Evening star., 1927-11-20
Tales of Well Known Folk
In Social and Official Life
Secretary of State Active in Enforcing Game
Protect;on-Personal Notes and Sketches
of Special Interest.

| many OF the tFapplHSS vi Stdte as edi'
be Topped off without public outcry'
and maids OF honor in Queen Mary s
| estimation are as unnecessary as
| third hand.
| Queen Victoria, say those who are
mourning the past. had 10 maids and
she kept them all busy, sewing, EN-
broidering and knitting at odd times
for the bazaars at which she was
patroness, and for the gifts to be
presented to friends from time TO
time The Hon. Ursula Lawley. who
will fill her niche as the last repre-
sentative of this historic circle, is the
daughter of the Earl of Wenlock. and
she is a distant cousin of the Queen
through the Cambridge line, from
which beth descend She is of lit
crary trend, and for several years past
the most arduous part of her duties
was to clip papers for all references
to the members of the royal family.
Queen Mary from her youth has kept
scrapbooks. and now she has hundreds
of volumes, Il ma jor part of recent
ones being made up of notices OF the
activities of the Prince of Wales.
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Miss Emily Sears of Boston, who
recently married the Hon. Martyr
J1eIllDitlll, neil VI Lulu ItPl1hi Va
Dublin, IL member of the Irish
Senate, will pass part of next Spring
in Washington. when her husband
will come to act as secretary to the
British er-parliamentary Union.
which will attend the international
conference in Washington. Mrs.
Hemphill is the daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. Irving Sears of Webster. and
Boston, Mass, and she is the cousin
of Mrs Menry Cabot Lodge, Sd. Mr..
Hemphill is attached to the ministry
of finance in the Irish Free State
and is considered a coming man
in the political world of Dublin. lie
was IN Washington two years ago 10
attend the sessions of the peace So
ciety, and it was while visiting friend
in Massa chusetts that he first met his
bride. Mrs. Hemphill took her degree
at Smith College last June and the
nuptials were deferred until she had
realized this ambition. She is an ar.
dent horsewoman and has already
leaped into prominence in the hunt
clubs about Dublin.
Mrs. Kellogg Fairba INK, we'll known
to fiction readers as Janet Aver Fair
bank, author of Three Days More, "
"The Cortlandts of Washington
Square" and other satirical social
studies, has been demonstrating what
the feminists have as battle cry
that a woman can conduct home,
manage family and attend to the
last detail of her duties as a wife and
yet accomplish momentous things in
the outside world. Mrs. Fairbank is
one of Chicago's most accomplished
leaders and she is always the generous
hostess to the stranger within the gate
as we'll as to her friends. She is
counted on annually to produce play
which will help the Junior League to
gather it's sinews of war and she is
continually in demand to get up pag-
eants for other charities.
This Autumn Mrs. F'airbank has
committed herself to raise the S250.000
needed for the woman's adjunct to
the hospital of the University of Chi
cago. and she has set to work to write
plays, to manage cabarets and to give
concerts for this purpose, and later in
the Winter, she proposes some mann
moth costume balls and dinner
dances. Chicagoans have awakened
to the fact that their hospitals and
such institutions lag behind the stand
ards set in other cities with far less
resources than the lake metropolis,
and they are determined to change all
this, and, instead of being backward.
they hope by this time next year to
set a pace which even New York City
will find difficult to follow.
Mrs. Saxham Drury. the former
Miss Mebal Gerry. sister of the Sem
ator from Rhode Island, has found it
so difficult to get over the habit or
living in New York that she recently
slipped overseas from London and
purchased an English basement house
at East Ninety-fifth street, and she
has set about renovating and chang
ing it at an energetic pace. Her hus-
band, canon of the Canterbury
Cathedral, has no objection to passing
his holidays in New York during the
Winter, the worst p..rt of the year for
those who live near the channel ports
Of England. Mrs. Saxham selected a
domicile which lies outside the area
of what is called residential New
York, and the rooms are to be ar.
ranged for entertaining In the more
serious way, music and lectures rath-
er than dancing and cards. A music
room so feet long and about half as
wide has been made on the second
floor. and the library just below is OF
more heroic dimensions. The dining
hall was built in the day of prodig:ous
eating, and can seat 100 guests with
out discomfort. This house was once
the property of Mr.. and Mrs. John II.
Mackay. and they gave their first
elaborate fetes there, after they had
amassed their fortune in the gold
rush of '49. Mr. Clarence Mackay
owned the mansion after his fathers
death, and once contemplated living
in it. But he sold to the late John
Aspegren, who added many chapters
to its social history. The heirs of
the Aspegren estate approached Mrs.
Saxham in London, and, liking the
photographs and the general de.
scription. she sailed at once for New
York and completed the purchase
within few hours after landing. She
will not occupy the home until after
Easter.