Evening star., 1928-10-07
BY MARGARET B. DOWNING.


President .Coolidge's family originated
IN Cottingham, small town near the
seaport Of Hull in recent years more
familiarly known as Kingston -on-the-
Hull, and John Coolidge and his wife,
the immigrants Of the line, sailed from
Britain's western seaport through the
English Channel and thence to open
sea. Many genealogistS, some from this
country, others British, have been over
hauling all the parish registers of Cot
tingham ami Hull for definite informa-
tieth President of the United States
before the inclusion of its annals in the
report of the Massachusetts, Bay Colony.
These efforts have resulted in the find
ing of the Coolidge name in a parish
record of the first years of the seven-
tee1th century when the owner of it
followed the sea and perished in it. The
land record office and the manuscript
TQom OF the British Museum are over
yun with researchers. many bent on un-
covering al that is known in England
about the Coolidge line as it has in
tracing the washington and Franklin
forehearS ir Northamptonsllire All
about Cottingham is fascinating terri
tory end it may be imagined that in
Gays of leisure nothing would so please
the President as to visit the home of
his fathers, pleasant little village on
the North Sea where nearly all the
houses belong to the merchants of Hull
and OF Manchester and are their vaca-
ton homes. A fine church, once a
r1onaStic holding, is in Cottingham. But
the dissenting churches, those which
nre not EpiScopalian, are not represent
ed IN the tiny burg but stately Con-
gragational edif1ce may be found in
ilull and there are several in Man
chester.
Mrs. Stanley Mccormick, who for
MSny years has resided in Geneva and
E1ade en intensive study of the League
q Nations, will spend the coming Win
tar In Chicago. She already has secured
"a apartment on the Lake Shore Drive
md viii remove her marvellous house.
Ibid equipment from her villa on Lake
Geneva. She is the daughter of the late
Mr.. and Mrs. Writ Dexter, the former
one of Chicago's most successful law
yVeS and the latter an intellectual
leader of the Lake City and the founder
OF the Fortnlghtly, the first woman's
club established in the Second City.
Mrs. Dexter moved to Boston when her
husband died about Is years ago and
shortly before the World War she pur-
chased the beautiful villa on Lake
Geneva, where she and her daughter
nave since resided, with brief and in
frequent trips to their own country. Mrs.
Mccormick is a keen student of inter-
national politics and as she was edu-
Gated In Lausanne and in Dresden, she
is a linguiSt and has greatly enjoyed
and proflted by her attendance at the
sessions of the great tribunal at Geneva.
AS she and Mrs. Dexter are convinced
that only by outlawing war will general
prosperity and happiness return to the
) world, both will take conspicuous part
In the political clubs OF Chicago and
may possibly visit other cities to pro-
pound their ideas
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r Mrs. Ruth Baker Pratt, who has just
won the Republican nomination for
Congress in the seventeenth district of
New York, was the great city'S first
alderwoman, and there seems a good
chance that she viii become its first
woman M. c. She made a creditabie
record in the lesser role and won the
nomination against some seasoned poll
ticianS. Mrs. Pratt is the widow of
John Teele Pratt, who was one of the
eight sons OF the phtlanthropist Charles
Pratt of Long Island and New York, |
and daughter of Edwin Howard Baker
Of New York City and his wife The
New York City. Mrs. Pratt graduated
at Wellesley College in 1902 and year
later married the well known banker of
Brooklyn, distant cousin through their
mothers, both having been born Rich
ardSon. She took consuming interest
In public affairs from her youth and at
once became identified with the Pratt
philanthropic activities and originated
some on her own account. AS chair
man of the Liberty loan committee of
New York City, Mrs Pratt made fire.
0uent visits to Washington during the
World War, and proved convincing
and pleasing public speaker.
Besides Mrs. Pratt, who gained the
esteem and confidence of all political
creeds as member of the board govern
ing New York City under the mayor,
two other woman candidates for Con-
greSs have reasonable assurance of
election-MrS. Ruth Hanna Mccormick,
running for Representative at large
from Illinois, and the daughter of VIII
liam Jennings Bryan in Miami Fla.
If the present four now in the House
prove successful in November, seven
women will sit in the House, the largest
number yet recorded. But compared
to European countries it is meager. The
German Reichstag has a smaller num-
Der Of members in both its houses than
has the National Legislature of the
United States, yet there are 81 women
In 1t, some holding chairmanships of
most important committees.
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The Ambassador to Berlin, DR.. Jacob
Gould Schurman. and Mrs. Schurman.
with their family, have passed de-
lightful season following the opera
routes through the various music CEN
ters Of Germany. They went to Mu-
Mich for the Wagnerian and for the
Mozart season, and then they passed
some delightful weeks in Bayreuth
where 'Parsifal" was presented to thou
sands Of American visitors and to music
lovers generally for almost ten weeks.
Just before returning to Berlin the Am
baSSador and Mrs. Schurman enter