Evening star., 1929-04-21
Tales of Well Known Folk
In Social and Official Life
Spanish Ambassador Awaiting Favorable Op
portunity for Vacation Period in His Beautiful
Villa at San Sebastian.

grounds.
Mr.. Philip Lee Carroll's annual In
vitation to his horSe-loving friends to
attend the show and races at his pri-
vate track at Doughreghan Manor the
second week in May calls attention to
the fact that the prospective host is the
direct lineal descendant In the tenth
generation of Charles Carroll Of Car
rollton, and he maintains in olden state
the beautiful home from which the
signer departed for the Continental
Congress and in which he died. Very
few such chapters may be written of
the other signers although the fine home
of John Quincy Adams at Braintree.
near Quincy, Mass, remains in the
Adams family; yet the colonial tradi-
ton does not maintain as. faithfully
as Doughreghan. Arthur Middleton,
the courtly and accomplished signer
from Charleston, S. c., owned a splen-
did estate, called Ashley, and this later
developed in the famous botanical pre-
serve known the world over as Mag
nolia-on-the- Ashley. But the prop
erty passed from the Middletons gem
Grafton after the signer died. He was,
1t will be remembered taken prisoner
after the army of Cornwallis had cap
tulSu t1lC EoOulIl SdlOllIlef
and where Pulaski had gallantly given
up his life for the cause of freedom. So
rigorous and inhuman was the treat
ment accorded this cultured Southron
in the British prison camp that he died
within three years afterward at York
town. His memorial addressed to Con-
gresS on the subject Is frequently quoted
by American and British historians
alike. Mr.. Middleton was an artist
and an ardent lover of flowers. Many
of the magnificent magnolias which Wis
itors now travel from overseas to ad-
mire in their blooming season were
planted under his order and the splen-
did border of wild verbena was also
his creation Magnolia -on-the- Ashley,
after weathering many years of neglect
under many careless owners, passed to
the family of Drayton and under their
prudent management the magnolia gar
denS, in which bloom also azaleas, Ca
melias and some 80 varieties of the
Towering tree which gives name to the
estate, were restored.
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Lady AShburton of the present day,
one of London's most important host
eSses, was. before her marriage, Miss
Frances Donnelly of New York City,
niece of the Shakespearan scholar.
Ignatius Donnelly, and of the we'll
known poetess, Eleanor c. Donnelly. She
plays an important role in the scheme
of things in the British Capital and is
an especially brilliant and attentive
hostess to her visiting countrywomen.
Lord Ashburton is only a collateral de-
scendant of that astute envoy from
Britain who, as the chronicles relate.
fioated his treaty, signed jointly by the
mighty Daniel Webster, through the
Senate on sea of champagne. But the
name Is of interest to all students of
political history. and Lady Ashburton
and historians, as well as to the votaries
Of fashion.
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Mr.. Thomas L. Mason, better known
as Tom Mason the humorist, has been
hammering away at four words, used.
he believes, too frequently in every kind
of writing. outstanding" reaction"
'nneticulous" and "superimposed," and
his onslaughts have aroused instant at
tention in the literary journals of Lon
don. Nearly all of Britains intelli-
gentSia agree with the humorist that
ever since the World War these words
have performed faithful service and
should now be retired. "Superimposed,"
which occurs SO frequently in the writ
ings Of presumably purists of the Ian
guage on this side of the water and in
England, is, according to supporters of
the New York critic, not only employed
too often to be forcible, but also is i'm
proper and should be eliminated. Sew
eral London editors add the American
list to collection of their own. and
many editors in all time have de-
clared an embargo on the offending epi-
thetS. The late Charles A. Dana, one of
the most brilliant editors this country
has produced, had violent antipathies
to certain words and simply would not
allow them in his newspaper, the Sun.
But while the critics list the synonyms
for these popular expressions they re-
luctantly agree the everyday writer bent
on force and simplicity is going to have
a difficult time getting along without
outstanding" and reaction" notwith-
standing the opinion of the humorist
and of Mr.. Gilbert Chesterton.
Mrs. Anna Rogers Broughton, widow
of Urban H. Broughton, one of London's
successful financiers, who died last
month at an advanced age, is planning
to bring the famous yacht Sapphire to
this side of the world during the COM
ing Summer. In the social sense no
craft on the French Riviera was more
renowned for quiet elegant hospitality
than the Sapphire, and it was the home
Of its owners practically two-thirds of
the year. Mrs. Broughton is the young
est sister of the elder Henry H. Rogers,
associate of Mr.. John D. Rockefeller in
founding the Standard Oil Corporation.
She was born in the old Rogers home, in
Fairhaven, on BuzZards Bay, Mass, and,
like her brother, she manifested the
keeneSt interest in that town. Espe-
cially was she proud of the noble group
Of buildings which Mr.. Rogers erected
and endowed to perpetuate the memory
of his parents, who had been descend
ants of pioneers who settled in this
part of the old Massachusetts, Bay
Colony in the middle seventeenth
century. Mrs. Broughton has especially
interested herself in Priscilla Inn, at
Fairhaven, named for her mother, and
an endowed institution for the purpose
OF keeping alive the ancient New Eng
land culinary traditions She will bring
the Sapphire to the waters of Buzzards
Bay and entertain many relays of Brit
ish friends at the inn during the Sum-
Ymer. The elder Henry H. Rogers spent
several weeks each Summer in Fair
haven just to enjoy food which he rel
1shed in his mothers home and pre-
pared nowhere else so tastily as in this
inn, where hundreds Of old recipes have
been collected and are used daily.
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