sdor to Great Britain,
and Robert Shaw Oliver, who was
Assistant Secretary of War for al
most II years and under three Execu-
tives, Mckinley, Roosevelt and Taft.
Miss Choate will be presented in the
home of her parents, at 10 East
Ninetyfourth street, on December II
at an afternoon reception, and this
will be followed in the evening by a
ball given by her elder sister, Mrs,
Charles Barney Harding, who married
the son of ]. Horace Harding, and
whose beautiful home is on Riverside
drive. Miss Marion Oliver, well known
in Washington during her fathers
long career in the War Department
is at present the guest of Mr.. and
Mrs. Choate, and will remain in New
York until after the debut party. Miss
Oliver has charming villa near Ham
ilton, in the Bermudas, and will leave
at once for a milder climate when
the festivity is ended. Col. Oliver