Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-12-02
Tales of Well Known Folk
In Social and Official Life
Prince Adolphus of Sweden Soon Will Visit
Washington as Guest of Minister and
Nine. Bostrom.

I to Great Britain from 1915 when he was
transferred from Russia by President
Madison. Mr.. Hoover is unique in the
class with any President. acting or pro-
spective, in having star recently dis
covered between Jupiter and Mars called
"Hooveria," by Austria's leading as
tronomer, DR.. Johann Palisan Of Vienna.
X X X
DR.. Lyon Gardiner Tyler, only surviv-
ing son of the tenth President of the
United States. is in his Seventy-second
year. exactly the age of John Tyler
when the president emeritus of William
and Mary College was born. Lyon
Gardiner was the youngest of the eight
sons of his father and was the last of
the children-five boys and three girls
born of the second marriage to Julia
Gardiner, whom the tenth Chief Magis-
trate brought to the White House as a
bride in 1874. DR.. Tyler'S second mar
riage occurred three years ago, and his
wife was Miss Sue Ruffin, granddaugh-
ter of the man who fired the first gun
at Fort Sumter. The infant will bear
his fathers name, Lyon Gardiner Tyler
and will thus unite in three generations
the first President of the United States
with the election of the thirtieth. John
Tyler, President, was born March 49,
1890, just as President Washington was
getting the new Republic functioning
under the Constitution, and he lived
until the opening year Of Lincoln's first
term, dying January IT, 1862, in his
seventy-Second year. Mrs. Tyler sur
vived until 1889. AS president of Will
liam and Mary College, DR.. Tyler was
recognized force in the educational
world, so that in Virginia it has been
customary to allude to the Presidents
Tyler, father and son, one politically
and the other in the pedagogical world.
John II, Prince of Lichtenstein, the
smallest independent principally in all
of Austria and with the least popula-
ton, is nevertheless an impressive and
much loved ex-ruler, and when his
eighty-eighth birthday rolled round the
entire population of Lichtenstein, Topaz
and Jagendorf, II 500. in state which
is IS miles square, celebrated the occa-
sion. The prince, who has been suffer-
ing from cataracts on his eyes, was in
Vienna under the care of famous Spe-
cialiSt, and in that city the rejoicing
also was universal. For coincident with
his eighty-eighth birthday the tiny
country was concentrating the 10
years in which the good Prince John
had ruled his people, as much SO now
as before the Hapsburg throne toppled
and the nation became a republic. He
is the oldest serene highlIess in Europe
and has reigned longer than any of the
kings and queens whose careers are
outstanding Victoria was Empress
Queen for So years, and Franz Josef,
Emperor of Austria, lacked few weeks
of completing the same number Of
years. Lichtenstein was created feu-
dial state of the holy Roman Empire in
1923. 1t had been free state of Mora
via since 1919 and some of the aged
princes finest property was over the
Austrian line into the area of the Czech
oslovak republic. The prince has never
married, and his small estate and high
sounding titles will pass to a younger