Evening star., 1924-12-14
BY MARGARET b. DOWNING.

VI BY MARGkRET Il. DOWNING.
Il If President Coolidge has the lei
sure to look over the illustrated
papers of Great Britain, he viii find
much to interest him, especially since
he was so triumphantly selected TO
succeed himself. For photographs of
him in his childhood days and several
taken in Puritan costume seem to be
the favorite method OF presenting the
Chief Magistrate of the American Ma
ton to the British public. British
research has fastened on the fact that
the original Coolidge came from Suf-
folk, and a perfect furore of industry
has seized various chroniclers to dis
cover what town in that midland
shire was the exact one from which
John Coolidge and Mary, his wife, set
sail in the wake of the Pilgrims. For
there are Coolidges all up and down
Suffolk and In the adjoining counties.
too. and the name may be deciphered
on old tombstones of every important
market town. AS the rt cords are
fawless in Britain. especially in the
middle counties, It will not be long
before the pre-emi grafton history of
the Presidents family will be uncov
cred and presented in every detail.
Like nearly all Americans and New
E,nglanders, too, the President has
heen content to trace his ancestors
back to the American immi grant only,
though some Interesting details may
he found of their English life in the
several campaign biographies. How
ever, the activity of the British re-
search workers offer him pleasing
prospect to visit the old scenes when
the cares of public life grant some
respite.
Mr.. and Mrs. Robert De Forest
have been the benefactors of the Ma
finn tn i,r,a h1n in
cuing and transporting many beauti-
full and historic interiors to the Met
ropolitan Museum of Art. But those
in this region cannot but grieve that
it was not possible to save the ia
NOUS old Ciadbys Tavern in AIeXan-
dria and to perpetuate its noble his
tory right on the spot. Many the
Tirginian aud Washing gtonian, too,
who will feel a bit indignant in saun-
tering through the great repository
of art in Gotham to see the splendid
assembly hall of the venerable tavern
where WASHINGTON attended his last
birthnght ball. This tavern was
built in 1873 and was the last word
of elegance and spaciousness, and
the gentry about Mount Vernon held
court there several times month.
Mr. De Forest. who is the curator of
the Metropolitan, has restored the
room perfectly and gathered many
appropriate paintings lot Ine walls,
including George and Martha Wash
ington. the pretty young grandchil-
dren in q group, Nellie, Betty and
1attie Custis, with George Washing
ton Custis stanhing in equestrian
glory by his horse. Much furniture
suggestive of the "routs' of those
days adorn the transported assembly
room of Gadby's, but nevertheless it
would seem that the better patriotism
would have hepn rehui16 and
store the old tavern right in Alexan-
dria as a marvellous example of the
expiring colonial period.
Nine. Jerome Bonaparte's jewels,
which have been placed on exhibition
In the museum of the Peabody Insti-
tlte in Baltimore within the past
month, possess a pathetic interest for
Washingtonians, since they were seen
SO frequently on the late Mrs. Charles
Joseph Bonaparte during her resi-
dence at the Capital AS wife of the
Secretary of the Navy and then of the
Attorney General, Mrs. Bonaparte
lived in Washington almost six years.
and her death occurred in local
hotel last Spring while she was
tnrning from Hot Springs. Va, to her
home in Baltimore. The indomitable
elizabeth Patterson willed all her
Jewels to her two grandsons, the late
Col. jerome Bonaparte and the late
Attorney General, Charles Joseph Bo-
naparte. Those which Mrs. Charles
Bpnaparte wore on ceremonial occa-
slons were all of amethyst, and We're
wonderfully wrought necklace with
a. pendant of n large diamond sur
rounded by the imperial stones, and
a high comb and three small brooches,
all of gold studded with the purple
gem. Jerome Bonaparte had these
ornaments fashioned in London dur
Ing the days of his passionate attach
ment to his young American wife,
and tradition has it they were the
fAvorite adornments of this woman,
who belongs to history as we'll as to
romance. The diamonds and pearls
which Napoleon's brother gave to his
bride went to the elder grandson Col
Jsrome Bonaparte. and are now the
property of Countess Won Moltke
since the will of Elizabeth Patterson
Bonaparte decreed that the gems
must descend to women of the blood
and not to the wives of descendants.
Besides the jewels, there are many
other fascinating personal possessions
of the famous Baltimorean to be seen
in the museum, through Mrs. Charles
Bonaparte's generosity-fans, slippers
and some embroidered shawls.
Mr.. John Kean of New York, who
is soon to marry Miss Mary Alice
Barney, daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. J.
Stewart Barney. is the nephew and
namesake of the late Senator Kean
of New Jersey, and most Of his boy
hood was passed with his aunts, the
Misses kean, who presided over the
bachelor establishment of the Jersey
eolon. He was quite a chum of the