Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-16
Tales of Well Known Folk
/ In Social and Official Life
Prince of Wales to Make Another Visit to u ;
ii in August-Ceneral and Per-
II sonal Notes.
ny MARGARET b. DOWNING.

EDY MARGARET II. DOWNING.
1.-THE Prince of Wales, who will come
TO this country in August, en- route tc
pay his usual biennial visit to his
ranch in Alberta. may not come
TO Washington If rumors prove
true that the President and Mrs.
Coolidge will pitch their tent
west of the Mississippi when the
time for their next vacation rolls
around. The heir of the British
throne will. say those who should
know. carefully take up invitations
lapsing from his last visit and will,
as far as it is possible and agreeable
to those who issued them. make
amends for some necessary omissions.
AS usual, Sbhe example of the Prince
of Wales in seeking an outlet in the
great cattle country of Canada has
secured many neophYtes among his
associates and young British noble
men generally. NiscoUnt Weymouth.
son of the Marquis of Bath, is on his
way to join Lord Rodney's colony in
Alberta and under the tutelaGe of this
experienced ranchman will select a
place for his Canadian activities. The
Marquis of Bath is among the richest
of the British peers and his heir is
not impelled toward Canadian soil
tudes by the need of retreGhment.
Most likely, like the Prince of Wales,
he seeks a retreat from the humdrum
Of life at home by absenting himself
for prolonged periods.
Z Mrs. Newbold lie Roy Edgar was
well known in Washington during
the life of her motherinlaw, Nine.
Jerome Bonaparte, and her marriage
recently in Paris to Count Demetri0
Mercati, formerly grand chamberlain
of the Greek court. has aroused con-
siderable interest. The ceremony &C.
CURED in Paris, and was witnessed by
a distinguished assemblage, for Mrs.
Edgar. before her first. marriage
Miss Marie Manice. has made her
home in France for many years. Her
father. William de Forest Manice.
New Yorker of large fortune, had
spent most of his life abroad. and his
daughter and heiresS was his constant
companion until her marriage to Mr..
Edgar in the early 1900s. She has
fine mansion at 121 East Seventietk
street, New York City, and has main
tanned a place at Tuxedo, which she
occupies occasionally. Count Mercati
followed Constantine into exile after
the upheaval following the armistice,
and he has since remained in Paris,
taking no further interest in the po-
litical battles of his country. He is
scholarly and socially accomplished
and has pleasant home in Rue de la
Faisanderie in Paris, where he and his
bride now are residing. Countess
Mercati is a leader in American
philanthropies in the French capital
and she was honored with the Cross
of the Legion of Honor for her work
for the Lafayette Memorial Hospital
and for the Children's Hospital at
Chateau Chavanaic, in Haute Loire.
Newbold LIE Roy Edgar and his sister.
Constance, now nun in the Order of
the Sacred Heart, were the children
of Nine. Bonaparte by her first mar
rage and they were great grand-chil
dren of Daniel Webster. Mr.. Edgar
died about five years ago.
Mr.. and Mrs. Edward Tuck, for.
merly of Exeter, n. H., but for many
years citizens of the world, have been
associated with other Americans in
doing what they could to restore
France to it's condition before 1914.
They have endeared themselves to the
sentimental by their thorough and
most artistic restoration of Malmaison.
the place of retreat for the unfortu.
nate Josephine after Napoleon had
divorced her. 1t was a lovely spot
especially noted for its terraces of
roses and for that particularly soft
pink and orange bloom called the
MalmaiSon, and now to be found in
all French rose beds. The estate had
been kept up with as lavish care as
the royal chateau or the famous pal
aces like Versailles and Compeigne.
But Malmaison had been utterly neg
lected for the past 10 years and had
fallen into a wilderness as to gardens
and ruin as to the mansion, until
Mr.. and Mrs. Tuck took up the work
of restoring it. Mr. Tuck recently
purchased the adjoining wood, known
as lie Preau, and which edges the
small acreage of Malmaison on the
north and east, and in his deed to the
French government he stipulates that
both properties must be known as the
National Museum of Malmaison and
all revenues derived from tourists and
other sources must go TO the museums