Evening star., 1926-11-21
Tales of Well Known Folk
Ian Social and Official Life
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Gus apartments which may be rented
in New York hotel. A collection of
genuinely royal furnishings was COL
lected at Mr.. Wells direction, and the
visitor can gaze at many objects
| which once adorned a palace. Over
the mantel in the main drawing room
Is the Gobelin tapestry portrait Of
Louis XIV done for the volatile La
Pompadour and once in her small
| chateau outside the royal park at
Compeigne. Several exquisite bits Of
royal Aubisson tapestry fill inches in
the walls, and the treasures Of long
line of Chinese emperors OF kHang
Hut dynasty are on the floors in rugs
or thrown across lounges as drapings.
Miss Georgia Lawrence Wells. daugh.
ter of the consul general and Mrs.
tober at the Summer home Of her
parents, Manor House, St. Marys
Island, Osterville. Mass. to Mr.. Cort.
landt Schuyler Van Rensselaer,, jr.,
and the young people were prominent
in the fetes rendered the Queen dur
ing her brief visit to Gotham. MIR.
Wells has been attending to Ru-
manian affairs for the past FIVE years,
and was the organizer and is the
present head of the society Of the
Friends of Rumania. Mrs. Wells was
Miss Georgina Belts Of New York and
is, like her husband, an accomplished
linguiSt.
Representative Martin Luther
Davey of Kent. Ohio, has recently per.
formed what Is regarded as almost
miracle Of tree surgery in saving the
last of the splendid beeches which
made an arched avenue from Ken.
more, in Fredericksburg, the home Of
Betty Washington Lewis, to that Of
her mother, Mary Ball Warrington,
on a street directly behind. For 10
years past every effort had been made
to save this venerable relic, under
which the great patriot and first
President had often walked, and per.
haps rested, going from his mothers
to his sisters, but 1t failed vtsibly and
seemed doomed soon to follow its COM
panions. Some of the members Of tho
Kenmore Memorial Association made
an appeal to Mr.. Davey, and he found
time to motor down to the old Vir-
ginia city and look about. He worked
for an entire afternoon on the tree,
and also on some ancient Towering
bushes and some box which did not
look thrifty. The beech has been filled
with concrete. old limbs sawed away
and its appearance now is quite en-
couraging. These beeches were ap.
parently Of considerable growth when
George Washington was a young man,
and they had been part Of an ap-
proach to an older mansion on the es-
tate on which Fielding Lewis built
his elegant home for his second wife,
Betty Washington, and to which she
came as a bride. The Mary Ball
Washington home is in perfect re-
pair. and it's old garden. many Of the
plants In which were tended by the
venerated mother Of the great com.
mander. Is @ charming retreat. The
house presents an excellent type of
the Queen Anne cottage in about 1850.
Miss Adele s. Hammond, who Is
awarded the apple of Venus by some
good judges who have been looking
over the debutantes of Gotham to be
presented IN the next month. is the
granddaughter of Mrs. Henry White
and the fourth daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. John Hays Hammond, the latter
formerly Miss Emily Vanderbilt
Sloane. The granddaughter Of the
late John Henry Hammond. this pretty
bud Is the niece Of Mr.. Ogden G.. Ham,
mond, American Ambassador to Mad
rid. and she recently returned from
visit to his Summer home at Biar-
ritz. The Ambassador and Mrs. Ham
mond have been phenomenally we'll re.
ceived in Spanish society. which, &C.
cording to all experienced visitors. is
a little difficult even for such exalted
people as ambassador families. The
Hammonds established home at Biar.
ritz, as they could not lease what they
desired in San Sebastian, where the
Spanish court is established in Sum
mer, but this was sufficiently near,
and was, besides, filled with other dip.
lomats crowded out by court officials.
One of the brilliant events Of the sea.
son at Biarritz was the ball given by
the Ambassador and Mrs. Hammond,
and which was attended by King AL
fonso, the Queen and her eldest
daughter and by the great social
world Of Hispanola.
Tom Sawyer's fiftieth birthday an
niversary will soon be fittingly cele-
brated by the Mark Twain Society,
Of which his nephew, Mr.. Cyril Glenn.
ons, formerly Of Pike County. Mo-,
but now a resident Of Chicago, is pres.
ident. Generous and comprehensive
ways are announced by the various
centers Of these clubs organized to
honor Americas great humorfst, upon
whom oxford set its seal Of approval
In comforting the degree Of doctor of
letters. Naturally, the celebrations
will reach their height in Pike County,
on both sides Of the Mississippi. that
in Illinois having been glorified by the
late John Hay in his famous Pike
County ballads. Little Breeches" and
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