Evening star., 1925-11-15

streak Of originality and mental in
dependence which marks the Amer
lean and leads him to express himself
forcibly and not after cut and dried
patterns. 1t is a gigantic task which
the Chicago philologist has assigned
himself and his board of editors. For
they must search through reams of
newspapers to find when certain
words were first incorporated in/the
written language. Such a word as
graft was pure slang for a long
time, but it is now accepted seriously
not only in this country but appears
in British dictionaries. There are
dozens of others which. though first
used as slang, have a good background
which must be presented in as
scientific form as though they were
derived from the classic languages.
1t will be a good five years before
the American dictionary will be given
to the public.
Senior Fabian Garcia, Havanas
Beau Brummel. has arrived in New
York, and will make his customary
visit of six weeks take a brief run to
Washington and then later embark
on a steamer for the French Riviera
for the rest of the Winter. Senor
Garcia, who has charming home in
the Cuban capital, finds that delecta-
bic city little too crowded by Amer
leans, and he comes to New York to
get elbow room. He is famous leader
of cotillons, and one of the most
lavish and discriminating of hosts
during two-thirds of the year. For.
though Havana has an ardent climate
Summer and Winter, its social life Is
maintained in an unbroken sequence.
This Garcia is not of the heroic family
of that noble leader of the successful
revolution which set Cuba free, since
the name is of frequent occurrence
and always of patrician standing. He
is of line of Garcias long established
on Cuban soil. while the general to
whom the famous message was sent
was born in Spain and had been an
official in the island before he cast his
lot with the revolutionists. Senior
Fabian has large fortune safely in
vested in sugar. and he is deemed one
of the eligible parts of Havana and
is most enthusia stically feted by the
Cuban colony resident in New York.
He does not take much interest in
politics. though he is the intimate OF
DR.. Cosme de la Torrie nte, the former
Ambassador to Washington.
Princess Amedee de Broglie, who
"reigns." as the term goes, along on
the Loire in the splendid Chateau
de Chaumont, the grandeSt feudal
stronghold remaining in use in
France, is the daughter of Henry
Say, the sugar king of Paris, and
associated for years with Havemey-
ers and others eminent in that line
in this country. Mr.. Says wife was
the daughter of the elder Frederic
Gebhart, so that this celebrated
chatelaine of Chaumont is half
American by blood and wholly so in
sympathy. She had leased her man
sion in Paris to MIR. Herrick during
his long search for an embassy
Princess Amedee. though quite an
aged woman now, entertains In the
same regal way which she did during
her husbands life. and now that Mr.
Herrick has moved to his own EN-
bassy she is going to Paris to pre-
sent her handsome young grand
daughter, Princess Diane. and her
own standard will float over the pal
ace in Avenue de Messine for the
first time in 10 years. Prince jacques
father of the bud prospective. is now
in this country en- route to Australia.
where business calls him. Chief of
a house illustrious for 10 centuries,
he is frankly Il sugar merchant
having taken over the vast properties
of his mother and extended them con-
sideT-ably in this country. He will re