The Washington times., 1938-06-09


sees that he Helen ESSarS
eats, sleeps and exercises prop
erly, on their estate at Doom.
Bride a LoUely Person
The Grand Duchess Kyra is
q lovely person. Her motner'
the favorite sister Of the Dow
ager Queen Marie Of Rumanla'
divorced her first husband after
a short marriage; then became
the wife of Grand Duke CYRIL
b who would be Car Of All the
Russias today were Russia still
an Empire. At first the Czarlna
refused to receive the Grano
Duke Cyril and his previously
divorced wife even though she
was a great-granddaughter OF
Queen Victoria. But the royal
romance flourished even in mat
rimony for more than 20 years.
No more delightful young peo'
pie have come to washington
than the prince and his Wi1e.
Whether trekking across the Arl'
zona desert or climbing a Rocky
Mountain, with their royal ances'
try unknown, they would De
pleasant to meet, as mere Mr..
and Mrs. Hohenzollern.
Even such simplicity as tnelrs'
however, might have been
startled by the message concern,
inc them which my faithful
susie left on the telephone pad.
And Miss Rebecca wellington,
secretary of Frau Dieckhoff. wife
of the German Ambassador,
would have been shocked by her
invitation laboriously taken
down in pencil, and presented
to me as follows:
Mrs. Prince l.. Fernan wants
YOU and your husband to be COM
ing to a cocktail parter between
six and eight at Jernan EnnaSS'
Pool at Embassy
ON a terrace of the French EN-
" hassy Garden is q fountain
and pool. The French Ambassa-
dor, Count Rene de Saint Quen'
tin, protests that he writes MS
dispatches to the home offlce at
paris within the sound OF its
poetic murmurings. Franco
American relationship should be
perfect.
Madame Bonnet, wife of the
former French Ambassador who
is now Minister of Foreign Al
fairs, had planned to have a
swimming pool where the foun-
tain now is. But the Interior De-
partment which controls the
parks refused its permission. 1t
said that the water from the
pool would have to find an out
let in Rock Creek Park below
and would so destroy some OF
the parks beauty.
The French Embassy dinner
table the other night was par
ticularly attractive with five
bowls of bright pink carnations
and blosSoming privet hedge. In
the drawing rooms and library
we're Annunciation lilies and
hedge in tall vases The bios
SONS of privet usually lost IN
pruning, have a fragrance and
beauty in indoor flower arrange
ment. The Ambassador said
that the head of his Depart
ment of Decoration" was his
butler who did the flowers with
out suggestion from him.
Pdstels Popular
CHIFFONS are most becoming
" summertime esses for
graceful women. At the French
Ambassadors recent dinner
most of the women wore pastel
chiffonS. Madame E. E. Lom-
bard, wife of the Military At
tache and acting as hostess for
the Ambassador, was in flesh.
color chiffon. Madame Van
Kaathoven wore white chiffon
with a corsage of enormous vio-
let's, Repres tative Edith
Nourse Rogers had chosen pale
pink chiffon. Mrs. Lawrence
Houghteling was lovely in pale
gray and Mrs. Ernest Draper
had also selected chiffon of but
tercup yellow for her gown. The
crisp, black. straplesS net gown
of Mrs. Ralston Holmes and the
flowered crepe of Miss Florence
Shipley accented the paler cos.
tunes.