Evening star., 1913-08-10

mestic science course which she has been
conscientiously attending. Representative
Powers rises blandly to the occasion
and proudly offers the fact OF his good
health as the most positive evidence that
she is an excellent cook and fine house
wife.
Mrs. Powers was educated at the Val
paraiso University OF Indiana. which Is
one OF the group OF colleges from which
her husband has diploma. his degree IN
the Indiana University being for the Law
course. She qualified as a teacher. and 10
a fluent French scholar. She is, of course.
most vitality interested In Kentucky poll
tics and in all philanthropic work or her
state and home town, and also In pro
noting the cause OF prohibition.
She Is deeply interested In all move
ments toward the betterment OF the sur
roundings of working girls. and Is heartily
in sympathy with all plans that work
toward providing them with comfortabie
quarters and supplying them with pgoper
diversions. Whatever charitable wOf6 shs
takes up while I'm Washington win un-
questionably be along these lines- I.
Mrs. Powers makes a graham u1ynpn
which is guaranteed 10 convert all sBkep-
tics and unbelievers who partake OF fheu
into lasting allegiance to Kentucky coc2
cry.
For their construction she, uses the fol-
lowing formula: One cup OF wheat floor.
one cup of graham -four. one-quarter cup
OF sugar. one spoonful OF salt one cup Of
sweet milk, one egg, one tablespoonful OF
melted butter and one teaspoonful Of bak-
ing powder Mix and sift dry Ingredients
add gradually well beaten egg, milk ard
butter Bake in buttered pans In hot
oven about twenty-five minutes.
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Mrs. Walter Allen Watson. the wife Of
Judge Watson, whose handling OF the
Beatty murder trial spread his fame from
ocean to ocean. is another talented con-
gressionai hostess to whom the term ef-
ficiency applies in the largest sense
Judge Watson is serving his first term In
Congress. representing the fourth vir-
ginia district
Mrs. Watson Is the last OF her inrne-
date family, the Virginia Tinsleya. 30
well known to Richmond cne was ed
ucated in the female seminary OF her
home city and was married there about
eight years ago. After completing the
course at the seminary she spent several
years In New York IN dramatic study
and is a graduate OF New York school
of expression and q national dramatic
conservatory.
For a time she taught both in New York
and also in Richncrd- Most Of her ef-
forts were cegotef 70 ptrfecting herself
as a reader. and r. this connection, dur
ing her stay In SeS York. she received
much fatterng comment During this
period she conceived and invented the
graphic music system. BY which kinder
garten children should acquire com.
prehensiye musical knowledge in the fun
damental principles and yet be spared
the mechanical labor which the older
methods of teaching imposed.
Miss Tinsley designed a blackboard Or
chart upon which the children pesged
in notes of the scale or little tunes with
wooden notes as large as silver dollars.
She also contrived a long, folding table
witt lines and spaces upon which the
little folks filled in their measures with
wooden notes which they selected. In ac-
cordance with the requirements, from .
capacious box filled with notes ranging
from eighths to whole ones.
Then, too, as part Of her unique system
she created a game Of cards, not unlike
authors, whereby the little people readily
acquired a very good fund OF musical
history. There were thirty cards, divided
into three classes of ten each. namely.
classic romantic and modern. Upon each
card at the top was printed the name Of
a composer. underneath 1t the date OF his
birth and death. and farther down were
placed four. authentic. salient facts %
distinctive that the little lad or lass would
forever after associate IL with the name
to which Ii belonged.
This system of musical study, like her
dramatic work, Mrs. Watson was obliged
to abandon in its infancy, just when tt
most needed her creative efforts to perfect
it. Through the invalidism OF her pareftB
and brother she was obliged to give up
a large part of her life to sickroom cares
Mrs. Watson declares emphaticaliy
that while she has very positive ideas
upon the mental and moral uplift OF the
stage. her work i'm dramatic channels IL
absolutely finished, except insomuch az
she still continues her readings and study
of those subjects. ~-ke.s
= She is, of course, eligible to the pa
triotic organizations of the country. but
has not affiliated with any except the
Daughters of the Confederacy. She II
also a member of the Society for the Pres
ervation of Virginia Antiquities. She Is
devoted to all outdoor sports. has trav-
eled largely in America, speaks French
f1uently and has knowledge of Ger
man. She takes social duties as pleasant
diversion rather than as an obligation.
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