Evening star., 1928-12-23
Tales of Well Known Folk
In Social and Official Life
Washington Is Hoping for the Return to Diplo.
matte Circle of Dr. Konitza, Albania
Scholarly Envoy.

and he also has gigantic moving pic
ture machine which when possible will
record the specimens alive and in their
natural habitat. Giant cameras will be
used for landscapes. This is but one OF
three mammoth expeditions which will
leave the shores of this republic for
scientific research and in hitherto un-
visited parts of the world.
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Two of Great Britain's eminent
statesmen furnish much diversion for
the public by their dual fads, those
of raising the most massive and pedi-
greed porkers and of partiality to the
task of laying bricks. These are Mr..
Winston Churchill and Sir William
Joynson- Hicks. Mr.. Churchill took out
a license to build brick wall and an
clubhouse on his estate, and on the
strength of this applied for mem
bership card in the bricklayerS' union.
Although conferred, the honor was SUB
seuuently withdrawn, as the statesman
has other avocations and does not do
bricklaying for a livelihood. But he
does increase his annual income lib
orally by the sale of pigs. The Churchill
pigs have quite a reputation, much IKE
the razor-back of certain sections OF
this country, which yields ham dear to
the heart, of gourmandS. Sir JoynSonS-
Hicks, who is secretary for home affairs,
has a fine walk to his credit as brick
laver and he is constantly the rival OF
the. chancellor of the eXchequer, Mr..
Churchill for prizes won by porkers at
various county fairs. Viscount Grey,
who served for short period in the
British embassy in washington, is pas
sionately fond of studying birds and of
fishing. AS Sir Edward Grey he en-
tertained in New Forest eX-PreSident
Roosevelt, who went there just to hear
the whistling black cap, sweet singer
unknown in this country.
Although fads of the mighty are not
SO widely featured in the press of this
country, many take note of the Presi-
dents growing devotion to sylvan
pleasures, fishing and hunting, and of
Mrs. Coolidge's consuminn interest in
genuine antique furniture and her in
tense study Of the periods of best pro-
duction in this country. Every one
knows the intense championship of the
Secretary of War for sporting, well
played tennis tournaments and the gift
of the Davis Cup, which figures in ten
mis- fiction as largely as it does in actual
tennis games, and Mr.. Melons love of
art and the fact that he will cross the
ocean just to sit before some favorite
canvaseS and find that pleasure well
worth the pains.
The Attorney General is known
throughout New England for his knowl-
edge of colonial clocks and his ability
to make them run and keep good time
at that. All through Vermont tales are
told of the genial aid which this kindly
cabinet official has given in homes
casually visited and where old clocks
had years before ceased to function. He
frequently is consulted in regard to his
toric clocks, those in museums and
ShrineS and in public institutions. If
the clock has ever been a good time
keeper and well made. Mr.. Sargent can
restore it to usefulness, for he has
studied the simple mechanism of the
old-time builders and can detect any
injury. He has. a fine assortment of
ancient clocks and he always is adding
to the number. He also is collector of
books on special subjects and has per-
hapS the finest private library in Yer
mont.
Mr.. Alexander Smith Cochran of New
York in leasing the residence of the late
Nine. Christian Hauge, widow of the
Minister from Norway, who died some
years ago while skiing in Switzerland,
has secured one of the most imposing
mansions of the city and one of the
most elegantly equipped. Situated on
Massachusetts, avenue above Twenty
third street, its garden is series of
raised terraces extending back to the
heights which crown this section as it
slopes toward the loop of Rock Greek.
Nine. Hauge, who was before mar
rying the Morse diplomat Mrs. Fred
erick Joy of Louisville, left her prop
erty to her brother, Mr. Ross Todd, and
his daughter, Louise Todd, now Mrs
S. Parker Gilbert Mr.. Cochran found
that the mansion, untenanted for
three years, needed renovation. and he
will not take possession until the
Spring, being meantime established in
the Hay-Adams House. Perhaps the
finest private dining hall in the city is
to be found in this residence. 1t is 40
feet square and is paneled in old
carved English oak, with buffet chairs
and tables made from the same mate
rial, obtained some 25 years past from
a priory in Surrey which was about
to be demolished and was offered at
public auction Britons were not then
accustomed to having their Yankee
cousins walk off with their treasures,
and the newspaper criticism of Mrs.
joys purchase caused a bill to be in
troduced into Parliament forbidding
ancient interiors from being sold out OF
the country.
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Mrs Clyde Kelly, wife of the Rep
resentative in Congress from Pittsburgh
is enjoying well deserved respite from
the prolonged duties of acting as
hostess to the Pennsylvania State So
ciety Of Washington from 1920, the
tenure of her husbands Office as pres
ident of that virile society. The Key
stone State has one of the oldest of
local associations, which was founded by
Dr. S. S. Stratton in 1895 But it is
only from 1920, when Representative
Kelly was elected, that the society be-
came what it is today, known for
the brilliancy of its entertainments
and the distinction of the guests, al
ways Keystoners of exalted rank, and