Evening star., 1926-04-04


of office for herself finally has been
accepted. Last Summer Mrs. Nc
CormiCk purchased a big ranch in
! Wyoming and for time 1t seemed
that she might make her home per
manently in this wonderful mountain
country in the Big Horn region. Mar
| velous watertal lis and deep romantic
glens are within a few minutes walk
from her rambling white washed
house But the facilities for rearing
cattle seemed to he the determining
factor. Mrs. Mccormick has achieved
! considerable success with mich cows
al her farm in Byron and has con
! tributed a large part of the pubhc
! charity fund for che poorer classes.
But she has lessened her activity in
/ this direction. too. and the dairy part
! of her farm has been leased to chi
cago firm for year. The idea oi
| leaving Illinois except for the usual
! Summer vacation, to be spent here
after in Wyoming, seems, however,
to have been renounced.
Senator William Cabell Bruce Of
! Maryland is. as all who peruse ofticia |
| biographies know, a native of Virginia
| and descendS from the we'll known
| Cabell family long identified with
| Charlotte County of the Old Domin-
| ion. The Bruces are just as renowned
| in North Carolina and were among
| the irreConcilable cavaliers who pre-
| ferred exile in the colonies when the
! cause of Bonny Prince Charlie was
| lost. But no born Marylander is more
| loyal to his State or more stepped in
its traditions. and besides he has al
most as many kindred in this State
as in Virginia and North Carolina.
Senator Bruce is a puriSt as to the
language and nothing causes him
greater pain than to hear slang or
| idiomatic STYLES introduced into CON
s-ressional debate or used in serious
conversation. Some of his brother
Senators accuse him of making little
| fish talk like whales after the manner
of the erudite DR.. Johnson. He was
/ one of the busiest lawyers in the
State before his election to the Senate,
but he had taken the time to write in
two volumes an Illuminating study of
Benjamin Franklin Hts life OF John
Randolph of Roanoke also in two vol
umes. is an authority on this many
sided statesman, and he has several
charming studies in history and litera-
ture to his credit one of them Below
the James" Senator Bruce in his
Younger days at the University Of
Virginia once debated with Woodrow
erary Society with the sage of Month
cello for the theme and he won the
gold medal for the best ESSAY and the
most convincing presentation OF his
side of the debate.
Miss Janet Paulding and Miss
Peggy Kelley two of the leading mem
bers of the Junior League in Chicago,
have just ended a successful season
of juvenile plays, arranged and per
formed by the members of this organi-
zation. for raising funds with which
to carry on" According to figures
recently published, the league in Chi
cago trebled through this means the
usual sum hitherto made up through
subscription dances, baZaarS and tab
leauS. and with infinitely less trouble
and expense. These plays have been
dramatiza tions of beloved fairy tales.
but the most ambitious production was
Alice in Wonderland" !" which was pre-
sented in different sections for more
than a month and which offered the
Youngsters extreme delight Mrs. {.
r. GoodsDeed, for some years president
of the league, wrote a charming rendi-
ton of THE Wizard of on" which
also was very popular, but as a rule
the budding dramatists and actors
selected old favorites like THE Sleep
ing Beauty" The Golden Coos"
and other familiar in Hans Anderson's s
| and Grimm's Fairy Tales. SO pleased
are the managers of the league that it
is considering taking over regular
theater and using the artistic skill in
the organization for its decoration and
stage accessories and making it a
permanent affair financed by the di-
rectorS and yielding doubtless a fine
fnr hpi m N
cago has many So-called Children's S
| Theaters. but, like many others, the
juvenile productions are wedged IN
between entertainment for the grown
ups. Miss Fairbanks is clever
| ectress and 50, too, is Miss Kelley.
and besides getting The Sleeping
Beauty in proper form for the stage
| they took the leading parts of King
and Queen. while a pretty bud Of the
| Winter, Miss Dorothy Schmidt, made
fair and lovely princess.
The Secretary of Labor and, incl
dentally. Mrs. James Davis are heart
| lily interested in movement which is
| ONLY getting under way in various
centerS of the fruit industry, and that
| is to permit those who cannot afford
! to buy such luXuries to be eaten fresh
| or to preserve to be given certain
days and hours in which to gather all
that is left on the ground by the pick
ers. No one who has visited orchards
or vineyards could fail to lament the
enormous waste and wish that the
sick could be supplied gratis or at
prices far below market value. Oranges
often actually pile up in Florida
| groves which would be life-savlng in
some districts, but as there are few
very poor in this State, the gathering
| would have to be conducted through
medical agents or municipal charity
| Vineyards where grapes dry on the
| stem would also receive attention, anu
there are parts of Oregon where the
I luscious black heart cherry is 50 plen
i tiful that the fruit actually makes
great heaps beneath the trees. Deli
cate mothers and their young children
are frequently gotten places to pick
| the smaller fruit both for the open air
and for the value of the fruit which
they may eat and carry home.
Mrs. Flora Drummond Of Liver
pGoi wife of a master builder Of that
| city. is president of vast organfZa-
ti0n called the League of Working
| Mems Wives, and she has Just been
| cheered to the echo by the entire
British public for her vigorous and
unique protest against workingmen S
! strikes. Mrs. Drummond called a
conference, and her. organizatio
which is represented In every part
of Britain and by every sort of labor
trade and craft, sent responsible del
egates who signed the powerful
resolutions which have since been
placed before their lords and masters.
A poignant picture is drawn of the
miseries caused by strikes, often the
result of mistaken leaders, and it is
pointed out that the major part OF
these privations and humiliations are
borne by the workingmens families
especially their helpless children. Sc
the women proclaim that when their
husbands permit themselves to be led
awaY by false prophets and abandon