Evening star., 1925-01-11
Tales of Well Known Folk
In Social and Official Life
Japans New Envoy to United States Viii Find
Host of Welcoming Friends-Record
Is of Notable Events.

with AQmlral w ard, and tnat Is the
"Willowmere," a slender pointed bud
of deep pink tinged with yellow on
which the American Rose Society be-
slowed Its gold medal five years ago.
But the admiral thought more Of the
exquisite bud named for his wife,
and he was never seen In public
Without one in his buttonhole. The
Ward estate has been noted likewise
for its Spring blossoms, and the lawn
which surrounds the house for about
200 feet in every direction was in
late March and early April veritable
carpet of yellow, purple and white
crocusses. while the borders were gay
with tulips, jonquils and hyacinths.
Mrs Lorillard Spencer. who visit
ed Washington short time ago, is
one of the beloved Americans OF
whom happily there are many who
are giving time and income to the
far-otf wards of the United States.
AS Miss Carolina Bergman, Mrs.
Spencer was a reigning beauty in
New York society a generation ago,
just as her younger sister. Mrs. IL.
Casimer de Rham of Tuxedo is at
present. Her son, Lorillard Spencer.
jr., married about two years ago
Miss Katherine Force, sister OF Miss
Madeleine Force, who married John
Jacob Astor. Mrs. Spencer has a com
Portable home outside of Manila, and
IS strong factor in Americanizing
and influencing the natives towards
a better government and more stable
conditions. She is the manager of
a musical club, and foregathers all
the talent about her for regular
weekly concerts and dances. She has
illustrated lectures in her garden, fol-
lowed by receptions, and the serving
of refreshments in the native style.
and to these she asks certain pro-
portion OF American officials as well
as the high lights In residential
Manila society. Mrs. Spencer has just
celebrated her tenth year as denizen
of Manila, and the event was cele-
hrated enthusiastically all over Luzon
and adjacent islands.
Young Felicia Gizycka's revolt from
a merely social career seems the ac-
cepted program for the thoughtful
young woman of today who finds
more absorbing and congenial meth
DDS TO pass her days rather than In
dancing and dining them away. The
granddaughter Of the late Robert Patter-
son and great granddaughter of Joseph
Medill, has accepted a position with
the Y. W. c. A, and after course OF
intensive training will take over the
management OF cafeteria in a wild
and woolly frontier town in Wyo-
ming, not far from the ranch on which
she and her mother, Countess Eleanor
Gizycka, have spent many happy,
care-free Summers. All this savors of
the Patterson and Medill idea of serv-
ice towards humanity. 1t will be re-
called that Col. Joseph Medill Pat
terson, her uncle, was the founder
of the Little Brothers of the Poor"
clubs and that he not only wrote
volumiuously on this theme, but he
labored increasingly for it's success
AS owner of the Chicago Tribune
Col. Patterson never loses an oppor-
tunity to aid the unfortunate. Lon
don society likewise received a stun
ming blow when the beautiful young
daughter of the Duke and Duchess of
wellington, Lady Eileen Orde. calm
ly refused to be presented at court or
to take any part whatever in the
social frivols, and has recently open
ed studio in Regent street where
she designs exclusive jewelry for
some of the leading merchants Of
the city Lady Eileen is Just 19, and
took course in the Kensington
Museum Art School all unknown to
her parents.
Bellevue. one Of the most beautiful
and oldest of Georgetown homes has
been leased for the year by Mr.. and
Mrs. Arthur Amory Houghton. whose
daughter, Miss Gratia Houshton. il
spending her first Winter In Wash
ington. Mr.. Houghton is the brother
OF the American amba ssador to Ber-
lin, Mr.. Alanson Houghton and Miss
Gratia was presented to the gay cos
mopolitan society of the German CAPT
tai last Winter and also enjoyed sew
eraI months in Paris. Bellevue was
part of the patrimony of the younger
branch OF CAROLS and a one time its
park contained nearly ten acres The
mansion today exists practi-
cally as it was finished for Charles
Carroll, the younger brother of Dan
iel Carroll of Duddington. the proprie-
tary of nearly one-haIf the land on
which the city of Washington is built
After taking possession of his fine
home designed and built by Latrobe
in the golden days of domestic archi-
lecture hereabout, this scion of the
eminent Maryland family was known
as Charles Carroll of Bellevue, to dis
tinguish him from his cousin, Charles
Carroll of Carrollton the signer Mr.
Carroll, however, about 1920, sold his
estate and removed with his family to
Rochester, n. Y, where his descend
ants are eminent in the civic activity
of today. Bellevue is the only re-
naming mansion which connects
the name of Carroll with the
present history of the Ma
tional Capital. Duddington mansion
was dem olished more than 80 years
ago, and the third brother, Henry Hill
Carroll. cast his lot with Baltimore
and became the head of the large and
distinguished Carroll family there.
One of his great atgranddaughters, for
merly Miss Suzanne Carroll, is the
wife of Representative John Philip
Hill of Maryland.
Young John Hay Whitney, only son Of
Mr.. and Mrs. Payne Whitney. has BIOS
somed forth in the dual role of play
wright and actor in the recent amusing
farce, The Galloper," given by the Yale
Club of New York City. Young John
was in the main the author of this skIt,
and wrote some jingles which show that
he has inherited some Of the genius so
conspicuously displayed by his illus
trious grandfather and by his mother,
who was Helen Hay, and who has
half dozen slender volumes Of verse to
her credit. Young Hay did not show at
Yale the enthusiasm for books which