The Washington herald., 1922-06-04

garden dinners They do that every
spring, give q series Of dinners in
the garden of their beautiful Six
teenth street home. those desiring
going indoors to dance or on the
pavilion they have in the garden for
dancing Friday night the officers
stationed at the Washington Bar
racks had another of their series of
supper dances. That Is about all
that happened last week. There
were several weddings and q num-
ber of parties for prospective
brides, of course; here always are
at this season,
Charles Z. Hughes, jr.. son Of the
Secretary of State. has purchased a
home on Colonial row In the Field
ston section of Riverdale In New
York. The purchase involves the
two-story- and attic Dutch colonial
house at the southwest coFner OF
Goodridge avenue and was made
from Joseph z. Bush. who erected
the house few years ago and
valued It at $4,000. The propert,
and 141 feet on 150th street Mr..
Hughes has been occupying an
apartment at $50 Riverside Drive
for several years. He and his wife
are coming this week to visit Sec
retary and Mrs. Hughes and TO at
tend Catherine Hughes wedding
Mrs. F. b. Moran, Jeannie Black
burn Moran. one of washington's
social lights. has just published a
book called Twin Souls" Chris
topher Publishing House). the first
of six which she is just putting o.
the market She wrote these stories
some years ago. but her husband,
during his lifetime. objected to hav-
Ing them published. thinking 1t
} unded too much as though his
wife was working. But write Mrs.
Moran felt she must. and did, and
put her stories carefully away until
now; except one. called Miss Wash
ington of Virginia. which she had
published some years ago to raise
the funds to provide the d. A. r.
Building with its lovely bronze
doors. Then when that worthy pur-
pose had been accomplished she
sent the book to Lady Stanley, wife
of the great explorer, who brought
out seven additions in England, SELL
ing them for the beneit of her vari-
Gus charities.
MRS. r. b. MORAN
PUBLISHER.
Twin Souls" is a strong argu-
ment for eugenics and moral living,
though Mrs. Moran said she had no
thoughts OF eugenics when she
wrote the story which is based on
an experience of her girlhood. She
had a neighbor, beautiful girl,
descended from one of the most
families of old Virginia,
but was not permitted much inter-
course with her because II was said
that for four generations that
family had developed idiocy, de-
formities and lunacy from the sins
of their forefathers which had been
visited upon each generation, ana
Mrs Moran's mother feared II would
break out any time in this beautiful
girl. the last of her race. and bring
some harm to her daughter. How
ever. woven into this love story
there Is much to benefit humanity.
The book shows Mrs. Moran to be
a deep thinker, an idealist with a
touch of superstition In her make
up which SO many Southern chill
dren imbibed from their old NAM
mics. Mrs. Moran, as you probably
know. was a Virginian born ana
bred Of the Washington and Lee
families. One of the opinions ex-
pressed in her book Is at Is only
those who are balanced in intellect,
ideals and purposes who love each
other because they can not help it,
that are happily mated"
Again Mrs. Moran says; rather
makes her hero say: "I was con-
vinced she had also been visited
with the strange emotion that /
had felt on first seeing her, as II IL
were some one 1 had come here for
the purpose of meeting, some one /
had met before. always known, per-
haps in a previous existence, who
knows only God could not
tell then why 1 should single our
this girl from the many beautiful
women before me and see only her
movements In the water. But II was
so. am convinced now that God
does not make twin souls to in
habit His universe and then place
a desert between them. They meet.
II Is their own fault IL they do not
linger. He. pairs the birds, why
not his noblest creation? Are we
not under His law as well as they?
As the cuyrent of an electrode
buried in the ground unerringIy
finds Its way to its own similarly
buried mate. had 1 so discovered
mine?"
MANY ID. C. SOCIETY
WOMEN WRITE.
But / won't tell you more of the
story. It isn't long. only some
eighty small pages but is clearly
and directly told. a simple but in
teresting tale furnishing much food
for serious thought. A story writ
ten by Mrs. Moran, when she was
Is or 16 years old. The first thing
she ever wrote is coming out short
ly as an opera and also as a motion
picture: is now being pictured.
Twin Souls" Is to be made into a
movie, too, shortly II is surpris-
ing to me how many society women
there are in Washington who have
money and position and need only
to seek pleasure, but who sit down
and write seriously. and writing is
work. I know. There Is for ex-
ample Mrs. Larz Anderson for one
and Princess Bibesco and Princess
Cantacuzene, Mrs. Henry Wilder
Keyes and a number of others who
write seriously.
A former society woman. Mrs.