Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-02-06
BY MAGARET b. DOWNING.


Princess Ileana has been remember
ing' some of those who contributed to
the enjoyable time she had while with
her mother, Queen Marie, and her
brother, as she was seeing America
from ocean to ocean. This gift is an
exquisite tinted photo of herself taken
in native Rumanian costume in the
beautiful park of Bran Castle, where
she has been spending the time since
the New Year. Winter seems to have
touched this part of Rumania but
lightly, for the grass is green and
thick and the Princess, in her bare
feet, seems to be resting on a bed of
flowers, the pretty little crocuses and
snowdrops which are already in bloom
lin Rumania. A veil of soft white tissue
envelops her and forms a foamy cas-
cade to the ground. She carries an
exquisitely carved water jar and to
all intents is about to journey to the
fountain in plain view to her left to
fill the vessel. This lovely young
great granddaughter of Queen Vic
toria and of Gar Alexander II, cele-
brated her seventeenth birthday jan
uary 5, and there was much feStivity
at the palace. 1t is now proposed that
1leana shall return to her studies after
the delightful interlude of her travels,
and she is in the retired Castle of
Bran. on the Lower Danube, ands will
remain in seclusion until the Summer
visits to her royal relatives in England
and Spain are due.
Mr., William Gambel Of Chicago
and his IL attending knights did not
make the success of their January IL
frolic this year that they did last with
their don Quixote" revel. For the
reason that those good knights called
their ball THE Widows and Widow.
ers," and in dispatching their anony
NOUS invitations many were sent to
q wife here and husband there,
causing a "great-to.do." due to the
fact that many decidedly objected to
their life partners being summoned
from their hearth at midnight and
the other half left at home to wonder
and worry. Chicago was much
amused, and there were so many va
cant chairs that the frolic lacked its
usual vim and fun. Matrimonial
troubles come thick and fast, so the
Chicagoans decided without any such
aid to them as these IL knights pre-
scented, to ask their guests unattended
TO a certain number in East Monroe
street, which turned out most inno-
Gently to be nothing but the Uni
versity Club. Chicago loves mystic
ries. and the knights are puzzling over
the way their plans to entertain their
friends went so far awry. In Mrs.
Potter Palmer's time there were many
similar frolics, but married couples
went under the protection of each
other. and after many hours of mas
Querading and having fun to the full
they assembled at the Palmer resi-
dencee and had a splendid supper, and
all went well. An enterprising mem
her Of q home wherein a wife was
chosen and the husband left to sit by
the fire said the knights made a
supreme mistake in letting it become
known that they had selected the
most attractive member out of each
family But next year different pro-
cedure iaSsuggested.
Mrs. Peter GoeIet GeFcy,. who on
March 4 probably will become presi-
dent Of the Congressional club, will
perpetuate the tradition that when
women Of the upper house families are
chosen as executives they have been
predoIninantiy from the Democratic
side OF the Senate. Mrs. Duncan U.
Fletcher was the first president chosen
from the senatorial wing, and Mrs
Atlee Pomerene was another. Mrs.
Joseph Frelinghuysen served briefly as
plresidentf but she was not elected to
the offlce.l Being first vices president,
she automatically stepped higher when
the ofIiceSwas vacated by Mrs. Irvine
Lenroot. There is a courtesy rule