Evening star., 1927-09-04
Tales of Well Known Folk
In Social and Official Life
Personal Notes of Prominent People of United
States and Other Lands-Series of In
dividual Achievements.


landmarks. but the mongrel-looking
sedge grass and nondescript bushes
are already giving way to hedges of
barberry, bayberry and lowgrowing
evergreens, and these charming bar
riers are used to define the property
rights of the various owners.
Miss Astor Mum, belle Of inter-
national prominence, has been pre-
sented to a small coterie of her par
ents' friends in their villa at Neuilly.
near Parts, during this Summer. and
formal debut will be arranged in
December in the Colony Club, New
York City. Miss Mum is the daugh-
ter Of Mr.. and Mrs. Charles A. Mum.
jr., her father being the son of the
late Mrs. Charles A. Mum. who was
Miss Carrie Gurnee of Chicago, and
for many years a resident of Wash
ington, her beautiful home at the
corner of Scott Circle and Sixteenth
street having been a radiating point
of fashionable life. Mrs. Charles A.
Mum, jr., was Miss Mary Astor Paul
of Philadelphia. She is the daughter
of the late James w. Paul and his
wife. who was Mary Astor. The pros.
nectlve belle is the great grand.
daughter of Francis Marion Drexel.
prominent banker of the Quaker City.
Mr.. Charles A. Mum spent his boy
hood in Washington, and after his
marriage in Philadelphia, about 20
years ago, he brought his bride to
be presented to the circle of his
mothers friends at the Capital. Mr..
Mum was in Paris in the banking
interests Of the Munns when the
World War began, and he served un.
IL
country entered the conflict. He has
since continued to reside in Paris and
Neuilly, coming to this side of the
world only occasionally. Mrs. Mum
plans to pass the greater part of the
Winter in New York and Philadel.
phla. She owns q country place.
Woodcrest, at Radnor, Pa, and she
VIII occupy this during the Autumn.
The late Mrs. Munn's sons. Gurnee
and Ector, married daughters of Rod
man Wanamaker. Mrs. Ector Mum.
who was Fernando Wanamaker, was
for some years the wife of the secre.
tary of the Spanish embassy, Senior
Arturo Heeren, and was prominent
In Washington society This mar
riage was dissolved by court decree
in 1924.
Senorita Theodore Machado of OF
tawa, whose marriage to Thurlow
Merrill Prentice took place the latter
part Of July, is cousin of the Presi-
dent of Cuba and Is the daughter
of Senior and Sonora Jose Antonio
Machado of Puerto Principe, Cuba,
who have lived in the Canadian capi-
tai for the past 10 years. Senior
Machado is the representative of
sugar firm from Havana, and had
been assigned to New
York. He married in New York City
Miss Eleanor Esmond Whitney,
daughter of the late Alfred Whitney
OF Boston. Mr.. Prentice is from
Hartford, and Immediately after the
wedding he and his bride sailed for
Paris, where he will be connected
with the United States Chamber of
Commerce. He plans, however, to
make visit to Havana, with his
bride, where they will be cordially
welcomed by the large circle of rela-
tives of the Machado family. Mrs.
Prentice's father, Senor Jose Antonio
graduated from Harvard
and has become, to all intents, cit
zen OF the United States. He spends
The colder part of the Winter in New
ork and makes an annual visit to
Cuba, usually in the late Spring.
Dame Caroline Bridgeman, who is
he wife of the first lord of the ad-
niralty. or the secretary of the navy.
rs Washington would express it, is
one of the advanced and practical
leaders of her sex, and she is just now
conducting an intensive campaign of
sducation for the young voters. Dame
Bridgeman does not predict, as so
many radical prophets in Great Brit
ain do, an upheaval through the fact
that the woman vote Is gaining on
The mems vote. According to stats
tics. it will in 10 years be equal to it
and then begin to run ahead. She
comes of conservative family, and
her husband, being a member of Mr..
Stanley Baldwin's cabinet, is a power
in the Conservative wing of British
politics, and she is sternly set against
a woman's party as distinct from
mans. and her voice is lifted always
TO warn women against neutralizing
their influence by segregation. Dame
Bridgeman frankly labors for the edu.
cation or future woman voters as Con-
servatlves, and she has distracted the
nation and established centers where
NNANiAOA - ~oC6Il Will Kits IN
the graded schools and conduct classes
after hours for such girls, gradually
enlarging the scope until they have
graduated and are seeking employ
ment. There are employment agencies
for intelligent girls and every aid is
offered until the applicant gets into
easy circumstances. Dame Bridge.
man is not alone in this policy, the
Liberals have their corps of teachers,
and perhaps the best organized in the
way of preparing the girl for the privi.
lege of voting is the Labor party,
which has, perhaps, three centers to
one conducted by Conservatives and
Liberals.
Mr.. Robert S. Stewart, one of the
exalted officials of the Standard Oil,
who has headquarters in Chicago, did
not await the flight of Col. Lindbergh
to Paris to become enthusiastic over
the lighter variety of plane. For two
years past Mr.. Stewart has been pilot
ing his private plane, and one in which
he had a large hand in designing,
from hangar he maintins in the Ford
airport, 80 miles south of Chicago. He
frequently takes as many as six to
eight friends sometimes for an air sail
oFCl A<elhC AhlSAISdII, anu dSdli liiLO
the country for particular objective.
sometimes 500 miles away. The plane
is entirely inclosed and the two rear
seats are constructed after the Pull
man idea. being converted into COM
Portable beds at night. and two others
turned into commodious table.
Palatable food is taken from inner
lockers in thermos bottles of both hot
and cold varieties. Mr.. Stewart s
plane, like the Spirit Of st. Louis. has
three Wright motors, and can hum
through the air at 100 miles an hour
if the pilot wishes. But Mr.. Stewart
rarely fiys rapidly. usually taking a
steady pace of not more than so miles
an hour. and heading for some point
where he has made all arrangements
for landing. Many jolly Fourth of
July parties have been entertained in
the plane. relays of guests being taken