Evening Star Newspaper, February 28, 1926, Page 87

'THE SUNDAY STAR, \\'ASHING’L‘O.\", D. (¢, FEBRUARY 28, 1926—PART 5. Legislator’s Long Journey Abroad Rambler Resumes His Discussions Takes Him to Wild Regions of Africa - Of Family History of the Queens ° Stories of Sightseeing, Combined With Some Perilous Adventures, Told by Senator i Correspondents Add to Store of Information on This Subject and thc Allied Mqtlcr uf the i | | Howell, Who Was Accompanied on Trip by Mrs. Howell. : American Origin of the Brooke Lire. BY WILL P, KENNEDY. ARTLY imor an_ambition, | whetted in hovhood by contact vith the famous French natur dist, Pmul Du Chaillu, to be come an explorer of *Darke; ind move especially to zather hand information regarding the d’s shipp isiness and the part WO months have passed since | we met on this page. Most of the Rambler's one million eaders have borne his ab | sence with patience, though | three or four subscribers of unusual literary judgment have become vest less and haye telephoned the, office to sk why their an-ostors were neg Tihe United States should take in it lected. Blame me not. When sev Kenator Rtobert B. Howell of Nebraska, . eral doctors come to see vou, it is Mrs. Howell 1 3 ¥ very hard to get back one's health. 4 3 During his absence from this page the Rambler -has recelved some While colleagues in Congress wer rvacious compliments from men who | « o “unkets,” at Uncle Sam'’s expense, . sense the virtue of the rambles. One Yo the Philippines, Hawaii, through % 4 physician, with a keen understandipg the Panama Canal and in Alaska § ‘ ¥ iy 1 of the art of letters, said: ‘*‘Harry, Senator Howell deep into his own . s when we get insomnia patients in yocket and suffered many trials on 5 3 1 hospital we no longer give 'em Yix journey across the Atlantic, \ bromide and chloral. We give ‘em a whrough the Mediterranean, Adriatic L y i Ramble to read.” A famous surgeon I Hed Sea, the Gulf of Aden, the 3 - seids “Harry, 1am performing major tian Ocean, into the heart of Africa : o operations now by readir few lines hrough Mosambique Channel and ¥ ¢ - of o Ramble to the patient. 1 con und the Cape of Good Hope, back i . . " : your Rambles a gzood anesthet States. i 3 % 3 5 S ; ey work well ws chloroform Well, let's go. wnd enjoyed many and varying th hey were literally brolled on the S e D S In storics about Queens Chapel ‘and & vom the deck in the teeth of a X 7 ¥ _ the Queens’ lands on which much of " Tndias 3 Rk . : S = e theast Washington Is built, the ter of : - o - - o 3 gave you the name Marsham trade, . . s e : . several times. A will in the *hoenician out 5 5 ' R L b WL i it Marlboro shows tha here the gold that < 3 : N ¢ 5 ‘ : i Marsham, William. Kathe on's Temple pro. 3 5 2 i+ i e Markaret Queen received the nt- e R 4 - : Intlosure™ 1,040 acres—under and ¥ . & ihe will of their grapdfather, Richard ight for and ¢ " » 2 Mersham, filed at® Marlboro April with Kilwa : ¢ 5 £ . 11,1713, The Rambler's friend, Alex headquarters, nore. than 30 ) $ nder H. Bell, lawyer, of Washington | turies; visited the reef at the en % < the following notes on Richard e to Mombosa Harbor, on which 3 e . v Marsham: “He cane from England bR e e i S 3 ¥ : (0 Maryland in 1658 and died in Prince 5 the Indies nearly lost his life Georges County in 1713, Ile was en \ GLIMPSE OF SANDY SPRING ough the treachery of an Arab| SENATOR AND MRS. R. B. HOWELL OF NEBRASKA. iged in shipping and commerce, op =~ : : 5 k ' Trave inland from Mom- | SRS R 2o’ e e e ating fram wharves on the Easter: 1o Nairobi, the capital of Kenya Branch 50 yvears before the establish- | Drooke had eight sons. T} 1 1 Cicelia Proy lony, former British East Africa,|he has the easier is life. Moreover, | ch to hold a condensed milk can seeking thrills, followed the Kon ent of the port of Bladensburg. | correspondent is one 1 Brooke e than prob 5 a member of the Quorum (that | desce s, and sy ve half - tound in ibout 100 miles, they proceeded | he is aided and abetted by his other | Ie necklaces indicate to the world | zo to Victoria Nyanza, alone except igh an open-air menagerie un-|Wives, as each addition decreases ihe |11 wirl.is betrothed, and before the | 1 s sme 3 DE0: |1 withont il predence o the presercs | o T Alana chwt clati . Botert tched anywhere in the world; saw | Dro rata of work to be done. to say 1 ony she is kept in the inced the Aull,” | o another of equal rank the County ines in the scantiest attire. re-| not the boost to the family : . choicest dainties. | found a final t t K 2 few | Court could not he held) for Calvert |t ve. Brvokes iis nt in silver, brass The wives are not jealous et oy ed w til it | miles north lone, | County from 1679 to 1681, Marriec Brootk icelets and anklets, their + by side, doing the dail s like When the great|che I tizh Iy Kathevide Brent, siarsted aee. | o Robert Brooke, m «bodies polished with castor oil t rdens, while the hushands arrives, the day of the wedding e ori mpled ily, Ann (Calvert) Brooke, a daugh tle was surveyor - e U i "‘:,j”'”‘“ bt ST HEckenbn iy LU Ofideini s tunately. 1 of Leonard Calvert, first colonial vince of Maryland and a mem With @ cane: went to bed to keep|tribal warfare, African hushands ave | wristiets of wool. she advances 1o o i th shorth o K an e Tomey: Crict st il of the province, and Tater wid ited States, and Charles ( virm within 50 miles of the Equator; | now on a veritable “Easy Street.” meet the by > s Aragedy, met : Henry Brent. The issue of | €4 ton were descendants of Robe: and Katherine (Brent) Mar lruoke.” siarveled at Mount Kenya, whose| It is the duty of the husband to|are two bridesm: > ot to dtsert the sty (ciers are perennial, though immedi- | furnish_huts for the family —one for |her family. T om is ated animal from wrech under the Equator: and viewed [each wife and one for himself. The | panied by savi attenc - s R : Tiie sketch ot the: Brodkes tanil Ailbnanjaro, 19,280 feet, the highest ldren and grown daughters live carrying spears 1 Tsavo the raflroad Hestly Faail Wailne, sscoud | enat follo: ik i for AL yeuk in Atrica their mothers, and the grown| After a wild and barbarous cere TN e b L Sl Auing, seaonce O et ot dent | But and introduced to the other wive ; s James Haddock: Katherine \ hat the ts | who extend most 1 and sincere iy | shim, who. as has been said, married < oniy one rival as t st | for b . tops off the bargain with | Welcome. When children are born th i e o e sh-water lake in the world, : s caid ine that covers her bare | the other wives t hem kindly : Aot e oaes ot e ¢ . Whose shore line exceeds the distance [body thrown in | their \ ist in caring P i e e S e pota 4! et o Virom New York to San Francisco.| Afric ldings are big affairs,| them. The y 1 cat. with z el R an T rne died January They stopped at the little outpost of |and usua e whites ave barred, but | 48 the head of the femi use between Gosan | flon ‘ot the. SHain retords of Thr ; : iy deds Jinja. whose very name sounds Senator Howell managed to get a| African girls never wor ey Sl L records of Mar '_ 1 ;s was born Jnigic mystery of far-off places, on | » " He tales of wild | whites. It is the boys who do the A ry after: | land, in re Queen family, my notes|in . it an, duughter Napoleon” Gulf, at the northern end s lusting several days. | housework for the Buropean dent SECWIRE kb ard At (HAC, Seinnel Qe (uton of Victoria Nyanza, where the surplus| Girls are married, usually, about 12| and sojourners. The money t - e b e nau V| tue, SELERAnt ancekian ot tha waters of tl e tumble over Ripon ! years : ind by the time they | pays the $8 a vear hut tax demanded | G 8 ¥ WO 7 G T R e ‘”’”‘"f i dies’ foursome our recent stories) came from Eng- ke e i ward | find to Maryland about 1655 and died Mombas 4 v 5 ) s County in 1711: that he Mar m Brooke, sird und Katherine | rent) Marsham, who at the time of | ge to Me. Queen ws the | f Baker Brooke, The is. of the marriage of Samuel Queen | (Mrs.) Katherine (Marsham) woke-Queen, were Samuel Queen d 1734, and married Sarah Edelin ham Queen of St. Marys 1t Katherine and rgaret 1z, the source of the Nile, which besides paying 20 to 40 goats pizzle of the ancients, Victoria | Sometimes a particularly 1 within easy next half hour has notes that Baker son of Robert and | May K Brooke, as born No | vembe 1628, at Battle, Sussex gland, and died 1679 in tle married in 1664 Ann hter of Gov. Leonard | vounger son of Sir Georg the fir: Lord Haltime Ann (Calvert) Brooke married. second Brent and hird, Richar m. PBaker PBrooke was the | t son of that Robert Brooke who | in Maryland. June 30, 1630, | s second wife. 10 children and s persons, who were listed as his Servants. Lord Baltimore gave 1 honors to Robert Brooke and h famil Eaker Brooke, jr., left a wii 1697, in which he men jons I o Catherine. sons Bak conard and Richard. and ighter His brother, Charles Brooke, atives, W ) to divide certain lands, and \iabarth : ! fatherin-law. Kichard Marsham is o e custor & {executor with the téstator's wife. i Clothe : pil A PBrocke family note which the § : = STt et ¢ ir Rambler finds in his file of 1915, or _KIKUYU FLAPPERS POSING TO SHOW THEIR “BEAUTY EARS. 0 with bodies oflpolished, feitaped | about that date. Is: “One of the Ram | h metal orn: t stretehed | VICr's friends after reading the ac ¥alls and the Nile begins te | react are old women, mothers in|by the English government—that | cars hung heavy with enoromous pen. | catint of the umble to Port Tobacco. | course to the se: e ¢ baut 1B con, | means $8 for each wife. A well paid nd with if tive dandies | (he ancient seat of Charles County, course to th y |an proba ity ot ‘about’ 15 (chilaren, | FIEa0 88 Jor ieach Wit 23 Ly vinzing the ¢ S I Nd., sends a letter reminding tI two or three of whom are living | the: time a man has a real family before 1 isitors | Rambler of cer S In connection GUENATOR HOWELL found many of | £ they survive habyhood, @ real test | around him—say efght wives, 20 chil copated panorama with Rebert Brooke, the commande A) 1he native customs amazing -for [of endurance, girl ba have their | gren « grandebildren—he bears | i mosquitoes the s Charles County This _ Robert example, 4 man can have as many | phy 1 welfare carefully guarded. | himself v 1t dignity. He's head Ul of dark Africa, oy he can pay for, the more he | Girl the most welcome, for | of a prosperous household ays It was not uncommon 1o S more Important he is in the v veach their teens they . 1 arraved in formal ball {4 0q heginning at their ankles. these event e community. and the easier his life | e brides. The child ] earing hish mosquita hoots i hecor Although the native fabor is |are e vative hut with no| [NEXT in interest to the brides, Sen- | [ ™ SesOnE iitg hoots: | women wrap it around their bodies unimpaire ap-20 cents or less v free the smoke from a fire \tor Howell found unfailing won- | far different reason from that st sq. | ¥ #n upward colling motion, tuck ‘ A 'HE MEETING HOUSE. «dan of Norfol becoming scaree : - As a result C ina the end in at the left of the bust s =i : AR et married men only 1 1 children have gives the appearance of a decol i thle connee unon, on account gown without straps over the | of Sir Thomas Forster of Northumber- |.July 20, 1635, and his wife died No ote th at Jaws and custor ing won . 1 r v for women | M7 e : i houlder. These stately women are | land. Thomas was a member of Par- | vembar 23, 1663 irles . Broc frhroughout Af found, native Tow to be unique in | NATTOW Apes, anc igic death of unel > : harefooted. but a particularly gay '.m\‘lmm:-\‘ from 1604 to 1611. He died “Roger Brooke (1) second sbn o 2 DoaRuEToT aomen are re property, and | his ex > t fair se othias, g the course their trip | Senator Howell found Usanda to be |y, gecasionally be seen carvying | S ptember 13, 1 Robert and Mary, was born at Bret they are real hey ork- | Some work on the | inte the of this cou n which the most populous part of the interior, |\ “yeq sjlk umbrella. Green goggles| Brooke, son of Thomas and | nock College England. September i € othe » skin and | MOsL surprising dangers ever lurk he righest wrade of Lpe 4so used to lend an air of dis horn in London June 3, | 1637, and was 4 boy of 13 vears w pebble underneath the 4 | tinction, while the men carry canes < first wife, whom he marrled | he landed in Maryland. e n S R i Y . ¢ forehead. peshap: tor A Howell were ta i econd In hi e. and it was g wear discarded white collars | Februar [ was Mary Baker. | Dorothv, daughter of Cap hs and deaths i . © row of pebblerai . : vhere there Pt - great 4 whon | iound thetr black necks, They feel | There were children by thix marriage | Neale and his wife, Anna Net e ration e ALY * n Soh the s karnp Il & dozen white peo- | Stanley found on the They | auite “high hat” when able to" w fand many of their descendants live in | Roger Brooke (1) died tobert Broc truin. Then. taKing a piece of cloth memor rment ot the wide variety of the | ciet metions in aristocratic Wash wild ar ind Mrs. Howell m. In Africa i much easier arrate many startling tales of their [ v catch a mosquite sire one ht night, while the Sen ¥ - King is the walked into a hipno furgely Christians on° | (hese cast-off adornments of the white | ~outhern” Marvland and other parts | His eldes: son. Roger t . : ] Reabunshe < have been there ot of the country, but lack of time. space |horn April 12, 1 ety : . HBBtIon by havin e e I and information forbid any attempt to [ 23, 1702, he married I t t have I e e ne . she er stomach, or on | he o M Jn e Lty el e one Sf| AT KISUMU natar Rad s |teltof e Robert vlm\-;m--‘\”\. nd | daughter of Francis and 1 The Rambler | come ! ishand . po rose alongside > lake ich (Cathwlic) would hold 7,000 per- | ; well walked nonchalantly across | Wifes Whom he married May 11, 1635, | Hutchine ily tacts and hope and expected, besides performing ihes have a penchant for big | steamer, grunted and disappeared be- | sons. There the cotton crop is of Howell walked nonchalantly acros D 1 i was Mar: Mainwaring, pronounced, 1| “Roger Brooke (2). an 1| ber as he goes alon her huthold duties, to provide five. | I are very fastidious about the | neath the waves, The captain told | great importance and the natives, d.»I i | ber as ¥ 1| he Equator to visit a native market | y m told Mannering, datghter of Roger | twe sone, both naned Fog he end of his s wood and to eultivate her shamba, [earme {heir beauty. \When the | the American travelers that on the | prosperons and happy and the women where the beef was butchered on ”‘”l that is, @ garder it three acres v young. wooden pegs are | preceding voyage he had seen a croco- | wear clothes—which is almost a media rres u wif perforations in the lobe of | dile slide up to a water hole at this | unique distinetion in st-central o s 3 mer votes his energies and resources i"rom time to time tha pegs | same port and nip off a native woman |"Afri traded produce. - While the Howells 3 2 vere foreed to go (o bed early after zetting anotl < the more 1 until the hole is big! for breakfast \n hwomar Flowing free {hiee-cornered | Were forced & 3 Sy g 2 3 4 el 4 i rightfall to keep wirm, the natives seldom had more of a wrap than| vagged Dbit of shawl, which they clutched around their shivering i <houlders 5 They found it a land of “queer cus {oms and strange people and animals, L thousands upon thousands res of uncultivated fertile land and millions of natives to work it—but |is a forbidden land for Caucasians. |1t is not a white man's country. Whites go there. but there vomes v when a Il cut on one's hand | will not heal, and becomes a running | | sore. Maybe he feels all right at night | and wakes up with a raging fever. n.-‘ | takes 40 to 50 grains of quinine a day | to break the fever. Maybe he gets | it checked, but sooner or later comes | down with “black-water fever,” which | seems to be a result of successions of l.fever and large doses of -quinine, | which weakens the condition | The black-water fever is 80 per u‘m| { fatal. After a time, if you don't get | out, an indefinable si 1hold of you. “The natives aré immune | to the worst of these plagues—it is | their land. But they dread lkn?e:l and death. When a member of the family becomes ‘gravely ill, fe | | taken far out on the hills ahd given | a pan of water, and a fire is kindled. i | sround while the traders waited liere also naked black men and women — - | | Then he is left to die—perhaps de- voured by the wild beasts. But for these transient whites and fe various castes inhabited | Africa is dotted plentifully with golf | links and_tennis_courts.~ “Once_we | PLE BRIDEGRUOM'S PARTY AWAITING THE ARRIVAL OF THE BRIDE. ¥ (Condnued on Fourth Paged SANDY SPRING MEETING 1HUUsk