Evening star., 1927-08-28

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| Viscountess Bryces who has been
| among the noted visitors to the lnSu-
tute OF Politics at Willamstown as
the guest of Mrs. Garfield. wife of the
president of Williams College, spent
six years in Washington, from 1906 to
1913, and was one OF the best known
and generally admired chateaines
/ which the British Embassy has had
! in recent years. She was Mrs. James
| Bryce in those days. Before her mar
riage she was Miss Elizabeth Marion
Ashton. daughter Of Thomas Ashton.
prominent manufacturer of Man
chester, England. The romance be-
tween the learned diplomat James
Bryce, came about through the
efforts of both to relieve the con-
dition of the poor in manufacturing
regions of England, and took place
when DR.. Bry was professor of ill.,
ternational law in oxford. when he
was So years old. Mrs. Bryce was 25
years his junior, but the union was
ideally happy. As Miss Ashton had
obtained the confidence of working
women whose cause she had espouSed
with such fervor and success. one of
the wedding gifts which she and
James Bryce received was a silver
fruit basket, bought with hundreds of
half penny pieces contributed in all
the working districts of Great Britain.
This basket she used daily in the
British Embassy and had used all the
years before she came to Washington.
Always an intense student of politics,
Eiscountess Bryce, who now resides
in a suburb of London and continues
her labors for working women, be
came interested in the Williamstown
Institute. Writing to DIR. Garfield
about the terms, she received and ac-
cepted an invitation to attend the
present session. OF the many friends
whom the then Mrs. Bryce knew init
mately in Washington, only Mrs. Oil
yer Wendell Holmes, wife Of the Asso-
ciate Justice, remains a part of its
official circle. She will be a guest at
the Holmes villa in Beverly Farms,
on the North Shore. before returning
to London in September.
Mr.. William A. Harmon of New
York City and the junior John Rookie
feller have set the educational world
abuZZ by their recommendations that
colleges and universities raise their
tuition sufficiently to make their in
stitutions self-supporting. and that
those young men who find that schol-
arships will not pay the difference
take means to make up the deficit
themselves instead of relying on gen.
erouS benefactionS. This recommen-
dation has been lauded by the more
serious-minded journals of the coun-
try. and it will without doub. have
reaction in Washington. Mr.. Harmon
has for years aided worthy young men
through college, not by presenting
them with scholarships, but by loans,
which they are expected to repay,
made for long terms, without interest.
Mr.. Rockefeller is frank about saying
that he is aftersthe numerous youths
of this country who go to college to
have a good time and blithely spend
the money Of the institutions bene-
factors without ever rendering any
thing in return. He holds that col
leges and universities were founded
to aid those who, il given a chance,
attain distinguished success as COM
pared to mediocrity. Mr.. Harmon has
practical knowledge through 20 years,
and has recently stated that the
merest fraction of those whom he has
helped failed to repay their loans in
the time specified.
Inc late MAJ. zen. Leonard WOOu
will have without doubt many memo
rials in different parts of the world
where his influence will be felt for
many years to come. but the lovely
old garden in the rear of what is now
the home of the Woman's National
Party. adjacent to the Capitol. will be
one of the most enduring in Wash
ington. The old mansion. which Mrs
0. II. p Belmont purchased and pre-
Sented to this wing of the feminine
equal rights movement. was owned
by the late Associate Justice of the
Supreme Court, Stephen Field of Cali
fornia, and it was wooing his niece
Miss Louisa Condit-Smith, that young
DR.. Wood first came to the residence.
The marriage took place November IS,
| 1890, but it was one Of those glorious
days Of Indian Summer, and the rose
| garden was in full bloom. The cere-
| mony was staged under the arbor
| just about 3 o'clock in the afternoon.
| Mrs. Wood had taken great delight in
| the garden of her uncle's home. and
during the brief sojourns possible in
! the life of an Army surgeon she
tended it and planted many sturdy
roses Of the older varieties. like La
| France, Paul Neyron and Catherine
| Mermet, which appear to have a
| longer life than the varieties sold to-
| day, and are still in full vigor. The
| present owners of the old mansion
| have made the rose garden a memo.
| rlal to Clara Barton, and many of the