Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-01-10
Tales of Well Known Folk
In Social and Official Life
Vice President and Mrs. Dawes Housed In
Honey Home-Personal Notes of
World Celebrities

Getting into the Capitol Is not so easy
| as ii used to be, especially if there are
| star performers on the calendar. such
| as q speech by Senator Borah or Sena-
tor Reid or some popular squabble in
! the House. Government buildings and
| the many attractions which Washing
| ton can offer in the municipal sense
| do not figure largely with the tourists
! in the aggregate, though every Winter
| there Is an increasing number who
spend weeks here just to visit the
! several arr galleries and to become
| familiar with the splendid types of
| architecture.
Miss Vera A. Hale, daughter of Mr..
ard Mrs. William A. Hale of Sher-
brooke, in the Province of Quebec,
Canada, Will, on her marriage to
George Dupont Pratt of Killenworth.
Glen Cove, Long Island, on January
Is. enter the charmed circle in whom
the President of the United States
feels kindly personal interest. In
Miss Hale'S case there is a two
fold reason, for she is a lineal de-
scendant of Lord Jeffrey of Amherst
and she is wedding one of the most
devoted sons of Amherst College.
The late Charles Pratt, philanthropist,
father or the eXpeCtant bridegroom,
sent all his sons to Amherst and he
was also generous to this seat of
learning. George Dupont Pratt is the
third son of this large family and he
has been widoWer for the past three
years His wife who was Miss Helen
Sherman of New York City, left him
three sons and a daughter. the latter
not yet in her teens Two of the boys
are at Amherst and one is in several
of the classes with young John
Coolidge. Miss Hale was educated at
HaNergale College, in Toronto, and she
gave three years overseas service
| during the late war being most of the
time in the French American hospital
unit. She met her future husband in
New York during the past year, when
her descent from Lord Jeffrey of Am
herst, the hero immortalized in the
rousing college song, excited his at
tention. Mr.. George Pratt has taken
over many of his fathers activities
He is a trustee of the Metropolitan
Museum OF Art and also of the Mu-
scum of Natural History. He holds
at present the position of commits
sioner of conservation for the State
and is president of the American
Forestry Association. killenworth is
one of the most stately country seats
in the Glen Cove section.
Very Rev. and Mrs. Frederick
| Warren Beekman, former rector Of
| the Episcopal American Church of the
Holy Trinity in Paris have been max
ing their annual visit to New York
City and have been almost over
whelmed with attentions. At the
! present Mrs. Beekman is the guest of
Mrs. Charles Frederick Hoffman while
her husband is visiting some brothers
of the cloth in Jersey. The Beekmans
maintain a hoSpitabIe home in the
! French capital and are interchangeable
IN entertaining their country people
Mrs. Beekman is the sister of the
we'll known literary critic and dra-
matte writer, Archibald X. Mackay,
author of Half Loaves." Mr.. Mac
kay spends much of his time in Paris
for his wife has artistic procnyities
but the home in the Berkshires near
Great harrington is their best known
residence and where they entertain
scores of friends during the Summer.
Rev. DR.. Beekman, however, rarely
gets across the ocean in Summer for
that is the time in which hundreds of
thousands Of Americans claim their
attention in Paris.
Gen. Pershing. It is we'll recognized
among his friends, would rejoice at an
opportunity to complete his memoirs
on the period during which he was the
commander Of the American Expedi.
tionary Force in France At least one
dozen times he has sought isolation
In order to scrutinize official records
and balance what he remembers
against what Is written in the
archives. but just as many times good
and sufficient reasons have caused
! him to abandon his retreat Gen. Per-
shing naturally Is not that master Of
style in verbiage which the trained
writer becomes, but he is alert in
the mental sense and he has not failed
to note the volume of criticism which
| has hailed certain impressive biog-
raphies published in this country and
! in Great Britain because of what is
blunuy called long windedness" and
obscurity Of dictum He was about
ready to send his manuscript to the
printers fully Il year ago, but he re-
called his orders in order to add those
graces and f1ourishes which present
taste in letters demands. Time was
and not SO very long ago that when
the great man wrote the world took
heed Of what he had to, say, and not
of how he said it. But this is now
changed and he who publishes books
must not only have valuable and ex-
elusive information to impart, but he
must combine the literary grace of
Chesterfield with the admirable die
ton of Addison, if he wishes to make
q ripple on the, waters. All the his
torians Of Britain seemed engaged at
present in punching holes in Winston
Churchills study Of the career of his
father, Lord Randolph Churchill,
while the rhetoricians are hurting
epithets at his method of writing, and
this same is true of a half dozen other
important memoirs written by famous
men in the past two years.
Daniel Boone in a picturesque
statue in Georgetown opens an in
teresting vista in the early history Of
the Virginia Territory, for, according
to those who are planning to erect a
bronze etfigy Of the intrepid explorer.
he lived in Washington's mother city
during the time in which he was per-
feCting his plans to invade the Indian
country beyond the Alleghanies. Al
ready there is a great overhauling of
genealogical annals to discover the
exact branch of Boones to which the
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