Evening star., 1926-06-06

Parsons property has not possessed
parish rights for almost so years, but
when the daughter Of the house elect
ed to open 1t and refurbish 1t for her
nuptials, the Bishop Of South Carolina
| readily granted permission and the old
hatchment was brought forth and
| touched up for the occasion. A hatch
ment Is only square wooden board,
hung cornerwise, covered with a blaze
of heraldic design, always in vivid
colors
Mrs. Joseph r. Bowen Of Chicago.
one of the leading social workers OF
the Middle States and the founder OF
the Juvenile Protective Association.
which has performed seeming mira
cles for the youth Of Chicago, has
Just published a charming book on
her favorite theme, called "Growing
Up With a City" In this volume
and in the most entertaining way
Mrs. Bowen sketches her labors for
reform during the past 30 years,
when she began modestly in Sun
day school class in the slums. She
has served on every important COM
mittee devoted to the welfare OF the
city and especially of its younger
circle. Her inimitable wit and keen
appreciation of the droll make this
social study one of the most impor-
tant utteranceS on the subject pup
lished in years. Any one can read 1t
and derive benefit, while for the spe-
calist it opens wide vistas OF expert
ment along reasonable lines. Mrs.
Bowen Is chairman of the Womans
World Fair, which has attracted at
tention to the Lake. city from every
part Of the universe where women are
endeavoring to improve their condl-
ton and their own community. Mrs.
Bowen comes from a distinguished
family and is the sister of the late
Reginald de Koven, being before her
marriage to the late Joseph Tilton
Bowen, a banker of Chicago, Louise
de koven. She began social work at
the Dearborn Seminary. where she
was educated, and was the first treas
urer of Hull House and was for many
years associated with Jane Adams.
She served during the World War as
head of the women's division Of the
State Council of Defense and is now
on it's board of the committee for
national safety.
Mrs. Lyman Delano of Tarrytown,
y. V. is acting as chairman OF the
World Camp for Girl Scouts and Girl
Guides, which has been in session
along the Hudson about 80 miles from
the metropolis during the past month.
Mrs. Delano has given much time to
her duties of hostess, and she has
taken the scouts and guides all about
Tarrytown with its vivid remem-
brances of the sage OF Sunnyside.
Washington Irving, whose gentle
spirit seems to linger about the place.
She also conducted an excursion of
the visitors to the Catskills, the Rip
Van Wrinkle country, and to the place
where the legend of Sleepy Hollow
was laid. This talented lady. who has
been associated with the Girl Scouts
since its inception and is now a men,
her Of it's international board of man
agement, was Miss Leila Burnett of
Boston, a graduate of Radcliffe and
we'll known for her philanthropy,
spirit. She is the wife Of Lyman
Delano. one of the officials of the
Southern Railroad and a member Of
the we'll known family Of that name
of New York and Massachusetts. Mr..
and Mrs. Delano lived for some time
at Newburgh, on the Hudson, but five
years ago they purchased a hand
some estate outside of Tarrytown.
Both are frequent visitors to Wash
ington and are members Of the Chevy
Chase Country Club, and Mr.. Delano
is a charter member of the Racquet
Club and has been for many years
member of the Metropolitan.
Mrs. Chatfield Taylor Of Chicago
has been occupying the home Of her
mother. Mrs. George Preston Blow, in
Yorktown and this venerable mansion,
one of the several owned by the Ma
son family in Tidewater, Va. is the
identical house in which Lord Corn
wallis drew up the articles of surren-
der to Gen. Washington. The British
military leader had commandeered
this house for his residence as the
most spacious and elegant in the small
village and it was here that the repre-
sentatives of the Continental Army
and that of the French Army of ALI
ance met him and his staff. The old
house had fallen into ruin and the
gardens were all but annihilated when
Mrs. Blow purchased the property.
She has restored everything with the
same good judgment and regard for
historic associations which marked the
restoration of the older and more pre-
tentious Mason mansion, Gunston Hall.
on the Potomac, by Mr.. and Mrs.
Louis Hertle. These venerable domi-
Giles and the adjacent community owe
a heavy debt to these citizens Of Chi
cago who have preserved two such