The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1928-09-21
News OF PERSONS IN SOCIAL WHRL OF WASHINGTON
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Mrs. Minnigerode An
drews' Lively New Vol
ume Has Been Awaited
With Interest

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With Interest
Well, it's out today
Marietta Minnigerode An
drews' "My Studio Win
dow And readers of her
'tMemoirs of a Poor Re-
lation, their appetites whet-
ted by its frankness and us
salty SAVIOR, are hungry for
this record of observations,
impressions and contacts
during 80 years of life IN
Washington.
SiIhouettes
The new volume has an even
more poignant interest 70 rs US
here than its predecessor. A
first dealt with Mrs. Andrews :
earlv life in Virginia, her lore
hears--who would probably turn
+ho;r Graves could they hear
some of the things written aDout
fhem-and her adventures VIII
poverty and patronage. me
last is centralized here ana It's
rs0es are filled with pen porI1
rats of people one knows ana
1;Las There is even the posi-
La, of meeting oneself face to
face between the covers OF .
beguiling volume.
No Diplomats Delight
In abiding to distinguished indi-
viduals the writer lays no claim
a. intimacy and says in ner
preface that ''she has not peen
the delight of diplomats nor the
chosen playmate of cabinets ana
councils. She has never been
4 shining light in the world
"a fashion, and her life In the
Canital has been one OF citizen'
ahip rather than one OF So
ciety.'"
Nevertheless. she has been as
mociated through many years
Win the men and women VINO
have been making history in
washington. calls many OF them
her friends. and has viewed from
her studio window the shifting
uaveant of life as it has streameo
M and down Sixteenth Street.
The book is dedicated to Mrs.
Woodrow Wilson, whose Sc
rene influence and example have
been the inspirations Of noble
thoughts It is engagingly mus
frated with silhouettes. cut by
the author, who has long been
famous for this unpretentious
vet significant form Of art ana
whose collection Of shadow pic
lures gives interesting sidelights
on life in Washington In the
last 80 years.
IA procession OF the great and
the near great has passed by Mrs.
Andrews window and many or
them have stopped In to warm
themselves by her fire and the
spark Of her wit. Some are gone
60 live again in the pages OF this
delightful memoir. others continue
TO enrich the life OF Washington.
The writer must continue TO live
among them-so perhaps that Is
why the book isn't quite SO de-
vastatingly frank in its comment
on men, women and events, as
was the Memoirs Of Poor Re-
lation" But, even SO, there Is
the ring Of sincerity about the
tribute which Mrs. Andrews pays
20 those she has learned to know
and love on her journey through
life.
The Procession
She writes with appreciation Of
N. Jusserand, longtime Ambassa-
dor of France to the United
States, and his wife. telling OF
their kindness to the first Ger
man envoy after the war, DIR.
X Wiedfeldt, who was being given
the cold shoulder. OF Chief JUS
tice and Mrs. Taft-and of the
Chief Justices concern on having
his silhouette cut lest a profile
view prove unflattering. OF Mrs.
John b. Henderson's hats and her
influence on the growth OF Wash
ington. OF Mrs. George Barnett's
bon Ynots. OF Mrs. Julian James
philanthropies. OF Mrs. Alice
Barney's genius. OF such 'wilful
women" as Alice Paul, Marguerite
Du Pont Lee and Marie Moore
Forrest-all in spirit OF adnnira-
ton. OF "a great-great-great.
granddaughter of Thomas Jeffer-
son making organdie roses" OF
Uncle Joe Cannon making up to
the children in the parks ana of
scores Of others, to the picture Of
whom the authors anecdotes con-
tribute interesting side lights.
The g e t-g t-great-grand-
daughter of Thomas Jefferson is
Mrs. Flora Mason Nicholson. She
started making her roses as
powder puffs for few friends and
has built up a business which is
patronized by department stores
oil over the country. She is a
granddaughter Of Mrs. Kate Kear-
ney Henry, one of the grand
DANES Of old Washington, whom
Mrs. Andrews describes as the
mother of most of the patriotic
societies in the Capital.
The writer refuses to commit
herself as to who is the most
beautiful woman in Washington.
merely suggesting such widely
different types as Mrs. Woodrow
Wilson, Mrs. Robert Hinckley,
Mrs. William Barrett Ridgely,
Mrs. Edward Terry Sanford and,