Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-11-02

, farm and garden implements. Caroi
buys O fine new model auto every montn
uses 1t constantly, then disposes OF IL at
a~Rood sum to q patriotic citizen ana
buvs another. and so on through the
calendar. Agents Of Uncle SANS mu!-
tiform motor cars were gleeful over
the Rumanian kings car Of the monln
(October) being O we'll known ana very
popular make from Indianapolis. Haly
has q closed market for foreign cars, 50
far as It's oficialS are concerned. MUS
Solini would scorn using any puV al
italian make and although the Roman
pcntiff has received some specially man.
ilfactured and beautifully equipped
limousines from devoted Catholics In the
United States, he has never used one
not even in riding about the Vatican
GROUNDS. French ofhcialdom is more
independent and uses all kinds of cars,
one Of Spanish make being seen on
official occasions quite as much as
one from the domestic manufacturers
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Sir Edwin Luytens, architect of the
British embassy, had a hand in sug-
costing certain of its interior embelllSh-
ments, and in the matter OF hangings
his ideas as to Winter drapingS are
unique, but at the same time excellent
in effect, and both economical as 10
English linen print with q tomato red
background, daintily Powered, are used
for window drapings, while the old-time
portieres and door drapings are nom
existent London, 1t seems, long ago
discarded the costly brocadeS and vel
vets for hangings, for the excellent rea-
son that such fabrics were expensive
to buy and almost as heavy a drain TO
have them cleaned and kept in ship
shape. Printed linen launders very well
and the best qualities are imperVious TO
the suns rays and neither fade nor get
limp with the passing years. Except In
Summer, few Washington hostesses
have placed what Is called cretonne In
this part or the world and print in
Great Britain in their drawing rooms
for the more ceremonial part of the sea
son. But those who have admired the
grand salon of the new embassy are
convinced that there Is no longer any
need to cling to satin brocades and vel
vets. Brocade and satin continue, In
England, to cover chairs and small
sofas, while velvet brocade, as in this
country, Is used for the massive sofas,
which are here called Colonial but
which the British designate as Queen
Anne But 1t presents the question OF
how long before chintz and print-cov-
cred chairs viii ccme into general use
and the fine old homemade rugs will
replace the Oriental weaving.
Members Of the embassy staff in Lon
don assigned from this Republic are,
according to some recent arrivals from
England, sponsors for q lunch room in
Fleet street, where a toothsome COLA
ton entirely after the culinary stand
ards of the homeland may be enjoyed
and in what is deemed a miraculously
brief period Of time-a half hour.
Piping hot waffles, coffee with cream
usually of the percolated kind-but one
may have the boiled article If called
for-nice sweet currant or grape or
ounce jelly rather than the bitter
marmalade 80 dear to Britons, and all
for a small sum-say about go cents.
The longing Of the news Scribes who
frequent Fleet street, as they do Park
Row, in Gotham, is said to have
prompted the younger diplomats to
smile upon the new venture, although
Gen. Dawes has come In often and
eaten his waffies with q hearty relish.
For years London has boosted restau-
rants where corn on the cob and sweet
potatoes and even hot corn bread might
be had, and Old Virginia ham was adj
yertised on certain days in large type.
But wafles are a novelty. although for
years past London and large continental
cities would dish up hot cakes and sau-
sage balls, but of such alien flavor and
general makeup that they were not
enthusiastically received. The Fleet
street quick American lunch IS almost
swamped from IL o'clock until 2 in the
afternoon.
Mr.. and Mrs. Joshua Reuben Clark
have lived in Washington for many
years and they depart for Mexico City
with the good wishes of a host Of
friends. Mr.. Clark filled diverse roles
in the State Department. his last being
Undersecretary of State just before the
appointment of Mr. Cotton. The new
Ambassador 70 Mexico City and Mrs.
Clark are quiet and not much inclined
to the frivols, Mrs. Clarke being popu-
lar type of hte home-loving wife and
mother Of the West. Her housekeeping Is
of the most exalted type and in her first
years in Washington the four children
were of school age and demanding con-
slant attention. But Reuben, jr., has fin
ished college and gone into his fathers
law Office and it Is the intention of his
parents to have him keep an eye on
things at home while they are away
with occasional visits to the Mexican
capital. The eldest of the four daugh-
tiers, who was Louise Wooley Clark, is
now Mrs. Bennion. wife of Comdr Mer-