Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-02-02
Tales of Well Known Folk
In Social and Official Life
President Hoover Is Listed to Visit, at His Con
venience, Notable Fishing Club Founded
200 Years Ago

all went to enjoy the Midwinter sports
events in st. Moritz. where seemingly
the great social world of England was
! gathered, with numerous contingent
from this country. Col. Henry H. Rogers
and his second wife. formerly Mrs. Basil
Miles, widow of the well known diplo-
mat, have been in Lausanne since Mo-
vember, with occasional visits to Paris
and TO the Engadine, where the Winter
sports rival those of the higher Aims
Mrs. Field will come Co Washington
for the Spring season and it is likely she
viii have some interesting guests from
London. She has been abroad since last
Spring and this Autumn omitted even
her Autumn visit to Chicago for the
opening of the opera. Marshall Field,
Sd, and Mrs. Field have been in Lon
don recently, but they returned to New
York and as usual will pass some of
the Winter in Chicago, the city so iden-
titled with the source Of their fortune.
X X X X
The Ambassador from Cuba and Sc
nora Ferrara, who cannot resist srend-
ing the holidays in their beautiful home
in Havana, return promptly to Wash
ington, when that season of family re-
unions Is over, and resume their hos
has been so often noted, follow many
customs of this land and the handsome
Cuban embassy in Sixteenth street
shows more cheerful aspect after
dark than do any of its neigllbors. The
central hall and entrance is ALWAYS
brightly lighted and usually Softened
tapers, and more dazzling ones in draw
ing and dining rooms, proclaim that
amenities are In progress. At the French
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after dark and only a twinkle of light
shows at the main entrance. The Next
can embassy is utterly dark, no CLEAN
anywhere, and the same is true of the
Spanish establishment close by. The
Polish and Lithuanian legations might
be abandoned houses, so far as any
indication of occupancy is apparent
after the lamplighter has made his
rounds, but the genial Persian, whose
nome adJoins the Lithuanian, follows
the age-long traditions of his people
and blazes welcome to the passers in
the street as well as the guest who
rings the doorbell. No mansion of the
city is more luminous than the White
House, the great lantern on the north
portico being visible for squares. But
Washington houses In general are IL
Illuminated at least in the halls and gen
orally in the living rooms and few heavy
curtains are drawn.
X X X X
TIE late Stephen Tying Mather. be-
fore his recent lamented death, had the
satisfaction of seeing that national
parks were not so universally considered
places for Summer recreation, but also
for wholesome, life-building Winter
sports. An apostle of the open, Mr..
Mather lost no opportunity for Impress
ing on men engaged in the exacting pur-
suits that to build up the tissue and
harden the constitution spending of
Winter in enervating Southern places
availed nothing. Continual exercise In
cold, bracing air would accomplish bet
ter results in two weeks than would the
same number of months In soft, warm
spots, no matter how appealing other
aspects might be. Never has a Winter
and its sports made such a heavy de-
mand on the resources Of such resorts
as offer the usual ice exercises and
camping. in zero weather as has the
present. Those who own Summer
camps In the Adirondacks can rent
them at high figures If they desire,
and such Is the case all over the
Northern frontier of this republic, and
even tapping over into Canada Yosem-
tie Park, the Summer Fairgrounds of
California, but always spoken of in