Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-06-27
Tales of Well Known Folk
In Social and Official Life
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by the bust of the mighty one. women
being Just as eligible as men and
breaking almost equal in the inches
filled up to the present.
Mr.. Lloyd Carpenter Griscom was
very we'll known in Washington at
one time, though he and Mrs. Girls
com have been but infreQuent visitors
Of late. The former Minister to Per
STA and the envoy of this Republic to
Toxic during the Russo-Japanese
War later Ambassador to Rio and to
Rome. is now one of the busiest law
yers in New York and between times
"A most successful artist. Mr. Griscom
always delighted in getting into
blouse and smearing himself with
paint. and while he was serving as
Ambassador in Rome he was often
seen in the studios of his friends copy
Ing some famous canvas in the gal
leries or trying his hand at portrait
ure. He was thus employed when he
was summoned one morning to the
Quirinal Palace. where the King
wished to congratulate him on the
birth of his first child. For the ltal-
ian monarch had been much inter-
ested in hearing that the American
Ambassador had a son. for he related
when MIR. GriScom, much Hurried over
his haste in getting into proper gar
mentS, arrived on the moment set for
the audience. that it had hitherto
been his privilege to congratulate such
lofty dignitaries on having grandsons.
Mr.. GriSCom was only about 30 when
this occurred, and he remains record
ed as one of the youngest men to be
raised to the rank of Ambassador. But
he began diplomacy young and was
the first secretary of the first embassy
in London under Mr. BaNard in 1898
Mrs. Griscom was Miss Elizabeth Duer
Bronson, daughter of Frederick Bron-
son of New York City. She was
charming young Chatelaine for the
diplomatic establishment in Rome.
for this was the only foreign expert
ence which she knew Mr.. GriScom
now maintains his own studio in the
top of a New York skySCraper, and
he has painted his wife and other
members of his family to their great
satisfaction and his own
Miss Katrina van Dyke will, when
she becomes Mrs. Murray Peabody
Brush in the early Summer, he
honored most signally throughout the
country and especially by the Girl
Scouts of New York and New Jersey.
For several years she has conducted
q class for the Scouts at the DorOthea
van Dyke McLane house. at Prince
ton. and in pursuit of this goal. train
ing her class to the utmost perfection
in its tenets. she met her tiance.
Mr. Brush, similarly interested i'll Boy
Scouts. Miss van Dyke. the daughter
of the illustrious divine and scholar, DR..
Henry van Dyke, is almost as famous as
her parent, for she has been his com
panion on his fishing trips and the
illustrator of those inimitablc descrip-
lions. She Jared forth with him to
the Wids of New Zealand in search
of new adventures along Izaak" Wal
tons mood and the volume devoted
to this experience with Miss van
Dykes fine pen sketches is found in
the library of every good fisherman.
Miss Katrina is named for a remote
Dutch ancestreSs and this has seem
ingly Spurred her to study domestic
conditions in New Amsterdam and to
paint some charming little views in
her fathers lighter tales. The be
loved author and cleric began his
career in what is known as the
Brick Presbyterian Church of New
York City in a remote day when such
splendid edificeS as this denomination
now owns there were unknown. DR.
Is now pastor of one of Gotham S
most imposing churches. the Park
Avenue Presbyterian.
The late Arthur w Benson. who
was the last owner of all the acres
which comprise MOntauk Point. per
mitted the nearby farmers and owners
of small villas Whereabouts to pasture
their COWS on the rich meadow land
which descended 10 the sound
Montauk rights of pasturage were
purchased from the Indian proprietors
as far back as 1858, and no privilege
has been more tenaciouSly demanded |
than this right and IL is only this
present summer. when the boom in
land values has sent the pasture land
soaring into the hundreds of dollars
per front foot on the price formerly
asked for whole acre. that the end
is in sight. There is loud lamenta-
ton, for the older residents all keep
their Jerseys and Attorneys. and. in
deed, one of the reasons they have
chung to Montauk when other parts
of Long Island were so much more
fashionable and offered so many civic
Improvements. Was this Identical
privilege of keeping their cows within
easy reach of fresh milk for the
evening and the same for the
morning mead. Ii also made one Of
The most picturesque portions of the
point and artists galore have painted
the soft eyed bossies deep in the clover
and marsh grass with gay back
ground Of red tiled villa roofs. gaudy
awnings and a profuSon of flowers,
while in front rolled the waters of the
sound, always beautiful and inspiring
and frequently dotted with pleasure
boats and fishing travis. Mr.. Benson
owned the point when it was d mill
tary encampment, and the herd OF
cows proved a benefaction To the
soldiers in the hospitals.
Humming Birds Food.