Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-07-15
/CLUBWOMEN OF THE NATION
Reasons for Failure of Great Falls Preservation Measure
Biennial Given by General Federation Head-unlor Pen
Women to Meet-National Woman Party Notes.

! Miss Martha Brooks, corresponding sec
rotary: Miss Katherine Fuqua, treas
urer; Miss Carmen Hoy, parliament
tartan: also Miss Elizabeth Millikin. MISS
Eleanor Shut. Miss Dorothy Shater,
Miss Elizabeth Smith, Miss Edna Betty
McAndrews, Miss Mary ]. Walker, Miss
Muriel Hazard and Miss Dorothy Fowler
An adult counselors committee was
elected from the National League OF
American Pen Women and included
Mrs. Eugene E. Collster, chairman: Mrs
William Anterior Du Puy Mrs. E. ~
Sheriff.. Mrs. E. Richard Gasch ana
Miss Florence Marshall.
AN interesting fact In connection with
- the purchase of Prospect Cottage
bv the National League Of American Pen
Women is that its first owner AFTER u
passed out of the hands OF the SCUM
worth family was DR.. Sarah M. Hudole-
son of this city, now a member OF the
District branch of the League OF Amer
lean Pen Women. which she joined IN
1924 DR.. Hu6dleson had know and ad-
mlred Mrs. Southworth and in 1917.
when the house had fallen badly into
decay. she purchased 1t from Mrs. Law
renee of Yonkers, N. y, only surviving
child of Mrs. E. D. E. N. Southwortn'
the son of the author, DR.. SouthWortn'
having died shortly after the passing
of his mother.
DR. Huddleson spent some $4,000 in
restoring the property, so that 1t should
be safe and habitable. taking particular
pains to have nothing changed from the
way Mrs. Southworth had 1t. as she
instructed her builders.
II was her thought then that the
home deserved to be shrine, but nef
nlans did not mature, so in 1922 she
sold L to an Army officer who made II
his home with his family, then later
resold it.
DR.. Huddleson expresses herself as oe-
lighted that it has at last reached the
goal she had SO long pictured Tor II
and will be preserved, at least IN part,
nv the Pen Women. She is the posses
sor of a large number of the books writ
ten by Mrs, Southworth, and at one
time had a complete collection which
she had purchased from Mrs. Hunt OF
this city, the most intimate friend OF
Mrs, Southworth and a cousin OF stone
wall Jackson During the absence from
home of DR.. Huddleson, a few years ago,
part of the set was stolen. she plans
later. when the league has taken pos
session of the cottage, to present to 1t
this collection of books.
On the walls of DR.. Huddleson's home.
at 202 Eleventh street southwest, hangs
a large painting of Mrs. Southwortn'
which she had painted from a mlnla-
ture. The artist was the famous Jerome
Uhl and DR.. Huddleson prizes the por-
trait highly.
According to the recollections of DR..
Huddleson. Mrs. Southworth built Pros
pect Cottage on the present site, which
was chosen both because of the beau
tiful view and because Of its seclusion.
When she moved in, about 1850, there
were no street cars near by and Will
derness of trees added greatly to the
beauty of the surroundings. 1t was a
great cross to her later, when, in the
march of progress, the cars not only
ran in front of her door, but, in the
making of the Improvements, she had TO
sacrifice part Of her much cherished
front lawn.
One of the unique features of the cot
tage, DR.. Huddleson recalls, was very
deep we'll. which was dug in the cellar
of the home. and from which the fam
ily supply of water was taken the
porch facing the Potomac was MRS
Southworth's special delight, and many
of the descriptions of scenery IN her
books were taken from the view which
Law before her there--the wooded hills
of Virginia on the opposite shore and
the winding sweep OF the river that lap
ped the bluff on which her cottage
stood.
Letters reaching the national head
quarters at the willard Hotel reveal
that the purchase of the home is arous-
ing widespread enthusiasm among the
many branches of the organization. The
national president, Mrs. Clarence M.
Busch; the national chairman of the
clubhouse committee, Miss Florence E.
Ward, and her committee, Mrs. William
r. Dennis, Mrs. c. c. Calhoun, Mrs. De-
los A, Blodgett, Mrs John Mock, Mrs.
Harriet Hawley Locher. Mrs Susie Root
Rhodes and Miss Elizabeth Barnes;
and the special committee to view sites,
Mrs. William Atherton Du Puy, Mrs,