Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-05-18

I sent from Konine, Japan, where there
are so many flowers, the most glorious
paintings on the island empire. They
are sometimes 10 feet deep In a border
and make a patch of color not soon
| forgotten.
NJ. Jan Hermaen Won Royen, jr., who
| has just been appointed attache in his
, fathers legation, is the elder of the two
sons Of the Minister from the Neither
lands and his wife, who was Miss Alder
tina Taylor Winthrop of Boston and
Newport. Having selected diplomacy as
career, he has been plugging away at
the law and economics in the celebrated
University Of Utrecht and at special
schools In Paris Utrecht is one of the
famous seats of learning In the world
and its treaty signed by all the great
powers of Europe in 1713 and which
settled in the Spanish War of Success
sion, is considered the opening chapter
of diplomacy as a profession with lines
as definitely fixed as law or medicine.
The new attache with his brother Rob-
ert Dudley Won Royen have been fire.
quent visitors to his mothers native
land since their childhood and they
have spent nearly all academic vaca-
tons in Washington, including Christmas,
since their father became envoy from
Won Royen still Is in college but soon
will take up the higher studies at Ut
recht, though whether for a legal or
diplomatic career is not yet determined.
The young student soon will join his
family In Washington and will make
visits to his Winthrop and Taylor rela-
tives in Newport and along the North
Shore. Nine. Won Royen's mother was
Miss Kate Taylor, who as belle and
later as a social leader attained such
fame some 80 years ago.
Hon. Patrick Ramsey, who recently was
named British Minister in Athens, was
at one time well known in San Fran
cisco, where his aunt and adopted
mother, the former Miss Estelle CARR
son, had made her home and where
she has many relatives. With his
killed in the first month of the World
War, the diplomat was reared in the
home of his paternal uncle, Charles
Ramsay, his parents, the Earl and
Countess of TankervilIe having been
lost in an ocean tragedy when all were
in their teens. One of the brothers, Hon.
Capt. Alexander Ramsay, r. N, mar
ried the beloved Princess Pat of Con-
naught. She has laid aside the trap
PAISo VI LOydlby dIlu lives III EaTlS very
simply in the rank of wife of the naval
attache of the British embassy. Her
brother is now royal governor of South
Africa. Mrs. Charles Ramsay is one of
the most revered of the many American
women married into exalted circles in
the United Kingdom. Her devotion to
her husbands orphaned nephews was
proverbial. The present Earl of Tank
erville is the young son of Hon. Victor
Ramsay who died in Flanders and he
remains under the care of his uncle and
aunt at the chief seat of the family In
Sussex. The Garrison family originally
from Massachusetts, with the first mi
grafton In New York is now strongly
entrenched in California and especially
about San Francisco.
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The japanese Ambassador, M. De-
buchi, with his family paid their Gus
tomary homage to the CHEEKY blossoms
during the recent riot of color along
the tidal basin and on Potomac point.
But they are all just as entranced over
the Towering dogwood and seek out the
isolated specimens which may be found
on lawns in private grounds and in
wild state in Rock Creek Park. But
in Tokyo these lovely harbingers of