Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-09-09
Tales of Well Known Folk
In Social and Official Life
Secretary and Mrs Kellogg Take Well Merited
Vacation Abroad to Escape Hot
Season Here.

| the work of this guild in disposing OF
all surplus plants, flowers and fruits
| from the individual gardens for the
pleasure and comfort of those who lack
such good things. Especially does the
former Secretary of Commerce praise
the work of the guild. locally as well
as in its larger branches, in providing
flowers and delicacieS from the home
plot for children'S hospitals and for con-
flrmed invalids of mature years. Win
dow boxes are fitted out In various CEN
tiers and despatched to homes of sick
people as we'll as to hospitals and the
live Christmas tree activity is well
known. Mrs George Barnett. who had
been the first president of the Wash
ington branch. has become vice presi-
tary, and Mr.. John B. Larner. treas
urer. The question G: transporting
their offerings from country estates
about Washington to the city institu-
lions which are on the distribution list
has been engaging the attention of Mrs.
Thorpe and her officers as it has va
rious centers in many cities. Mrs.
Charles G. Dawes, wife of the Vice Pres
ident. who is deeply interested in the
branch established in Evanston, her
home, has persuaded a corps of girls to
run trucks and autos filled with flowers,
fruits and vegetables several times a
week frC:1 the suburbs to the general
headquarters in the heart of Chicago.
Miss Faith Rockefeller, who will be
among the notable buds of this Winter
in New York City. has been spending a
month hiking in the BerkShires with
her brothers and a few friends. This
handsome young woman is the grand
niece of the founder of the Standard
Oil. being the granddaughter of Will
liam Rockefeller. She is also the grand
daughter Of the elder James Stillman
and her debut party in November will
bring together an illustrious family con-
nection. The Stillmans. now so closely
affiliated with New York. originated in
Wethersfield. Conn. and the first FAM
lily mansion and burial plot is carefully
preserved. The Immigrant of the FAM
lily. George Stillnstn. married Elizabeth
Goodrich. Of anoths pioneer family in
the Nutmeg State, and the tomb of this
couple and many of their children is a
hallowed spot outside the old city. His
son Charles. who was the first in New
York City. returned to his r, me in later
life and lies in the old burial plot John
D. Rockefeller is about to publish the
annals of his family in this country and
this. say his friends, will prove that
though he and his brother William we're
poor and began life humbly, they have
behind them long, fine lineage of
which the general public has hitherto
heard nothing.
Mrs. Horace Mann Towner, wife of
the governor of Porto Rico, is an indie
fatigable traveller and she deems it no
hardship to journey from her present
beautiful island home at San Juan to
Washington, Iowa. California, or any
place where she is to represent various
associations in which she is prominent.
Mrs. Towner, who was president of the
Congressional Club. takes keen interest
in the prosperity of that social body and
few of the annual reunions-the famous
breakfasts given in the Spring with the
wife of the President as guest of honor
find her missing. She is the regent
from Iowa on the Mount Vernon board
of regents and she gives scrupulous
attention to these duties and despite
her present distant home. she has been
IN Washington year after year to meet
her associates. Mrs. Towner was in
Iowa at the impressive homecoming of
Mr.. Herbert Hoover and was prominent
in hoSpitable cares for the various
celebrities who accompanied the presi-
DENTAL candidate. She is. like her