Evening star., 1927-05-01
Tales of Well Known Folk
In Social and Official Life
Incidents of Special Interest Relating to Nota ables
of America and Other Countries-Per-
sonal Sketches
RY MARGARET B. DOWNING.


Mrs. Woodrow Wilson's example in
visiting Geneva annually while the
League of Nations is in session is be-
ing widely followed not alone among
prominent Democratic women of
Washington, but from other cities.
Chicago has an unusually large
colony about Geneva and there are
several members Of the Mccormick
family devoteeS of the League and
fervent attendants at it's sessions.
Mrs. Stanley r. Mccormick is one of
these and she was recently joined by
Fowler Mccormick, who has found
villa not far from that of his sister,
Mime. Oser, and is to take possession
seme time in August. Fowler, the
only son Of Mr.. Harold Mccormick
by his former wife, Mrs. Edith Rookie
feller Mccormick, resides in New York,
but, looking about for a summer home,
he decided to join his kindred on the
Lake of the Four Cantons. Naturally
the lovely villa of Max Oser's attracts
much attention Nine. Mathilde re
ceived this home from her father when
her husband consented to leave Zurich
and live in a milder winter climate.
1t lies between Lakes Leman and
Geneva and the immediate neighbor
on the former lake is the venerable
pianist and statesman, IgnaCe Pade-
lewski, and beyond Ernest Schelling
has a marvellous home. Mrs. Stanley
Mccormick has lived during the Sum
mer on Lake Geneva for the past 20
wears. Her mother, Mrs Writ Dexter,
is her inseparable companion and both
ladies are devoted to the small Osers
who often ride over to their home in
q. quaint little basket phaeton. This
international marriage of the Zurich
acing master and Miss Mathilde Nc
CVrmick, for which every kind of dis.
&Ater was predicted, is, according to
traends. one of happiness and SINH
iarity in ideals.
DIR. Jacobo Varela. Minister from
Uruguay, who was for some time the
vice chairman of the governing board
OF the Pan-American Union, is dean
Of the Latin American diplomats and
it happened that he presented his Gre
dentials to President Wilson May II,
1890, the same afternoon on which
the Belgian Ambassador was received,
Baron de Cartier de Marchienne, who
now is dean of the entire corps. The
Minister from Uruguay is the son of
one Of that nations most revered
statesmen, DR.. Jose Pedro Valera, a
great educator and law-maker whose
statue has recently been placed in
one of the public squares of Monte
vadeo. This work was done by the
Spanish sculptor, Miguel Blay. and
perhaps no statue of the republic has
influenced so much poetic description
or Is more beloved by the nation. Va
rela sits in bronze on a chair resting
against the pillar of state, and about,
In marble, are grouped allegorical
ngures OF Education, the Law and the
State, and cogent sentences from the
writings of the educator adorn the
pillar. One figure is Of youth, and
that ringing sentence of DIR. Varela's,
I'VE shall prepare the boy to be a
man" is engraved beneath. This
massive group of statuary is in the
center OF triangular square formed
by Boulevard Gen. Artigas, Brazil ave-
nue. and Canelones street.
The residence once owned by Will
lam Payne, father of John Howard
Payne, near East Hampton on Long
Island, and known the world over as
Home, Sweet Home again is on the
market for sale, and this for the sec
ond time within the past Is years. 1t
Is quaint mansion with a foundation
stone bearing the year 1860, and, nes-
ting back among ancient trees, it has
to all motorists in this section, al
though visitors. except those who come
In the personal sense, have not been
welcomed. But in the old cemetery,
Just off the irregular hedge of flower
ing shrubs. may be read some ac-
count Of this family, which found
such early root in New York State.
Andrew Isaacs was the immigrant of
the family, and on his tombstone is
read the line, Behold an ISraelite in
whom there was no guile" This
pioneer of one Of the worlds famous
Fairgrounds came from Hamburg in
the middle of the seventeenth century,
and H. was through his marriage to
Miss Hedges, kinswoman of the Earl
OF Dysart, that he obtained the land
patent at East Hampton. He and his
descendants lived in the gabled Dutch
cottage for three generations, and it
was through the marriage of Sara
1Saacs to William Payne that this
name immortalized by their son, John
Howard Payne, first appears in the
Isaacs annals. But the Paynes had met
with misfortune and even the dover
of the Isaacses could not keep the wolf
from the door. The East Hampton
place was sold and the family removed
to New York City, where their sixth
child, the poet, actor and public Off
cial, was born. So the Home, Sweet
Home" of East Hampton has rather
slender connection with the author of
tho pathetic ballad, and none of the
personal sort at all. Anacostia, D. c..
boasts home where the poet lived
for months while awaiting the turn
oftthe political tide, which finally sent
him as consul to Tunis in 1841. and
where he died IL years later.
Judge Elbert II. Gary's decision to
stay on the ground instead of living
at. the top of a 15-story apartment
house, to be erected on the site of
his home, has caused a gale of merri-
ment among his friends and associates.
With so widely known an exponent of
the desirability of living on the roof
as Judge Gary, this was to be the
popular move for all who had been
forced by noise and business encroach-
ment to leave their familiar haunts.
But, thinking it over, the judge decid-
ed it was not in actual practice all
that it seemed on paper and very quiet
ly8he purchased the commodious domi-
cile on Ninety-fourth street and Fifth
avenue, which had been the home Of
the late Willard Straight and his wife
Dorothy Whitney, now Mrs. Leonard
K. Elmhirst. Judge Gary likes to
walk on mother earth and TO dig a bit
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