Evening star., 1923-08-12
Mrs. Stanley Finds
Capital Comfortable
In Summer Months
Remains in Washington as
Sons Continue Study While
Senator Visited Europe.

One of the members of official So
ciety who does not object to Wash
ington as a summer resort is Mrs.
Augustus Owsley Stanley, wife of the
senator from Kentucky. who has been
living comfortably in her home in
31st street. in Georgetown, while the
senator was making a tour of Europe
1t had been her intention to accom-
pany Senator Stanley, but all three
of her boys had determined to put
in some extra weeks of study, and she
remained to keep the home open and,
incidentally, to give them a helping
hand with their books.
Senator Stanley joined his family
Immediately after landing in New
York Monday last, and with Mrs
Stanley attended the official service
for President Harding Then the en-
tire circle left Washington by motor
for their home in Henderson. Ky.
Mrs. Stanley will return in Septem-
her TO place the two Younger boys
William Soaper and Marion Shelby
Stanley. at school here. the former
starting on his third year in the
Western High and the youngest to
finish his grade in the nearby public
school. The eldest son, August O.
Stanley. jr., graduated with honor
last June from Western High School.
Stanley to enter him in Centre Col
lege, at Danville. Ky, which is his
own alma mater and that of Ken
tuckys most renowned sons-of two
Vice Presidents, OF a justice of the
Supreme Court and many others dis
and of the nation.
Senator and Mrs. Stanley count
themselves as old Washingtonians,
but this does not prevent them from
being fervent kentuckians, too. For
the senator served for twelve years
in the lower house, when, in 1915.
he was elected to be governor of his
state and filled that exalted but
difficult office all during the world
war. relinguishing it only to be-
come the junior senator from his
state. successor to Ollie James
Both Senator and Mrs. Stanley come
of distinguished and historic families
of their state and both have the
which bea~ the name of their an
cestors. Shelby where the senator
saw this world first, where his kim
dred had settled soon after the COM
ing of Boone and for whom he named
his youngest son. Henderson. their
present home is named for the Hen
derson family OF North Carolina of
which Mrs. Stanley is member. She
was MISS susan SOdpeE, ana ner Ia
ther's mother. for whom she was call
ed, was Susan Henderson before her
marriage The Hendersons We're
among the pioneers of the Tar Heel
state and in the old records there is
evidence that a Henderson had settled
ION the coast when the seventeenth CEN
tury was in its first quarter. 1t was
within the first decade of years after
the permanent colonization at James
town that the adventurers had pene-
trated down to what is now the state
of North Carolina and had taken out
land grants there. But the first Hen
derson came in a sailing vessel from
founded q line which has become
eminent in almost every state of the
Union, and it's members have held
some of the highest offices under the
government.
Mrs. Stanley on her mothers side
her mothers father was Fielding
ILewis Turner, and she has a numerous
proup Of kinSpeople resident in wash
ineton and in every one of the states
which were populated, as Kentucky
was. principally from Virginia and
She is a typical southern gentle
woman. intellectual yet home-loving
and finding her deepest interest cen
tered in her husband and three sturdy
sons Senator and Mrs Stanley in
April last celebrated the twentieth
anniversary of their marriage. The
eldest son is seventeen, the second
fifteen and the youngest son twelve
years of age.
Mrs Stanley Is an enthusiastic ad-
nirer of Georgetown, and she Sc
cured the comfortable and roomy
home somewhat in advance OF the
wave OF popularity which sent the