Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-04-10
Tales of Well Known Folk
In Social and Official Life
Statesmen and Others Prominent In United States
and Europe Grouped for Personal Mention.
Sketches of Interest.

nations. one OF the most neautlLul
| and ornate is the Cuban embassy. and
| the Mexican In the MacVeagh house
occupies famous quarters which have
/ a long social history. The French and
| the Spanish of the older nations now
round out this list. A number Of the
| Latin republics have homes about
| Dupont Circle, the Argentinian being
on O and Eighteenth streets and the
| Chileans on Massachusetts, avenue.
| The old Tiffany mansion in the vicinity
of Connecticut avenue and r street
was the home of the Spanish minister,
Dupuy de LONE, and Barnabe y Polo.
both of whom received their letters Of
dismissal through complications pre-
ceding the Spanish-American War.
The new minister from the Kingdom
Of the Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, DR..
Vojilas Antonijvith, who is expected
in Washington the end of this week,
adds another member to the large and
distinguished corps of bachelors serv.
ing in major roles at the Capital.
There is no bachelor to succeed to the
honors and popularity of Prince &C.
lasio Caetani, Italian ambassador, in
this particular circle, but unmarried
ministers include DIR. Axel Leonard
Astrom Of Finland, Mr.. Zedenek Fier.
linger, minister from Czechoslovakia;
Senior Rafael Oreamuno Of Costa Rico,
the Danish and Portuguese ministers,
NJ. Constantin Brun and Viscount de-
Alte, and the minister from Albania,
NJ. F'aik Konitza. There are scores of
eligibles in the grades of secretaries
and attaches and two widowers in the
ministerial class, the Bolivian, Senior
Ricardo Freyre, recently gone on a
long leave of absense, and the Ru-
manian, NJ. Cretziano, over whose
household Miss Jean CretZiano, his
daughter, presides. In the Brazilian
and Peruvian embassies there are no
chatelaines, Mime. Gurgel do Amaral
making her home permanently in
Paris and Sonora de Velarde in Lima.
Lieut.. Col. u. S. Grant, Sd, superin-
tendent of public grounds and build
ings, who has SO scrupulously carried
out the policy of his predecessors in
the matter of the development of Pc.
tomac Park. has, according to the
opinion of the several thousand re-
cent visitors to the cherry blossom
area, solved the question of the hardy
border most satisfactorily. Nothing
causes the lengthy disputes and the
array of scientific facts like the plant
ing of the hardy border, every horti-
culturist having his own idea of the
best way to get masses of bloom most
effectively. The border along the river
from the Long Bridge to the sharp
end of Hams Point still needs many
additions to fill in bare places, and this
problem is being thoroughly studied
by Col. Grant and the practical gar
deners who are his aides. But the
glorious profusion of daffodils and jon
quils and during the past week of hya-
cinths of every hue is one of the re-
cent attractions of the section and
have enthralled the visitors almost as
much as the cherry blossoms. There
are stretches along the driveway actu-
ally golden with daffodils and then
equally as long and fragrant spaces
where superb hyacinths greet the eye
and make the air delightful. Garden
ers have decided that, in Washington,
the dubious flowers are the most de-
pendable during the cold and capri
cious Spring and as soon as thesdaffo-
dis and jonquilS go the stately array
of Darwins and other tulips are due.
In Great Britain, where hardy borders
are so universal and so extraordinarily
colorful and fragrant, there are literal
ly miles of the perennial primrose and
cowslip and they fit neatly into bare
spaces between Dubious blooms. This
innovation is now under consideration
and many thousand plants may be
added next Autumn and their varied
colors on the outer line of flowers will
be something to anticipate.
Commander Raider di Aquino, naval
attache of the Brazilian Embassy, is
one of the most scholarly members Of
the foreign corps in the matter of
deep sea problems, and especially
where problems pertaining to naviga-
ton in shallow channels are involved.
Commander de Aquino, who is half
American, is the author of several
treatises on navigation and has patent.
ed some ingenious devices for the aid
of FARMERS. This accomplished naval
officer also has won laurels in the field
of exploration and he has led expedi-
tions into the dense forests and isolat-
ed mountain country of Brazil in or.
der to test the channels of little known
rivers. He was assigned as naval aid
to President Roosevelt during the ex-
petition in which the Rio Duvida, or
River of Doubt, figured so prominent.
ly. The Brazilian government has
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