Evening star., 1927-05-01

word in colonial architecture, is of
| yellow brick and has fine old wood
| work brought from England.
Miss Diana Churchill, eldest daugh-
| ter of the Chancellor of the Exchequer,
Iand Mrs. Winston Churchill, will be
among the important maids who will
make her bow at the first drawing
room Queen Mary will hold at Buck
| ingham Palace late in May. Barely
IS, Miss Churchill recently returned
| from a finishing school in Paris, and
she has some idea of pursuing liter
ary career, but all this Will rest until
she has been launched socially. Miss
Churchill is said to bear a strong re-
semblance to her paternal grand
mother, the lovely Jennie Jerome, that
titan haired belle Of New York who
married Lord Randolph Churchill.
She, too, has auburn tresses which she
wears bobbed. Athletically inclined,
she often accompanies her father to
the polo field and takes a hand in
his practice games. She is a skillful
tennis player, also. Mrs. Winston
Churchill was Miss Clementine HoZier,
daughter of a son of the Earl of Air
lie, and the nineteenth anniversary Of
the mal~'s~-ge comes along the time
that Miss Diana will be presented at
court. Mr.. and Mrs. Winston Church
i'll are youthful looking and mingle in
practically the same set as their
daughters. All are devotees of Winter
sports, and they give several weeks
to the recuperative exercises at Ter
matt every Winter.
Mrs Stotesbury, whose portrait in
pastel by Douglas Chandler has Gre
ated such furore wherever exhibited,
has been amused by descriptions of
her splendid tiara and necklace with
smaller pieces to match as costume
jewels" In fact, this well known So
cial leader of Philadelphia and Palm
Beach, Fla, and once a charming
hostess of Washington during the
Taft administration. now divides
honors with the Maharajah of Alwar
in owning the largest, finest and most
perfect collection Of emeralds in the
world with the sole exception of those
in the blue vault of the royal palace
of Dresden, the property of the Saxon
state. For many years these Stotes-
bury stones have been purchased
wherever they We're offered on the
breaking of notable historic Collec
tions. She obtained many of the large,
perfectly matched emeralds, once the
property Of the late Nine. George
Bakhmetieff. formerly Miss Mary
Beale of this city. DR.. George Bakh-
metieff sold these gems by request OF
his wife soon after her death. Some
of the crown jewels of Russia, or at
least some owned by Russian mobiles
reduced to poverty, also are in this
collection. The necklace has large
oblong stones caught In ancient sill
yer with small stones strung by a
fine wire making the equal lengths
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war has emeralds with long history
and among the most perfect Of the
world. He wears his gems in the
form of strings of jewels surrounding
one great, blazing stone which hangs
on his forehead. This is a regalia for
state occasions and for solemn relig-
ious services, when all the jewels in
the treasury are brought forth.
Mr. and Mrs. Charles B. Pike of
Chicago, both well known in Wash.
ington when Mrs. Pixies father, Gen.
Russell A. Alger, was Secretary Of
War, have in the opinion of their
friends created a perfect home at
Lake Forest and one which they en-
joy throughout the year, except for
about two months when they go to
Bar Harbor. Mr.. Pike now takes
business matters in leisurely fash
ion and he and Mrs. Pike have given
unstinted attention to the creation
Of what is locally celebrated as a
sand garden and which somewhat re-
sembles that marvelously described
flower plot in the Garden of Allah"
This lies at the foot of an S0.foot
bluff off Lake Michigan, which is the
eastern boundary of the estate, and
here, after uncounted loads OF rich
loam had been dumped over the
sand, was created an inclosed garden
which might have come right out of
Stamboul. All manner Of flowers in
season are found there, roses bloom
ing in riotous glory, and there are
beds of Strawberries edged with low
growing blossoms like sweet elys-
sium and forget-me. .nots. Against a
tall brick wall which gets the south
ern sun are trained fruit trees and
rare grapes, and they produce wonder
fully as the result of such environ
ment. Mr.. Pike has a den which
occupies all the east side Of his house,
where he has notable collection of
figureheads, some of which adorned
the famous clipper ships of the past
century. The Pixies have leased the
apartment Of Mrs. j. Medill McCor-
mick on Lake Shore Drive and they
occupy this during the opera season
and when called to remain in Chica-
go over night, but all told they are
not 10 weeks out of the year absent
from the home on Lake Forest.
Mrs. J. West Roosevelt, window of
the late Theodore Roosevelt's first
cousin, who was a distinguished physi-
clan Of New York City. is deemed one
of Gotham's accomplished amateur
musicians and one who always as
sumes the role of feting the lions on
special occasions. She was the chair
man Of the committee which gave a
dinner dance at the Colony Club in
honor Of Mr.. Walter Damrosch, who
had arranged a Beethoven number for
the musical part of the entertainment
Mrs. West Roosevelt is the daughter
of Count Henri d'Oremieulx of
Picardy, who came TO this country to
aid the Northern army in the Civil
| war. He remained to become an
American citizen and was for many
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