Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-06-08
Tales of Well Known Folk
In Social and Official Life
Former President and Mrs. Coolidge Rapidly
=. Developing Natural Beauties of Their
=. Newest New England Home.

year is the clamor and determination
of travellers to visit Russia, even In the
face of getting no aid or protection
from this Government.
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Mr.. and Mrs. Henry H. Father about
IL years ago purchased the fine colonial
estate, Tulip Till, Annapolis. and their
work of restoration on mansion and
grounds has come in for high praise
during the weeks recently devoted to
visiting gardens in Maryland and
Virginia. Tulip Hill was the property
of Samuel Galloway, the Quaker, whose
grandparents had built the first small
Quaker meeting house in the Maryland
capital. Samuel was chief member OF
the church and preached in it fire.
quently. But his mansion showed none
of the simplicity of the Quakers In this
section of Maryland, and was in fact
one of the lordliest domiciles OF the
period. The long driveway through
grove Of tulip poplars gave the name
to the estate and remains its CHIEF
glory, although Mrs Father, who had
personal supervision of restoring the
grounds for years gave yeoman service
in bringing the lovely Towering trees
to the perfection they showed this
Spring. Tall chinneys of brick and
the pillars holding triangular canopy
from which chubby cupids throw roses
at the passing throng recall English
as stately is the water gate or entrance
on the West River, which sweeps below
the garden terraces. These gardens
were famous in eighteenth century An
napolis, but when Mrs. Father began
her long labor in restoring the pleasure
grounds Tulip Hill had been untenanted
for years and all who admired certain
of its shrubbery had helped themselves.
Great lengths of bare spaces showed in
the holly hedge and pyramids of box
almost priceless had been uplifted for
other uses. But with incredible patti
ence, these grounds have been recreated
and Mrs. Fathers results have been
declared the clevereSt exponent of this
type of restoration done in Maryland
in many years.
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The President of Greece and the
regency of Rumania, both representing
hard-pressed countries in the matter of
domestic troubles, faced a new one
within the past month, that of fighting
the plague of locusts which with bibli-
cal sanction had come out of the land
of Egypt and had Swarmed east of the
Mediterranean and the Adriatic Seas.
Greece through all the various scllolas-
tic agencies had inspired numbers of
tourists from this country to visit the
marvelS which it can show and these
mquiring visitors found the cradle of
Homer and classic antiquity all that 1t
was painted, but the locusts they were
not prepared to welcome. These pests
seemed to meet over seas every ship
which turned toward Greece and the
tourists resented very much having the
hopperS in their berthS, in their baths
and, very often, in their soup. Every
precaution was taken to meet vessels
with discriminating bands, but the
plague extended as far inland as Athens
and en- route really damaged small vii
lagos incredibly and absolutely devoured
the crops. Few of the American voyag-
ers had courage to proceed to Bucharest,
which also was being devoured, but in
stead they departed hastily by fast
trains inland toward Austria and the
Iyrol. Italy and Spain, though, with
long coast line on the Mediterranean,
escaped invasion, but in Africa they
forced all visitors to fight.
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Mrs. Guy Despard Golf, who with
Miss Vera Bloom were the only mem
bers Of Washington's official realm re-
ceived by Queen Mary this court sea-
SON, is very much at home in London
and has been familiar with its cos
life for years. Perhaps
alone in the senatorial group is Mrs.
Golf in her intense interest in aviation
and her ambition to become pilot, and
quite as much as the honor and unique
experience of being received by the
Queen was her desire to see at first
hand what progress women are making
in practical flying. All through the
of this country in the
World War Senator Golf, In legal ca
pacity under Gen. Pershing, was sta
toned in Paris. Mrs. Goff, always
fascinated with the idea of flying, be-
came almost a commuter between LIE
Bourget and Croydon Field. Senator
two evils he preferred tumbling and
tossing for brief time in the air to
the prolonged agony of wartime trains
and the poor service in crossing the !
Channel. AS his duty took him so fire.
quently to London, he can roll UP an
astonishing average of hours spent in
the upper regions. Mrs. Golf long be-
lore such geniuses as Lindbergh had
proclaimed the air the "only way" to
travel, was of that mind and she has
tried flying in almost every country
where routes are established. Long
ago she would have applied for a
license, but for the solicitude of her
home circle. Now that such prejudices
are dying out, however, one of the
main reasons for Mrs. COTS visit to
London aside from the court presenta-
ton is to talk to some Of the women
who have been annihilating distance
from Cape Town to Cairo and across
the Sahara and all the more peaceful
parts of India.
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Miss Doris Duke. the shy, wholesome
looking. l8-Year-Old heir of the late