The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-09-24
Home Set Up
by MayoS in
Chinese City
Diplomat and Wife Live
in Peiping for
Six Months.
BY HELEN WORDEN
Times Special Writer

= Mayo is back from the Orient
n1th tales Of the beauty Of Peiping,
which used to be Picking
We expected TO remain just
three months" he said in his apart
ment at the Waldorf Astoria. six
months passed before we could even
think Of leaving"
Mr. and Mrs. Mayo set up house
keeping in the Chinese city. They
hired servants, subIet a comfortable
home and rented a boy by the
month. In 1881, Mr.. Mayo resigned
from the diplomatic service to teach
divisional history in the University
Of Denver. In 1884 he took a sab
batical year of to tour the Orient.
MY wife and l sailed last Octo-
Der from San Francisco" he said.
We stopped in Honolulu. Toxic,
Peiping, Shanghai, Bali, Java and
Sings pore. Peiping was our favor
lite city. People really live there.
Although they do not hurry, they
accomplish a great deal. Every one
works. but each person has time TO
exchange ideas and experiment with
hobbies. Often YOU may spend
whole afternoon talking to friend.
Another day you may pass the same
time seeing the city"
Young. quiet-spoken and conserv-
ative, Paul Mayo is a brother-in-
law Of the equally quiet and con-
Servative Joseph Werner Reed and
Werner q. Reed Jr Mr. MayO's first
wife Marjorie, died several years
ago. She was the daughter Of Mrs.
Werner Z. Reed. Denver.
Mrs. Werner 4. Reed Jr., has built |
one OF the most beautiful houses in !
Newport. II is pointed to with |
pride by local taxi drivers when |
they spin passengers bound on a |
busman's tour of the big estates.
Mr. Mayo has adjusted himself to |
The customs Of many countries. |
During his period of service in the |
diplomatic corps he spent months |
in South America. The first year |
! went 10 Paris he was on board the |
Leviathan when 1 left for Belgium. |
Likes New Scenes
Don't you get tired Of moving |
from one country to another?" II
asked slim, wistful Mrs. Post Wheel
er HALLE Erminie Rives) when she |
and her husband passed through |
New York on their way from Al
bania to the Pacific coast Mr. |
Wheeler has been in the diplomatic |
service % years.
No she said briSkly, L like the |
excitement of seeing new places and
people"
l found new faces at Florence
Brobeck's tea party Saturday after
noon. Among them Anne Pierce, |
whose brother, Dan, is Harry Sin
clair's manager; Mr.. and Mrs. Carl |
Sigma. artists; Ralph Prouty and |
Margery Currey, Of the Art Ad- !,
venture Guild; Mr.. and Mrs. Dun |
can Mckenzie Stewart, Jean Francis |
Webb. AntOinette Donnelly and DR..
and Mrs. Fred Finsperwald.
Gentle, feminine Mrs. Duncan |
Stewart is Leize Rose, famous for
her Photographic murals which |
decorate the Women's Aviators' Club |
in Gotham, trim Horticultural Hall |
in Radio City and adorn the lounges
Of several fashionable night clubs.
Miss Brobeck has a gay, yellow |
and blue studio apartment at IL E. |
55th-St, quaint little building with |
a tiny green elevator which reminds |
one of an old Paris apartment |
house. But Florence Brobeck has no
cat. And this doesn't fit into the |
pa tern of the life of a girl who is |
an authority on them.
Tea Celebrates Book
Saturdays tea party was in cele- !
bratiOn of her most recent book, |
The Cat on the Mat"
1t was easy to count Republican
noses in Southampton recently.
They had a big crowd for the Con-
Stitution Day pageant" energetic |
Mrs. Harry Hamlin. executive |
member of the Women's Republican
Club of East Hampton. said. "All |
southampton came Thursday for
our Constitution Day tea" she ex-
planned.
Thursdays tea party took place in
the Colonial Guild Hall which Mrs.
Woodhouse gave to East Hampton.
The hall has quite the gayest and
most novel theater I've seen. It was
rTesigned to resemble the interior of
a French circus tent. The light
comes from great glass globes that
look like colored balloons. They
swing from the imitation canvas
top" The room is circular in shape.
and the hrinhf hlne scarlet and