The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-05-01
NOW
French ENJOY
Retiring
HAPPY ITALY
BY HELEN ESSARY

BY HELEN ESSARY
Count Charles de Chambrun,
the present French Ambassador to
Italy, it is rumored, will be the
next French Ambassador to Wash
ington after Ambassador and
Madame de Laboulaye have re-
tired to private life in the fall.
= Count de Chambrun is a de-
Scendant of the Marquis de Lar
ayette and thus is an honorary
citizen of the United States. After
the triumphant visit of Lafayette
in 1924, the State of Maryland
conferred honorary citizenship on
this gallant friend of American
independence and on his descend
ants.
Count de Chambrun's brother
married Clara Longworth. of Gin
cinnati, the sister of Nicholas
Longworth, the late Speaker OF
the House. The Counts nephew,
Rene de Chambrun, last summer
married Mademoiselle Laval,
daughter of M. Laval, the former
Prime Minister of France.
When M. de Laboulaye retires
to private life as he now plans to
do, the French Foreign Office will
lose a distinguished and able mem
Der. Both the present Ambassador
to Washington and Madame de
Laboulaye have made many friends
in the United States and will be
greatly missed when they leave
washington.
And now news Of another mem
Der of an old Cincinnati family
married to a titled foreigner-the
Marchesa Lanca d'Ajeta, formerly
Martina Jones, now visiting in
Washington. Her h us b n d is
Chamberlain at the court OF the
King of Italy.
The Marchesa is tall and gra-
cious and is a completely unaf-
fected person. She undoubtedly
represents her country happily in
Italy.
The italians, the MarcheSa says,
are quite serene and are united
joyfully under the present govern
ment.
In italy one never thinks Of
war. Life there is agreeable and
untroubled, she declares. The
League of Nations sanctions have
placed no conscious hardshrips on
italy except the increase in the
price Of gasoline.
The American Ambassador to
Rome and Mrs. Breckenridge Long,
the Marchesa d'Ajeta adds, are
most successful diplomats. Mrs.
Long is very popular in Rome. And
the Ambassador is adored by both
italians and Americans.
Sudden Change of Theme
Dear Helen Essary-Do you mind
a little correction? The name
'Zaionchek" means in Polish "a
little wild hare"-not "hose!"
Cordially, Stefanie Reilly.
Here's a romance whose other
half I unfortunately do not know.
The charming Madame Julie de
Lima e Silva, who spent several
years in Washington when her late
husband was Brazilian Ambassa-
dor here, is about to marry a
Belgian nobleman.
Madame de Lima e Silva Is the
sister of the radiant Rose Nano.
Rose Nano is now in Bucharest,
where her husband, Frederick, is
with the Rumanian foreign office.
Senior de Lima Silva was Bra
lillian Ambassador to Belgium
when he died over a year ago.
I should like somebody to write
a novel of Washington life. And
take for my setting that big house
on the corner of Massachusetts
Avenue and Twenty-second Street,
where the Misses Patten reign as
social dictators.
Most of the people who have
made and unmade national and
, international history in the Capt.
tai have passed under that great
Florentine glass chandelier in the
Misses Patterns front drawing
room.
The best and cheapest food in
Washington can be bought at the
restaurant in the United States
Supreme Court Building.
Someday when you are feeling
very hungry and not too rich walk
between the columns of the classic
portico. Down the glistening
marble stairs to the ground floor.
Order a bowl of soup that is more
than promise. a tender filet
n1ignon surrounded by a border
Of succulent fat, two vegetables
cooked in butter, hot cornbread,
green salad with a keen dressing,
strawberry Shortcake, a cup of
good coffee and spend 80 cents!
If you have been Frustrated by
recent Supreme Court decision
and haven't the strength to slide
your own plate along the cafeteria
table, pay 10 cents more and a
beaming colored man will serve
you.
Speaking of mapnifice +