Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1925-05-17

berS broadcast throughout the empire.
The Britons wish their constituency
to hear their efforts at first hand and
thus to avoid the trouble and expense
of mailing or wiring them. In the
course of time speeches in Congress
undoubtedly will be broadcast. If the
rules are revised or if they remain as
they are, and this would automatical-
ly limit debate, for the radio fan would
raise much more of a commotion than
Charles Gates Dawes is doing, If
speeches were dull or long drawn out.
However, students of the national
legislative body are quoting President
Washington, who said that the Senate
was created for the very purpose of
securing elaboration and that it was
the saucer into which the hot coffee
of the House of Representatives was
to be poured in order to cool. Which
proves that, however sound were the
political theories of the great patriot
and founder Of this Nation, his table
manners in this generation would be
open to criticism.
Miss Emmeline Grace, daughter of
Mr.. Eugene c. Grace, president of the
Bethlehem Steel Corporation, whose
engagement to SIR Michael Bruce has
just been announced, Is a young wom-
an OF many accomplishments and one
OF the enthusiastic supporters of the
Bach Choir, which lately gave Wash
ington music lovers such a rare treat
Miss Grace is literary, athletic. musi-
cal and fond of society, and her fiance
may be described in the same terms.
He has recently been in the colonial
service and was stationed in East
Africa. He was during the late war
a hero of the Inflated Dardanelles ex-
petition, and is only now just recov-
ering from wounds received at Gal
lipolis. Sir Michael is a hunter of big
game and is a crack cricket and polo
player. He wrote few years ago a
book of lyrics, called Songs of the
Saddle" which impressed Miss Grace
so much that she wrote to the author,
with the result that early in June she
is to marry him. The wedding will
occur in the fine home of the Graces
in Bethlehem, and the nuptial music
will be sung by the famous choir.
Miss Grace is at present in London,
but will return to this country at the
end Of this month.
Mr.. Cuno H. Rudolph, chairman of
the Board of District Commissioners.
is bearing the brunt of the dissatis-
faction over the selection of the Amer.
lean beauty rose as the floral emblem
of the Federal territory. But the
composite mayors of Washington
could hardly hope to please every one
of the half million residents. Yet
there Is a lingering regret that the
Commissioners did not take counsel
with the thousands of rosarians who
live here and devote their leisure and
much of their income toward the sci
entific study and rearing of the queen
for instance, of that exquisite climb
ing rose, the Mary Washington, found
in all gardens which have room
enough for this variety and which Is
the very first rose of American origin,
was propagated by George Washing
ton at Mount Vernon and named In
honor of his mother. The first Presi-
dent had obtained from a garden near
Philadelphia cutting of the Rosa
setigera, probably the variety known
as the Macrophylla. and this he
graded on young dogwood tree.
with the result that within two years
his rose had attained considerable
height and had produced those soft.
creamy blossoms with pale yellow
centers so familiar in American gar
dens now. A trellis at the end or the
west plot at Mount Vernon was COW
cred with the blooms, and this several
times a season. The President, IL is
known, presented two small bushes
of the Mary Washington to his clos
est friends and neighbors-George
Mason at Gunston Hall and George
Diggs at Warburton Manor, across
the Potomac, now Fort Washington.
The Mary Washington continues
prime favorite in all gardens which
claim the best climbing roses, and
this despite the hundreds OF new va
rieties placed annually on the market.
Cuttings from the original bush were
pIanted from time to time In the ola
garden at Mount Vernon, and lew rose
lovers have failed to buy one when
visiting the venerated shrine.
The dean of ST. Pauls, Right Rev.
William Ralph Inge, who has SO thrill
ed the nation by comments on things
American, finds the American press
much more respectful toward men or
the cloth than British publications.
The dean is a man Of humor, so that
he took no offense at the squib pub
lished first in Punch and copied, 1t
would seem, everywhere that the Eng
lish language is read and which was
to the effect that part OF st. Pauls'
including the organ, Is to De closed
We are relieved to learn, however,
that there is no intention of shutting
up the DEAN Right Rev. William
Inge was far from being the gloomy
dean" at the diner which was given
in his honor in New York City last
Tuesday at the Aston Hotel, by the
Church Club, with its president,
Henry Goddard Leach, as POSTMASTER.
The guest of honor fairly sparkfed
with merriment and enjoyed the occa-
sion immensely. But he made the re-
mark that the excellent comic sheets
of 1.-THE States" nor the powerful raj
lies seldom took clergyman as the
target of a joke. The dean has a
searching clipping service, and he is
quite well aware of all the published
comments on his visit or on him per-
sonally. He is among the most schol-
arly of British divines, and, though he
usually contents himself with writing
D. D. after his name. the customary
procedure with clerics, he could, If he
wished, mark magic letters which de-
note academic degrees and orders
which would extend clear across a
printed page.
Mrs. Frances Carolan, who recently
married Col. Arthur Frederick Scher-
merhorn. was a frequent visitor to
Washington when her mother, the late
Mrs. George M. Pullman. spent her
Winters in tn old Arlington Hotel,
and when her sister, Mrs. Frank o.
Lowden, was the wife of an M. C.
She was Miss Harriet Pullman, and
though active in social affairs in Chi
cago and California, she has been from
her girlhood profoundly interested in
music. 1t was a pursuit of this taste
which led her to remove from the
metropolis of the Pacific coast to that
Of the Atlantic. Col. SchermerhOrn
shares this preference. and he has al
ways been among the generous sup
porters of good music in all its forms
In New York and his home CITY which