Evening star., 1926-06-20

pitals. and she was rewarded with the
medal of honor and courage from the
French government.
Women writer's in Washington now
reach ambitious proportions, for Mrs.
Stanley Riuchart (Mary Roberts Rine-
hartl considers herself Washing
tonian and occupies her pleasant
home ON Massachusetts avenue part
of the wear But not only as resi-
dence of fiction writer's, hut as the
favorite environment of their crea-
tions. does the Capital loom up in the
Spring output from the publishers.
Mrs. Elmer Schlesinger. Countess Gil
zyska and formerly Miss Elinor Pat
terson has d book out in which the
reader meets quite familiar types of
Washing on's cosmopolitan social set
and hears the usual topics of conver-
sation. Miss Nancy Hoyt, daughter
of Mrs. Henry NJ. Hoyt and the late
Mr.. Hoyt of this city. seems destined
for a brilliant literary career since the
publication of her novel and many
short stories. Mrs. John Spanogle,
formerly Miss Leila Warren and we'll
known here, has novel on the mar
ket in which Washington is pictured
in many phases. 1t is a book for
flaming youth and deals rather
Washington manifestations. Added to
this assortment of Washington in tiC-
tion comes the rumoi of tremendous
detective story centered in the Sc
cret intelligence offices of the War,
State and Navy departments, a col
la boration of several successful mys
terry writer's who call Washington
their home
A group of horse lovers in the Ra-
mapo Valley, near the picturesque
village of Tallsmans. y. X, less than
two years ago started what they called
the Ramapo Riding Academy. Among
these were DIR. Henry A. Bonynge.
Miss Marian Kutzelman and Francis
G.. Clarke, and their purpose was to
encourage horseback riding along the
neglected bride paths about, Suffern.
and, above all, to teach amateurs how
to ride correctly. The club will soon
celebrate its second birthday ami
versary, and it has twice been com
PEELED TO enlarge its quarters and
among its members are counted many
who have ridden TO hounds and won
prizes for equestrian niSm. but who
feel they still have much TO learn
from a professional instructor. DR..
Bonying who is well known fig
ure at all horse shows and has several
times exhibited in Washington. has
taken care of the selection OF good
school horses for the young and mex
perienced members, for many of the
Ramapo fathers and mothers enter
their youngsters as soon as they can
safely sit steed. Some two or three
enthusiastic mothers take their in
fants riding on the front of their sad.
RI NI-hi hut
months of existence The idea is to
cultivate the proper spirit for riding
and TO make it a tradition of country
life deeply ingrained in the coming
citizens of New York. The managers
of the Ramapo are convinced that the
best results for popular riding come
from the organization of such clubs
as theirs, and not from riding acad-
emies conducted on a commercial
basis.
Mr.. Howard Bruce. the elder
brother of David Este Kirkpatrick
Bruce, who recently married Miss
Ailsa Mellon. was the hero of the
Maryland Hunt given in the Worth
ington Valley when his horse, Billy
Barton, made a sensational success
in every race he entered. Mr.. Bruce
and his wife live in that colony of
Bruces. Fishers and other relatives
in Ruxton, Md. a lovely suburb of
Baltimore, which is accessible to the
country club district. Besides the
Senator and Mrs. William Cabell
Bruce, there are three other Bruce
homes in RuXton, and no doubt when
Mr.. and Mrs. David Bruce have a hol.
iday from consular affairs they, too,
will add another. These are Mr.. and
Mrs. Howard Bruce, Mr.. and Mrs.
James Bruce and Mr.. and Mrs. Albert
Cabell Bruce, and these country
seats sit back in well shaded grounds
near each other and connected with
private phones and speaking tubes.
Mrs William Cabell Bruce was, be