Evening Star Newspaper, December 29, 1929, Page 47

S OCIETY. THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, DECEMBER 29, 1929—PART THREE. Tales of Well In Social and Official Life Ancient Document Recently Unearthed Recites| Incidents in the Military Career of Secretary Adams’ Illustrious Forbears. BY MARGARET B. DOWNING. ‘The Secretary of the Navy, who is & member of the delegation appointed by President Hoover to attend the Five-Power Naval Conference in Lon- don, is a keen student of the annals of his family. But he does not, however, feel that the spirit of the early Adamses, most_distinctly at emmity with every sort ' of disarmament, will affect his Jjudgment. The Secretary recently re- ceived some excerpts of an ancient vol- ume unearthed in the Chateau de Blerancourt by the curator, M. Girodie, who has been established there by a Franco-American fund. This book has been placed on exhibition and from its pages it may be gleaned that in the thirteenth century, the Adams family was most pugnacious and hostile toward enemies or any sort of compromises. In this venerable tome it is stated that in the year 1200 the first recorded Adams of Northhamptonshire received from the King a handsome patrimony in land “i7r heroic service on the bloodiest field of battle,” and that the second John Adams, his son, was knighted “for slay- ing 30 of the King's cnemies on a single fleld.” This chronicle of the Adams clan stretches through the centuries and discloses that John Adams, the im- migrant, was a stanch henchman of Capt. Miles Standish and was a rigid Puritan. Mr. Charles Francis Adams, the Naval Secretary, uses the same shield which adorns the initial page of the genealogy displayed in Chateau de Blerancourt—a lion rampant spitting fire, adorned with black four-leaved clovers, which brought luck in battle, and above the motto in French, “I Fight.” e A 3 ‘When Andre Tardieu, now Premier of | the French Republic, was high commis- sioner he spent many hours in the Senate and House galleries, noting the proceedings and following results close- ly in the Congressional Record and in the press. He has proved that he learned something about a vote on tne budget, now the most pressing legisla- tion before the French chambers from the premier’s viewpoint, but not so re- garded by the deputies. The members of the French legislative bodies are notoriously late. M. Raymond Poincare in 1926, in his titanic struggle to re- store the franc, appealed so eloquently that the members became more punc- tual, sat longer into the evening, and, after the way of the House of Repre- sentatives, got into the habit of trans- acting much business every day. M. ‘Tardieu does not wish this good custom to decline, so he cajoled, harangued and brow beat the deputies into promising to hold three sessions daily, for discus- sion of the budget only, and that unti every member has argued his point and | the question is ready for a vote. M. ‘Tardieu is called the most “American” prime minister who has ever served the French Republic, and he rejoices in the designation and fully intends to live up to it. He finally put his measure before the Legislature and asked for a vote of confidence and he received it 250 to 142. * x % % Miss Bettie Northrup Powell, daugh- ter of Col. and Mrs. E. Alexander Powell of Lands End, Chevy Chase, will, | her friends think, eventually turn h:ri attention to the foreign.service. Very few votaries of Vanity Fair can claim, as Miss Powell does. a degree from the | School of Political Science in Paris, but she won it after taking the usual course and has since continued her studies along the same lines and in the domain of trade and commerce. She has lec- | tured before learned societies in many | ciiles and has accompanied her father on various scientific expeditions. Wom- en have not arrived to any eminence in the foreign service of this republic, although there are several brilliant | young trade commissioners and a vice consul or two. One or two brilliantly endowed women have been appointed | on legation staffs, Miss Lucille Atchi- | son of Ohio is one of thess and served | in Switzerland as third secretary for a | time. But there are few who are pre- | pared for the work more carefully than | is Miss Powell, for the School of Politi: cal Science in Paris is one of the ste] ping stones into preferment in the per- sonnel of th: State Department. But in this detail of indifference to femi- il | background of blue sky and still bluer Known Folk Leonardo da Vinci. painter, engineer, warrior and _scientist, and Italian women spun fine linen from his era. According to scholars it was late in the | elghteenth century before the English at home and in the colonies b2gan to use the spinning wheel, and clumsy old mcdels, some brought over from Lon- don as commercial ventures, were soon improved on, until in the Revolutionary years the wheel was one of the lightest, simplest construction, easy to handle and rapid enough to have performed a | worthy role in keeping the Revolution- ary Army well supplied with needed garments. All those who wish to study the American evolution of the spinning wheel should visit Atheneum in Hartford, Conn. * ko x Miss Eliza - Heywood, first woman publisher of a magazine in London, is. ”xcc:rdlng to the conclusion reached by its fourth estate, just as worthy of honor and a local celebration as the first woman who achieves anything unique—swimming the channel, cross- ing the desert, flying' above the At- lantic, crashing into a forbidden pro- fession ‘or trade. Miss Heywood in 1785 published a fair-sized magazine which she called “The Female Spec- tator,” and as Addison’s great journal was then in the height of power, this modest feminine counterpart shared the prosperity. “The Female Spectator” lasted through three years and Miss Heywood profited a little by her ven- ture, but it was not the era when for- tunes were made in the publishing business. If she has any kindred in the present generation who preserved the old numbers, they can make a for- | tune. Groups of woman journalists are presenting pages from this early ven- ture, and so well did these take with the British public that Miss Heywood's life has recently been presented in a good sized volume with abundant ex- tracts from her texts which show a the Wadsworth | quaint humor and a knowledge of con- ditions in her time which bear a strong resemblance to problems of present-day | Londoners. She deplores the lack of good sportsmanship, a familiar cry in | the twentieth century. | * ok ok K Edward Bruce, who won one of the prizes in the international exhibition of art at the Carnegie Institution in Pitts- burgh by his painting, “The Pear Tree,” is the cousin of former Senator Willlam Cabell Bruce of Maryland and, like him, | is of the eighth generation of the first | Bruce who fled from the Scotch high- | lands to North Carolina. Edward Bruce, the painter, has spent years in Mallorca and his picture which gained the votes i of the awarding committee shows a | typical pear tree laden with luscious | golden and pinkish fruit against the waters about the Ballearic Island. Mal- lorca, Menorca and Iviza, the names which can be repeated giibly by any school child, compose this group, which lies like giant turquoises on the azure surface of the mid-Mediterranean less than a night's sail from Barcelona. Thousands of Americans visited the Ballearics last Summer. Many of them were artists attracted to Barcelona and | Seville by the richness of the art treas- ures displayed in the two expositions. Architects were also there in numbers | to study the religious edifices of which the Cathedral of Palma is the treasure. Palma, capital of Mallorca, largest island, is unsurpassed by any city in continental Spain in various aspects, | not the least of which are the superb roads which wind at ascending grada- tions and from all directions from the | city to the rugged mountains which form an encircling panorama. Mal- lorcans have been wont to express con- tempt for those who repeat the ancient saying about “see Naples and die,” for they claim that the marine view about the harbor of their chief city surpasses Naples and will enkindle in the beholder the more national desire to live a thou- sand years in such environment. Mr. Bruce had his studio for two years on an vation in full sight of all this beauty. * ok ok ok Frank Jay Gould, youngest son of the financier, the late Jay Gould, is do- ing his best to make the Prench Riviera even more appealing than it has been for decades, and especially to Ameri- cans. He recently invested a huge sum nine candidates the foreign service of | the United States does not differ great- | Iy from that of any other country. | Great, Britain has practically no women on its rolls except in a clerical capacity or in some technical branch, like code experts or students of international cus- toms in the social sense. % ow % Mr. William Richards Castle, jr., the Ambassador-designate to Tokio, is one of the Capital's leading authors as well | as one of its accomplished diplomatists. Born in romantic Honolulu, he has written a delightful study of Hawaii, past and present, some fiction and some excellent volumes on miscellane- ous subjects. Long time the editor of the Harvard graduate magazine, Mr. Castle knows all the alumni of that seat of learning and ranks high in their esteem. His marriage to Miss Margaret Farlow of Boston was a coilcge attach- ment, dating from his senior days and continming_in his maturer years. He came to Washington first in 1917 and | choos in building a mammoth hotel in Nice, the Palais de Mediterenee, on the Prome- nade des Anglais. It would appear to the casual observer that Nice needs an- other ecstly hotel even less than does the boardwalk of Atlantic City. This | gem of the Riviera is practically a city | of hotels, lovers of villa life invariably | fonte Carlo, where there are | private domiciles and few hostel- | But the new establishment is to cater to United States people. Special | dishes beloved in certain sections arc in readiness all the time and all the delicacies h may be imported were at hand for Christmas. Several thou- sands who have voting privileges in this | republic spend the Winter on the Prench Riviera, Cannes, Nice and Monte | Carlo, and Mr. Gould took care to lure the cream of there to a splendid Christ- mas celebration in the gorgeous new palais in Nice. ma i ‘MISS ELIZABETH LOUISE CHIPMAN, & | Daughter of Dr. and Mrs. Cline N. Chipman of Rhode Island avenue, who, during | her vacation from Paris, where she is a student, is making a series of visits. Dr. Chipman is a member of the faculty of George Washington University. —Underwood Photo. | Summer on. the hot sands of her owa | estate at Beaulieu. Out of the blue sky | this diva deserted the villa she had made famous at Monte Carlo and re- | tired to a more secluded portion of the | French Riviera where she could on her own private beach derive all the benefit promised from Old Sol's rays falling di- | rectly on the body. This health cult, which spread through Europe like prairie fire, called for the entire day being spent in the bathing suit and in the sun, which shines as continuously as in any other region in the world. By this process it was promised that the years would fall away like a discarded garment and that wonderful vigor and energy would result. Chicago's prime | favorite in operatic roles tried it out and her friends say with excellent re- | sults as to health and youthful grace, but she is neither fair nor fragile and some of the effects of the sun cure must be smoothed away by massage, and powerful lotions, as in the case of the | bronzed court ladies, who must wear that most trying sort of gown, white | satin, when serving near the threne. * K % X Col. Edward R. Bradley, winner of so | many Derbys with his steeds reared at | Idle Hour, superb stock farm near Lex- | ington, Ky. continues to distribute | every Christmas generous sums made on | his hotses and for the benefit, as he | quaintly writes, of all “the orphant | Annies” and Marys and Tommies and Johnnies as well. This typical racing | squire of the Bluegrass State was not | discouraged because a certain charitable | body in Louisville refused his check for their orphans on the plea that the | money being won at horse racing was | taint: He has been looking about fer institutions and has found them. 1 only at Christmas, does the racing magnate remember the helpless, but he entertains hundreds of young- | sters at picnics and on river excursions at varying seasons like Decoration day, July 4th and Labor day. But only in his charities does this philanthropist emphsize Kentucky. He maintains Idle Hour in all its state and elegance, but his stables and racing units have been removed to New York State and he will enter the sport from this van- tage. Conditions in Kentucky regarding racing laws and regylations have proved too much for this veteran, who in 1911 von the derby with Behave Yourself and in 1926 with Bubbling Over. At the last race in Kentucky his Blue | Larkspur was rated the best 2-year-old, | Spanish River Floods Fields. ZAMORA. Spain, December 28 (). — | Its waters swollen during the last few | days, the River Duero is overflowing the dams of the mills operating in this region, which have been compelled to suspend work. It has been years since the River Duero was as high end local | authorities are taking steps to prevent loss of life. Several fields have becn | R Mary Garden, like social queens of Europe, adopted the sun cure so en. B o e torT31a oy | paring for her several new roles in the the foreign service. The hospitable | Prcsent opera season in Chicago she | home of this diplomat is on R street | Das had,to devote as much time and near Eighteenth. and there their PAINS to whitening her skin as she HenhterE hris PRosalle Cacile. made |to practicing scales and reheasing with her debut. | She married Mr. Allan | the troupe. Her principal new produc- Winslow, then a member of her father's |tion is a libretto founded on the younger profession and who was for some time A Dumas’ “Lady of the Camelias,” tradi- thusiastically last Summer that in pre- | - flooded and many plantations have suffered damage. i X ir, frail woman Tesident in Geneva. Mr. Winslow te- | tionally asking for a fair, tired from the foreign service to enter | quite unilke the deeply tanned and very Drivate business and. with his family | athletic-looking Mary Garden after her now lives in Chicago. Mrs. Castle | 11th & Pa. Ave. " Shore Dinne: Bandit Pair Escape| After Hold-Up Amid Ripe-Tomato Volley | Grocer Had No Gun, but Makes Good Use of | Only Ammunition. By the Associated Pres: | WILMETTE, Ill, December 28.— Search was under way today for two ! men with the splatter from ripe toma- | toes smearing their otherwiss classic features. i The men were thieves. They took | $80 from the grocery store of George Cosmas. As they ran from the placs Cosmas pursued. The grocer had no pistol, machine gun nor light artillery. | There was, however, a basket of ripe | tomatoes at hand and Cosmas to realize it’ was his one chance. He began cannonading th: fleeing robbers with tomatoes. The first pitch , was a daisy, smacking one of the men squarely on the derby. The second | slapped robber No. 2 on the back of the | neck. This particular tomato was of unusual ripeness. Other parsons were S0 delighted with the event that they joined the chase, tossing Cosmas’ ex- pensive tomatoes in reckless abandon at the harassed fugitives, The fellows 8ot away. . Pensions for woman teachers or ex- teachers over 60 years old are provided in a will left by Mrs. Rudolph Polack of Californian Retained to Reclaim Barren Fields for Growing of Cotton. ‘TASHKENT, Turkestan (#).—In_ the lifeless plains of Turkestan, where water is even more precious than gold, an American engineer seeks to convert 1,100,000 acres in fertile cotton fields. Arthur Powell Davis, noted irrigation engineer of Oakland Calif., has been engaged by the Soviet government to SOCIETY.” 7 $2 From ‘The cracksman who plied an 18 pound sledge Friday night, battering his way into a heavy safe at 3619 Benning ter money digging ditches. The $2 which he found probably cost him four or five hours of most vigorous effort. The strongbox was in make tillable the vast sandy wastes | the office of Joseph Smith, a dealer in which the Tartar Tamerlane subdued six centuries ago. Almost daily he reconnoiters ths barren golodnaya steppes of Asiatic Russia by airplane. Soviet officials spent nearly $50,- 000,000 uselessly on the project, then signed Davis. The American will sup- ervisz the work of 30 American irriga- tion engineers, and the government expects that when his work is com- pleted the newly watered lands will yield 500 pounds of cotton to the acre. That, in tis., would make the Soviet Union independent of the United States and Egypt in cotton. Turkes- tan’s present yield is only 50 per cent of Russia’s nced. The project requires the diversion from the great Syr Daria River, which the natives call “The Strewer of Gold,” of more than 10,000 cubic feet of water a second. To install the necessary ma- chinery will take nearly five years. In all, the development includes 3,- 000,000 acres, a territory larger than Massachusetts. Millions of dollars in American machinery will be used, and American irrigation methods will be ~mployed throughout. Dr. Walter T. Bronson Dies. CHICAGO, December 28 (#).—Dr. Walter Teed Bronson, director of the Roentgen Laboratory at Northwestern University and captain in the Medical Corps, attached the 313th Infantry, 79th Division. died vesterday. For Wide, Narrow, Long, Short, Small | or Large Feet | @ “No Foot Too Hard to Fit" | | | 30 Different Styles In All Leathers and Fabrics FIT SNUG AT THE HEEL Custom-Made Stylish Stouts $7.50 to $11.00 Nurses’ White Cloth Calf and Black Kid Oxfords Complete Line of High Shoes Daniel Green COMFYS Sizes 1 to 10 BOYCE & LEWI 'CUSTOM FITTING SHOE 439-72 ST NW. Just Below ¥ J. T. NORRIS J. T. ARNOLD BRUBAKER rmerly With The Family Shoe Store Are Associated With Us. Dundee, Scotland. Brothers announcing NEW CLOTHES FOR THE SOUTH Gay . . . fascinating laces and soft tinted things! chiffons. For evening, Vivid, dis- | scrap metals ‘and_ rubber. road northeast, could have made bet- | took {AMERICAN ENGINEER |POLICE MAY FIND THIS YEGGMAN ON SOVIET PROJECT| AT WORK WASHING DISHES TODAY Four or Five Hours of Hard Sledge Swinging Nets Only Stranger. | The industrious intruder made his | way into the office by “jimmying” a side window. With the exception of a $1 bill and some loos® change, he othing of value, The heavy sledge used to batter the safe was taken from the tools in the shop, as were several crowbars found scattered about. The robbery was dis- covered this morning when the pro- prietor went to open for business. BODY FOUND NEAR ROAD. LAS VEGAS, N. Mex,, December 28 (#).—The body of an unidentified man, whose clothing bore the label of a Phil- adelphia manufacturer, was found with a bullet wound in the back of the neck, about 10 miles west of here near High- way No. 66 vesterday. 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Bauer, long time mayor of Lynn, Mass., and this year elected with a sextet of claimants for the honor opposing, has for years been an industrious collecter of antiques and has gathered a sizable display cf co- lenial furniture—old clocks and curios of all sorts. The cream of his collec- tion is & rare flax spinning wheel which for six generations had been utilized to make the garments of the Sherman family of Connecticut. If ever the | energetic mayor of Lynn needs a few | S thousands of dollars, that sum awaits him from slmost any museum and from many admirers of spinningz wheels. So far collectors have not been successful in finding one exactly like that used by the sturdy pioneers of Connecticut which may be pur- chased, although many are preserved in stately mansions of New London, | alcng the Sound, and in the interior where may be found the oldest houses of the State. 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Esgerness to mst: out i/ ishment caused the total rewards | fered to reach $1,678.55. | All day long the telephones ir. tte office of the Humane Soclety of Mis- | sourd, under which the search for ths perpetrator is being made, were busy. School children pledging their few pern- nles to $100 offers from business men came in. Teleirams and letters reveal | the interest of folks out of town. The dog was found by a woman, who called the Humane Society, asking it be | put out of its miss hilipsborn ELEVENTH ST. = BETWEEN ¥ G Now Contes Philipsborn’ s Annual END of YEAR CLEARANCE —during which we will clear the entire store of small lots and single pieces and remaining novelty Christmas items that we do hot wish to inventory No Comparative Prices Are Used Only by viewing the stocks can the unusual- visualized. 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