Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-10-09
Tales of Well Known Folk
In Social and Official Life
Senior Ouesada. Lately With Cuban Embassy
Here, Esteemed for His Public Spirit.
Notes of World Celebrities.
RY MARGARET b. DOWNING.

The transfer of Senior Cayetano de
Ouesada. who recently was sent from
the Cuban embassy in this city 10
Havana. where he will serve as cere'
monial officer of the State Department
there will be as much regretted IN
washington as it will be cordially
welcomed in the Cuban capital Senior
Ouesada, among other publlc-splrlted
measures to his credit, has devoted
time and income to the education OF
the Cuban negro, especially OF ,he
girls who desired to receive training
i'm domestic science and It's aiileu
branches. Some promising pup'is
were selected from different parts OF
Cuba and these were placed undef
the Oblate Nuns in Baltimore. and on
completing their training, they loon
over rural schools in the provinces.
MANY of these teachers were in Wash
ington recently, attending the confer
enoe of the National Council OF Cath'
ollc Women, and with their former IN
structors in Baltimore were several
times the guests Of Senior Quesada
,rhese Oblate Nuns, who are all of Afrl-
can descent, have opened schools In
Cuba and they teach the most APP
nroyed scientific methods or nome
keeping and the principles OF soou
health. obtained only through proper
ca IMITATION and through the proper Sc
lection and preparation of food. senior
Ouesada made an address before the
conference detailing the work being
done bv these teachers and their pu'
nils. and 1t is his ambition to see every
mart of the island as well provided by
these schools for the lower classes
as Havana and the other large cites
are with high-grade converts ana col.
leges and universities which were olu
before the foundations of William ana
Mary College in Williamstown, Va,
were placed, or those OF Harvard In
Cambridge.
The counselor of the Czechoslova-
khan legation and Nine. Lipa. who
now are enjoying the scenic wonders
of California after passing through
those of Colorado and Utah, are IN
this tour of the Pacific Coast and the
approach to it through the Middle
West, realizing a dream they have
cherished since childhood. Nine. Lipa
has always been intensely interested
in American Indians, possibly because
of the tales she had heard from her
distinguished uncle. President Ma
saryk. of the CZechoslovakian Repub'
lie, and ever since coming to Wash
ington she and NJ. Lipa have been
figuring out way to make this trip.
NJ, Lipa is perhaps more interested
in the aspects of certain great cities
beyond the Mississippi in their rela-
ton to the growing commerce of
Bohemia and her sister states than
in the weavings and potteries of the
Indians. but both have taken time
enough in planning their tour to per-
NIT all tastes to be INDUCED. They
propose after exhausting the marvels
of the big trees and of the natural
curios of Yosemite Valley to make
long stay in Los Angeles and San
Diego and possibly to cross the Mexi.
can border. They will return via the
| Grand Canyon in Arizona and will
make some visits to the show places
of the desert in that State and in New
Mexico. Nine. Lipa will have an op.
portunity in the latter State to ex
anime the best of the Indian weav.
| ings. blankets. rugs and pillow cush.
| ions and to inspect the pictorial pot
| terry. The railroad station of the
Atchison. Topeka & Santa Fee al
| Albuquerque, n. Mex, is a vertiable
museum for such displays and Indians
| in their tribal garments are the sales
| men.
| Mr.. William de Chastignier Ravenel
one of the administrative officers OF
| the Smithsonian Institution, being a
| South Carolinian of distinguished an
cestry, has been among those in that
seat of learning entirely committed
to the policy of gathering historic OBJ
| jects, irrespective of whether valua
| BILE or beautiful, and displaying them
with a succinct description. Thou
| sands of women going through the
various national museums in the per
| functory way of sight-seers are
quickened into interest by discovering
| some such object. Thus an old bat
tered spinning wheel in what is called
| the old museum is instantly inspected
and admired when it becomes known
that this relic. formerly the property
of DR.. George Browne Goode, an es.
teemed scientist of his day. furnished
the design for the badge of the D. A.
| r. The society had considered many
| pleasing. Mrs. Browne Goode was
chairman of the committe to provide
an insignia for the opening of the
first Continental Congress in Feb
ruary. 1892. and she spoke of her pre-
clement to her husband. The old
spinning wheel occupied an honorable
place by the open fireplace in the
Goode dining room and as the eyes OF
both rested on it, there was an in.
| spiration. There was, of course, much
changing and discussing, but this
revered object to all Colonial women
was given the major role in the select
ing and designing the official badge
and pin of the D. A. r. DR.. Goode
remembered seeing his mother use the
wheel, having been carefully trained
in Its uses by her mother and thus
back the line to the days of the
weaving Of linen from flax was part
OF every woman's daily duties.
Representative Edith Nourse Rogers
may be. as report has it, casting about
| for home. but those who know her
best believe she will never take over
the cares of housekeeping while she
has such heavy duties in other di.
rections. Besides. Mrs. Rogers is
much attached to her present quarters
in an apartment, 1855 Sixteenth street
| for she has lived there continuously
since March. 1913 when her late hus
| band first entered the House of Rep
resentatives. Many of the vital Incl.
| dents of her life were stagted in these
pleasant rooms and in them she grad
ually carved out the career to which
| she has now consecrated herself in
the public service. Mrs. Rogers was
quite young woman when she came
to Washington and her and her hus
! bands five years of married life had
been passed in the usual way of well
placed young couples and their prin
cipai joy was in foreign travel. Both
found themselves aS the mira so goes
In the Capital: and for his years in