Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-01-05
Tales oi Well Known Folk
In Social and Official Life
President Hoover Heralded the New Year We'd
nesday IN Unison With Heads of All
Nations In Christendom

, be himself examined by others on the
board and his findings questioned, and
even dissatisfied applicants may take a
fling at his conclusions and ask for
chapter and verse. Many eminsnt ex-
aminers have emerged from the ordeal
with diminished regulations. But not
so M. Clauoel, who began at the very
foot of the ladder as vice consul and
worked his way upward by his compre-
hensive knowledge of the requirements
for diplomatic success.
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The Ambassador to London and Mrs.
Charles Gates Dawes accepted the hos
pitality of the American Society of
that city at a reception and banquet
on Thanksgiving day, but they enter
tanned numerous company in the
embassy in Princes Gate Christmas
afternoon and then entertained the
embassy staff and a few additional
guests at dinner. The American So
c1ety OF London, which is the nucleus
about which many subsidiary gather
ingS revolve, always makes a grand
occasion of Thanksgiving dinner. Soup
was made of a monStrouS turtle caught
on Long Island, the turkeys came from
various States, principally New Eng
land, and pies were made of pumpkin
which had been grown from North
Carolina seed in Normandy. The AM
baSSador and Mrs. Dawes, however, did
not send home for anything necessary
for their Christmas feast except the fine
hams for which their city is famous.
Their turkeys were of that white breed
so plentiful in Norfolk, the flesh of
which is uncommonly tender and of
delicate flavor and which always forms
the chief meat dish at London ban
quetS. These white turkeys from Nor
folk figure constantly on the menus
In the royal palaces, Sandringham and
buckingham. Gen. Dawes, unlike his
predecessors, is not enthusiastically
partial to oysters, either the home prod
uct or those obtainable in the Channel
or North Sea. But mince meat and
pumpkin came from Evanston and from
the same dealer who has served the
several Dawes families resident there
for quarter of a century.
Miss Peyton Halves, daughter of SEN
ator and Mrs. Harry Barlow Halves of
st. Louis, Is another recruit in the busi-
ness world who was lured from the
social realm. Miss Halves during the
past month entered one of the large
mercantile establishments of her home
city and, taking humble post, in
tends to work her way upward to a
complete understanding of this depart
ment store, industry. in which so many
of her sex find livelihood. This is
not her first serious venture, however.
Tor during several Summers she served
as executive officer for various Summer
camps for girls and at odd times has
proved an excellent campaign speaker.
MISS EppeS Halves, her younger sister,
is more inclined to the usual pleasures
OF well placed maidens who have a
generous income. She has been max
ing trip around the world and after
several months of strenuous travel she
recently joined heEE+4rents in their
home on Massachusetts, avenue near
Twenty-sixth street Mr. and Mrs.
HAYES counted many interesting years
In Washington before the former came
nrSt to the House then to the Senate.
In TACT, Mrs. Halves. the daughter of a
well known officer, Is a native of her
Nations Capital. She was, before her
marriage, Miss Eppes Osborne Robin
son. and she spent her early married !
years in Honolulu when her husband |
was President Clevelands representa- |
tive during the annexation of the Re- |
public Of Hawaii In later years he |
served as military attache in Madrid |
ano during the World War was major |
IN the Military Intelligence Bureau.
Alois Lang, at the election which
was held In Oberammergau the last
week OF November, was chosen to sue
ceeo his Cousin Anton Lang as the
Christus IN the Passion Play, which will
begin In June in the picturesque village
OF the Bavarian Alps Alois was the
understudy of his relative at the last
presentation, postponed from the usual
decimal year, 1920, until 1922. because
Of the havoc wrought in the ranks of
the players by the World War. The
famous Anton, who came to the United