Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-09-30
Tales of Well known Folk
! In Social and Official Life
Notes and Personal Sketches of Interest Relating
!. to individuals of Note in United States
and Other Lands.

I Adirondack waters. There are many
illusions to choice fishing spots in
Maine and in the remote reaches of
Vermont. where the Executive f1shed
as boy. and the Wisconsin country
and its opportunities is most luminouc-
~ presented. Scientific angling is the
gist of many chapters. with the scoring
of the hit-anG-miss sportsmen. who So
frequently spoil the sport of others.
This fine volume Of trout fishing has
already been presented to Gen. PERISH
ing and to Vice President Dawes. botn
of whom rcvel in fly fishing in the re-
mote lakes of Colorado and Wyoming
so there seems no doubt that it will
find Its way to the presidential library
very soon. Mr.. Southland is devoted
advocate of fly fishing exclusively and
it seems likely that President Coolidge
will read all this most carefully.
Il -
The dean of thu diplomatic corps and
British Ambassador Sir Esme Howard
and Lady Isabella Howard have been
making a series of visits during Septem-
Der after having passed res,ful Sum-
mer in their home. Hutton in-the-
Forest in Cumberland. Among the
kindred they have recently visited was
the Dowaeer Duchess of Norfolk, mother
of the Duke. head of the house of
Howard. This lady visited the British
embassy in Washington two years ago.
They we're also the guests for few
days of young Lord Howard of Effing
ham, who recently returned to England
from New York and has entered the
foreign Office to prepare for diplo-
matte career. His father. Lord George
Gordon Howard. being a second son.
sought to improve his fortunes in the
New World and entered a British bank
ing house in New York City and for
years was known In that city simply as
Mr. Howard. Since the death of his
older brother. Alexander Henry Howard.
Earl OF Efflneham, he has assumed the
title but has declined to take his place
in the Lords. Young Lord John Alger-
non Howard was 81 in December last
and is now in residence in the family
home at West Riding in Yorkshire. Sir
EsJne and Lady Isabella have been the
guests also of the Earl and Countess of
Carlisle in their famous fortress home.
Naworth Castle. which lies on the divid-
ing line of Scotland and Euglc nd near
the city of Carlisle. and had q long and
CORY record in the border wars.
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Mr.. John D. Rockefeller has started
2 controversy which will doubtless sweep
from ocean 10 ocean and into every sec
ton of the land when he declared that
many Of the boys and girls he noted
rushing off to college would have a
more useful and successful life if they
remained at home Mr. Rockefeller
probably weighed the effect of such a
statement before he made it and he is
prepared to take up the challenge of
those who contend that every embryo
citizen should be given equal educa-
tlonal facility. The onrllsh of students
after the World War has been declared
abnormal and created a condition which
many public-spirited men and women
nave regretted. The heir of the founder
CT the Standard Oil interests believes
that some t"st should prevail by which
those who are not gaining in a college
course would be dropped from the rolls
and advised to prepare for life in some
other way. He would particularly cur
tail the activities of the idle youth who
squanders his time. and often the
resources of his parents when they can
i'll, afford it, Mr.. Rockefeller always has
been sympathetic toward aiding those
who must provide the funds themselves
during their college years and he and
CNAArA OPAIFJIiU ItCW 1OEhEIS nave
considered a scheme of underwriting
such students the funds to continue &C.
coroinc TO the school reports and to
cease when there is an indication of its
performing no actual good for the
recipient. Many thoughtful college pro-
fessors approve Mr. Rockefeller's frank
ness and believe the time has arrived
tn achieve. quality and not quantity
alone in the scholastic attendance
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Mrs. Marietta Minnigerode Andrews
makes frequent illusions in her books
to that Princess Mary Cantacuzene
daughter of the Russian Minister during
the last years of the reign of Alexander
III and the first of the unfortunate
Nlcnoias H. Mrs. Andrews is frequently
quoted in the foreword of Princess
Mary's pathetic story of her life as a
refugee at lie Crotoy, France, "The
Transplanting. She gives vivid pic
lures OF Washington in the 1905 and