Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-12-19

When Mr.. Vincent Massey of Can
ada has presented his credentials to
the President and is listed among the
Ministers accredited to this Capital,
he will rank as the youngest envoy,
displacing the Polish Minister, NJ Jan
Ciechanowski, who has hitherto en-
joyed this distinction. The first Min
lister from the Dominion of Canada
will not be 40 until February, but he
has packed many achievements into
this comparatively short period. II
ht, is even a fraction as active IN
Washington as he has always been
in Toronto and Ottawa since his early
boyhood, he will indeed be an acqui-
sition to the corps. He is tremen-
dously interested in the theater, in
the proper construction of the build
ing for acoustic properties, as we'll as
for the offerings from the stage. He
is the president of the Chamber Mu-
sic Society in Toronto, and 1t was due
TO his tirelesS efforts, ably assisted by
Mrs. Massey, that the organization is
one of the most compact and merl-
torious in all of Canada, and can chal-
lenge any in this country. Mr.. Massey
is profoundly interested in historical
research and has contributed ably to
the annals of Ontario. He took the
first honors in history in the Univer-
sity of Toronto, and then studied in
Balliol Oxford. Returning to his alma
mater in Toronto, he became dean in
residence and lecturer on his favorite
themes before the postgraduate
classes Mrs. Massey was formerly
Miss Alice Stuart Parkin. daughter of
the late Sir George Parkin of London,
for many years custodian of the
Rhodes scholarship funds. There are
two sons, and 8 years of age. who
are in school in Toronto, but who will
join their parents for the Christmas
holidays.
Mrs. Jessica Emerson Moffat, who
has been in Washington renewing old
friendships and presenting her daugh.
ter, another Jessica Idanthea Moffat,
to the social world, has won literary
honors as well rs social. Being q de-
scendart of that Sir Ralph Emerson,
progeuii6r OF the illustrious family in
this country which counts Ralph
Waldo Emerson and many others who
welded 2 fac;la pen, Mrs. Moffat has
inherited u talent for writing. "a
Friend at Court" and THE Mirror of
Miyama" ar among her best known
books. but she has many to her credit.
The name Jessica Idanthea is one
which mas ncen repeated for four gen.
eratiors in rho family, the present de-
butanfe being the fifteenth of the
Emerson descendants to bear it. Mrs
Mcffat has a delightful, old-fashioned
home at 20 Gramercy place in New
York City, and Miss Moffat, who is
both literary and artistic, is deeply
Interested in such neutrality-suspicious.
more so than in mere social attain
ment. She studied art in the Orient,
and in her home she was a special
student of Charles A. Beck. Besides
these eminent relatives in Boston and
New England generally, through her
father Miss Moffat is allied to the
Biddles of Philadelphia, and she will
take peep at the social life in that
city later in the Winter.
Mr.. Myron Herrick. American Am.
bassador to France, has furnished the
State Department with complete ac-
counts of the various interesting cere.
monies held recently in Saint-Die in
the department of the Vosges, the
quaint little town which calls itself
Americas godmother. 1t was there
that the term America" was first