Evening star., 1925-01-11
By MARGARET b. DOWNING.

count Tsuneo Matsudaira. who VIII
arrive at his post in America within
q month. has host of friends to well
como him, chief of whom may be an
nounced the Secretary of state for
he served with admirable dignity and
zeal at the arms conference as chief
secretary OF the Japanese delegation
and became well known to all the
officials of the State Department and
TO his associates, and was much ad-
uired for his intellectual attainments
and for his uuflagging attention to
detail The next Ambassador from
Japan is in the early forties, is re-
served in manner and above the aver
age of his countrymen in height. He
is somewhat inclined to corpulence.
and he Is, therefore, an advocate of
athletics; is good horseman and an
unwearying player of golf. The Wis
countess Matsudaira, who is one OF
the great ladies of the Nippon court.
did not accompany her husband TO
the arms conference. She is deemed
one of the loveliest and best dressed
women of the day, and is the inti-
mate friend and in-waittnG TO
the Empress.
The daughter of the Marquis Nabe-
shirna. now one of the most tmpor-
tant members of the House of Peers
She was born during her tather
service as envoy from Japan TO
Rome. In token OF this she was
given the soft, fowery name Of ltokar
which means child of Italy" and she
has several times visited the ancient
CITY of her birth and has studied art
there. The viscouutess is linguist
of distinction. anu speaks Engllsh
like a native. for sac had an Enghsh
Eoverness from her fourth year ana
studied for year at Cambridge. SO
she has been invariably requested by
the Empress to act as Interpreter
when English and American guests
were entertained in the summer pal
ace and where more informal ways
prevail than in the big palace in
Toxic. Her marriage to the AM
bassador lust named to succeed the
much-lamented NJ. Hanihari occurred
10 wears ago. There arc two small
daughters, one nine and the other
seven. who will accompany the Am
baSsador and his wife to Washington
some time in February.
1t is barely eighteen years since
the Congressional Club was or
ranized for social purposes in the
legislative branches OF the Govern
ment and it's own hired house, on
Fifteenth and X streets, was thrown
open TO its 80 members and their
guests OF those charter members
few remain and fewer still form part
of Washfngton's official world. OF
the latter one is Mrs. Julius Kahn,
widow of the deceased chairman on
military affairs, who is trying for
the vacancy in the California district
which he represented. Another is
Mrs. Harry Cooper, wife. of the vet
eran legislator from Wisconsin, who
has as many years in the House as
Speaker Gillette, but skipped a term
in 1922 Mrs. Henry Rainey, wife
of the Representative from the
Egypt" district in Illinois, is an
other charter member who, after a
couple of years in private circles,
again is a part of the congressional
active set The Senate circle can
claim more charter members in the
Congressional Club than the House,
and of these Mrs. Fletcher is the
senior and has served for two terms
as president of the eminent body she
helped to found. Few clubs have
so entirely realized and perhaps sur
passed the aspiration and ambition
of it's founders, chief of whom was
the late Mrs. James B. Perkins of
New York. 1t is in all the essentials
d substitute home for many of the
members who reside in hotels, and
its cozy parties. from the evening
gatherings for cards or an impromptu
dance to the intellectual recreations
in music and lecture and the stately
evening levees given in honor of the
most distinguished residents of the
Capital. fill many otherwise purpose
less hours most adequately.
Mrs William Crawford Gorgas.
widow of the distinguished surgeon
and scientist, whose name Will al
ways be associated with the Panama
Canal achievement in the sanitary
way, has recently completed her ex-
ceilent story of the life of Gen. Cor
gas. The book was written in col
laboration with Mr.. Burton ]. Ken
drick and has appeared within the
past month under the title of will
liam Crawford Gorgas, His Life and
Work" Mrs. Gorgas has for three
years given practically her mind, her
time and income to gathering the
material for this excellent history,
and she has been a familiar figure in
the library of the Medical Museum
on the Mall, at which Gen Gorgas
passed the last years of his life. He
was surgeon general of the Army
from the time he completed his mem
orable laborS in the Canal Zone until
his death about four years ago, and
he Is esteemed as one of the most
illustrious of the many who have
held that position. Mrs. Gorgas al
ways has possessed literary tastes,
but until she began the biography of
her husband, it was employed only
In a desultory way, though many
friends prize above rubies her chatty
letters from the Canal Zone during the
eventful years she passed there.
yicount Matsudaira's coming is
preceded by the rumor that he and
his accomplished lady will tarry but
shortly in the embassy which is on h
street below Fourteenth street, and
opposite Franklin Park, entirely
without the confines of Mayfair as
they are set today. Once the resi-
dence of the late John Sherman. this
mansion was, 20 years ago, the
last word in magnifcence and
appropriate situation. Naturally, 1t is
A theme of intense interest whether
the japanese government Will erect it's
domicile out Sixteenth street, in the
midst of the group of splendid
foreign establishments. or in the
outer fringe of Massachusetts
avenue, where some modish lega-
ton homes are already estab-
lished, principally those of the
Hungarian and Rumanian ENJOYS.
The viscountess is accustomed to
royal state, her elder sister being the
wife of Prince Noshimoto, a cousin
of the emperor.
Mrs. Aaron Ward. for whom is
named one of the loveliest yellow
roses on the market. as much a fa-
vorite abroad as in this country, has
just sold the estate Willowmere, at
Roslyn, Long Island, which the late
rear admiral had designed and made
nationally famous. Admiral Ward
was one of the most accomplished rosa :
rians in this country, and he accom-