The Washington herald., 1921-06-19
SOCIETY L,
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Maynower. They are due back to-
morrow morning.
The Spanish Ambassador and
Nine. Riano were dinner hosts last
week; also the Chinese Minister,
who entertained In honor of DR.. Y.
y. TsaL chancellor of the University
OF Peking. who Is In Washington
conducting q study Of the educa-
tional institutions of the District
as well as the department of
the government. DIR. Tsai was
most at a dinner too last night
mrs. =. B. Moran entertained at
dinner in honor of the Secretary
OF Agriculture and Mrs. Henry C..
wallace at the Chevy Chase Club.
Then there were all sorts of
psrtles given for the Cuban polo
players In town for the inter-
national polo tournament. Col Eu-
genio Silva and Nine. Silva, Captain
=. A. Gimenez and Nine. Gimenez.
CapI J. Vega, Lieut. Nitalia Torres,
Lieut.. Edward Lombard and Lieut..
heriheTtn Sardinas. Last night after
the game, the War Department Polo
Association gave the Cuban poloists
dinner at the Chevy Chase Club
before the dance. The hosts were
Col. George Williams. Col. Jones,
Major John @. Quekemeyer. Major
Burr' Major. John C. Montgomery,
MAJOR Homer II. Groninger, Major
newman. Major Henry T. Bull, Ma
lor Wilfred NJ. Blunt. Major Jerome
W. Howe. Major Raymond Lee, Ma
9or William H Simpson. Major John
Milliken. Major Walter W. Hess,
Major James l. Collins. Capt. John
Hettingger. Capt. Peasly and Lieut..
William Doeller. Col. and Mrs.
George Patten gave them a dinner
party last week too.
President and Mrs. Harding went
TO the game yesterday Gen. Per-
shlng was there and the Cuban Min
lister and IT was quite an interesting
afternoon altogether.
WIFE OF CUBAN CAPTAIy
AN AMERICAN WOMAN.
Mrs. Silva, wife of Col. Silva,
captain of the Cuban polo team, was
an American citizen before her
marriage to the Cuban army oficer.
Col Silva explained this as a joke
on himself. 1t seems that Mrs
SilVas grandfather was an Ameri-
can who went to Cuba, married
and stayed there all his life, re-
tanning his American citizenship
ana providing for the nationality
for all his children. Mrs. Silva's
father therefore had American citi-
zenship and he in turn had all his
children taken under that nag.
Mrs Silva was born in Cuba and
speaks much better Spanish than
English So Col. Silva was much
surprised to ind that he was re-
quired to go to the American con-
sulate to change the nationality of
his wife, whom he thought ma
turally to be a Cuban, since she
was born there.
n A. RS SILVA was chairman OF
M the Roosevelt memorial fund
2N4 committee in Havana and
raised $4,000 In a series of enter
tainments and athletic contests, az
Cuba's Offering toward a monument
TO the memory of the great Ameri-
can.
Col. Silva, besides being one OF
the ranking officers in the Cuban
army. is taking the lead in further
ing education on the island to pro-
duce, as he says. a higher standard
Of citizen He has introduced many
of the American army methods into
morale work in the Cuban camps
with splendid success.
PLAN TO MAKE ENGLISH
COURSE COMPULSORY IN CUBA
The colonel is now planning q
military preparatory school which
will embrace many new ideas In
teaching. This school will have q
four-year course, with English be-
ing a compulsory subject in the
curriculum The fourth year all the
class work will be done by the
Cuban boys in the English Ian
suage. which will do more than
anything else to give them a frm
grasp Of the tongue and show them
practical results regarding what
they have learned.
The plans now arranged contem-
plate an interchange Of pupils OF
the Cuban school and some of the
large military prep colleges in this
country.
This means that boys here. who
may have chosen to study Spanish
in the first year Of the school work
may be chosen to spend the fourth
year of their student life in Cuba
studying the same SUBJECTS anu
having the advantage Of listening
to a foreign tongue. The intimate
customs. the life OF another people,
would come closely to their obser-
walton The same thing would be
true Of the Cuban youth, who might
elect to take their last year in the
United States, to study our customs
1t Is estimated that 200 or more
Cuban boys come each year to the
United States for their education.
Many of the leading families on the
island do not wish to send the boys
while young. so far away. They
wish, at the time they are being
educated, to have them learn the
traditions of their own country
This can only be done by keeping
them In school there.
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WOULD CREATE A
BETTER UNDERSTANDING.
Under Col. Silva's plan, Of inter-
changing pupils the last year, much
would be accomplished in educating
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