Evening star., 1926-04-25
Tales of Well known Folk
In Social and Official Life
Sketches Giving Inner View of the Lives of Dis
tinguiished People and Noting Individual
Achievements.
Ry MARGARET B. DOWNING.

BY MARGARET B. DOWNING.
Sir Esme Howard and the architects
from the British Foreign ONCE stu
study plans and designs FOR the ne"
Pn1ha and apparently II VIII pe
Two years or more before TINS auGi
ton 10 the stately diplomatic eStdp'
iishments in Washington VIII be com
nleted one feature which is of deell
interest to WaShingtonianS, ana espe,
ciallv those who have the erection OF
new homes in mind. is that though
there will be a series of stately com
uunicating salons, a private ballroom
* not contemplated. Indeed. Lazy
Isabella Howard has. in the present
British embassy. eliminated the ball
room and used the great chamber,
where so much social history has been
written, as a general assembly halI'
furnishing it with rugs and massive
l.hairs and setteeS instead OF the pol
fehed floors and the rows of gilt chalfS
AGAINST the wall. as had prevailed dur-
ing all the years since the embassy
was erected. 1t is now accepted that
The private ballroom is as extinct as
The dodo and hotel accommoda tions
must henceforth be used when dances
except of the most informal kind are
contemplated.
The Belgian embassy had spa
,.ious ballroom, and when the attiac-
tive daughters of the late Melville
Ingalls,. who built this mansion. were
maids, they gave some notable balls
there. But Baroness de Cartier has
furnished the room and IL is now only
one Of the drawing room suite.
Mrs. John Hays Hammond had
built an unusually large ballroom in
the home on Kalorama road. but
when she presented her daughter and
save balls in her honor she was com
PEELED to use Rauscher's. Mrs. Rlch-
ard Townsend still uses her splendid
ballroom on occasion for dances ana
receptions, but if she invites even one
fourth of her friends the place i:
most uncomfortably crowded. Not
embassy or le cation in WaShingtu /
keeps a ballroom apart. as did. for il
stance. Sir Michael Herbert or Sir
Cecil Spring Rice. Baroness von
Nathan has furnished the ballroom at
the German embassy and uses il for
the many musicals which she has
beer giving this Spring.
Henry Cabot Lodge. I'd, grandson OF
the eminent statesman and scholar
from Massachusetts. is to be married
the early part of July to Miss Emily
Sears and the ceremony is to take
place at the little North Shore Church
in Beverly so closely associated with
both Lodge and Sears families. The
romance began in Harvard about a
wear ago. with the FIasty Pudding az
IA irs, and its elimination has afforded
scores of friends the deepest gratltlca-
ton. Young Lodge spent his boyhood
II. l. DnnOCX"l
vania avenue near Twentieth street,
which his father, George Cabot Lodge.
and mother. the former Miss Eliza
beth Davis, had snatChed from de-
strIctton and turned into the most
comfortable home. for all ii was sur
rounded by all kinds of small business
houses. After the death OF his father,
with his mother and the other chill
lren. he lived in Senator Lodges nome
on Massachusetts avenue. Miss Sears
belongs to the we'll known Sears fam
ily of Boston and Beverly and has fire.
Iuently visited her prospective mother
in-law in Washington.
Mrs. Worth B. Daniels, daughter-in-
law of the former Secretary of the
Navy, Josephus Daniels, will. with her
husband, spend part of the summer
as the guest of her aunt. Lady Lelth,
widow of Baron Leith of Fyvie. Young
Mrs. Daniels is the niece of this mem.
ber of the British aristoracy ana had
made several visits to her when she
was Miss Josephine January, before
her marriage Young Mrs. Dan
iels is the daughter of Harry Z.
January. whose wife was MISS
Josephine Poe of Baltimore. Lad%
Leith was the reigning belle OF ST.
Louis, Miss Mary Louise January
daughter of Mr. Derrick A. January,
and her marriage was brliilant inter
national event of some 30 years ago.
1t is likely that this still lovely wom-
an will pass part of each year in her
own land, for with the death OF her
husband, few weeks ago, the title
and the country seat of the BaronY OF
I,eith 60 to the next of kin. who is a
nephew. The only son of Lord ana
Lady Leith was killed before IpreS.
There ara several daughters who VIII
fortunately share in the private for
tune of their father and Will eventual
~ receive their mothers Splendld Tor
tune all safely invested in st. Louis.
Lady Leith will pass the Summer AT
Hartwer House, a charming estate on
the Thames near London. This was
the favorite home of the late baron.
a $ we'll as his wife, for the vast stone
castle in F'yVie proved impossible to
modernize. Mr.. and Mrs. Daniels Will
probably time their visit to witness
some of the noted events on the river
and to take part in some of the gay
etv of the London season.
Lady Cynthia Moseley is not the
only Socialist among the descendants
of Levi Il. Letter. for the young Earl
of Suffolk. who will attain his ma
iority in another year, the elder of
the three sons of the late earl and of
Miss Marguerite Letter, declined an
oxford course and for the past two
years has been a yeoman in the mer-
chant marine and, becoming infatu
ated with Australia. he is now in the
wild inland country working in
Saw.mill. Lord Apsley's adventures
AS an emigrant in the Steerage
bound for Melbourne set fire to the
imagination of many young British
peers. Many. after making such a
voyage. are living in the bush or en-
gagged in agricultural pursuits all over
the mighty continent to the South.
Lord Suffolk is credited with saying
that when he entered into his estates
and with it took a seat in the House
of Peers, he wanted to know every
question from the standpoint of all
concerned He is described as a hand
some youth. showing many of the
Tirile qualities which distinguished
his mother and with a distinct turn
toward democracy which might be
expected of the grandson of Levi T..
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