14 NORTH SHORE BREEZE and Reminder 
austere in her ideas, and not being in robust health, she 
seeks to avoid, rather than to promote, gayety in that fay- 
ored division of society. 
Mme, Dumba is just past 30, of superb health, fond 
of riding, revoted to dancing and giving some time each 
day most conscientiously to golf and tennis. Her reception 
and fetes in Vienna rank with those occasions of the past 
when the drawing-rooms become historic. She is an ani- 
mated conversationalist and she can’ converse in all the 
pohte tongues and many of the Balkan dialects. She had 
an English governess and she speaks the vernacular with 
grace and ease. 
But showing how thoroughly: Mme. Dumba desires 
to play her part, one of her first activities was to engage 
an English teacher from the best available school and she 
spends several hours a day going over technical or con- 
versational English. 
One of the imperative duties of the new Ambassa- 
dor is to seek a home. Connecticut avenue, where Austro- 
Hungary 15 years ago established itself permanently, has 
changed from an exclusive resident section to the rendez- 
vous of bankers, brokers and realty firms. ‘Then the man- 
sion, once entirely adequate for the average family, is now 
too small. 
M. Dumba, who was at Washington last week, viewed 
the situation with quizzical good humor. 
“T fear that if I talk too much about getting a new 
house, I shall drive Mme. Dumba back to Vienna,” .he 
said. “We seem to have been looking for homes ever 
since Our marriage, 10 years ago. We will, however, take 
things leisurely for a time at least. 
“We have just been through the ordeal of getting a 
home near Vienna. We came to the conclusion that we 
would get a home near Vienna, just to have one, even if 
we had not the joy of living in it more than a few weeks 
each year. So recently much of our time has been spent 
seeking our hearts’ desire. 
“Strange to say, we found it. Not exactly the home, 
but the location for one, in a great romantic forest, which 
rests me just to think of it. Mme. Dumba and I have been 
talking to architects, landscape gardeners, and all the army 
of professional men required to get a home nowadays and 
while it was delightful, it was altogether strenuous work. 
I don’t believe we wish to embark at once on another 
house-hunting or house-building exposition.” 
This home has been the consuming ideal of Mme. 
Dumba for years according to her husband. She found 
the spot long pictured and now is engrossed in the uproot- 
ing of a great rock castle, which dates back from the 13th 
century. The foundations will be used for a modern 
mansion and much of the ancient material will be worked 
into the plans for the new home. 
Each room and its furnishings has taken up madam’s — 
time for months and now she is looking forward to the — 
first holiday which her husband can get to go back and- 
see her dreams fulfilled. 
Mme. Dumba will come to Washington preceded by a 
reputation for artistic talent and for a high degree of mu- 
sical ability. Her father besides being a noted connoisseur 
of art, as testified by his appointment as custodian of the 
Russian art treasures, was a painter of excellent taste, 
with a penchant for chalk heads and line sketches. 
As a child Mme, Dumba studied under the great mas- 
ters connected with the National School at the Hermitage 
and she has made dainty little water-color sketches~ of 
many of her travels. . 
She also studied music and_ possesses 
power of expression. The movement to raise the Ameri- 
can Capital as an art and musical center up to the stand- 
ard it has attained as a political and social capital will 
find able coadjutors in the new envoy from Austro-Hun- 
gary and his talented wife. 
All music lovers look on coming to Washington as a 
sort of exile, and the one consolation held out is that it is 
near enough to New York, Philadelphia and Boston to 
make life endurable. Now, however, there is a well de- 
fined movement to have as much good music in Wash- 
ington as one may be able to assimilate. 
She is fond of theatricals, and some organized and 
conducted by her last winter in Vienna are raptuously 
praised by American travelers. 
The Ambassador and Mme. Dumba do not anticipate 
coming to Washington until about Oct. 15. They may 
spend a few weeks in the Berkshires when the weather 
becomes too cool for comfort on the North Shore—M. B. 
DowNInc, in Boston Sunday Globe. 
YACHT OWNED BY MRS, H. 
G, CURRY OF MAGNOLIA 
AND PITTSBURG, 
wonderful 
a. ~~. 
