Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-12-22
BY MARGARET B. DOWNING.

celeDranJS OF the 4uleCloe, forgetting
their religious ritual of calling on the
deserved plight and rescue the people
from the yoke of the oppreSSor. Mr..
Dewey believed that this spirit marred
Christmas in these more propitious
times, when Poland is a free and
sovereign state. He set about getting
men who would take over different sec
tons of the city. decorate the corners
with Christmas trees. have many cleo
trio lights of green and red to garland
the streets and a mighty community
tree to excite the curiosity and satisfy
the yearnings of the youngsters who
are not familiar with the customs of
this country Mr.. and Mrs. Dewey last
year adorned their lawn with a Christ
mas tree and every window in their
home blazed with lights and emblems
such as may be found all over this
country, Peace to men of good will"
Merry CHRISTMAS" were among the
messages tAIng in the windows. North
ern counties never use the wreath of
evergreen OF holly Sc frequently seen
here To display such an object IN the
window would be the equivalent OF
hanging crepe on the door bell or
afixing flowers to it in any parts of
this land. But baskets Of fruit with
red tapers shining over the top are
much admired, and even cakes cleaning
with candles, as for birthday party
are finding favor among the Polish
Christmas window decorators.
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II the Duchess of Roxburghe, who is
in mid-Janaury to occupy the box so
long the property of her mother, the
late Mrs. ogden Goelet, wears her cele-
brated jewels. the diamond horseshoe
in the Metropolitan Opera House may
come back to its old traditions. No
longer can the alert agents who dis
creetely sell tickets to visitors in the
more expensive hotels use the per-
suasive arguments that by attending the
opera the most gorgeous jewels In the
world could be admired and with the
gems the most beautiful and aristocratic
women in the veteran Hemisphere.
There may be no change as to the love-
illness and breeding, but this is the age
of pearls and they do not contribute
so wildly to the spectacle even though
they be as costly. Then the sinister
tale Is whispered that the most famous
diamonds which shone from the horse
shoe are hostages of fortunes lost in
the recent stock slump. Again 1t is
known that with hold-upS and banditry
possible on the streets and in the hotels,
neither In New York nor in Chicago are
the real Jewels now displayed, but only
their paste substitutes. These naturally
naments. So the chief attraction OF
the Metropolitan seems to be passing
unless the duchess, native daughter OF
Gotham and imbued with its traditions,
can re-establish the wearing of dla-
monds.
Should Sir Ronald Lindsay choose to
entertain his relatives in the handsome
new British embassy in Washington. as q
London paper recently commented, he
could foregather house parties from his
kindred to last for a years week ends.
Not only had his father a patriarchal
family, six sons and three daughters,
but all the Lindsays of the past have
boosted a number Of children and 1t
would be difficult to name house OF
note in Great Britain which has not in
termarried with the Earls Of Lindsay
and BalcarreS. One. visitor on whom
Washington places well founded hopes
will be the Duchess of Rutland, who
was the youngest sister of the late
twenty-sixth earl. father of the am
baSsador. She spent some time in New
Work and made brief visit to WASH
ington while her daughter, Lady Diana
Manners that was. now the wife OF Capt.
Duff Cooper, was playing in The
Miracle" The twenty-seventh earl,
brother Of Sir Ronald, is family man.
He has six children and the same num-
Der Of grandchildren. His eldest son,
Lord Baliel, captured the borough Of
Lonsdale. Lancashire, for the Conserv.
atives at the May election when all
that section was going for the LaboriteS.
This brilliant young nephew of the am
basSador designate from the Court OF
st. James, who Is serving for the firSt
time In the Commons, married Lady
Mary Cavendish, daughter Of Lord Rich
ard Cavendish, and they have three
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the Lords from his seat in Wigan. One
Of his numerous titles is Baron Wigan
Of Haigh Hall, which is close to the
picturesque village Of Wigan, in Lam
cashire.
Mrs. Vincent Astor, Mrs. Payne Whit
ney and other leaders in Gotham's cul-
tured and fashionable circle appear TO
have made a ladies agreement" to
visit the enhancing places of Europe IN
of seasons and not to aid in turing
their country people abroad before they
have seen the beauties of their own
land Mrs AStor Is charmed with
Montecattini, that lovely spa OF Italy
which gathers English and American
diplomats at all seasons, to partake OF
its healing waters, as flowers draw the
bees. But Mrs. Astor-and often Mr..
AStor accompanies her-goeS In late
May or early June and has the double
enjoyment Of having the place to herself
before the fashionableS gather from all
over Europe. Mrs. Payne Whitney has
since her widowhood often joined her
son In his Winter practice tours for
golf, or in the Southern exercise OF
his horses She invariably, however,
has a family reunion at Thanksgiving
and at Christmas, so this means that
not until well after Easter does she feel
at liberty to go abroad. She also often
goes to Montecattini and to its rival
Viareggio, on the Italian Riviera. Mrs.
Aston fulflls all the obligations which
she believes she has inherited from her
husbands grandmother, the great Mrs.
William Astor, and she visits Europe'S
enchanted regions for specific purpose
and with no idea of joining the increas-
ing ranks of the expatriated. Mrs.
in Thomasville, Ga, and Mr.. and Mars.
Vincent Aston in one Of their f1ne yachts
sail the southern seas from Key west
to the coast of Panama.
\
Hon. James Henry Sculltn recently
elected Laborite prime minister OF the
Commonwealth of Australia, Is, accord
ing to reports, showing some reluctance
to remove from his comfortable home
in the elegant city of Melbourne to the
half-flnished, dusty. new capital, Can
berra. After the lapse Of 129 years, all
officials Of that continent OF the South
ern Pacific show the same attitude
which this Republics group of public
men assumed when the time came for
them TO transfer their residence from
the comedy, well ordered city Of Phila-
delphia to the wilderness along the Po-
tomac. President Adams. viSibly de-
pressed by his preliminary visit in the
Spring Of 1900, prepared his associates
for the worst-mud-tangled briars,
houses without streets and streets with.