Evening star., 1920-03-28

ancestor and used this combination
so successful that she secured sane
ton of the law to retain it, after she
became the wife of the late Col. Sell
den A. Day. U. S. A, retired. Helen
Gardener was in the vanguard OF
those writers on heredity whose pub
lications brought about a reform OF
r edical laws concerning victims OF
their forefathers. Her two most pop
ular essays on this subject, And This,
My Lord, Is Your SOM" and pray. Sir.
Whose Daughter" have been trans
lated into several languages and fig
ure frequently as a tract in medical
Patriot" was dramatized and played
by Herne with great success. \ dis
tinguished characteristic of this ac-
complished lady is her love of home
and the attention which she bestOws
on all the. details of conducting one.
For many years resident Of Japan.
the simple effective household ways
of it's people influenced her toward
trying to introduce some Of them into
this county. Any one who had the
pleasure Of lunching with Mrs. Gar
dener Ia Japan will never forget
the easy grace of the function. The
dining room was exactly like one she
had used in Toxic. except that in def
erence to insurmOuntable western
prejudices, she spread her feast on a
table. with chairs drawn up in con-
ventional style, whereas in the Flow
cry Kingdom all would have been
seated on cushions and the dainties
placed on pretty mats all about on
the floor. Tiny conceits for all the
world like doll-baby chiffoniers held
the food and one was placed before
each guest, Really it seemed like
magic, all that these small drawers
could contain. and, being incicsed,
keep piping hot. In these servantless
days, what a boon, and without sll
that fuss and confusion of changing
courses and rafting plates attendant
even with the best of walters. /: all
means tasty and abundant food, with
one-fourth less the ceremony and de-
tail of the west. And the use of such
concentrated food as the east.rn peo-
pie habitually serve. tends to limit the
menu and consequently the labor in
volved.
Mrs. Helen Ekin Starrett. principal
emeritus of the Starrett School for
Girls of Chicago. but now making her
home in Portland, Ore, is visiting her
sister. Mrs Mary Ekin Whitton. at
the Wardman Park Hotel. Mrs. Star
rett has the distinction of having been
delegate from the state of Kansas
to the first suffrage convention, called
by Susan B. Anthony. in Washington,
in 1868, where the National Woman
outrage aSSOCldtlOH WAS IOTHleu WltIl
the avowed single aim of working for
suffrage by means of constitutional
amendment. So far as known there is
but one other living delegate to that
convention. the Rev. Olympia Brown
Of Boston. Mrs Starrett gives very en-
tertaining "reminiscences of that con-
vention, at which Lucretia Mott pre-
sided. Mrs. Starrett is one Of the 1OC
electors of the Hall of Fame of the
New York University. which body
| in May and October of this year. II
| Is expected that the names of Susan
| B. Anthony. Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Lucy Stone Blackwell, Lucretia Mott
and Julia Ward Howe will be added
| to the list of seven women whose
| tablets in the magnificent marble
colonnade of that institution.
Judge Jean Norris of the woman.
| day court in New York city spent {
part Of the week in Washington, ant
though woman clothed in the ermint
| is not the novelty she once was be.
fore Judge Katherine Sellers of the
juvenile court was appointed, she is
always an attractive figure. Judge
Norris is another of those impressive
examples that woman may be er.
! udite in branches considered strictly
| masculine and be successful along
i rather restricted political lines anG
yet be essentially feminine anc
! charming. Judge Norris has a. wei
, poised legal mind, and it dominates
a. personality clothed in outer sem.
| blance in the most becoming ant
pleasing of garments-not alone vel
| hitting clothes, but every accessory
winch appeals to woman-dainty
1eweiry, pretty trifies in a fan, combs
and touch Of flowers at her belt.
AT recent dinner given in hel
| honor. Judge Norris wore misty
gray IN satin and crepe. all embroid.
cred in lavender and white butter.
mes, and the most illusive-lookine
butterfly perched in silver tissue or
her neatly arranged hair. She is al
tosether French in her strict atten-
t1on TO every detail of dress. Indeed
beauty in outward forms is as much
a study as the dry old tomes wherein
she looks up precedents for her de-
cls1ons. She .glories in the splendid
\ environment Of her day court, which
she says resembles fine old medieval
church more than hall of justice
Ihere are massive carved desks on a
hlgh ornamental platform and the
sort light from stained glass windows
| lends a glow to some of the sordid
scenes. Though she reluctantly ad-
! mits that SO far she has seen no re-
suits Of these pleasing surroundings
on the criminals habitually gathered
before her. she believes in the end the
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