The age-herald., 1897-10-05
BY MRS. GEORGE c. BALL.
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Commander Booth-Tucker is a practi- cal hflanthropist as we'll as a success full officer in the Salvation Army as he recent plains for a workfngrnan's colony in California indhcaItes. He has pur- chased a large. felldile valley, which he proposes Ito divide into small farms or tracts, and to sell at very reduced figures, on the fnatallment plan to men who alrc very poor, but willing to work, and anxious for hoimes This Calffor- mia valley is alt The foot of the Santa Lucia mourta1ns, and is watered by 'the Saliwas river, and other smaller streams. The tract selected is in prox- fmity to Inc beautiful Bay of Montcrez, and the climate is salubrious and equa- b1e. Commander Booith-Tucker is solv- ing one of the problems that has inter estad socialists of late, and he is ac- complaining it without studying at any of the great universities for an lndefinite period. He Is only helping his fellow men in lhe most sensible, practical way.
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 Madame NaVerro-tMary AndSrson- who is now living at the little Village of Broadway, Worcestershire, England denies with emphasis, that she ccmtem- plates returning Ito the stage again She affirrns. with great iilsisiaence, that sie is perfectly happy, and coritent in ithe retirement of p1dvsjle life. She is the picture of healln, and complste sat- dsdaction; a woman who has oUtlived hisr ambition for artistic alnd dramatic fame, and is enjoying to the utmost an ideally romantic existence. Mary Anderson Ma yerro lpas only one child twelve mcnths old; lher eldest child died about two years ago in London. Madame Naverto Us evidently anxious 10 avoid every form of notoriaty, and has given orders to all photographers that raJt one of her 1'bctures can be exhibited or sold She is said to be good charada ble neigh bor, ccinstderate of the poor and unI- versalIy courteous. She is an excellent housekeeper and a devoted wife and mother. One who has recently NSrted her English home thus writes of 1t and its mfztness:
 Tho house, a low, rambling old struct- urc, "old English in design, is almost and both its exterior and interior are poetic in the extreme. It is all sweetly simple ard homelike without jarring note anywhere, and net the slightest sign of osltentatfon or conspicuous evil denoe of the Naxerro wealth. The place was chosen partly for tits isolated and Inaccessible petition, for as Mime. Ma verro said, she wished to ged as far away from the public eye as possible.
 1t is her wish to live the remainder of her life in her own way, unobserved and unmolested by the curious portion of the great world, of which she was once so conspicuous member. At first she was inclined to resent my professional call and to regard me almost in the light of an intruder, but after she had stated that any further publicity of any nature was abhorrent to her and to her husband, her mood changed and she was the sweet, gracious woman again, ready to oblige and to please as far as 1t lay in her power to do so. After showing me the music room, which was also the general sitting room-a won derfully artistic room, with low ceiling panelled oak walls and floor cozy cush- toned window seats, soft, warm rugs and huge, antique fireplace, in which a cheerful wood fire was burning-AIme. Navarro led me out into the court and gardens at the back of the house, where 7 delightful picture of Arcadian loveli- hess met my eye. It is a place in which an artistic temperament would reyel. for it has that which appeals strongly to the sense of sight and smell and sat isfies something even higher than the most refined human senses The sim plicity of the drawing room was also in keeping with the rest of the place. The walls were of white panelled wood and the hangings were of the softest of soft green silk, which gave the room with its antique furniture and here and there a touch of dun, dead gold an air of ex- quisite daintiness and purity. Soft, lux uriously cushioned window seats ran around the quaint high Queen Anne windows, over which were draped cur tains of dainty green silk. Every chair was of the comfortable order and, in fact. every article in the room, although characterized by an air of simple ele-