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Tales of Well Known Folk In Social and Official Life iDwight W. Morrow, Long Friend of President, Is Becoming Familiar Figure Around v The White'House. RV MARGARET R. DOWNING. r - Dwight Whitney Morrow, who Js chairman of the Air Service, is frequently in Washington in per lorinance of his duty and is tiecoming a familiar tigure about the White House. For like ,\lr. Stearns, he is now one of the President's trusted counselors and was besides a classmate and a tried and true buddy in the Amherst days. Although both Sen ator Ktttlejr and Mr. Stearns are alter nateiy assigned the role of being President Coolidge's most intimate friend* those who have a chance to see things closely say that Mr. Mor ro'*- is the Executive’s all-around oom iwnion and lias been since both eminent gentlemen entered their majority. Mr. Morrow is a native of Huntington. W. Va., and his intimacy with the Chief Executive resulted from the accident of their beifig thrown together when they entered Amherst and later became roommates. After taking the A.B. degree from that ancient Massachusetts seat of learning, Mr. Morrow studied law in Columbia and began his brilliant legal career in New York City in a modest capacity in a law firm. He is now une of the powerful members of the ■!. Pierpont -Morgan tirm and a direc tor of the Bankers’ Trust. Mrs. Morrow, who sometimes ac companies her husband to Washing ton. was Miss Elizabeth Reeve Cutter us Cleveland, Ohio, and (heir marriage took place in 1903, two years before the President and Mrs. Coolidge took the step. Mr. Morrow is genial and adaptable and has filled many trying aosts with ease and success. He prizes very highly an honor which came as the result of his war activi ties in the military shipping and allied hoard of supplies. This was the dis tinguished service medal awarded him and presented by Gen. Pershing in 1919. Mr. and Mrs. Morrow have a beauti ful home at Englewood. X. J., and it was their privilege to entertain Mr. and Mrs. Coolidge very often in the days before they reached their present eminence. The Congressional Club will open its official season after the Sixty-ninth congress convenes by a reception to the three Congresswomen who will have then been seated in that body. Os these Mrs. Julius Kalin is a charter member and she will receive conspicu ous honor from this club, which has reached such heights in national im portance. Mrs. Kahn with 11’ others answered the first call to form the *’ongressional Club and has been ac tive in its councils during the past 18 years. She represented the Pacific Coast on the national board for five years and has held other offices. Mrs. John Jacob Rogers of Massachusetts has been a member since she came to Washington 12 years ago, but she has been always more partial to phil anthropic work than to social pleasure and she is more identified with the Red < ’ross service in Walter Reed Hospital. The Congresswoman from New Jersey. Mrs. Mary E. Norton, will he invited into the club by a spe cial ruling. Being neither wife, mother, sister nor other member of a legislator’s family, she would not be ' eligible simply through her election into Congress. • Prince Otto von Bismarck, who has returned to Washington for a few days’ visit to his cousin, Raron Leo pold Plessen. will soon he due in Ber *n to assume his legislative duties as member for the district in which the famous estate of the Iron Chan cellor, Kriedrichsruhe, is situated. He is the chief heir of the splendid Bis marck fortune, his father, Prince Her bert Bismarck, having died several years ago. and quite logically he be longs to the Monarchist party and is one of the leaders of that wing of German politics. But through his mother, a daughter of Robert White head, the inventor of the torpedo, he has a strong strain of English blood and likewise a general sympathy with the English-speaking races. He will also inherit a fortune from his moth er from the Whitehead estate, the principal and Income of which has been safely invested in London for :he three daughters of the inventor, ail of whom had married Germans before his death. The "Whitehead tor pedo came into fame during the Russo-Japanese war, when the Jap anese, having purchased from their British ally this terrible instrument of destruction, annihilated the entire Russian fleet at Port Arthur. Baron Leopold Plessen (for he has dropped The "von” from his name) is the first cousin of Prince Otto von Bismarck and the son of the late Baron Leo pold von Plessen. who was for 10 years immediately preceding the World War the Kaiser’s minister to Athens. Baron Plessen has been a member of the German embassy staff rince shortly after diplomatic rela tions were resumed in 1922. The Hon. Raoul Dandurand of Mon treal, who has recently been elected president of the League of Nations, is, like all prominent Canadians, well known in Washington and in other parts of this Republic. He is a na , live of the empire city of the Do minion and has resided there prac tically all his life. After the A. B. course at McGill he studied in Oxford, Cambridge and on the Continent, taking up law as a career. He is one of the ornaments of the Canadian bar and has been several times the president of its legal association. In this capacity he welcomed the Chief Justice when that distinguished jurist paid a courtesy visit to Montreal, and Charles Evans Hughes, then Secre tary of State, when the Canadian bar Invited the American association to he jts guest. The president of the League of Nations has been a Senator from Montreal for some years and lie has since the inception of the league been one of its most eloquent champions and an ardent supporter of its principles. Canada, apart from political differences, has always been friendly to President Wilson's cher »isheil project, and there was much rejoicing that the Dominion iias been honored in selection of the supreme officer of that tribunal. Washington theatergoers who are ns numerous and enthusiastic as any in the country, will soon be called to join the reform movement about simplifving the program. Gotham's modish leaders have declared against the existing page after page pro gram when it becomes a task to to find the play of the evening and sometimes impossible to read it when found, because of the dim .lights which prevail before the cur tain goes up and the absolute dark ness after it does. Mrs. Ruth Pratt. New A'ork’s first “alderwoman," has the matter in hand and she wishes even the Metropolitan Opera House to adopt a one-page affair with the east and schedule in good sized type down the middle, the sides devoted to synopsis and other details. The reverse side is to be covered with fire regulations in the largest type possible and let it go at this. All else she holds is superfluous and should be eliminated. Mrs. Pratt has made these terse commendations to all the theaters and she is getting a strong following to make the man agers see her point of view. No doubt her ideas are shared by thou sands convinced of the futility of fill ing doxens of pages with advertise ments which no one. can sea to read in the theater and certainly will not take the time to do when the play is ended. Though Washington only knows by hearsay that amazing young matron. Lady Cynthia Mosley, second of the three daughters of the late Marquis Ourzon of Kedleston and his first wife, who was Mary E. Leiter of this city, there -are many interested and as many shocked by her recent plunge into socialistic policies. Oswald Mos ley. her .husband, having lieen left out of Parliament by an unappreciative public, she has thrown herself into the breach and is now. in the British way of expressing it. standing for the borough in tlie pottery center, Stoke on-Trent. Lady Cynthia has been steadily journeying toward her pres ent goal since her marriage, and two years ago, byway of preparing her self for a career among the extreme radicals, she took a position in the main office of the Trent potteries at 3a shillings a week. This, she lias often told in campaign addresses, dis pleased her father so much that he forbade her his house and even ended her association with her young sister, Alexandra, since married and gone to India. This gay young reformer work ed for six months and then was pro moted to 35 shillings a week and given a more responsible post. She always addresses her audiences in the pot tery town as “comrades" and she mingles on the most familiar footing with all in the social sense, as. of course, she must, if she is to get the necessary votes. Mr. Mosley has de parted from Gloucester, where he ap pears to have lost his influence with the voters, and will begin a campaign in Birmingham against Neville Cham berlain. Like his wife, he has sought occupation in the cloth mills of the great industrial city and has joined all the unions thereabout. Formerly Muss Hilda Lyon, daugh ter of the late Edward Lyon of New York City, and now married to Capt. Arnold Wills of the British army, the chatelaine of the most famous racing establishment in the United Kingdom Is for the first time in its history an American. This estate is known in the sporting world as Ivingsclerc and was the training place of many win ners of the Derby, including those of Edward VII. who achieved that triumph three times: several horses of the Duke of AVestminster and of the late Lord Rosebery. It was then the property of old John Porter, whom the horse-loving world of Britain, deemed the greatest trainer and racer of his day. The estate was sold recently and Capt. AVills became the purchaser. He has just moved in with his. family and as the present owner comes of a horse-loving clan, he has announced that he will retain all the old Porter hands and maintain the stables in keeping with the tra ditions. Capt. Wills is one of the chief heirs of what is called the Som erset dynasty of tobacco kings, which has for nearly two centuries con trolled the monopoly in the British Isles. Mrs. Wills was of the ttAVest ehester New York hunting set and is as devoted to equine sports as her husband. Wotton House, the home of John Evelyn, the diarist, is one of the few literary relics of the seventeenth cen tury which has been reverently pre served in the family of the celebrity. Nor are the Evelyns of the present generation over fond of having the mansion invaded by the public. But occasionally societies of antiquarians and scholars generally are permitted to browse in the library and to inspect the splendid collection of fine furni ture and rare paintings which Evelyn acquired during his life. The manu script of the famous diary was, how ever, long ago presented to the Bod leian Library in Oxford, but there are some dpulicate sheets in Wotton House. There is also the well known essay of Evelyn on "Gardening.” which in its day was quite the guide and support of royalty when it took to spade and shovel. He likewise wrote a treatise on architecture which was highly regarded for some years. Evelyn was the friend and stanch supporter of Charles T, and a rather grusome relic in the library of AVot ton House is the prayer book which the unfortunate monarch carried to the scaffold. Charles had written his name on the flyleaf of the book, and when it came into possession of Eve lyn he added to the autograph the initials "B. M.,” which meant Blessed Martyr, and the date of the execution. As this prayer book is a marvelous example of black letter printing, vast sums have been offered in vain for the royal memento. But the descend ants of the courtly diarist have main tained their prosperity through the centuries, but if they ever fell on evil days, the contents of their library alone would make them Independently rich. A New York bud who will have the good wishes of many AVashingto nians is Miss Helen Choate, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph H. Choate and granddaughter of two highly re vered public men. the late Joseph Choate, Ambasasdor to Great Britain, and Robert Shaw Oliver, who was Assistant Secretary of War for al most 12 years and under three Execu tives, McKinley, Roosevelt and Taft. Miss Choate will be presented in the home of her parents, at 10 East Ninety-fourth street, on December 11, at an afternoon reception, and this will be followed in the evening by a hall given by her elder sister, Mrs. Charles Barney- Harding, who married the son of J. Horace Harding, and whose beautiful home is on Riverside drive. Miss Marion Oliver, well known in Washington during her father’s long career in the AYar Department, is at present the guest of Mr. and Mrs. Choate, and will remain in New York until after the debut party. Miss Oliver has a charming villa near Ham ilton, in the Bermudas, and will leave at once for a milder climate whep the festivity is ended. Col. Oliver y —the lure of ships | —the sound of the sea \ \ SUNDAY \ 11 Blue Moon Dinner \ 1 One Dollar Fifty \ Six to Seven Thirty \ —MENU— I Celery Soup Roast Turkey \ Cranberry Jelly , I Hired Potatoes ' I Corn Padding i or , Boiled Spinach ' I Hot Roll* | Hearts of Lettnre , l With Roquefort Cheeae Dressing Hot Mince Pie I T Coffee Tea Milk V Connecticut Ave. at Que St. i i ■ iir THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, P. C„ NOVEMBER 22, 1925-PART 2. was the associate of Chief Justice William Howard Taft in the War De partment and a strong tie of friend ship binds the families. The Countess of Limerick, who was recently in Washington, was a fre quent visitor during the World War and the troubled times after the sign ing of the armistice. She is now the' guest of Mr. and Mrs. James Cox Brady of New A'ork City, and will sail early in December for England. The countess is a rare example of perfect friendship and understanding of a son-in-law even after his remarriage, for Mr. Brady married Eady Victoria, only child of the late Earl of Limerick and Inheritor of some of his titles. Lady A’ictorla Brady died in 1918, leav ing an only son, who is under his grandmother’s care in her home. Hall Place, near Bexley Heath in Kent. This young man is at Canterbury pre paring for Oxford and, with his fa ther's consent, he will become an Eng lish citizen on reaching his majority and will tuke over all the honors from the Earl of Limerick us can come to him on the distaff side. The Countess of Limerick resides all the year at her estate in Kent except the annual visit which she makes with her grand son to visit Mr. and Mrs. James Cox Brady at Spring Lake. She is, how ever, an enthusiastic Irish patriot and was before her marriage, Miss Hannah Burke Irwin, daughter of the Hon. John Burke Irwin of Roscommon, a famous sportsman known to his in timates as “Hard-riding Johnnie." She is an earnest worker for Irish in dustry and has made several visits to the United States and to Canada in behalf of the linen weavers. Mr. Frederick H. Prince, jr., of Boston has been made M. F. H. in the international Club at Pan and he has been leading the hunt through 'BMipsbdrtt 608 to 614 A ELEVENTH ST. '^Arniouvcm^ il DRESS 1 | IAMB 11 II \ M m f T / Designs that are ■ ■!' 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It was the Duke us Wellington who first discovered the possibilities of Pau, during one of his Spanish campaigns, and he sent over for his Irish hounds and hunters and started the fashion. The hunt club as it is today was regularly or ganized In 1844 and from Its beginning It lias been an Anglo-Saxon affair dominated entirely by Americans and Britons. Bostonians are numerous in Pau as AVinter residents and the elder Mr. Prince is one of the active members of the country club of which the hunt Is a branch. Real game of many sorts are the objects of calling out the hounds and not paper trails, as in this country. Mrs. John Van S. Blood good, who was Miss Lida L. Fleit nmn of Chicago, is among the en thusiasts of the Puu hunt and she is, besides the secretary of the club. Her villa in the ancient resort of the Pyrenees is one of the radiating points for visiting Americans, especially those who wish to avail themselves of the Winter meets. -—• Jackson D. A. R. Chapter Will Give Card Party The Elizabeth Jackson Chapter, Daughters of American Revolution, of which Mrs. R. Augustus Heaton is recent, will give a benefit card party at th"? Cairo Tuesday at 2:30 o'clock. Mrs. Eouise W. Eugster is chairman of the coihmittee of ar rangements and is assisted by Mrs. Gregg Custis, Mrs. J. Nesbit Smith, Mrs. William Lea Wilbett and Mrs. (». M. Lissack. Congregational Church Group First To Ask for U. S. Thanksgiving Day The rebuilding of the First Congre* gationnl Church, now called the i President's church, as President Cool idge is a member of that church and worships there, recalls that it was a band of devout New England Congre gat lona lists from this church who called on President Andrew Johnson, on October 2, 1865. and asked him to appoint a day for yearly thanksgiving. The request was granted, and the celebration of the day on the last Thursday in November became the regular custom of the Nation. This circumstance of the origin of Thanksgiving day has perhaps been forgotten in the passing of two gen erations. During the war President Lincoln set apart certain days and asked the , people of the country to repair to , their respective places of worship and ■ give thanks to God, hut the national > Thanksgiving day was established in the administration of President John son. The committee which called upon Lincoln’s successor and asked for a national Thanksgiving consisted of B. F. Morris, William Robinson, Wil liam Wheeler. W. S. Baiiey, E. L. , Stevens, G. H. Williamson, W. R. , Hooper, O. S. Mattoon. Dr. 11. Barber, i H. A. Brewster, C. H. Bliss, A. H. Raymond, L. Deane, A. T. Longley. * .1. H. Johnson. .1. F. Johnson, H. P. i Giddings and H. Buxton. Most of the members of tlxe com mittee which petitioned President Johnson were New Englanders, and i they were prompted to ask for a na I tionai Thanksgiving because they had been in the habit of setting apart a regular day each year to give thanks to God and because they wished to see President Lincoln's ideas put into effect. The First Congregational Church had just been organized at this time. The first regular pastor was Rev. C. B. Boynton, the father of the late Gen. Henry V. Boynton, president of the Board of Education and veteran newspaper man. The elder Boynton was made the chaplain of the House of Representatives soon after he was made pastor of the local church, and in his first Winter of service Con gress granted him permission to hold religious services on the floor of the House every Sunday. This is the first and the last church which has ever conducted its regular worship in the Capitol of the United States. From Same Source. From the Chicago Phoenix. Political Speaker—The farmer gets his living from the soil. Heckler—And so does the washer woman. Window Shades Our ability to make Good Window Shades to order at factory prices rive you A Better Shade Tor I/emt Money. Draperies, srip (overs. CUvistrxi, Main .‘hill for KMimatPh 1217 K St.. Dulin A Martin Bide. DOCKET SHOWS DIVORCE ACTION BY PEGGY JOYCE Count Morner Failed to Answer Summons and Decree Would Automatically Follow. By the Aeeooiated Press. PARIS. November 21. —Court rec ords show that Peggy Joyce intro duced a demand for a divorce from her fourth husband. Count Morner, Home weeks ago. Following the usual procedure, the 1 Annual Thanksgiving Dinner $2.50 Served front 12 Noon to 9 I'.M. Hotel Lafayette Sixteenth art Eye St. N.W. Make Reservation Now—Main 1211 the magistrate sent hoth parties sum mons to appear before him in “recon ciliation proceedings.” Count Morner failing to appear, the court registered a document establishing "non-recon filiation.” Precedents ail shew that a divorce decree follows the registration of such a document automatically within f»0 days. L'pon her arrival in New York on the Mauretania yesterday Miss Joyce denied that she had any intention of divorcing Count Mornep. She re marked she was as much in love with her husband “as any woman is after two years of marriage.” 13