Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-06-08
BY MARGARET B. DOWNING.

News comes from the Beeches, the
handsome new home into which the
former President and Mrs. Coolidge
moved recently, that like Ferdinand
and Isabella, the owners OF this beau
tiful place have divided the realm. Mr.
Coolidge will have an eye on the lovely
trees and. as he is addicted to saving
wood. literally as we'll as Symbolically
he will get to work on any limb which
appears to crave his services, and also
viii consult experts about cutting GER
tain Superfluous growth along the Drive
and in the grove. Mrs. Coolidge loves
flowers and she will gather all that
were called after her husband and her
self during their years in the White
House. OF course, all the specimens
she admired were removed from the
Massasoit street house and some from
the Coolidge property in Vermont.
Spring flowers also were the delight OF
this First Lady and she will now enjoy
this preference to the utmost. Spring
comes late in Northampton ana the
tulips. narcissi and some varieties OF
hyacinths were still blooming when she
began her supervision of the garden.
Always partial to the old favorites-
hollyhocks, stock, larkspur, peoples and
petunias - the borders of the Hover
spaces have been thickly planted with
these. One thing about the new place
is the privacy it insures for both. Mrs.
Coolidge is said to don heavy gloves
and broad hat and to spend happy,
healthful morning with her gardener.
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King Haakon of Norway is not so
we'll known to the travelling public from
this side of the water as other reign
ing heads of Europe, except, of course,
to the large contingent of Morse birth
or ancestry who sail back to their
mother country with regularity. But
the Kings name will occur more fire.
ouently in the press if he carries into
effect his threat to take up with Fed
eral and State authorities of the United
States the ease with which Norwegians,
fresh from their own land, can obtain
a divorce and acquire a new spouse,
leaving the homeland to take care of
the wife and children left behind.
King Haakon has been studying num-
Der of these cases and he and his coun-
Gil of ministers are going to try out
system of compulsory Selling OF part OF
any salary an immigrant may have TO
support the family he has in his own
country. Usually these cases are not
desertion at first glance. The family
Is left with relatives, while the husband
starts of to better his condition, and
always with the repeated assertion that
he will send for them as soon as he
can afford it. King Haakon proposes
to compel him to keep these promises
If it can be done. Queen Maude of
Norway, sister of George of Britain, also
is interested in curbing this evil and
she is in charge of a fund to aid the
stranded families of immigrants to the
Western Land of promise. Their Nor
wegian majesties are, perhaps, the most
democratic of any in Europe, moving
among the people with practically no
restrictions. Their favorite diversion is
yachting and they travel almost exclu-
siyely by water.
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Senior Ramon Padilla, who has been
assigned to his fathers staff in the
Spanish embassy as second secretary
came to Washington with his parents
of his preliminary course in the foreign
Office. He remained about two years
and was again assigned to the ministry
of foreign affairs in Madrid. During
his soiourn in the Capital he had
rapidly perfected his English and was
q quiet, r studiouS person, although
sociable and wide awake. Having now
committed himself to diplomacy as
career, the Ambassadors son will find
excellent opportunities to acquire knowl-
edge which is most valuable at present
in Spain. Trade and commerce have
increased with leaps and bounds be-
tween this country and the Iberian pen
insula and through his mother he has
tremendous shipping interests and these
play q potent part in the developing OF
trade. His grandfather, the Baron
Satrustegui, controls the Spanish
American line which in the past five
eailings to New York and Havana, and
they now average those to the southern
part of the continent. Previously there
was q heavy preponderance OF salllngs
TO Buenos Aires, Rio and Santiago de
Chile. Senior Ramon Padilla'S assign
ment to Washington makes the second
family affair, as it were, the son OF the
Minister from the Netherlands having
also Just taken over diplomatic duties
here. The Peruvian Ambassadors son,
young Herman Velarde, was or his
fathers staff for three years, when he
resigned to resume the profession OF
architecture.
N. CASTOR Gerard, who has been
appointed high commissioner OF the
newly created bureau to take over in a
special manner the care OF our good
friends, the Americans" is taking no
risks in the line of advertising chosen.
French liners have announced free all
the best vintages to citizens of this
Republic who travel on it and accept
in advance an itinerary through France
of at least Is days. But not only Is
wine and more ardent waters to be
free but for those who have the laws
of the nation in mind mineral water is
to be gratuitous, whereas hitherto 1t
has been far more expensive to drink
than are the wines. Although gravely
warned against all other water, many
Americans have tossed these predic-
lions aside and survived very COM
fortably. M. CASTOR has been adver-
Using very circumspectly, and usually
free wine would be capital drawing
card. But 48 ships sailed out of New
York last week with but minimum OF
United States travellers bound for
France. Despite the wine, Germany,
Switzerland, Great Britain and other
northern nations of Europe have at
tracted the greater number this year,
according to bookings. more than 80 per
cent increase over the tourist list last
Summer. Tourists to italy also show a
decrease in actual sailings and in reser-
vations, but not so apparent as those TO
France. In Italy the weather Is re-
tRarded as deterrent in the usual vaca-
! ton season. But the surprise OF TINS