Evening star., 1927-12-04
EY MARGARET B. DOWNING.

The governor general of Canada ant
Viscountess Willingdon, who viii b,
the ] geeSts Of President and Mss. CCCl
id@e on Tuesday evening, are wl,h'.ut
dSis1t the FIRST tt several such dis
tsNgTis he'd visitors from British d"
iNaions in the new roe imposed hN
the empire council held last Autamf
iM London. Viscount W.}lingdon
NSit i tremendously more important
nov than if he had come while 4
Nsrer0y representing the crown IT O.
tawa. Indeed, his new status ami
the fact that he is the first OF IT,
British governors to visit Washington
lE2s set the state Department author
iticS SCurrNlng 10 their books seeking
rtfes and precedents in etiquette, But
the governor ard his lady are, accoId
inc to rGnor, democratic and broad
minded and not inclined tn caVil over
procedure. They are among the
handsomest couples in public life, and
tb the viScountess attaches the p2ig
rflnt interest that she is the daughter
cf that Lady Brassey who disaNreared
so completely from her husband ;
Sacht i'm the South Seas and that hoi
girlhcod is SO well depicted in her
mother s writings especially in the
log Of tho Sunbeam. These entries
were de'ieh fully nut in hook torn
hy Lord EraSscy and Lady Wiling
dcn ard published under the title Of
'SThe Voyage cf the Sunbeam, book
found in an libraries of the English
speaking world Il viii be remem
hered that all of the premiers Of Brit
aims continental possessions in the
ssnut hern oceans came 10 Washington
On their return trip to their distant
homes. and now that the nearest
ueighhor Of the United States is rep
nesented in visit Of courtesy. it is
anticirated that in the near future
vii come the governors of the Aus
tralan commonwealth, which includes
Australia proper. New Zealand, New
South Wales. Tasmania and Queens
land and Of tho South African Free
States and Ehcdesia.
The Duke and Duchess of RoX-
burg are paying their annual visit
to New York as the guests Of the
duchess mother. Mrs. Ogden Goelet,
and many of their friends are com.
menting on the fact that while the
daughters of other cities seem es-
trangec from heir homes when they
marry fore igners. not so with the New
Yorker The Countess of Granard and
of Mr.. Ogden Mills and they rarely
miss an Autumn unless Mr.. Mills re.
mains in his Paris home over Christ
mas. Another DISTINGUISHED visitor is
the former Miss Frances Stevens. a
talented artist who had won her spurs
before she married Prince DimitrN
Golitzine son of that veteran diplomat
and statesman who was the last prime
minister of Russia under Car Nicho'
las. The mother of the Princess
Golitzine remarked after Mr.. Stevens
death and, as Mrs. Arthur ON!ey
Profst, she is a social leader in San
Francisco 1t was after the war and
as student of art in Rome that this
talented York girl met her husba nd.
His fortune, at one time among the
largest private assets in Russia, had
vanished and he was pursuing a n art
career. A graduate of Wellesley,
Princess Golitzine is a descendant of
Thomas Wells, first Governor of Con
necticut.
Four women will sit in the House
of Representatives when Congress
conyenes the coming week, the largest
Number elected since the passing of
the nineteenth amendment. and not
only will political interest center in
them, but much of the social activity
will be in their honor. Representative
Edith Nourse Rogers is the senior in
point of service and also in affiliation
with many Washington philanthropies.
Sh came to Washington in 1918. when
her late husband was elected TO the
House. and for the past II years she
has been part Of the social realm. as
well as closely identified with Walter
Reed Hospital and with all movements
looking to the aid of the disabled sol.
diers of the World War. In Washing
ton. as in her home city. Lowell. Rep.
resentative Rogers is a tireless worker
for the Red Cross.
Representative Florence P. Kahn
was well known and much liked
during the "a years her husband. .Iu-
lins Kahn. was in the House, and
she was among the group or u
women who answered the call Of
the late Mrs. James Breck Perkins Of
New York to meet in her home nd
aid in establishing the now large and
powerful Congressional Club. Mrs.