Evening star., 1925-09-13
Tales of Well Known Folk
In Social and Official Life
u S. Ambassador to Germany and Family Con-
genially Located In Berlin-Other Notable
Personages IN Limel ght

Hague. where he was counselor of
legation. He rendered important serv-
ice as British high commissioner on
the inter-allied Rhineland council and
had q residence in Coblentz. Sir Nal
coin and Lady Robertson spent the
past Summer at Hot Springs. Va.
where they have built a pleasant villa
near the home of Mrs. Ingalls,.
Mrs. William X. Vanderbilt, I'd,
has with commendable zeal, begun ID
campaign for tidier and more deco
ratfve eXteriors in city homes and Of
fees as we'll as in the resorts. Last
Spring she had boxes of pink and
white Roman hyacinths in every win
dow of her Fifth avenue mansion,
actually from cellar TO attic, and when
these blooms had passed their prime
they were replaced with gay little
primroses and low growing verbenas.
This effect was carried out in the Of
flee which Mrs. Vanderbilt keeps, a
few houses removed from her dwell
ing. When the primroSeS faded, white
and blue and pink petunias succeeded,
and these bloom until frost. Mrs.
Vanderbilt made few converts in her
neighborhood. but the ma jority of
house dwellers thereabout in fashion
able New York pay scant attention to
the exterior of their city homes, and
flowers and gardens to them mean
the country place or the cottage by
the sea. Mrs. Vanderbilt and Mrs
Kenneth O'Brien, whom she has in
terested in her idea, are going TO have
classes in this sort of window garden
ing and they hope next season to have
Fifth avenue resemble London and
Berlin, where window boxes make so
delightful part of the view.
The Earl of Lonsdale, who has Just
placed his historic country seat, Bar.
ley Thorpe Hall, near Oakham, in
Rutla ndshire, on the market because
of his inability to pay the heavy war
taxes required on unimpoved real
estate, will no doubt find a purchaser
of his stables in some American horse
lover. These stables are so vast that
the earl was able in the beginning of
the World War to offer asylum to the
fine private collection of horses owned
by King Albert of the Belgians and
who shipped them over to Dover Just
in advance of the German occupation
of Antwerp and Ostend. About 130
horses We're sheltered all through the
war, and the full list of royal equi-
pages from the palaces at Laeken and
Brussels were likewise sent to the
Lonsdale stables. King Albert, it is
said. would greatly desire to purchase
a part of this fine old property, but
because of internal factions in the
political parties in Belgium, there is
a declared hostility against the SOW
ereign acquiring foreign domiciles.
The Earl of Lonsdale is making a
special effort to sell advantageously
what is deemed the most complete and
ancient collection of horse shoes in
the world. The collection dates back
to 1854. when Henry III reigned in
and both from the antigua
rian standpoint and from the sporting
idea, 1t would make q valuable ad-
junct to jockey club or to a museum
of natural history. Shoes from horses
ridden by British sovereigns from
Henry II, the founder of the Plantag
anet line, down through the dynasties
of York, Lancaster and Tudor. to the
present line of Windsor are all repre-
sented. some of the oldest being three
and four feet across, and many mount
ed on gold and silver with the royal
arms handsomely embossed
Sir Robert Kindersley, who has just
resigned from a post which he long
held as governor of the Hudson Bay
intends to spend his newly
acquired leisure in travel in this coun-
try and in the Old World. He was the
British representative on the Dawes
committee and he and the Vice Presi-
dent became chummy during these
councils. The Hudson Bay Company
has recently celebrated its 260th birth
day and not one of it's eminent govern
ors has made a better record than has
the retiring one. Sir Robert has been
one of the powers for the development
Of Western Canada, and as the sue
cessor Of the late Lord Strathcona he
has equaled that pioneers eminent
record. Sir Robert was shoulder to
shoulder with Gen. Dawes in the in
ternati tional bank commission which
secured the stabilization of the Ger
man currency. He is a director of the
Bank OF London and IS a partner in
the old firm of Lazard Freres and was
one time it's representative in New
York City and later in London. Sir
Robert plans to visit the Vice Presi-
dent and Mrs. Dawes in their home in
Evanston, Ill. and he may also come
TO Washington after the convening of
Congress.
When Nine. Jusserand wife of the
then French Ambassador to Washing
ton, pointed out the necessity of rails
ing fund for the French war brides
who, coming to this country with their
husbands from the A. Z. f., became
and wanted to return |
home, some of her associates We're a |
little scandalized at the suggestion. |
But though an American, Nine. JUS !
Serand showed a profound insight into |