Evening Star Newspaper, October 12, 1930, Page 100

1930. THT SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., OCTOBER 12, ¥ only coming home had been the warm, relaxed experinece it should have been. There they all were, bless them, in the boxy old red brick house in which every member of that family of five children had first seen the light of day. It was a house plastered over, time and time agein, with the most poignant’ memories of Emily Stofield Brandt’s life. Her baby finger- prints were stili on one of the under layers of nupapermwuth-doncebeenthenurscry and which now served as guest room during family reunions or visiis of the married children. Emily had seen the light of adolescence in this” house, the happy ‘teens, the first eager twenties; love, marriage. . . . Coming back to it after a five-year period as the wife of a young attache to a Far East gov- ernment was the reward of a silent nostaigia she had privately endured through every one of the long intervening months. Not even her mother, with hair that had gone even whiter in the in*~rval, and who now sat in her accustomed piace at the head of the table, her hand in the familiar gesture of tilting the teapot, had sensed to what extent this girl had been lonely for her. IN many ways, all except the fundamental one, it was an ideal home coming. There were all four of her brothers and sisters, with wives, husbands, children, around that board, and her father, even with his deafness and increasing permit a visit from the Far East. This was Emily’s trip, alone, after five years, back to the sweet, warm scenes of her childheod. This was Emily’s trip—silently, secretly, her trip. Not even Robert yet knew the deep- e to the bosom of her family to unburden How good and staple and right and normal and decent they were. Ellison and his blond wife, Marie. Their marriage had taken, all right. Regarding them across the table, they seemed to Emily, so tired, like sleep purring young cats. Even the high-handed, always board was a thriving one. The brood had come home now to do honor to Emily, five years absent, and the only one of the children who had as yet set foot on foreign land “Aunt Emily, do Chinamen eat dead rats?” How good to be among these her own! The prattling children of her brothers and sisters; the warm understanding glances of those with whom she had grown up. “Daughter, tell us about Robert's work.” “Ah, Father, Robert will go far. These years are Just his apprenticeship. He takes to diplo- macy like a fish to water.” “Well, the family needs some one to shed a little glory of distinction on it, what say, Father?” This from Roy, at 35 a lumber millionaire, and already known for philanthropies. Curious of his wife, Letta, sitting beside him, with her hand touching his, to utter that, “What, yes?” UT oh, how good to be home among them. How it eased her heart and at the same time, wrung it with the tightness of pain. ‘To have to enter a wedge here! To have to inject into this well woven group the first strange alien nole of disharmony. And yet the time had come; irrevocably the time had come. Pive years of warding it off had been only evasion. Thank God, her mother would understand. No matter how difficult the telling; no matter how bitter for her to have to hear, the woman wheee Lateg the fiowa knaw, Father. i ¥ ) would seem unsympathetic, but stand fiercely by; Roy, who might not comprehend, but would rally with a sense of clan . . . oh, it was going to be hard to tell these people whose lives were on even keel. . . . And, strangely, it would be hardest of all to tell Robert. It seemed impossible, and yet it was possible, that in all the years he had not seemed to suspect. At the ship, bidding her farewell, tears had actnally popped into his self-centered eyes. “Come back soon and well, dear,” he had whispered to her in a brief moment away from the crowd. The first term of endearment he had used since their honeymoon. A sparse word that years before would have meant much. But now, in the long period of his self-con- centration, embittered by her loneliness, sati- ated with his sapping ambition, weary of his coldness, even though it were only a tempera- mental coldness, meant nothing to Emily. Exultingly, it meant nothing to Emily. No longer could Robert hurt and chill and defeat her Siwmnotgo(ngb-ckmhh. ‘That was her homecoming. Emily had come home to stay! It wondd net b difficult to tell mother, Alone, upstairs, they huddled as of old, on the wide old bed in her parents room. T was not going to be difficult to tell Mother, Alone, upstairs, with the others down at bridge, they huddled, as of old, on the wide old bed in her parents’ room. “Oh, my sweet,” sighed the mother of Emily, and drew her close and kissed her a dosem times and let the tears flow from her cheeks onto those of her daughter, “sometimes, in these five years, it has seemed to me I must fly te you. My most understanding child. The only ene to whom I can talk. Unburden myself, “Oh, Mother—my dear—." “Emily dearest, tell me the good things. I am so hungry for the good things. Tell me of you and Robert. The only marriage of all my five which has brought happiness. So much to tell you, darling. What we've been throught With Roy and Letta, trying to hold them to- gether, dear. It's been a wrong marriage from the start, but scandal would kill your father. ‘Then there’s Ellison and Marie, I didn't want to write it to you, darling, but did you kmow? For almost a year they threatened divorce, untif, almost on my knees, Emily, I succecied, for your father’s sake; for the family’s sake; in patching things up. Oh, my Emily, I've needed you so! Tell me some things—some good things about you and Robert.” Before she sailed back to Japan, some three months later, the mother of Emily had been fed with a banquet of good things about her and Robert. (Copyright, 1930.) Scrapping the Navy’s FFamed Destroyers. Continued from Thirteenth Page gone to the rescue of officers and men of the Rodgers.’ WORDEN.—Named for Rear Admiral John Lorimer Worden, U. S. N, born March 12, 1818, in Westchester, N. Y. Commanded the Monitor in the battle with the Merrimac. FLUSSER.—Named for Lieut. Comdr. Charles W. Flusser, U. S. N, born in Annapolis, Md., September 27, 1832. Killed in the battle with the Confederate States ironclad Albemarle, Ply- mouth, N. C. DALE.—Named for Capt. Richard Dale, U. S. N., born near Norfolk, Va., November 6, 1756. Appointed midshipman, 1776. Captured by the English on Lexington, escaped to France, and served as first lieutenant under John Paul Jones in capturing Serapis. Commanded Mediterra- nean Squadron in operjtions against Tripoli, 1801. REID.—Named for Capt. Samuel Chester Reid, U. 8. N, born in Norwich, Conn., August 25, 1783. Entered the Navy in 1794. Served on the Baltimore with Commodore Truxtun and became a master of the brig Merchant when 20 years of age. Designed the United States flag in its present form. BILLINGSLEY.—Named for Ensign William L. Billingsley, U. 8. N., born in Winona, Miss., April 24, 1887. FPirst officer of the Navy to be killed in an airplane accident. June 20, 1913, he attempted a flight in a Wright biplane which had been converted into a hydroplane, and crashed when he had traveled about 10 1 -niles dowm, the bay from Snnspolis, Md. L. Ausburn, U. 8. N., electrician, first claSs, U, 8. N., born July 26, 1889, in New Orleans, La. at sea October 17, 1917, when the U. 8. 8. Antilles was torpedoed. Ausburn, radio opera- tor, remained at his post to give warning and went down with his ship. OSBORNE.—Named for Lieut (junior grade) Wooden E. Otborne, dental surgeon, U. S. N., born in Chicago, Ill., November 13, 1892, Killed in action with the 6th Regiment, Marines, while rescuing wounded under fire at Chateau Thierry, France, June 6, 1918. Posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor and Distinguished Service Cross. COGHLAN.—Named for Rear Admiral Joseph Bullock Coghlan, U. 8. N, born in Frankfort, Ky., December 9, 1844. Appointed midshipman, 1860. Took part in the battle of Manila Bay, 1898. Advanced six numbers by Congress for eminent and conspicuous conduct in battle. PRESTON.—Named for Lieut. Samuel W. Preston, U. S. N., born in Canada and appointed . from State of Illinois, October 4, 1858. Killed while loading his men in attack on Fort Fisher, 1865, LAMSON.—Named for Lieut. Roswell Hawkes Lamson, U. 8. N., born in Iowa. Appointed to the Naval Academy in 1858. During Civil War took prominent part in the capture of the bat- teries at Hills Point and in attack on Forts FPisher. Piloted the powder boat Louisiana un- der the fort. BRUCE.—Named for Lieut. Frank Bruce, U. S. N., born August 20, 1879, in Grand Island, Nebr. Entered the Navy in 1911. Was in com- mand of the minesweeper Bobolink. Killed. when a mine which was being heaved in ex- 1.0 MRECIRS, WBA 41, i CHARLES AUSBURN.—Named for Charlesy: ii-giloded, May 17, 190801 %0 CONVERSE.—Named for Rear Admiral George A. Converse, U. 8. N., born in Norwich, Vi, May 13, 1844. He was one of the first offi- cers connected with the introduction of elec~ tricity aboard men-of-war. Naval expert om ordnance, especially torpedoes, and was pioneer in introducing smokeless powder in Navy. MAHAN.—Named for Rear Admiral Alfred T. Mahan, U. 8. N., born at West Point, N. Y., September 27, 1840. Participated in operations of the South Atlantic and West Gulf blockad- ing squadron during the Civil War. President of Naval War College, 1886-89. His treatises on naval matters are internationally standard. MAURY.—Named for Comdr. Matthew F. Maury, U. 8. N., born in Spotsylvania County, Va., January 14, 1806. Appointed midshipman February 1, 1825. First superintendent of the Naval Observatory. ¥amous for his scientific works on hydrography. LUDLOW.—Named for Lieut. Augustus C. Ludlow, U. S. N, born in Newburg, N. Y., 1792. Appointed midshipman April 2, 1804. Died of wounds received in engagement of: Chesapeake and Shannon while directing the fighting. 4 BURNS.—Named for Capt. Otway Burns, U, S. N, born at Queens Creek, N. C., in 1775. During War of 1812 comumanded the leiter of marque Snap Dragon, and took 15 prizes, one of which had a carge valued at $250,000. - River during the Revolution. He forced- the British fleet below the American defenses im that river to retire, and drove H. B. M. 8. Augusta and Merlin ashore, where they were