Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-07-25
Tales of Well Known Folk
In Social and Official Life
Famous Roof Covers the White House Senator
and Mrs Underwood Enjoying Life at Wood
lawn-N1rs Palmer Heads Junior League

at Woodlawn and the lockwood alone
seemed worth a generous price. Tra-
diti9n has It that it had been shipped
frora Mount Vernon Just as the plant
ing in that famous home of the first
President had come originally from
his mothers and sisters garden in
fredericksburg. But wherever this
lockwood originated, it is magnificent,
and nothing Is comparable to 1t except
the hedge at Gunston Hall. The rose
garden has deteriorated, but Mrs. I'm
derwood is a scientific rosarian and
win no doubt restore it gioriously- NO
matter how much flower lovers rave
about the blooms of the past, it is
easy of proof that roses are better
cared for now. can be made to pro-
duce more perfect and constant blooms,
and there are a thousand beautiful
varieties to choose from now when
there were not a hundred IS years
ago Nine Martha Washington dearly
loved the straw flower, and indeed this
was a favorite in Virginia. in her day.
These charming. gay little knots
made handsome Winter bouquets and
were deemed invaluable for Christmas
decorations. There are quantities of
them in the rear garden OF Wood
lawn, coming first from Mount
Vernon.
Those OF Washington whose mem
DRY can take them back to President
Roosevelt's celofful regime, will read
lily recall his intimate friend, Col. f.
Norton Goddard who was so fire.
uuently in the White House. Col.
Goddard had been a boyhood friend
of the Presidents, had roughed with
him in the West, and had served on
the staff when Roosevelt was governor
of New York. He was practical
philanthPopist, and in the interests
of the East Side denizens of New York
he lived for years below Fortieth
street, and it was on his recommen.
dation that many dance halls, policy
shops and saloons came under the
ban of the law. Col. and Mrs. Norton
Goddard both died within the past
10 years and their daughter, Miss
Celestine Goddard, also a visitor to
the White House in her pinafore days,
was reared by her aunt, Mrs. Gren-
vile Bayard Winthrop. She has fol
lowed her father in the field of
and her bridegroom
is John Livingston Mott,
known well among the social workers
of New York and for his religious
books. The young people move in
Gotham's most fashionable set and
are related to all the distinguished
Of the State, but nevertheless
they have devoted their lives to the
poor of the big city. and expect to
much by laboring together.
The marriage will take place early in
August from the home of Mr.. and
Mrs. Winthrop ON Long Island.
The Duke of Bedford has just COM
pfeted 80 years as president of the
National Geological Society of Eng
land and this event has been cele
brated by naturalists in every part
Of the world. The duke has been a
lifelong student of natural history,
and possessing ample means to graf
ify his ambitions, he has travelled in
every country, gathering specimens
and observing the habits Of wild ami
mails, with the result he stands pre-
eminent in his field in practical knowl
edge. The duke has arranged the fine
geological park of London and he is
always ready to come to the aid of its
directors. The Duke OF Bedford, who
$ among the extensive landowners in
London and who recently bestowed
he beautiful park which bears his
name on the congested West Center
district of the British metropolis,
maintains one of the grandest coun-
try seats in all of England, Woburn
Abbey, and he has possibly the finest
private collections of animals in the
world. He and the duchess, who
shares his enthusiasm for natural sci
ence, keep rare young specimens. take
he best of care of them and when of
sufficient age they are then taken to
he London Zoo. Naturally much care
has to be taken OF dangerous denizens
!. ~. H. f,sA ia re
-oam the woods in practically their
sver occurred nor have any escapes
been chronicled. Woburn Abbey,
which dates back to the twelfth CEN
Jury, has a splendid baronial hall,
wherein stuffed specimens of elk and
North American deer are most artis-
ically arranged, with tapestries Of
leep green between the sheafs of
wheat and ears of corn.
Mr.. Alexander p Moore, former
Ambassador to Madrid. is among the
most active workers with the Secre-
AIRY of Commerce and a group of
American international bankers in
hat committee seeking to save the
French franc from further descent,
Ind a representative group of French
press representatives en- route to the
Sesquicentennial was entertained by
he committee last week in New York
Eity. DIR. Marcel Knecht, who was
he special representative of the
french government, conferred the
Legion of Honor on several of Secre-
airy Hoover's and Mr.. Moore's ablest
,oadjutors, and these included Mr..
fohn Z. McBowman. Lucius NJ.
Boomer, George w. Sweeney and
-ouis Sherry, all of whom have been
helpful to the committees in furnish
ng meeting rooms and refreshments
when sessions were prolonged. Mr..
Hoover has always taken the most
care that hotel men and
Keepers who aided any