Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-01-13
Tales of Well Known Folk
In Social and Official Life
Personal Sketches and Incidents of Special Inter
est. Gathered in Review of Events
of Two Hemisphere.

a group of high government chieftains
and diplomats at hunting party in
the forest of Rambouillet In the years
of the Bourbon kings this week devoted
to the pleasures of the chase would
begin with solemn services in honor of
St. Hubert. patron of huntsmen. But
so many French officials do not SUBJ
scribe to the Roman Church and so
many diplomats belong to dissenting
creeds that this formality has lapSed.
! The Chief Magistrate of France is of
poetic nature, and abhors the killing
of the forest creatures. particularly the
birds, for which he has a special fond
ness. While he fills his traditional
duties to the last letter in inviting the
| sportsmen to Rambouillet, his only par
rather formal in character, which is
served about o'clock in the afternoon,
when the events of the hunt form the
principal theme of table talk. The in
terval the presidential host passes
| tramping the high roads, his favorite
trails through the woods being highly
unsafe with huntSmen at large, even
the quiet pools where he loves to fish
being too close to the rifles for the
safety of the fisher. Ambassador Her.
rick, who frequently is asked to the
forest. this being deemed an exalted
honor, is not partial to killing game,
and this year his continued absence and
illness caused him to decline the invi-
tation.
Mrs. Charles Frederick Hoffman's
success in winning the right to stand,
as the British term goes, for the bor-
ough of North Norfolk in the coming
election for the Commons Is being
watched with unfiagging interest by her
former friends and associates in politi-
cal circles of New York. This lady, who
has an enormous income and fine an
cestral background in the Empire State
and in Louisiana, was naturalized as a
citizen of Great Britain only last Spring.
But she had resided in Bickling Hall, at
Aylsham, in Norfolk, for the past IL
years, and during the past Summer she
acquired title to this historic and eX-
tensive estate, and soon after she was
nominated a candidate on the Liberal
ticket for her borough. Mrs. Hoffman'S
task is not the comparatively easy one
which such a campaign would mean in
her own country. More than 800 vii
lagos comprise the district which she
aspires to represent in the popular
house of the British Parliament, and
tll6 bTdQlIlUIlS are ILidt OIlc llluoe FAoAe
every one. meet its people and accept
all manner of entertaining, which is far
more strenuous than kissing the babies
and the handShaking pertaining to pre-
election activities in this land. Mean
time vast amount of entertaining goes
on at Bickling Hall, a splendid Tudor
mansion with gardens which are the
pride of the county, exceeding in area
and breadth of design even those of the
royal dwelling at Sandringham.
~
Clara Barton S one-roo cottage at Bor-
dentown, N. j., where in 1853 she opened
the first public school in this venerable
burg, is now a museum of the American
founder of the Red Cross and filled with
valuable relics of the opening days Of
this famous and widespread organiza-
ton of mercy. The cottage placed at
Miss Barton'S disposal by the city ia
theirs is small but picturesque in the
extreme, and the trelliS, many times
renewed since the day it was set in
place by the proud boys who had fash
Toned it, is in proper season covered
with the old-faShioned roses which the
angel of the battlefield as President
Lincoln called Miss Barton, planted in
those early days. Six boys were for a
year her only students, but they all
gave good accounts of themselves.
Bordentown has boosted of many celeb
rites among its residents, but despite
its high hopes of becoming a mighty
port Of entry by land and sea, 1t re-
mains quiet, beautifully situated little
city now more than $50 years old.
Revolutionary history was written IN
lively skirmishes held between the Brit
ish troops encamped on the opposite
side of CroSSwickS Greek and the Patri-
otto Army led by Capt. Joseph Borden,
grandson of the founder of the town,
who afterward served on Gen. Washing
toms staff. He was the last male de-
scendant of the founder, Joseph Borden,
Quaker who, with many others of
that Sect had retired from the crowded
purviews of Pennsylvania to the Jersey
colony.
Mr.. and Mrs. Elliott Schuyler Phil
lips, who some years ago purchased the
beautiful estate of the late dramatiSt,
Clyde Fitch. at Greenwich, Conn, had
in way anticipated the unique sug-
gestion of a prominent hotel man to
have a chapel in every hoStelry. FIR.
Fitch had called his home Quiet,
Corner, and had arranged both house
and garden with the idea of rest and
Seclusion. Mr. Phillips is the coIein
of the dramatist and with Mrs. Pkil-
lips had frequently been his guest. AL
though the grounds we're left much