Evening star., 1926-04-11

full thesis that Mrs. Rlddle, one Vi
the most gifted of feminine archi-
tects. has designed this marvellous
school in which. is reflected the spirit
| of medieval guild life. The village
green. which is before one side of the
college quadrangle, has, with its
| splendid grove of oaks and elms,
already a dignified and settled ap-
pearance. This monumental compo-
sition will be complete small city,
and for the graduates of the tech
nical courses there will be factories
awaiting their efforts and delightful
cottages on the river, with abundant
room for gardens and landscape et-
| forts. For those with aquatic In
clinations there are boat clubs and
provision for canoes and private land
! inss. Mrs Riddle, who as the WIFE
! of John Wallace Riddle of New Lon
don, Conn, is well known in artistic
circles under her professional name
of Theodate Pope, showed such talent
for architectural drawing that when
| barely IA she was taken INTO the OF
flee of Charles Mckim and stanford
White. She reconstructed the house
at % East Twentieth street, New
| York. in which Theodore Roose-
yelt was born, and it is now
| in every essential feature just
as it was in the childhood of that
| President and of his sisters. Mrs.
| CoWles and Mrs. Theodore Robinson
ST. Another example OF this gifted
! lady's work is Westover-on-the-Hu
son. a picturesque adaptation of mod
ern methods with the renovated man
sion on the James River, Virginia
Descendants of the Presidents Of
the United States are always of deep
| local Significance so that the recent
marriage of Miss Lillian Inez Collver
of New York City and Mr.. Frederick
Thomas Mohn of Detroit, in the
! Church of the Virgin, New York, at
tracted more than the usual notice
For Mrs. Mohn is the granddaughter.
| four times removed, of the twelfth
| President, Zachary Taylor, and she
descends on the distaff side from the
| immigrant of the Madison family
and is, therefore, related to James
Madison. fourth President, who left
no children The immigrant of the
Taylor family came from England
about 1850. and took out a royal grant
near Orange County Court House. A
Younger brother of the Earl of Hare.
this James Taylor called his estate
| Hare Forest, and three generations or
! Taylors were born there, including
| Zachary. the twelfth Chief Magistrate
| Mrs. Mohn's Observation-Disclosures was
Elizabeth Taylor. who married VII
liam Wallace Bliss and who acted
| during her fathers brief term as his
presiding lady. Mrs. Taylor was IN
| fragile health and died soon after her
husband. There were five daughters
| of the Taylor family, among them
sarah Knox Taylor, first wife of the
| president of the Confederacy, Jeffer-
! son Davis. so that the lineage of this
Young matron is of national impor-
tance and interest.
Senior Luis Thayer of Santiago.
Chile. is considered the foremost
authority in the Latin American world
on genealogical questions, and after
having exhausted the history of his
own ancestors, the Thayers of Ian
caster. Mass, he has begun a com
prehensive study of the ancient Span
| ish families of Chile and the Argen-
| tine. Senor Thayer is the son or Mf.
Henry Thayer of Boston, who some
! 60 years ago, as a mere youth, visited
the Southern Hemisphere in quest OF
| adventure, and, finding it in the war
| Of the Pacific, he cast his lot among
the Chileans, and married into one or
| it's most distinguished families, the
Ojedas, who are descendants of the
torian, the elder Thayer is honored
among the leading men of letters in
Chile. His eldest son, Luis OJeda
Thayer, follows the career of letters
also. though he has entered politics,
| too, and is at present the curator OF
| the national archives in Santiago and
general director of various scientific
| bodies under the Chilean government.
Among the several studies relating TO
| his own family which Senor Thayer
has published is an account of the
! first of the line. Rev. John Thayer,
of the era of the Pilgrim Fathers.
Then came 1.-The Thayer Family of
| Baintree" and THE Thayer Family of
Brookleman," studies of the line in
| England A recent volume of this
semi-American Chilean scholar which
| has attained wide popularity is en-
| titled, THE Streets of Santiago and
| the origin of Their Names" Though
most Loyalty a Chilean, Senor Thayer
| keeps a constant communication with
| his family in Massachusetts and fire.
| quently visits the old home in Ian
| caster.
| Rinaldo and John de Aquino, the
! small sons of the naval attache of the
Brazilian embassy and Sonora Raider
street, were among the most inter
ested observers of the installation of
| the automatic traffic signals, and both
being of a technical bend, they had
ideas of their own about these things
There have been strenuous days in
| the home of the naval attache, when
/ all the chairs were set against the
wall and the comings and goings of
| the family were regulated as the
motor cars were in the street below
The little girls, Alcyone and Jose
Maria de Aquino, were used as pedes-
trains whilst the larger brother was
an important looking policeman who
took into custody when they disre-
garded the lights, tiny affairs which
had been used on their Christmas
tree, and many youngsters from the
neighborhood typified stubborn motor.
/ lists. Now that the weather is more
pleasant, the game goes on merrily in
| Meridian Park, where the little folks
may bring their wagons and small
velocipedes and such vehicles as may
be in readiness for traffic. Even the
! tiniest tots seem to know just what
is going on and they are utilized to
| Shrek and whistle and to raise loud
outcry when foot passengers attempt
to cross the forbidden space. But the
--oung Aquinos having originated the
game are the accepted authorities or
E, it and they are often seen gazing
intently at the silent mentors and per
haps getting ideas for their next game
| Mr.. and Mrs. Herbert E. Bradley OF
Chicago, who are among the most in
| trepid and successful hunters of big
game, have been giving a series of
Sunday dinners in their home, which
is the entire top floor of an apartment
house overlooking the campus of the
university. On the roof they have
built a. great floor for the exhibition
of their trophies and the usual custom
is to serve after dinner coffee among
the heads of lions and leopards, which