Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-01-09

gracious and beautiful women and the
cleverness Of Its men, from whom have
sprung some of the greatest statesmen
of the country.
Sir Edward Coke, the great English
jurist of the sixteenth and seventeenth
centuries and author OF Coke upon LIT
Teton" has a descendant in this con
gress in the wife of Representative
william Atkinson Jones of virginia
Mrs. Jones has a DISTINGUISHED line or
ancestors in Sir Richard Talbert Coke
of Trusly Hall. England. Richard Coke.
members of Congress from Virginia:
another uncle. Richard Coke was gov
ernor and United States senator from
Texas. Besides these later ancestors
Mrs. Jones traces a royal ancestry from
one of the English Edwards.
Mrs. Thomas Upton Sisson. wife OF
Representative Sisson of Mississippi. is
descended from the famous admiral.
Sir John Hawkins. a cousin OF Sir
Francis Drake. sailing with him on that
memorable voyage when he planted thu
cross on the Pacific coast in 1878. Her
maternal grandfather was Col. Ran
som sutherland OF evolutionary fame:
some OF these Hawkinses became lords OF
the Manor de Nalletort. which was in
the family of Mrs. Lincoln Dixon OF
Indiana.
Mrs. Daniel ]. Riordan, who belongs
to the House contingent OF blue bloods.
is a we'll known clubwoman and a
member OF the Societe des Beaux Arts
of New York. Her home there is tho
center of all that is best in both musio
and art, and. while these are her recre-
alton. she does not allow them 10 IN
terfere with the many charities IN
which she is interested and to which
Through her father's family. the Cald-
wells of Canada, she descended In the
third generation from LORD Campoei'
of England. and in the second genera
- - Ca 1l1,y-l - 1dUen
Mrs. Charles 7. Linthicum of Mary
land also is of a most distinguished
ancestry, tracing her lineage from Sir
Ralph Sadler.
Mrs. william Schiey Howard oe
Georgia., whose grandfather. NJ. du
Vinage. was librarian to the GER
man court and was decorated with
the iron cross. is one of the most
popular women in congressional cir
Giles. She was descended from a dis
tinguished Huguenot family which
settled in Texas. and on her maternal
side has Daniel Boone of Kentucky
and Job c. Calhoun of South Carolina
as ancestors.
The purple is not reRnant In the
House alone. for the Senate comes In
for it's share, and shows a goodly lot
Oh 1OTDeaTS. OF WHICH OIe 0ouio V
be proud. Mrs. Hoke Smith of Georgia,
who's father, the. late T. r. r. Cobb.
was one of the most distinguished
senator's and Secretaries or state De.
fore the civil war, has a pedigree that
reads like the early history OF our
country, SO interviewer is II with the
names of distinguished Nirginians ana
Georgians who served their country IN
different capacities in colonial ana
evolutionary times-the
Merriwethers, Randolphs. Lewises and
washingtons Her Lewis ancestor was
the mother of three evolutionary SOL
diers of distinction, which Mrs. Smith
refers to with enthusiastic PRIDE.
One of them, Charles Lewis, was a
colonel of the Virginia line: ano.ner,
Nicholas Lewis. was a colonel OF VIZ
ginia militia. and the third was
the brave officer. William Lewis. the
founder of the Lewis family was Jean
Louis, a French a ~ tue time en OF the
revocation of the edict of Nantes. ana
settled in Wales. He became Iamous
as a military man under the LUZ 49,
Marlborough: was made a neid mar,
shall. and received the titles OF EAR
Ligonia and Baron 1nniskillen as =
reward for his bravery. through th,s
branch of her family MIS-, M. .mi,v
connected with the Washington FANNY
To this senatorial coterie from the
south belongs Mrs. Joseph E. Rams
dell. wife of the senator from Louisi-
ana, and treasurer general OF tho
Daughters Of the American Hevola-
ton, a woman of executive aoiiity-
Her revolutionary forbears are secono
to none, and perhaps her largest IN
terest is in patriotic AFFAIRS.
Washington official society will have
the pleasure of welcoming back this
winter Mrs. James w. Wadsworth. jr,
wife of the newly elected junior SEN
ator from New York She is well
known as the daughter of the late
Secretary. of State John Hay. The
Hays come from distinguished scotch
ancestry. and the story s1es .ed' by
lanes I was very deaf. The king in
riding through the land of this Hay
was rendered some service by him.
and on thanking him asked his name.
The old man. not hearing the 9ues-
ton. said, Aye" and the king
knighted him Hay.
Another charming addition TO sena-
torial circles will be Mrs. Lippitt OF
Rhode Island. the sister OF Mrs. VIII
liam Howard Taft. who. as Mrs.
Laughlin, frequently presided at the
White House during the Ia,t i adH en-
was a Miss Heron of Cincinnati, ana
of distinguished ancestry. Both SEN
ator and Mrs. Lippitt are possessed OF
The divers of P~ennsylvanta. the
Stones of Missouri. the Weekes OF
Wassacbusetts can all add to the glory
of the Senate.
The women of this Congress are as
rich in brains as in blood, and are
leaving their marks in all phases OF
social and economic uplift, living for
the generations that are to come, that
they. too, may point back with pride
to their forbears and feel an lnspira-
ton in their example,