Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-09
Tales of Well Known Folk
In Social and Official Life
Interesting Ceremony at White House, In Fare
we'll to Old Year, 1naugurated by
President and Mrs. Coolidge

sojouring for the Winter in the Bar
barry states.
Several of the debutantes Of this
season represent the third generation
of families who had been prominent in
Washington's social life. Miss Lila
Tuckerman, whose parents crossed
the continent in order that she might
see the home of her parents youth
and romance. is the granddaughter OF
Mr.. Edward McCauley and his late
wife, who before marriage was Miss
Frances Steele. Her mother, Lila Nc
Cauley, was the eldest of the three
lovely blond daughters. and her mar
riage. just % years ago, was an event
of brilliancy and Importance. Mr..
and Mrs. Tuckerman moved to an
estate at Arroyo Paredong near Car
penterie, Calf, about 10 years ago.
They have another daughter. Florence,
presented III California two years ago,
and a younger girl, Frances Steele
Tuckerman, who is at school in New
York. Miss Florence Marlatt. daugh-
ter of Mr.. and Mrs. Charles l.. Mar
latt, is the granddaughter of the late
Bishop of Pennsylvania, Right Rev.
Alexander MackaySmith, and she
spent all her girlhood in Washington.
Miss Harriet Huntress, granddaughter
of the late Sevellon Brown. for many
years connected with the State De-
partment, has found many of those
who knew the past generations of her
family ready to extend a cordial well
come. The return of NJ and Nine
Marcel Lewis. and their occupancy of
the Charles NJ. Ffoulke mansion on
Massachusetts avenue. is another
proof that in the residential sense
there are deeper roots sent down into
the social soil than rumor credits.
Mr. John Foster Dulles, grandson
and namesake of the late John w.
Foster. eminent author and diploma
list, who resided for so many years in
Washington and filed many official
roles, has been living in New York
City, and since his distant cousin, the
foreign correspondent, Foster Dulles,
is now in Gotham writing for some of
the famous continental journals, the
two have a merry time with their
mail. Both belong to the same clubs
and have many mutual friends. and
part of the morning routine is to COM
pare notes on invitations and see what
is expected of each. Mr. John Foster
Dulles, nephew of Mrs Robert Lans-
ing, makes frequent visits to her with
his wife, who was Miss Janet p.
Avery and whom he met in this city.
Mr.. Allen Dulles. who has made such
a brilliant record in the foreign serv-
ice and was deemed one of the most
astute students of the diplomacy of
the Near East, recently resigned from
the service because of the meager sti.
pend paid this branch. Living in for.
eign lands Is always an expensive af-
fair, and living in Washington almost
as much so. Mr. and Mrs. Allen
Dulles were in Washington for some
years and were important members of
the younger State Department con-
tingent. Mrs. Dulles was Miss Clover
Todd, niece of the late Admiral Clover
and a cousin of Mrs. Thomas Hol-
combe and Miss Eudora Clover, long
belle of the Capital, but now ranch
ing on her own responsibility in the
San Mendocina Valley in California
Mr.. Dulles. after leaving the foreign
service, accepted a lucrative post in
a commercial concern of New York
which can pay an adequate price for
his learning and experience in eastern
social and business methods.
Lady Muriel Paget, who is SEIZED.
uled to make a tour of the United
States in order to advocate the cause
of the child welfare crusade in Rus.
STA, will come to Washington about
the middle of February and will re.
ceive a cordial welcome from the To-
cal welfare association. She appears
to hold a charmed existence in Rus.
STA, for since 1919 she has been at
the head of the Anglo-American Hos
pital In Petrograd, and though nearly
all of those who began the work as
her associates have fallen under the
displeasure of the Soviet, she has con-
tinued the work unmolested. In the
past two years this child welfare work
has extended into the adjacent Baltic
countries, and Lady Muriel will in
clude a synopsis of this also in her
lecture tour. The hospitals founded
in Russia at the close of the World
War are now under government con-
troll. and Lady Murie, though in actual
control, is officially only a mem.
Der of the board of visitors, but she
is free to make changes and to
suggest improvements, and as she
holds the purse strings, so far as Eng
ish and American contributions are
concerned. II is unlikely that she will
be disturbed. Her husband is the
present head of the house which has
married SO frequently into American
families, and is Sir Richard Paget.
Lady Muriei is the daughter of the
late Earl of Winchilsea and sister of
the present bearer of the title. Sir
Richard Paget is a distinguished sci
enlist and is the grandson Of the late
Mary Stevens, daughter of Paran
Stevens of New York. who married
Gen. Arthur Paget, who died three
wears ago