Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-08-01
By MARGARET B. DOWNING.

nj mAhUAhEI d. UUN MIMI.
When Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt
was mistress of the White House
her placid manner was noticeable or
all occasions possibly as against tho
dash and haste which marked her
husband. This calnness has seem
tngiy increased with the years, and,
according TO her friends In New
York, nothing is more restfuI than O.
visit to Sycamore Hill, and q chat
with it's mistress. One day last
week Mrs. Roosevelt had a reunion of
her classmates in Miss Comstock'S
School in the early SOS and the oc-
casion was of deep significance to
the hostess. Among the visitors was
Mrs. Carl Won Mayhoff, who was SO
frequently entertained by the Roose-
velts at the White House while her
brother, for whom she was hostess,
the late jefferson Levy. was In Con-
gTess. Mr.. Levy and Mrs. Won May
hon entertained the President and
Mrs. Roosevelt at Monticello during
the days when the Representative
owned the home OF the author of the
Declaration Of Independence. Mrs
Frederic A. Constable was another of
Mrs. Roosevelt's girlhood friends at
Miss Comstock's, in Forthwith street,
who was present at the reunion.
William w. McAlpin, Mrs. Francis
w. Murry, Mrs. J. J. Gunther. Mrs.
Joseph Reynolds Guerney and Mrs.
Frank Dyckman were also of the COM
pany. Mrs. Richard Derby, who was
Ethel Roosevelt, aided her mother
in entertaining the guests and one
or the principal diversions was ex-
aiming a book of snapshots of
Paulina Longworth, taken with her
IA Of No. l. H..
and dolls and in every conceivable
pose.
When Mrs. Charles Whitman Wet.
more lived in Woodland drive, her
niece. Miss Elizabeth Owen, was often
her guest and added distinction to the
gatherings Of authors and artists in
that gifted woman's home. During
the past month Miss Owen became
the bride Of Charles H. Sarolea. one
time private secretary 10 President
Masaryk of Czecho-Slovakian republic.
but now practicing law In New York
City. She spent much of her earlier
life in Japan with Mrs. Wetmore and
later attended school in London. The
footlights appealing to her. she played
In the Victoria Theater for two sea-
sons and made considerable success In
minor Shakespearean. roles. She is
an unusually lovely blonde with dark
eyes and a sprightIy manner Mrs.
Sarolea's mother. Mrs. Walter T..
Owen, is the widow Of the gifted
Boston architect and she was Mel
anie Bisland. one of the four brilliant
daughters of the late Thomas s. Bis
land OF Fairfax Plantation. La. Mrs.
Wetmore is the eldest and Mr.. Sa.
rolea s bride has been her particular
protege and fayorite, and the wed
ding occurred in the new home, APP
plegate, in Oyster Bay. Senator and
Mrs. Wadsworth are now occupying
Mrs. Wetmore's house on Woodland
drive and have taken over her won
derful wild garden, which runs back
into Rock Creek Park, with enthusi-
asm and have extended its area. Mr..
Sarolea was born subject of the
late King Leopold, but he spent his
early life in Edinburgh. where his
father. the late DR.. Charles Sarolea,
was professor Of the French language
and literature.
Count Jehan de Rohan, recently
elected president of the French Auto
mobile Club, which is the premier of
it's kind in all Europe and with a
quasi official connection with the min
istry of the public defense is one of
the foremost sportsmen of his time
and has many times been etertained
in this country. His mother, the
Dowager Duchess de Rohan, who died
in May, was a generous patroness of
all sports and kept a racing stable
without peer in the Valley of the
Loire. The splendid chateau of the
family. De Lude, is one of the grand
monuments which the French gov
eminent desires to save for posterity
and which ii will buy at any time the
heirs wish to sell .Jehan de Rohan
does not use his title of viscount since
he has gone in for a professional
sporting career and is noted as one
of the fastest drivers of motor cars
in the world. He is but one degree
removed from the dukedom now held
by young Alain de ROhan, 14-year-old
son Of Gen. Josselin de Rohan, who
was killed in the Battle of the Somme.
This youth, who has just entered the
military academy of st. Cyr, is the
thirteenth duke, the line having been
established in Prague. capital of Be-
hen1ia, as Viscounts de Rohan and in
Brittany as Counts de Morbihan about
1885. AS dukes, they held sovereign
sway in Auverge in the early fifteenth
century. Jelfan de Rohan is married
% Countess Anne de Talhous-et-Roy
and has two sons and two daughters
all between s and 15. His home in
Avenue Bosquet is always filled with
American sportsmen visiting Paris.
The Bishop of London. Right Rev.
A, Foley Wilmington Ingram. who
has recently celebrated the golden
jubilee of his episcopacy, is about to
sail for this country and will be re-
oeived with BETTING ceremonial by
Bishop Manning of New York when
he arrives in that port The vener-
able prelate has relaxed his labors
somewhat and intends to remain for
several months visiting friends among
the American clerics and the Episco-
palian laity. He was very much in
the limeiight recently when the de-
hates were up in the House Of Lords
about the ethics of betting. The Min.
lister of the Exchequer, Mr.. Winston
Churchill, wished a tax of about
cents placed on every bet made in
the United Kingdom whether on a
horse, a boat or anything where the
bids were open and the results posted.
Biship Ingram, a fearless and schol-
arly man, made a witty speech in
which he showed convincingly that
a bet, IL the amount We're within the
limits of the bettor's pocketbook, was
entirely an innocent amusement and
could not be construed as an evil act.
Excuses in betting, as in drinking,
speaking or any other action were
what called for curbing and govern.
mental control but not betting in It.
self. In consequence of the Bishops
speech, Mr.. Churchill's bill passed and
it is estimated that something like
$4,000, 900 will be added annually to