Evening Star Newspaper, September 28, 1928, Page 40

WwWOoM THE WIVES OF THE PRESIDENTS Martha Wayles, Whose Deathbed Plea Kept Thomas Jefferson From Marrying Again. BY J. P. GLASS. “THEY SPENT MANY DELIGHTFUL EVENINGS WITH THEIR MUSIC.” The wife of Thomas Jefferson is but of festivities followed. Then Jefferson a faint shadow in the background of |s2t off with his bride to Monticello, what most of us know of the great|where he planned to build the mansion statesman. Yet his romance with|which would give Virginia “one perfect Martha Wayles is one of the most beau- | sample of architecture.” tiful and most tragic in American his- tory. It began with an accompaniment of | whimsy and ended in deep gloom. Martha Jefferson did not live to see | her husband President of the United States. But, dying, she held him to her as irrevocably as if she had remained to twine her living arms about him. One suspects parental management in the first meeting of the Jeffersons. ‘Thomas was a rising member of the Virginia bar at Williamsburg. John ‘Wayles, father of Martha, also was a lawyer, wealthy and influential. His residence, The Forest, was one of the finest around Williamsburg. Doubtless he saw in Jefferson, himself wealthy and with a bright future ahead, a de- sirable husband for the daughter, and took the young man home to meet her. Martha Wayles met Jefferson as Mrs. Martha Skelton. Girls married young in those days. She had been wedded to | Bathrust Skelton and widowed before she had passed 22. She was childless. Jefferson found her a- tall, slender young woman, whose luxuriant auburn hair set off a beautiful face, brilliant in color and expression. He presented to her a tall, well knit man, with the strength of a giant, who was rapidly outgrowing a youthful homeliness. They were well mated physically, but even more suited mentally and spiritu- ally. She had been far better educated than most girls of her day, liked poetry, played well on the spinet and sang| beautifully. Jefferson, who ardently Joved poetry, was no mean violinist. ‘They spent many delightful evenings with their music. She played the spinet and sang for him or accompanied him When he played the violin. Jefferson had rivals for her hand. ‘The story goes that two of them chal- lenged him to a test of her preference. On a Summer’s_evening the trio Journeyed to The Forest. While the other two waited outside, Jefferson went in to propose. If successful he was to play his fiddle, which was always at The For Silence from the man- sion meant the others would be left to fight it out. But Jefferson was much in love and had lost his youthful bashfulness. Soon the waiting swains heard his violin. With it rang out the happy voice of Mrs. Skelton singing. “Our jig is up,” said the quondam rivals, departing in gloom. ‘The wedding took place at The For- Snow which covered the ground grew deeper as they reached the mountains near Charlottesville, They had to leave their chaise and continue on horse. They reached Jefferson’s house to find it dark. His slaves had concluded the bridal couple were not coming and had gone to bed. Jefferson buill a roaring fire and flooded the house with light. brought. wine. Soon their laughter filled the place and the wearisome jour- ney was forgotten. Martha ,Wayles was the sort of woman who could live up to an adven- ture like this. She was frank, warm- hearted, impulsive. Life moved off on an even keel. The happy lovers spent most of their hours planning the beauties of Monticello. Then babies began to come, and with them sorrow. It is strange that a man and woman so splendidly endowed physically should have had weakly offspring. Of their six children only two survived infancy— Martha, the first born, who came in the Autumn of 1772, and Mary, the fourth. Mrs. Jefferson's health had been de- clining, and her sixth child, born in 1782, cost her Iife. For four months she lingered, while Jefferson lived in terrifying suspense. He took nis regu- lar turn nursing her, hoping desper- ately she would recover. With the end at hand, Mrs. Jefferson gave calm directions about many things she wanted done when she was gone. But when she reached the subject of Martha and Mary she was overcome. At last she found her voice. “I could not die content,” she said, “if T thought my children ever would have a stepmother.” Jefferson, the faithful lover, took her wasted hand in his. “I promise I'll never marry again,” he murmured brokenly. He could not bear to watch the ebb- ing_of that life which was so precious to him. He was led staggering to his library, where he collapsed insensible on_the floor. - For three weeks he endured an agony of grief. Martha, not yet 10, remained almost constantly with him, striving with childish love to comfort him. Gradually the paroxysm passed. He resumed the burdens of existence. But he never married again. (Copyright. 1928.) (The next sketch of this series will He | It was useless. | est on January 1, 1772, Several days ' appear in Monday's Star.) Straight Talks to Women About Money BY MARY ELIZABETH ALLEN. The Unemployed Husband’s Wife. ‘The unemployed husband's wife can- not afford to stand on her pride or to preserve “appearances.” As in all eco- nomic crises of this sort, relief comes quickest to those who recognize their necessities and act accordingly. The unemployed husband's wife must jump ta to fill the breach. It may be easier for her to obtain fnstant employment, than the husband. ‘This is particularly true if he follows a trade which is “slow” or engages in sea- sonal employment. Where he is forced out on strike or by the failure of liqui- dation of a business, or because of phys- ical reasons, there is no time to spill the milk one is to cry over. Even the untrained woman may find plenty of employment opportunities. She may choose home sewing or home work of any other sort. She may take a shop position, or engage in real es- tate work, or mind children, or teach any art or craft or game at which she 15 adept. How she earns her livelihood does not matter so much as that she does it. None can fortell the period of unem- new order of things is best off. circumstances, but it is hetter to yield temporarily than to bring about a cha- otic condition of affairs which mean utter ruin. Usually the wife is the crux of the Usually she holds whatever inspiring and stimulating example. It is not easy to adjust one’s self to humbler situation. The husband and the chil- dren look to her to adjust their lives. purse strings there may be. Her responsi- bility is great, both as to the conserva- tion of resources and the setting of am ployment which a man may suffer. Optimism need not curb preparedness. Nor should any wife delve into the fam- ily’s savings. The latter “don't” applies most strongly to family's unprotected by in- surance and without any real property of any appreciable nature. In such in- stances the wife must recognize the need of safeguarding herself and her t anv fate, | which adjusts itself most st harmoniously to the WHO REMEMBERS? BY DICK MANSFIELD. Rexstesed U. S, Patent Office. BleGory! VM Glonna AsK (RELRR A e 1S ALRIGHT) = e LOOSE-WILES BISCUIT CO ‘When Andy Gleason's one-horse carts “@id all the hauling from the “big” build- inz projecis, and there were no steam Llw\‘els and five-ton trucks? THE EVENING THE DAILY HOROSCOPE Saturday, September 29. Many adverse influences are strong tomorrow, according to astrology, which rcads in the stars warning to be cau- tious while this planetary rule prevails. The mind may be open to many pes- +imistic suggestions tomorrow which may bring misgivings and fears. It is n unfavorable time tor making deci- | Under this sway the worst is always | expected. spreading evil report, especially regard- ing political candidates, but libels will serve as boomerangs, it is foretold. | Those who seck employment should | postpone unless ihey are strong to meet | disappointment, astologers warn. | Persons who have power to bestow favors probably will be hard to please at this time, when the stars seem to encourage criticism and pessimism. Egotism thrives under this sway. Again the seers foretell surprises in the naucnal political campaign and consations as November approaches, but | they prophesy that only good is to re- suit from the votes of the people. Business organization will be devel- | oped along many novel lines, it is fore- | told, and prosperity will be widespread |in the new year. Astrologers read in the stars warning that men and women will think ac- cording to standardized rules, and they counsel independence in intellectual matters. Books and magazines that reflect the best thought are to gain in popular favor, it is foretold, and new writers will gain large audiences. Aviation is to make tremendous strides this Autumn, it is forecast, but several terrible accidents are prophesied. Since the air has been conquered, the next explorers will turn to the occult. if the stars are rightly read, and science will solve mysteries hitherto considered beyond the human ken. Material and spiritual worlds will be: come equally weli undcrstood in th: cn:ning decades, the seers prognosti- cate. they comprehend their nighest possi- bilities, it is foretold, and they will find in age-old responsibilities their best at- tainments. Persons whose birth date is tomorrow may reach crises in their lives in the coming year which will bring great happiness. They should listen to ex- pert advisers. Children born tomorrow have the | augury of eventful careers. The:* sub- Jects of Libra often seek public service and attain highest places. They are likely to be unusually attractive in ap- pearance, and generally their eyes are exceedingly beautiful and expressive. (Copyright. 1928.) SUB ROSA BY MIML A Skyscraper Viewpoint. ‘The higher we go upward from the earth, the more interesting it looks. As seen by the angels, it must appear as a paradise. If distance lends en- | chantment to the view, elevation puts | the finishing touch on it. Then the | street and pavement seem glorious, and even horses and men with derbies look poetical. d | Look down from the window of the |average skyscraper and you're in for a fine sight, so fine that you can save the money you would spend at the movies, There humanity is a mass milling around the corners like cattle, buzzing like bees around a hive, which may be a cigar store, and moving on- ward in currents as though driven by the wind which sweeps through the city canyons. It's some sight, but I must not wax poetical or I'll lose the idea I have in mind. What I have in my bonnet is this—that every single individual in that mass of drifting democracy is a self-starting, self-steering person who knows where he is going. “Follow the crowd” is the practical rule when we are headed for a train or a show, for the people generally know where they ought to go. But even with all this herding, massing, milling and crowd-following, there is an inevitable amount of individuality. You feel that when you are one of the helter-skelter crowd. Now that's what makes the sky- scraper viewpoint thrilling. To see this mass of folks you'd think they were no wiser than cows or bees or sheep, but if you watch them closely you'll notice that now and then some one person ;breaks through and goes to his own destination. That's what makes a human being in distinction from a mere creature. The thing to do in life is to find your destination and hike to it. I don’t mean merely a place to sit down, but a sort of goal or port, a place to aim |at. For there is a natural tendency to follow the crowd and do as the rest are doing. Of course, when we live in a boom- ing, busy world where there are plenty of other people, we can’t assume that we, individually, are the only pebbles STAR, WASHI It is an auspicious day for | Women are to reach a place where | NGTON, D. C, FRIDAY.. SEPTEMBER -28, 1928. Says the Prize Is Always a Disappointment | <% | DorothyDix Lottery. Earth,” Says One Woman, “for No One Ever Knows What She Is Getting.” | | A GROUP of prosperous, happy, well married women were discussing matrimony the other day, and one of them suddenly asked: “What was your greatest disappointment in marriage? “Mine," she went on, “consisted in finding out that marriage isn't the end of your job. It is just the beginning, and you have to work 10 times as hard to keep a husband as you did to get him. The principal reason I longed to marry was because I thought that as soon as I got married I could slump down and take things easy the balance of my life. “When I got tired to death of everlastingly dolling myself up—crimping my hair, putting on my complexion and trying to look beautiful though plain—I would cheer myself up by thinking that as soon as I got married I wouldn't have to bother about my looks any more, and I could wear nice, clean, comfortable wrappers, and pitch my rouge pots and cream jars out of the window. “And when my face would get stiff wearing the smile that won't come off, because a girl has fo look sweet and pleasant and amiable, and when my tongue would get so worn out jollying men that it would cleave to the roof of my mouth, and when I would get so exhausted trying to maintain an alert, interested expression while bores maundered on about themselves, I would say to my fainting soul: ‘Have courage. Be patient. In a little while you will get married and then you won't have to pretend any more, and you can be cross and disagreeable and yawn whenever you feel like it.’ “I love good food and especially do I dote upon the nice, rich, gooey, fattening things, and whenever I had to pass them up in order to maintain my boyish figure I would lick my lips in anticipation and think: ‘Just wait until I am married. Then I'll live on whipped cream and mayonnaise and eat angel food for breakfast. “So, filled with these happy anticipations, I got married and I quit powdering my nose, and wore any old sort of sloppy dress. I began to get fat. and I didn’t bother about being entertaining or fascinating to my husband, and the first thing I knew he was beginning to look slantwise at thin little flappers who rolled their eyes at him and yes-yessed everything he said, and who had on the latest Paris model. “And I perceived that if I wag going to hold my own I would have to get busy and cut bait again. For it isn't enough to fascinate a man once. You have to do it over again every morning. When you are married you have to have a line of charms that are 10 times as alluring as any vamp needs in her business, and there is no place between the altar and the grave where a wife can sit down and take it easy. “She has to be always up and doing, if she is to keep her husband thinking he is the great and only one, maleed z.:l ('eell.nl that she is the wrong one.” “MY greatest disappointment in marriage,” said the second woman, “was when I discovered that I couldn't tell the plain, unadorned truth to my husband. “I had always had rather a secret contempt for my mother because she worked my father, and when I observed her waiting until after she had given him a particularly good dinner before she sprang a new dress or hat on him, and when I heard her say to him that she had thought of having the dining room done over in dark red, but that she didn't want to decide on anything without his advice because his taste was so artistic, and I knew that she had already ordered red draperies, I resolved never to do that way. “I thought: ‘When I get married I won't have to cajole my husband into doing what he ought to do. I'll appeal to his justice, his sense of right, and we will talk everything over man-to-man and go 50-50 about everything. He will know that I can’t run a home without bills and that disagreeable things are bound to happen in one, so I'll just hand them to him and there will be no gumshoeing or pussyfooting or camouflaging around our house. “But we hadn't been married three months before I found out that the one thing a man won't stand for from his wife is the truth. He doesn't want her Yo be veracious, he wants her to be one of these slick-tongued Janes who can plaster him all over with flattery and make him believe that she thinks he is wiser than Solomon, stronger than Samson, and a greater financier than Mr. Rockefeller. Furthermore, he wants his wife to work him. “So In the interest of peace and harmony I do even as my mother did, maks gestures of wifely obedience and humility, and I wouldn't dream of doing anything so crude as presenting him with the facts about our daily life without softening them up a bit and putm:z them in the best light.” ... "MY greatest disappointment in marriage,” said the third woman, “was when I found out that instead of being able to look up to my husband as a sort of demigod I had to mother him as if he were a small boy. I married expecting to spend the balance of my life on my knees. I thought I was getting a husband who was wise and temperate in his opinions, self-controlled and above all petty passions and prejudices and vanities. “Imagine my surprise when I found out that the man I had married was no more like the man he is in the outside world, or the man I thought he was, than if he were an entirely different human being. My husband is a big business man. He controls a huge organization. He is noted for his insight into complicated problems, for the clarity of his judgment and his patience, and that is.the sort of superman I thought I was getting. “But what I really got is a great, big baby who howls if dininer is three minutes late; who couldn’t find himself a clean collar to save his life, nor be trusted to order anything from the butcher’s; who gets mad over nothing and su}:kslunul': ;pmk hlmil vert‘i‘nlu:ly: ;\'tac udarhe,s !fil;g petted and fussed over, and who loves ave me show of as| to tell that fect] story about the two Irishmen.” ” . DYfdrcokng “Marriage is t#b greatest surprise party on earth” said the first woman, “and none of us knows what she is getting in the package she draws.” “Perhaps it is the lure of the unknown that makes husbands so interesting,” returned the second woman. abliis. DOROTHY DIX. pyright. on the beach, but still we can avoid being wom smooth by too much con- tact with the world generally. ‘We are careful enough when it comes to picking a job. We have to be. But we are not always as careful or skillful in picking out our amusements. We think that they don’t count and we can go where-the rest of the crowd is going. It's really the leisure time that tells what an individual is. When he's at work he has to be a certain sort of person and do a certain sort of work. It's the diversion which tells the story. ‘There's a heap of difference be- tween a night school and a night club. The crowd may be heading for the place of amusement, but a person who senses his proper destination is likely to steer in another direction. Baked Fish. Clean a three-pound fish carefully. Brush over with lemon juice and sprinkle with salt and pepper. Put onto a buttered rack in a baking pan, pour over half a cupful of hot water to which has been added two tablespoon- fuls of butter, and bake until done, basting every ten minutes with butter to which lemon juice has been added. Re- move to a serving dish and garnish with potato balls, sliced l;mon cut in fancy shapes, and pars- ley. |“Marriage Is the Greatest Surprise Party on| cucumbers, | AUNT HET BY ROBERT QVILLEN. “They wanted me to sing in the choir for Tom's funeral, but I don’t like to sing with folks watching me since my upper plate got loose.” (Copyright, 1928.) NANCY PAGE The Glass of Today Will Be an Heirloom of Tomorrow. BY FLORENCE LA GANKE. “Suppose you haven't any grand- mother or great-grandmother who owner Stiegel glass or Hitchcock chairs or spool beds or handmade coverlets. Suppose no attic in any house belong- ing to your family held even so much as a Godey's Ladv's Book or a Peter- son's Magazine: not an old valentine nor sampler. Suppose that sad condition of affairs is yours. What would you do?” This was the question which was to be answered at roll call of the members of the Nancy Page Club. Mrs. Adams said, “Break the com- mandment which says ‘Thou shalt not covet.” " Mrs. Classon answered the question by telling folks. to go out and acquire antiques, But then Mrs. Clas- son had plenty of money. Finally the roll call came to Nancy Page. tell you what I would so.” she said. “I would buy as many really good old things as I could afford. But more im- portant than that, I would see to it that my children and children’s children would have something worth while. I would start making a collection for my descendants.” We talk about the glass of the early Americans. Much of it was crude. ‘Why not keep some of the wonderfully lovely bottles and glass containers of today? The perfume, the bath salts, the toilet water are put up in contain- ers which are fine enough to go in jeweler’s cases. Just because we can get them easily we do not prize them. Then things like capers and mint sauce are put up in artistic bottles. And as for prints and pictures, did our ances- tors begin to have things as lovely as now used for magazine covers and ad- vertisements. Let's start collecting now for posterity. Things of today are worth it. “Amen,” said the club. (Copyright, 1928 - Sulphurous dust from m-tor-exhaust “rmes are injuring trees along Paris * nlevards. FEATURES. - MILADY BEAUTIFUL BY LOIS LEEDS. Lemon- Skin Bleaches. At this time of the year there is a great demand for skin bleaches to re- move the last traces of vacation sun- burn. Many such preparations can be purchased ready made and some of my readers have asked me to recommend | the best of these. I cannot comply with such requests, however, since it is contrary to my policy to do so. There are a number of good bleaches | Usually one-half an hour on the market from which to make a | selection. Homemade skin remedies for tan and freckles are easy to prepare and may be mixed with simple Ingredients. more intensive is solved by the oatmeal back. The desired quantity of oatmeal (or corn meal) is mixed with a lotion made of equal parts of strained lemon juice and water or with the bleaching lotion described above. The resulting paste is then spread on the skin. It may be left so or covered with the ®auze. The length of time for which the bleach should be left on depends on the sensitiveness of the skin. is long enough. Some of my readers do not realize that bleaching preparations do not make a naturally dark complexion into a fair one. All the bleaches can do is Those with a lemon base are among |to remove the effects of exposure to the best. While undiluted lemon juice | sun and wind and so restore the orig- is too strong for the skin, it makes a harmless but effective bleach when combined with other substances. For example, a fine bleach for darkened necks, arms and hands may be made of the strained juice of two lemons, two ounces gelatin, four ounces rose- water and one-half teaspoonful borax. After the skin has been cleansed at bedtime it should be dried carefully before the lemon lotion is patted on. Allow the bleach to remain on until BANDAGE For BLEACHING inal whiteness to the skin. Lessons in English BY W. L. GORDON. Words often misused: Do not say “He alluded at great length to his ad- ventures.” “Allude” means to refer in- directly. Say “He spoke at great length of his adventures.” Often mispronounced: Devilish. Pronounce dev-I-ish, three syllables, not dev-lish. Often misspelled: Futile; ile. Bynonyms: Education, training, breeding, discipline. Word study: “Use a word three times and it Is yours.” Let us increase our vocabulary by mastering one word each day. 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