Evening star., 1927-04-17

! Red Cross in Lake Forest and has
made a record equaling that of Mrs.
Charles G. Dawes in Evanston.
Senator and Mrs Clarence G. Dill
will spend part of the Spring in Wash
! ington, as Mrs Din wishes TO select
| a home for next Winter. At present
] it seems likely to be quarters in some
convenient family hotel. for the most
! recent bride in the senatorial circle is
always busy with many concerns and
| has not in recent times, had much
! leisure for housekeeping. Mrs. Dill
| comes of an eminent family % Rhode
| Island and descends in the ninth gen,
Grafton from that picturesque soldier
of fortune. Maj Thomas Jones, of
Welsh and Irish extraction, who came
to Rhode Island in 1892 and soon after
married Freelove. daughter of Thomas
Townsend, also of Roger Williams
colonists. Mr.. Townsend gave his
daughter as dover a tract of land on
Long Island. called Fort Neck. and
here the solderly bridegroom built a
substantial log house. organized the
men thereabout into militia and laid
the foundations of the prosperity of
this part of Henry HudsOn's former
domain. A fine mansion was erected
later, and here the eldest son of the
house has dwelt ever since. Mrs.
Jones is one of the advanced feminists
and has been a leader of the dominant
wing in New York politics. She al
ready has affiliated with the Wom-
ems Democratic Club in Washington
and will, no doubt, play prominent
part in the activities of the coming
Winter.
Mrs. Alfred ]. Brosseau. president
gneral of the Daughters of the Ameri-
can Revolution, who has been so Gra-
ciouS and generous a hostess since
she took up the reins of the society's
government, and to many divisions of
Washington life, has many other ac-
complishments besides that obvious one
Of leadership. Mr.. and Mrs. Bros
seau maintain beautiful colonial
home in Greenwich, Conn. and az it
is early American both in the exterior
contour and in its equipment it has
been their pride to keep it after the
manner of their fathers. Mrs. Bros
seau is an exquisite needlewoman and
has replaced the coverings of massive
colonial chairs and settees with grace
ful designs in tapestry. One massive
chair with side arms, made in the
days of this country's supremacy in
wood carving, required nearly five
years of effort before she had com
pleted the tapestry to her liking Mrs.
Brosseau also has restored many fine
coverlets, either in whole or in part,
and she can fasten in block or two
so adroitly in quilts which show the
passing years that the keenest eye
could not note the patching" Her
bedrooms in the Greenwich mansion
would rejoice the hearts of those who
hope to see a Nationwide revival of
early American. They are so lofty
as to ceilings, unusual floor space and
with buff walls and white painted
woodwork, and the furniture was old
before the first guns were fired at
Lexington. The bed covers are her
special pride. and her guest room is
equipped just as many were in the
Revolutionary period when the house
wife made ready to welcome Gen.
Washington for a night or to enter
tain some other distinguished person
connected with the struggle for lib
erty.
Prince Macmillan Erwin Lobko-
witZ, head of the illustrious family of
Austria and now serving the republic
in the diplomatic corps. gave a mag
nificent musical in the famous palace
in Vienna on March 26, the day on
which Ludwig Won Beethoven died,
This was staged in the famous old
music room, where, in 1904. the inn
mortal composer first performed
symphony g." which he had dedi.
Gated to Napoleon. This music room
is one of the stateliest in Europe, with
magnificent mural and ceiling paint
ings and a piano on which Mozart had
entertained the music loving world of
Vienna in the middle eighteenth cen.
tury. Prince Lobkowitz's palace is
now national property, but he retains
some rights in it, and the privilege of
celebrating the Beethoven centenary
was allowed him since his family had
been one of the earliest patrons and
financial supporters of the great mas
ter. This young prince, who has the
right TO several titles, some of them
dating from the eleventh century. re-
nounced all semi-royal claims and in
1920 became a plain Herr" under the
new Austrian government. He is now
secretary of the Austrian legation in
London. Many of his kindred be-
came citizens of the Czechoslovakian
Republic and several have sought to
improve their fortunes in this coun.
try Beethoven played many of his
symphonies and chorals for the first
Tune In public in the music room at
Lobkowitz palace, and it was here
that he announced the change of feel
ing towards the Corsican and conse-
quent change of dedication after
Napoleon had assumed the imperial
crown.
Something less than year ago,
Mr.. Clifford p. Harmon, of New York
City, with the aid of NJ. Leon Rathiat.