Evening star., 1926-02-21

succession to estates of the families.
Nobiliary titles were abolished in Aus.
tria and Prince Alfred and his wife
are merely herr and frau, like all
others. even members of the former
imperial house of Hapsburg. Alfred.
some five years ago, inherited from his
grandmother, Princess Marie de Sayn-
NiStenSteln. a fine estate in Styrie.
and Mr.. Britton. father of the princess
aided in Transforming Castle de Fried
stein, a feudal fortress on the lands,
i"+o q modern ana rr'-' 'ortah'n home
Prince Alfred is a farmer and is prov
ing qulIe successful. 49,. -unS
are Alexander Conrad. VINO WIS born
at Bern in 1918: Conltt Tr.t.s. '-''r
Alfred also is IA native of the Swiss
capital, where Prince Alfred WAS s,A-
toned as representative OF Austria
during the World War Another son.
born in the home at Castle Friedstein
on April %. 1922. is called Constantin
Francis. The former Miss Britton has
entered heartily into the activities of
her new home and is prominent in ali
athletic clubs.
Representative and Mrs Arthur
Monroe Free of San Jose, Calf. and
Washington, householders in that pic
turesque section of Chevy Chase where
the heights of Connecticut avenue,
boast the distinction of having two
sets of twins, the only such quartet in
the present congressional circle as
they were in the Sixty eighth. The
elder OF the twain are girl and bov
and bear the names of Gerald Monroe
and Geraldine F'loy. but tamlliarly
they are Jere and Jerry. The others
are boys, Robert George and Herbert
William. and they are lively young
sters and well known and very popu.
lar In their naighborhood. Representa-
tive and Mrs. Free celebrated 20 years
of married life on November II. and
the oldest son. Lloyd Arthur, is quite
a young man and is senior in
Western High School. and the others
also attend local schools. Representa-
tive and Mrs. Free can boast another
distinction-both are natives of Cali
fornia, while almost ali other Califor-
mans in the lower house migrated to
that favored spot Mr.. Free has never
wandered far from the lovely littr
city on the Pacific where he was born
and in which he makes his home, San
Jose. Mrs. Free was Miss Mabel Caro-
lyn BoScow of San Francisco when
she married the district attorney of
Santa Clara County. Mr. Free re-
ceived all his education in California
schools and colleges, a we'll known and
successful seat of learning. known as
the University of the Pacific, being
situated in his home town He took a
course also at Leland Stanford and re-
ceived his \. B. degree there in 1901.
and thus is a fellow alumnus with the
Secretary of Commerce and Mrs. Her.
bert Hoover.
Maj. Edgar Erskine Hume, a medi
cal officer Of the Army and at present
assistant to the librarian in the Medi-
cal Museum in the Mall. has received
almost every medal and decoration
which foreign governments or learned
societies bestow. He can place on
every inch of his trim uniform where
1t covers his breast an honor having
the right, to he exact, to wear exactly
AZ of these insignia. He is a native
of Frankfort. Ky. and received his
h. A. and NJ. 4. degrees in the Center
College; and then, being the son of an
eminent physician of the locality, he
took up medicine in Johns Hopkins.
But after securing the right to place
NJ. ID. after his name, Maj. Hume be-
came citizen Of the world, and has
studied his profession and delved in
the treasures of Old and New World
libraries. going In succession to Mu-
Mich, to Rome, to the Army Medical
School, to Harvard and to the Massa.
chusetts Institute of Technology He
made brilliant record during the
war, when he made the grades from
sub-lieutenant to major, and was COM
manding officer of the United States
Army base hospital with the Italian
forces at the time of the armistice
and for year after. His work took
him into every country with which the
United States was allied during the
conflict. and his zeal and ability were
recognized in bestowing their most
coveted decorations. Since 1920 Mai
Hume has been associated with the
surgeon general office in Washington.