Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-01-26
Tales of Well Known Folk
In Social and Official Life
Judge Hughes Plea Relating to Endowments
of Women's Colleges
ExempEhed.

October, 1914, when the late Pontiff
Plus X summoned him to take over
the heavy labors of the chancellery. and
he has kept at the task unremittingly
ever since. The present pontif has
bestowed on his secretary of foreign
affairs the fine old medieval castle of
belgrade, in the Alban Hills, which
overlooks the loveliest scenery about
Rome and is in full sight of the Sabine
country, where Latin civilization and
culture had birth. Cardinal Gasparri
at one time thought of revisiting the
old and much beloved scenes in the
Western World. He was papal nuncio
in Lima and has a fondness for that
picturesque city. He spent some years
in La Paz and Quito as apostolic dele
gate. and many times he passed
through the busting ports of the
northern section, New York, Boston and
Journey to the South. But he is not
inclined to travel at present and will
enter on a period of rest and quiet
study, writing his memoirs and finish
ing some abstracts on canon law.
Sir Esme Howard is, In polite phrase,
the Ambassador from the Court of st.
James, and that famous old palace, no
longer the scene of royal revels, is the
meeting place of the Naval Conference
between the five powers now in prog
resS in London. st, James Palace is
one of the most revered royal dwell
ings in the empire and its long chroni-
Giles have invariably been those OF
peace. ST. James was first occupied
as a residence by Queen Anne after
the Whitehall Palace had been burned,
and succeeding rulers favored it until
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a preference for Buckingham. Edward
VII and his consort used Buckingham
exclusively as a residence and as the
scene for the royal levees and ban
quetS. King George and Queen Mary
sometimes hold court at st. James, but
Buckingham is more modern and is
well equipped, and its entrances are
more commodious. The plenary ses-
Sions of the Naval Conference will be
held in the banqueting hall, long,
low apartment of dignified aspect and
ample proportions. In this same hall
was the stage set for the supreme
council of the League of Nations, held
in 1920, and many local peace negotia-
nificent wood work was done by Brit
aims most accomplished artisan,
Grinling Gibbons.
Mr.. Sumner Welles, who was for some
time commissioner from the United
States to the Dominican Republic, has
never failed to proclaim Santo Domingo
as the ideal Winter resort of the
Western Continent. Mr.. Welles prac-
tices what he breaches and with Mrs.
Welles, formerly Mrs. Peter Goelet
Gerry and as Miss Mathilde Townsend
one of the Capitals renowned bellies, he
spends from three to six months in a
marvellous domicile of stone at the edge
of the sea. Mr.. WelleS writes books
and just now is engaged in compre-
hensive study of the Dominican Re-
public from the political viewpoint and
in regard to its fascinating history.
But he and Mrs. Welles and the chill
dren of Mr.. Welles begin the day by
a dip in the surf from their own bath
house just below their mansion, and
they end 1t In the same joyous way.
Santo Domingo, rich in ancient men,
cries, the first permanent city in the
new world, is amply supplied with mod
ern hostelries, with good roads and
with all that makes life agreeable fol
the transient guest, and Mr.. Welles
marvels that so few from the United
States try out its phenomenal Winter
climate. At every turn there are
memorable spots, and the beautiful
harbcr which excited the admiration
of the great navigator on his first
voyage remains as alluring because
now it is much livelier. The SPLEEN
did stone mansion built by Diego
Columbus, son of the navigator Is now
in ruins, but they are marvelously pic