Evening Star Newspaper, October 11, 1925, Page 87

v THE SUNDAY STAR, D.A.R., Observing 35th Birthday, Has Remarkable Record of Growth Launched in City of Washington as Result of Exclusion From Sons’ Organization, Society Has Carried Out Large Projects. " BY MARGARET POE HART. HE National Society of the Daught of the American Revolution, the largest wom- an's patriotic organization in the world, celebrates today the thirty-fifth annivers of its organi- fon, which took place in the city of ashington on October 11, 1890. This memorable event in the history manhood took place at 810 W ‘Twelfth street, then the home of Mrs. | Mary 8. Lockwood, the “Littie Mother f the D. A. R.,” and eighteen women present. On August ton women, M . 1590, thres Washing. s Mary Desha, M Yillen Hurdin Walworth and Miss genia Waushington, had met at the Langham Hotel, Washington, in the partments of Mrs. Walworth and founded the society of the Daughters { the Ameri n Revolution. cause so many women eligible for membership were out of town, the formal organization was postponed until the Fall Later, a call was sent out for organization meeting October 1890, because that date was the niver of the discovery of Ame Columbus, made possible” by al generosity of a woman. These first D s of the 4 the a an ican Revolution, 18 in nu yresent on October 1890, we Eugen| Wa Adams Darlir Walworth, ) well Mary w Clark, Irs Mrs Alice Mor: Dowell, Aurelfa kwood, ) Pauline M- P. Kimberly, Mrs. Miss_Floride Ransom, Harrlett a. inception, R. numbered four chapters members. Today it has more 2,000 chapt in the 48 of the Union the District Columbia, Alaska, Hawali, the Phil- Within six months of the D. A and 3 than ppines, Porto F Cuba and Paris, nce, while on July 4, us organized London, howing the cur for the D. A. R who can prove some patriot of 1 B s twists ¢ mposed of women 1 descent from vho fought the sh or rendered signal service to colonial cause in some other man- s ¢ the more than 150,000 enrolled in sides those living in the ire membe Belgium, Czechoslo India, Italy, Japan, nama, Switz nd, Turkey auaint spinning wheel sym Tnited St Afri Central Germany ico, P and the ite Argentin: America bol of the D. A. R. has I rally found its wr around the world. It was felt that a woman of na- tional impo e and prest; B be the first pre ent general. Yefore, it h: Mrs, d beer Benjamin Hu ident of tk le use of patric , and that rvice she would ac- Therefore, her name ticket that was elected e oftice headed with cordial amity that October aft- €rnoon. The full election of officers was as the follows: Benjamin E ident gene: Mrs. F] Darling, vice-president in char organization; Mr n D. « Mrs. H. V. Boyntor rs. A, Greel, F. P. Sinclair, Mrs Brown G Miss Mary Desl C. Winlock and Mrs. David D. Torter, vice presidents meneral; Mrs. Fllen Hardin W e Mrs. Alice Marshall and Mrs Lockwood, hist wra Barton, surgec Teunis Ham chaplain and_executive committe am D. Cabell, Mrs. M Donald, Miss I ngton, Mrs. Margaret Mary Desha, Mrs. Ma Lockwood and Mrs. Ellen ¥ MPETUS w ziven the society by Mrs. Harrisc ptance as pres. | ident gene-al. Her kindly interest and co-operation continued until the day of her death This vice 1s being commemorated now in the er tion of a memorial dormitory known as the Caroline Scott Harriso Dormitory at the Oxford College for Women, Oxford, Ohio, of which her father, Dr. John Witherspoon Scott was_president is one of the chief me: proj the D. AL R. at_the present moment. In 1875, in California, a patriotic soclety known as the Sons of American Revolutlon was organized, ind a few women were admitted and were called Daughters of th can Revolution. Several ye: Lefore the s E the Eastern State: Loulsville, Ky.. at of the & hen, in 1590, at general meeting Imission of women nto the soclety was questioned, and action was taken denying memb ship in the society to women. Those already mei were excluded. This issu zht many protest but in truth resulted in the propo: in Washington of Miss Washington, a great-grandniece George Washington, to a friend, Mr Flora Adams Darling, to organize a L of women Revolutionary Mrs. Dar approved the plan, but it was decided to wait until September before furthering the move- ments. In giving the records of subsequent proceedings, Mis. Mary Moderwell SKDEG WO 0L MISS EUGENIA WASHINGTO! GRANDNIECE OF GEORGE WASHINGTON, E OF THE FOUNDERS OF THE D. A. R.. w Luderwoud & Cudesviouds But, be- | the to he| the | Ameri- | elapsed ~d in | | | _ MEMORIAL CONTINENTAL HALL. | De Bolt, historian general, Natfonal Soctety, D. A. R., said: “On’ the 5th of July, the press re- ported the proceedings of the Fourth | of July meeting of the Sons in Wash- {ington. Mrs. Darling asked Mrs. 1 . the patriotic and courageous Qualkers, who, by her determined efforts, argu- ment and influence, held the represent ative men of Elizabethtown, N. J., to their allegiance to the flag, when Gen. Howe had offered pardon and am- Underwond & Underwood. Mrs. Walworth immediately bezan in tensive work. Letters invitation were sent to representative women throughout the country. N appointment were issued and A notice was published in @ Wash- ington paper giving the purposes the soclety, quoting Its elizibility clause and requesting all women of Revolutionary descent to send their names to the registrar, Miss Wishin ton.” * HE was incorporated June, 1891, and five State v wre apnointed and confirn § were: Mrs. N Hogg of vanii, Mrs. | | Island, Miss Lon Alliste i | York. Mrs. De of Connecti | cut Mrs Wirt Henry « | i WAYNE COOK. PRESIDENT GENERAL OF THE D. A.R. © Underwood & Underwood. d lay down arms. | Mrs. Lockwood's article closed with | the words, ‘Where will the Sons and Daughters of the Revolution place Hannah “This was re by W. 0. McDowell, | a great-grandson of Hannah Arnett, | and himselt a member of the Sons of the American Revolution. In an open letter to a Washington paper, he of- fered to a: t in forming a society and made a formal call for the organi- zation of the Daughters of the Amer- fcan Revolution. ~Several prominent women responded to this call. “‘Although many women known to- be interested, among them Mrs. Lock- wood, were out of th for the Summer, a meeting called for August 9, at the home of Mrs. Ellen Hardin Walworth. Owing to a se- vere storm at the hour appointed for the meeting, only two women appear- ed—Miss Lugenia Washington and Miss Mary Desha. These three women, undaunted by wind and rain, and thoroughly in earnest, took the first step in the| organization of a national patriotic society. A constitution was adopted, | | based upon one submitted by Mr. McDowell, and revised and recon- | structed with the aid of A. Howard | i Clark, curator of history for the Na- tional Museum and registrar for the Sons of the American R board of management consisting of nine women appointed with Miss Desha as chairman, Mrs. Walworth secretary, and Miss Washington reg- istrar. Mrs. Benjamin Harrison, wife of the President of the United States, was the unanimous choice of the three ladies for the presidency, and the next day a letter was written. asking her to accept the office. This she did early in September. Miss Desha, Miss Washington and | volution. A VADERWO 0D MISS MARY DESHA. ONE OF THE FOUNDERS OF THE D. A. R. % Underwood & rwood first told rver in 1876 « creat-grand. | exclusion ac in the New Henriet: This story, York Obs Holdich GXOER WO 0D MISS MARY LOCKWOOD, IN WHOSE HOME THE FIRST OR- GANIZATION MEETING OF THE D. A. R. WAS HELD. & T YKDERWO 0D MRS. ELLEN HARDIN WAL- ‘WORTH, ONE OF THE FOUND- FRS OF THE D. R > Tndervood & Underwoc? Virgiufa. Ch had the i honor of having the first chapte ganized outside the District of Co Dia | At the nce held in Octo bher, 1881, ption was ziven by Mrs ramin Harrfson at the Whi use, the briliiant . of D. A oy 1t th tive Mansion. U this happy be | zinning, the custom of the annual re ception by the President and the gra of the Land was ceremony is now Lady prized events bf the f the ide of w i which shouid ho £ the society and dquirters in to con ittee s of the pro t hundred and sixteen | ~1 by October 11, made charter mem society, a distinetion v in value and privil vassing years The sccond vear was in the inception of new T first Co Congress was held in the Church of Our Iather, on 1°el, ruary 2. 1802, Mrs. Harrison sided eelected pre to be th fety, to recor historical research untry, s started, wa with Mr: H. Walworth as editor. In Febr 5 the society w incorporated by the Fifty-fourth Con- ! of the United States, the char JxmDERWI 0D MRS. CAROLINE SCOTT HARR SON, FIRST PRESIDENT GE! ERAL OF THE ACCEPTED TH ING THE PRE: TAL_ AD- MINISTRATION OF HER HUS. BAND. lerwood & Underwood. ned by Grover Cleveland. The society w ordered to report an- nually to the secretary of the Smith- sonian Institution concerning its pro- ceeding: nd was given permission to depo s collections and material for history in the Smithsonian In- stitution or in the National Museum. One of the resolutions adopted at the first meeting of the society became a_reality when statue of George ‘Washington, presented by the women of Americ: exposition in 1900. Mrs. Daniel Man- ning, then president general, repre- senting the United States and the N: tional Society of the D. A. R. Another resolution adopted at that first meeting assumed visible form when a site for the erection of a fire- proof building was purchased for $50,: 000, and plans for building Memorial Continental Hall were actively inaug- urated. In April, 1904, the corner stone was laid under the auspices of the Masonic fraternity with impressive ceremonies, the gavel used being the ter being one with which George Washington | laid the corner stone of the National; Capitol in 1793. In 1905 the build- ing was far enough completed so that a part of it was dedicated and the fourteenth Continental Congress held | within its walls. * k %k Xk FIVE years later the bullding was completed, the office moved, and Memorial Continental Hall became headquarters for the society. Within twenty years from its organization, the National Soclety of D. A. R. was housed in one of the most beautiful structures in Washington. A few vears later the growth of chapters throughout the dguntry necessitated enlarged husiness offic This led to WASHINGTON, sices of | , was unveiled at the Paris | D. 0, OCTOBER 11, 1925— PART Rambler Recalls Achievements ARCIA BURNES was a wom an of charity and grace She devoted herself to per: 80 whom fortune had treated hard, and she did this with such sympathy that the poor did not feel that their misery was used as a stepping stone to i clalm of greatness. She knelt with and gave them part of her goods. he did not tuke u haughty stand, i hold a purse at the tip of proud fin- ers and with @ gesture of grand charity drop it at the feet of poor. She had the gift of sympatk It is not a common qu are many keep their thy under armor e it 1s the point at which unseru- pulous persons would undo them. A man must he on guard aguinst ma- rauders. Many | ve - | pathy_which gushes : Pin pi land ‘wastes itsell In w that are {hard to justity. There persons I who ooze mpathy for publici | | There are those who repress th sympathy until, having heaped more wealth than they can use, i brought ruin to their children, and with Death stalking them. turn pro fessional phili Hist nd wantonl ive to causes of questionable worth The woman 1 write of seemed to l the balm of sympathy where | i unction was need hat is what the i ns he says Marcl hid the gift of sympathy. He it know this woman, and no of bus written of character of er are mot hey are opinio! e natural sense and mental culture are offering ceepted. | opinions on government, philosophy,| Then the city editor would gently | sun spots, acter weather and human char- and the last is the most com- n writes of an- When one hara he notched with his own standards and | those standards zre his exper { books he vead, lectures of pro { fexsors he thought great and infln Lences on nis childhood Some men make alleged character | studies with the an ving prafee 1 fth the alm of denving The Ranble nts to he and to come as close to truth as usual human Hmit fons seems to have N Mar rnes in the cottag, the 1 he has known—liv plairt try families of this reglon that ere like the Burnes fami i When the and ussoctation L with Jette ve polish to wirl with h litlc me the of & vich man, prominent becaus: family wnd his own work ise built in the the | tuge she wus born in, and the ruins of the Burnes cottuge and the Van mansion stood together tll such that you und 1 = daughter "~ gran, n Ninth, H. After she, with men. had fo - n City Orphan Asylum. 110 she gave, several yeurs ¥ ne near the grave of her child and close to the 1 grandparents’ home. time when Death was striking n fevery fomlly stutic cholera e of 1532 people gave extr to the of Marcia Burn are not conter Burne e ARCIA BURNES VAN NES, ‘A\l smber 9. 1832, at the V- nsion. onal Inte Sep! ptember 10, 1832, tontained after a se and protract Iness, at 1 m. yesterday, . wife of Gen, John P. or of this ¢ . Of this {lady it may be emphatically said that { she the an_ of the orphan nd tne benefuctress of the poor. The { friends and acquaintances of the fam- ily - ! . re respect- Jfully invited to tend her funeral, ut 4 {o'elock pm. today, without further | notic There were services at the house and the tomb in Mausoleum The following is taken from ashington Globe, September he large concour: that attended the funeral of Mre. Van during the season of alarm tress which tends to confine ympathies of each _individual his own of marks of regard, as well as a ‘nse and good feeling of a com- y upon which her unostenta- tious benevolence could make such an impression. Mrs. Van Ness had buried her daughter many years ago (November 22, 1823), and on the spot where she entombed her only child she sought comfort under the bereave- ment by the erection of an asylum for_the nurture and education of fe- male orphans. To the inmates of this noble charity she became a mother, and as these doubly deprived and heipless children followed, in the garb of woe, the bier of their munifi- cent benefactress to the scene in which they had been 8o often cheered by her kindness, and there to see | forever closed, within the old vault, tall that gave hope to their prospects in life, no heart could be insensible to_their sorrow.” { There was a service at the vault, and Rev. William Hawley, the second pastor of St. John’s Episcopal Church, preached. The statement is also made that the orphans strewed flowers and branches of weeping wil- low on the caske 1t has been put in print that Mar- cla Burnes was sent to school in Europe and that she mingled with rich and titled persons. It has also been set in print that she had little schooling and was a young woman without finish of speech and manner when she became the wife of John P. Van Ness. Historians are a bad lot. I believe an eminent historian would 'ast about two assignments as the erecting of an administration building, which was completed in 1923 and contains the executive offices. Then came the demand for an audi- torfum which would seat all the dele- gates to Continental Congress, which resulted in the thirty-third Conti- nental Congreéss authorizing the pres- ident general, Mrs. Anthony Wayne Cook, to present plans for such a building. The thirty-fourth Conti- nental Congress overwhelmingly ap- proved the plans which the president general and her committee presented for an auditorium to cost nearly $2,000,000. In the D. A. R. Museum in Memorial Continental Hall are housed many valuable relics of Revolutionary days and its library teems with historical volumes and preclous family records which go back to the Continental Army. ‘Twice in the history of its existence the D. A. R. has rendered valuable service to the country in time of war aud national peril, a needy mother and with an orphan | the | a and | cltizens | roof, evidenced the | th worth of the object of these | -at Time of Services in Mausoleum Square. 1 | THE BURNE COTTAGE. PHOTOGRAPH BY T. TT. 1894. In Life of Marcia Burnes Van Ness A Life of Sympathy and Help for Those Who Were in Need Brought Numerous Tributes LOANED BY JAMES F. HOOD. SEC- RETARY OF THE AMERICAN SECURFIY AND TRUST Co. | EUPNATIVRONS ERI( L |a reporter on a first-class newspaper. | into a rut. The Ines draw me a pic- | s, and i ture of the honest minister. *'In earl, 1 must lament drop him Rev. down the elevator sbaft.|life she was distinguished for great William Hawley was rector of | sprightliness of mind and amibl St. John's Ipi Church when | ness of disposition.” I have known Mrs. Vun Ne 1. John's Epis- few normal girls who had not parish was htiiness and amiabfiity he e church sedateness of her manner g Bishop Kemp of Decemiber 27, 1816, D, Haw the first sistant rector and the second rector. | The first rector was Rev am H Witm heen reetor “hris ndria. He he named to ssisy t. John's. When Mr. Wil left St in 1817, to come president of Willlam and Mary Collex Willlamsburg, Mr. Hawley was elected rector und retained that pretend ot his death, in 1835, He should no near: known Mrs, Lad from her sof girlhood, rob. e facts about not likely that pietistic. “Afte the story to , few who \lid not + he in mothers, perhaps none, teach their children me. The mothers 1 knew personal God—loving y said at Mar when she was Baltimore and s with Tiu a girl was sent | was educated Ly pri | the daughters of T !able and prosper She was part and riirgled with the e Baltime There are two things I do not like Mr. Hawley “tutor,” which meant for centurl mrotector or a guardian of a_wom: miinor or imbecile. He might hav said teacher, pracceptor, maglster or Tudi magister. 1 will not people public outburst | “educated by | tur or educatus erat, but t is the assumption | nd being edu- Old newsy ems like this: s = completed her i home from | . had learned; 2 s I the Kings and! AARCIA BUR 3 o d and £ot & oY\ PAINTING BY GILBERT STU- of ¥ men ron’s poems polite deport- | and embroidering tidies. - { ifawley's funeral sermon was s i hooklet by Francls Pres- | nd, without per-| her: ART. PHOTOGRAPH ‘l_(iA\'Ell _BY GEORGE W. WHIT prir | ton mission of K | the Rambler take n carly life s - grea amiablen dom or n and forgiving. but with- (whose God v the p X expectation of rebuke from him, ! s vigilant and quic punish children—a stern God t frowned on jov. But the mother: knew told their children of that loved t ch over | played. d sang and lived told their children of the wonder and good of God and taught them er, severul in’doing tha time. PR the following: was distinguished prightliness of mind and ss of disposition, which sel ver failed of winning the and securing the esteem intances. The sedate- ime 1ve dignity to the genuine |z her deportment, I plety of her hes s was exempli- | fied ‘more extensively in after life, ed her among the first in society | the estimation of all who knew intimatel d enjoyed the pleasure of her acquaintance. HE evening of the day Mrs. Van Ness died there was a meeting of citizens at Western Townhous The meeting was called to order by “After she hecame the mother of 'John H. Houston. John N. Moulder {her only child she reallzed all the was called to the chair, und James and responsibilities of a parent | Gooch was named the secretary. | toward the living charge committed The following resolution, offered by | to her hands, and te her God, and it|John Wells, ir., was adopted: “That was her peculiar delight in ‘teaching | we consider the de; cia Van the youni idea how to shoot’, to di-|Ness a public mis extending rect'its juvenile thoughts to tire great ! its influence from Parent of all and thus train up the|circle of her family, relat object of her affection for a happy | friends throughout all the r immortali tlons of society. The poor, to whom The speech impressed the mourners. | she was a constant and liberal hene- The reverend man expressed himself | factress, feel her loss; the sick and af- in the routine way. There is no origi- | flicted, to whom she wi nality in most men, and a minister | visitor, will deplore her abs: speaking at successive funerals falls | orphans, to whom she w . the JOHN P. VAN NESS. PAINTING BY GILBERT STUART, PHOTO- GRAPH LOANED BY GEORGE W. WHITE, PRESIDENT OF THE NATIONAL METROPOLITAN BANK, to ! a consoling | jeh precept and t to her se lexample, w | ind profess That was n 20 tell whi decided o sihve CCozens and Wi Coffin plate was ea am Hunte ed to the Va neration 1 ted this } - p purer and hay d while we her loss endeavor us Incubation in the | Desert. Y « person who hLas wutche, a mother rohin nes patien |1v on her eg soming apple | tree has wondered how the little cre ! ture or her | long proce: | hatch. A gr cestors ever learned t vould cause the egss puzzie is set for the Wes arned 1t of to wa ame hirds have 1 their eggs instead unshel red it hecomes necess s from cooki ng except dd or drooped fainting with plti spreading the t last spar h she mount ent shelte Where Mats Are Heirlooms. N Samoa the mat occuples a t i over the nest ditional place and in those islands re often treated as heirlooms S ts are excelient nd the older the ns of specin mats, the greater the value attached art, to them. The possession of an oli mat gives the owner high standing and may be said to constitute a sort of title deed to rank and property, from the Samoan standpoint. It matters little whether the mat be tattered and torn, its antiquity is its value, and for sume of the most cherished mats large | sums of money would be refused. Some of the mats have names know: all over the Samoan grouy st is called “Moe-e Fui-Fui, The Mat That Slept Among the Creepers.” | This title was derived from the fac: | that the mat had been hidden a {for years among the creepi | volvulus that grows wild : | seashore. It fs known to he @ old, as the names of its « i Chasing a Bear. NY one who has seen a bear walk knows how slowly he seems to move, and his run is a shufiling | lumbering gait that is comical to it !n s, unless he happens to be runnin | after ) pu. Rut D moves pretl | fast, notwithstanding appearances, and the griz: which looks to be clumsier than the brown or the black bear cover ground faster than the averag horse. A Western sheep rancher was riding in the foothills when he saw a bis. awkward silvertip. He had « rifle, but was not certain he could kill the be:r at one shot and knew that he woulil | get into trouble if he missed. Se he gave a regular cowboy vell, and the bear started away in alarm. _The man gave chase, at the sanu time keeping up the plercing vell, and he soon noticed that the grizzly was getting farther away. He continued the chase for nearly two miles, until the bear disappeared in the mountains, and he had not gained a foot. In going back over the trail hLe noticed places where the bear hud made jumps of 15 or 20 feet, and the ground had been cut up by his claws, 5o that it looked as if a harrow b been run over it. Nickel in the Body MONG the metallic substances traceable in the human body nickel must now be included. It does occur in the fats or in muscular e, but is found associated with kerStine, the chemical base of hair and nails, and also in the liver.