Evening Star Newspaper, June 1, 1923, Page 10

" 10 Variety of Capital’s Charms . Lure of Nation, Says Writer “See Mecca and Die” Slogan Gives Place to “Let Us Go fo Washington and Live,” | Declares J. R. Hildebrand in Geographic. “Let us go to Washington and 1 has replaced the old slogan of *i Mecca and die,” according to J. R. Hlldebrand of the National Geo- graphic Society, in an article entitled o | thing like | American cities, but T never saw any- “Meaning what? asked his puzzled companion. “Read the sign on front of the car.” The big-lettered placard said: THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. that before!" The street car?" means a change of occupation for thousands, who converge upon the various schools of that university for late afternoon classes in subjects that range from economic botany to Chaucer, from pedagogical psychology to Greek architecture,” it is declared. WASHINGTON WOMEN AT BRITISH COURT Last Night's Presentation Exceeds Brilliance of Preced- ing Evening. e Associated Press LONDON, June 1.—Last night's court as even more brilliant as regards night, also was more general in‘char- | acter. It was notably a flower func- tion, the women carrying splendid bouquets . instead of, as Wednesday night, only fans. The' prevailing colors were blue and gold, with lavish decorations, mostly Egyptian in style. Among the more striking of the toilettes was that of the wife of the Brazilian ambassador, Domicio da Gama. Senora da Gama wore & Venetian picture gown, en- tirely embroidered with heraldic de- signs in various precious stones, sug- gesting the magnificence of the fif- teenth century. The American women who were pre- sented also wore beautiful toilettes. Those introduced to the King and Queen by Mrs. Post Wheeler, wife of the American charge d'affaires, included Mrs. Cyrus H. .__Cur- tis and Mrs. Harry Normant of Wash- ington; Miss Rebecca Smith, Boston; Mrs, Z. T. Sweeney and Miss Elsie Sweeney, Columbus, Ind.; Mrs. Wil- liam L. Waters, Mrs. iam Lowe Rice and Miss Helen Rice, New York; Mrs. Lenihan, daughter of Gen Leni- POSSES SEEK FARMER IN KILLNG OF WIFE Shoots Woman to Death in Street, Jealousy and Anger Over Desire for Home Causes. By the Associated Pry BRIDGEPORT, Conn., June 1.— Posses today were searching the woods near the New York state line for Robert Edwards, thirty-seven- year-old farmer, who killed his pret- ty nineteen-year-old wife, Ruby Wells Edwfl.‘du on the street in the town Edwards, who had been estranged ‘0., FRIDAY, JUNE 1 , 1928. fell he reloaded the gun and fired | another charge. Then he fled into, the woods. Mrs, Edwards' desire for a home of | her own instead of remaining under | the roof of Edwards' father and| | mother, and her husband's jealousy led to the separation of the pair. END DAYLIGHT SAVING. 1., June 1.—The| night passed a bill | to abolish daylight saving methods | throughout the state. The bill goes to the house. | e o DECREE FOR BANKER'S WIFE. | LOS ANGELES, Calif., June 1.—Mr: Reba Stanley obt 26 from James T. Stanley, broker rivate banker of New York, acy ng to the Los Angeles Times. \lnnley charged cruelty and d tion. “*Onyx" *Alwyn" Radmoor Silk Stockings $1.95 Birds are sing- from his wife for two weeks, stepped out of bushes by the roadside and fired a shotgun at her as she was walking with neighbors. When she “Beautiful spring! han of Massachusetts: Miss Margaret Emmet of New York and Miss Sylvia Lathrop, formerly of San Franclsco, but now living in London, beautiful gowns and jewels than that given Wednesday night by King George The attendance last “The Sources of Washington's Charm,” in the June number of the National Geographic Magazine. P Mr. Hildebrand, a former member of the staff of Tae Evening Star, and a Washingtonian for the past twelve years, tells of the incidents that hap- pen here which couldn’t happen else- where, and points to the charm of the unexpected. “The di lic buildi streets, the ing "l-‘luurrs are blooming along the omac! jand Queen Mary. “Take Cabin John car.’ “Next to flowers,” M says, “Washingt, bent is music. T hese Stockings at ‘ $1.95 are our | Great “Leaders” "Hildebrand principal esthetie gain the capital does it differently. If you would hear a_symphony orchestra or a noted artist in concert you must go at o'clock. A negligible number of con- certs are given In the evening. Any one who gets the fals that, because of its many-sided life and cultural opportunities, Wi Thix Store Wil Cloxe Saturday 1 P. Other nnn at 3 v and beauty of its pub- notion ts broad, tree-bowered it ery magnifi ence of its rm of Unexpected. : Sl ington is a dilettante city, should post . distances. once an aspersion and now | pimselt on' the corner ear Georse OF GENUINE —sold on a concentrated buying, short profit, e barasie nathe1* Setgings” | Washington University, according 1o quantity sales basis. The finest values in ingto ares this writer. e s iR nissal time P A I M B E A c H s U I I S Before Hot town in reliable hosiery. Heavyweight thread silk of unusually fine quality; perfect, full fashioned and in every summer shade imag- inable. “Yet there are other attributes— the charm of the unexpected, the| ways that are different, the things that could happen nowhere else ex- cept in Washington—which contribute to the eternal tascination of our Na- tional Capital. : is an intellectual charm hington which arises from here live experts on ¥ subject human genius has explored. From the astrophysical observatory down through the scien- tific alphabet to the Zoological Park runs the city’s gamut of institutions and_authorities, whether your hobby be ballistics, conchology, geography, hydraulics or taxation.” Mr. Hildebrand recounts the drifting ashore of & whale on the lower Poto- c—" vashington promptly pro- n expert to tell wherefore and y.” From base balls to Presidents, the city is interested in them. 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