The Washington times., 1920-04-25
How
Shonts and
often registered

What vacation il wasl Shonts was happy and de-
voted the children nduged in every whm and de-
SIRE and Mrs Shonts treated with every loving kind
and attention And it Summer after Summer
always jolly and joyous outing of the united family
When the girls approaching their sixteenth birth
days Mr. Shonts said It time for them to know
thing Of the Old World He sat with them evening after
evening during tho Winter holding either Marguerite
Theodore his knee while the other sat cushion at
his feet making plans for the wonderful trip through
Europe he going take with them and their mother
He told them stories Of Austria Germany Ireland Spain,
and aroused their curiosity about these strange ouo
theway places that they could hardly wait until they
should take the steamer for their tour At last the day
that found them on board the seamerrs Shonts,
Mr. Shonts Marguerite and Theodore and two and
. companion. Mr.. Shonts happy a boy in the
enthusiasm of his two children He played practical jokes
them he skylarked about the ship and when they
seasck he carried them in his around the decks
night.
Arrived in Germany, Mr.. Shonts and the girls went
through the Black Forest horseback Mrs Shonts went
ahead by train coach and the girls and their father
caught up with her every night They travelled in coach
through the interior of Hungary They went into Italy
and Spain and Bohemia and at last to Paris and London
The Duchess to-day her best memory of her father in
those days that they him except when he
was smiling Mrs Shonts remembers him then as the big
sweetheart of her childhood
In 1892 Mr. Shonts moved his family to New Orleans
because the doctor said the throas Of the two girls
delicate and ovcraxed by the rgors of the Chicago
climate. He bought beautiful estate overlooking the
bay and built charming home, which became the show
place Of suburban New Orleans. Here he installed his
family He left Chicago each Saturday afternoon spend
ing the next day with the family and returning that
ing In those days whatever the children asked for if
money could buy it, it given them.
One evening Marguerite found in his pocket pam.
phct advertising gasoline motor boats Already the
girls each had their launch and to run it. They
used these take their little friends trips around the
bay and to transport them to schoo-Mr Shonts did not
like have them mix with the crowds the regular New
Orleans boat. Marguerite sitting his knee that even
ing. looked the pictures Of the big gasoline cruisers
She said to her father:
Daddy, would so like to have big boat-one like
these with decks and to- sleep in and kitchen and
everything.
"Wel guess you II have to have it, said Mr. Shonts
with his usual amabe indulgence.
Upon his return to Chicago he sent for the yacht build
and ordered them to build him gasoline cruising
yacht hundred feet long, with four saterooms
for him. for each Of the girls and for friend two
baths, dining and salon, and fifty feet of open
deck for the children romp around He named the
boat Margudora for the two daughters Marguerite and
Theodore and gave to them Easter present He
kept four sailors two engineers and captain to it.
Each day this boat took the girls to school at New Or
leans and brought them back and Saturdays and Sun
days and in the evenings the girls used to take long rides
with the mother father Four times they took their
father from New Orleans to Chicago and brought him
back.
Sometimes the family went to the country home Of