Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-02-27


wears the most distinguished OF
French decorations and those of Eng
| land and the allied countries. Ihe
marriage will occur on Easter Tues
dav. April ~. IN New York city. ana
will be attended by many of the young.
Ell diplomats from Washington and
rela and friends of the contract
ing families from many states. Inc
honeymoon will be spent III Europe
Miss Cuyler was educated In the
famous old convent of The Assumption
near the Champs Elysees. She made
her debut two years ago and has been
a prominent member of the Junior
League. Mrs. Cuyler. is the daughter
of Mr.. John Barton. one of the found
erS of San Francisco.
Mrs. Florence Campbell FORESTER.
who recently returned to her nome,
100 Rhode Island avenue, after an
absence of eight years. is preparing
To the disappointment of her frlenus'
to resume her scientific work. and she
intends to dispose of the home which
was for many years a we'll known
social center. AS Miss Florence
Deakns. a member of a family. which
owned a large portion of western
Washington when 1t was purchased
from the OllSiIldl ptiStoiS, StIS ma
ried Mr.. George Ferdinand Becker.
the scientist, and he built and fur
nished this house for his bride, about
IS wears ago. This revered scholar.
who was of Danish descent. but OF
American birth, died in 1919. Some
exceedingly valuable possessions are
in the library. among them carved
oak bookcase which the historian
George Bancroft presented TO. Mr..
Becker many years ago. Some of the
books have a unique value also.
Thefe is a handsome velum- bound
volume, "Agricola de Re Metallca,
one of the originals of this monu.
mental work, and it was this Identical
used in the translation he made jointly
with Mrs. Hoover, and which laid the
solid foundation of his fortune. In
token of gratitude. the English trans.
lation. bound similarly to the veneer
able old folio. stands beside it in the
old Becker library. About three years
after her first husbands death Mrs.
Becker remarked. accepting an Eng
lish physician, Campbell Forester.
and spent several years in India,
where he also was engaged In sc1enti'
fic and medical work. She has re-
ceived many decorations from the
French government and Is at present
the American representatives of the
league which is laboring to prevent
the spread of tuberculosis among the
children OF France.
Fraunces Tavern in New York City.
where President Washington said fare
well to the officers of his Army. has
just celebrated the birthday of the
immortal warrior in its new role as
the portrait gallery Of the New York
Chapter of the d. A. r. This famous
tavern, where entire chapters OF the
history of the Revolutionary War were
written, stands on the corner of Broad
and Pearl steets, but in Washington's
day the entire section was called the
Dock, Its site was part of the patri
mony of Col Stephanus Won Cortlandt
and he willed it to Etionne de Lancey
when that French emigrant married
his daughter Anne. The de Lanceys
sold it in 1850 to Joseph Robinson. who
built and operated the tavern as 1t was
known in revolutionary times. The
D. A. r. chapter has made no effort
to change anything. even the tap
room, but for the purposes of housing
size portraits of the ancestors Of those
who form this celebrated wing Of the
patriotic society, even the long ROOM"
as it was called in late eighteenth
century, is quite inadequate even now
when the portrait collection is just
beginning. It is now under considera-
ton to ask those who wish to place
canvasses to choose half lengths or
even heads wherever possible. in view
Of the already exceedingly limited
wall space. The long room has been
painted the colonial buff and the doofs
and windows touched up a little in
order to make presentable environ
ment for the handsome paintings, but
the wide boards of the floor and the
splendid old furniture have not been
touched.
Mr.. Hugh Walpole, the British novel
list. as every one who reads his works
soon discerns, Is a fervent follower Of
J Henry James. 1t is touching tribute
to the memory Of that silent, reserved
American writer who seemed to have
been more appreciated on the other
side of the Atlantic than on his own
that Mr.. Walpole after the most excit-
ing and sometimes battling search
has at last located the first lodgings
which James took when he lived in
New York City in the beginning of his
literary career. They were as minute.
ly described in many James letters in
Washington Square, in a wide brown
stone house as yet undemolished, and
in these same rooms Mr.. Walpole has
set up his temporary household gods
and is very happy in such intimate
relation with one of his earliest
friends. The Briton when a very
young man felt impelled to seek out
Mr.. James, then famous and living in
London, for Interpretation of some
thing which puzzled him, and he re-
ceived so cordial a welcome and such
Illuminating aid that a remarkable
friendship was there and then sealed