Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-01-27
Tales of Well Known Folk
= In Social and Official Life
u .Crouped-Notable Happenings Passed in
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friends to whom an accidental sending
would have meant new gown, but for
her kindly aid. She could darn with
reveling from the material so expertly
that 1t would take careful search to
find the injury, and as for making
worn linen for table and bedrooms
look good as new, she was fairly a
wizard. But to her regret, Mrs. Pom
dexter confesses she has had scant
time for fine sewing in busy years, but
she still knits and crochets and keeps
a bit OF embroidery near to fill in when
she Is waiting for guests or to pay
calls.
From Mrs Coolidge down the line
Of celebrities to the modest homekeeper
the cry goes up, What shall be done
with the Christmas cards? Now the
answer comes with dispatch Cancel
ed stamps are used in many European
countries to fashion works of art,
screens, waste baskets, sewing baskets
and little articles of every Sort and
there are many agencies where these
may be sent, for instance, any of the
headquarters of foreign missions con-
nected with the various churches of
this country. Taking off the stamps,
the bright Illuminated lining of the
table and philanthropic women of
Washington who use them for fancy
articles, principally intended for Christ
mas trees next December, and the
cards themselves have variety of uses
in children's hospitals, where they
amuse the little sufferers hours untold;
in industrial centers, where the lovely
scenes inspire decorations of all sorts;
on furniture, on china, nursery dados
and attractive bits on porches, and in
outside playhouses. Mrs. Coolidge, be
it known, has dedicated her cards to
many useful purposes after she had de-
lighted in them for a full 10 days
after their receipt, and her example is
pass them on according to the appeals
they receive.
Mrs Franklin Delano Roosevelt has
become New York's most distinguished
commuter, having resumed her lee
lures at the Todhunter School about
two weeks ago. The governors wife felt
compelled to give the first month of
her husbands tenure at the head of the
State government to the details of set
Ting the family in its new home. Not
any of the Franklin Roosevelts how
ever, intend to give up the serene and
happily equipped home at Hyde Park.
All propose to spend occasional week
ends there, the Easter recess for the
boys from school and the various FAM
lily anniversaries. Only the most inn
perative personal property was taken
from Hyde Park, even the famous
library remaining intact, whilst sub
stitute volumes had been secured from
various sources. Gov. Roosevelt has
large collection of family portraits of
the RooSeveltS and their wives through
the past 200 years. and these give the
Hyde Park mansion a stately and liv-
able air. Many paintings are by Gilbert
Stuart and by Copley. The Stuart por-
trait Of that Nicholas Roosevelt who, in
1896, was among the public-spirited
men who encouraged steam navigation,
is perhaps the gem of the governors
collection. This Nicholas Roosevelt
the name an anglicised version of the
original Dutch class of the immigrant
was a spectator on the banks of the
collect or fresh water pond when John
Fitch's steamboat, the Clermont, made
Its f1rSt brief voyage, a good ii years
before Robert Fulton'S experiment. All
the RooSeveltS have therefore Stanchly
upheld the claim of Fitch against Full
ton as founder of the steamboat.
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The late Mrs. Edwa Tuck left a
handsome fortune for lie purpose Of
restoring the old villa a. Malmaison, in
which the Empress Josephine received
the last farewell of Napoleon when he
was fleeing from his enemies after the
battle of Waterloo. This is altogether a
different mansion from the exclusive
retreat built in the extensive park of
Malmaison for the eminent persons Suf-
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af1ictions. Mrs. Tuck, who was the
wife of Edward Tuck, an international
banker of Paris, and daughter law
of the late Amos Tuck, was Miss Julia
Stell of Philadelphia when she mar
ried the vice consul of this republic to
France. This was in 1872, and nearly
all the intervening years were spent by
her in the French capital. For her I'M
firing war work, Mrs. Tuck received
the blue ribbon of an officer of the
Legion of Honor. Always a profound
admirer of the Empress Josephine, she
found MalmaiSon's royal villa almost in
decay when she began the fund for
its restoration. Mr.. Tuck was, before
his retirement. senior partner in the
firm OF Monroe & Co., founded by M.
Richards, father of Nine. Jusserand. A
close friendship united the two families,
and the apartment which the former
Ambassador leased was close to the
Tuck home in Champs Elysee, in Paris.
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Mrs. Walter Hines Page, widow of
the former Ambassador to the Court
OF st. James, also an eminent figure in
literary history, will in a few weeks
take possession of palatial home built
In the Arizona desert within convenient
distance of Tuscon. Mrs. Page and her
daughter have been globe-trotters and
! they lived in England for more than
five years. Since the death of Mr.
Page, both have tried the renowned
Winter resorts of Algiers, Egypt, and
the countless offerings on the French
and Italian Riviera, and in the South
ern portions of their own country. But
| dropping off for rest at Tuscon some
two years ago the glorious mountains
and the picturesque desert scenes, mys-
ferrous ruins, strange carvings in the
rock and massive peaks and cliffs
weirdly painted by the passing ages.
made an irresistible appeal. Mrs. Page
bought an extensive area in the irri-
gated zone and for two years has been
carefully inspecting plans which call
for an exterior in harmony with the
desert and yet, within, such home as
could be enjoyed in Boston or New
York, where she had formerly lived.
That indestructible building material,
adobe, or the same variety Of sun-dried
brick, which has survived the centuries
in Egypt and is still employed by its
modern people, has been used for the
Page villa and there are the usual
patios and long courts Of the Spanish
style and "a glorious profusion of palms
and semi-tropic flowers made possible
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