Evening star., 1926-05-09
Tales of Well Known Folk
In Social and Official Life
Lady Isabella Howard Taking Interest In Restora-
ton of Maryland Catholic Missions
Famous Wisteria Rescued.

colony in London and her dinner for
Mrs. Ford given at the Savoy was
one OF the brilliant functions of the
past week. Mrs. Hoffman. who owns
Il country estate in Dorset. will pass
most OF the summer at the Savoy i'll
London
Mrs. Maurice H. Thacher's recent
! election as president OF the Kentucky
state Society IS a straw to indicate
the way the wind is blowing as to
feminine executives OF these impor-
tant adjuncts of official life. Mrs.
Thacher was elected in acknowledge
, ment of the aid which she has ren-
dered the former president. Judge
William Jennings Price, who was "a
bachelor and for whom she acted as
hostess for the past four years, ana
because of her Jealous and gracious
assistance in all the activities. The
state Society of kentucky has been
a pioneer III Transforming the rather
prosaic monthly meeting attended by
the elders who like to talk or Ola
times into a social function OF inn
portance. Mrs. Thacher was leader
in planning entertainments which at
tracUed the young people and their
friends. Though the more serious
side of such an organization has
never been neglected. The younger
nembers found that their point OF view
was also taken into account. There are
MANY. women now at the head OF the
States societies and of some Of the most
active and influential of these bodies.
Mrs. James Nadsworth, wife of the
Senator. has been for two terms the
head OF the big association from
New York. Mrs. William j.. Cham
berlain. who as student III the
high school. acted as secretary Tor
the Vermont Society. is now the presl-
dent and has been for FIVE years, to
the great satisfaction Of these con-
servative citizens of the Granite
State. There are five on six other
Madam Presidents" in these local
societies. all chosen, as Mrs. Thacher
was, fol. q peculiar understanding OF
the needs Of her particular groups
and for ability to handle the situa-
ton.
Mrs. Lawrence 5. Phipps.. wife of
the Senator from Colorado. who re-
Gently entertained the Senate women
at a picnic luncheon in the beautiful
old garden of Single Oak on the
Woodley road, is the pioneer OF al
fresco fetes of this kind, so far as
this association of women is con-
cerned. This unique club is a con
tinuation of the sewing class which
met weekly during the World War,
before and through American partlcl-
patton, and for a year after the
armistice. For several seasons after
the warm weather began the ladies
finished it's activities with an au-day
picnic at Great Falls. Mrs. Harding
attended two of these pleasant affairs,
one not very long before the meeting
of the convention which nominated
her husband. Mrs. Phipps invited her
associates to Single Oak last season
and there were several other indi-
vidual picnics. Mrs. Peter Goelet
Gerry will be the hostess at another
such amenity on Tuesday and THIS
will perhaps be the last general
gathering of the Senate Nomens
Club this season. Congress does not
expect to sit much longer than June
and already a number of senatorial
hostesses have opened their country
homes in various parts of the country
and with the ending Of shoiastlc
examinations in a couple OF weeks
there will be a larger exodus. MIS-.
Phipps has a garden which may pe
prepared for a dinner and picnic at
a few hours notice and she has been
aking advantage of every warm sunny
dav Of this backward Spring to use 1t.
LADY Aimee Geraldine Alichelham,
who has been a conspicuous figure on
the several racing courses OF East
Florida. has just completed q pleasing
romance of the turf by her marriage
few days ago to Mr.. Frederick Almy
of New York. who is an extensive land
owner about Clearwater and has also
a proprietary right i'll the race track.
For many years Mrs. Amy, for she
has dropped her title, raised and
raced her own horses, and her estate
on the Thames, acquired after her
widoWhood. was Strawberry Hill, the
famous residence of Horace Walpole
and located near TWiCkenham. The
late Lord Michelham was among the
richest peers of the British realm and
his benefactions to the nation make
d long list During the World War he
equipped two hospitals, his town resi-
dence in London, which had once been
the home of the Marquis of Salisbury
and is just off Piccadilly, and in Paris.
the Hotel Astoria on Rue dc Rivoli.
Besides he equipped an ambulance
train from Paris to the channel ports
and thence to London. In this. Mr..
Allny's bride was his earnest coad-
tutor. being the head of the corps of
nurses and passing her time in going
from Paris to London and back and
frequently making trips on the ambu-
lance with the wounded. Possessing
an income so large she is sometimes
at loss to spend it, Mrs. Allny has
bought much real estate about Fort
LauderdaIe, Fla. and intends to erect
a mansion there on the general plan
of that at Strawberry Hill on the
Thames.
Count Paul de Pourtales, who has
recently been elected president of the
French Jockey Club, is the younger
brother of the head of this historic
Swiss clan which has furnished so
many titled husbands for American
heiresses. The chief of the house
which is a Swiss patriate with titles
in Austria and Prussia, is that Count
Otto de Pourtales who is an American
citizen resident in Colorado and whose
two sons, Francis and James, served
in the RailboW Division of the World
War. Count Otto came to this coun-
try at least 40 years ago and was in