Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-06-16
Tales of Well Known Folk
In Social and Oficia | Life
Gen Pershins Outstanding World War Hero,
Is Frequent Visitor to Toy Soldier
Shops In Paris.

| every variety of pet from a broncho
| obtained in the Rockies to 20 chatter
ing parrots and IL agile monkeys. Toys
even tons of them, are easily disposed
| OF through the organizations which col
Iect them at Christmas for the poor
| and all through the year for invalid
| children. But the animals offer more
complicated disposal. The duchess
through various philanthropic agencies
obtained facts about where the donkey
! might be helpful and where the mon
keys could be cared for, and this Is
possible in smaller ZOOS in the country
or in homes for children. Parrots are
in great demand in Seamen's homes and
when the duke or duchess find a va
cancy, family having lost pet, a
pretty little note is penned offering one
of the little princess stock and she
makes her mark at the end and the de-
light of the recipient of such gift may
be imagined. Lisbeth already is learn
ing to cut out neatly the most striking
of the tons of picture cards which come
to her annually and paste them In linen
books for the very sick children or help
less invalids for whom the flash of color
will give momentary pleasure.
X **
Miss Frances Grant of New York has
sailed for the Southern Hemisphere,
commissioned by the Roerich Museum
of that city to be a liasion officer, as 1t
were between the venerable museums of
the Latin countries and those of
Gotham. Miss Grant is trained in all
branches needed to bring such mis-
sion to success. She will visit all the
principal cities of the southern world
and many institutions of learning. and
will give pictorial lectures. The West
ern College for Women at Oxford, Ohio.
some two years ago invited talented
Mexican educator, Senorita Maria de la
Luz Grovas, to hold a teaching profess
sorship, DR.. Rowe and his associates on
the Pan-American Union board having
highly recommended her for the place,
and the experiment has been eminently
successful and led to the commissioning
of Miss Grant from the Roerich Mu-
scum. Miss Charlotte Keefe Of Chicago
recently sailed for Santiago de Chile
to introduce some phases of American
school methods into the national sys-
TENS of that Republic. These relate to
ton School system, which seems to At
into Latin ideals of modern progress
combined with Difference to the older
concepts which prevail in these con-
sentative countries of Latin origin.
X
The Governor of Maryland and his
STAFF have busy days ahead in the next
year or two attending the historic cele-
brations of the various counties of the
State in preparation for the great tri-
ennial celebration March rs, 1884 of the
date of Leonard Calvert's landing. st.
Marys is the oldest countk. The first
capital of Maryland, ST. Marys City,
has long since been in ruins and the
nearest town is Ridge. Gov. Ritchie and
staff attended the Northumberland
ninety-f1fth anniversary of ST. Mary's
foundation within the past month and
Anne Arundel County, of which Annap-
oils is chief city, will soon invite dis
tinguished guests for its two-hundred-
and-seventieth birthday anniversary.
Maryland has not yet decided what
form its observance will take of the 800
years which have elapsed since the
Ark and the Dove weighed anchor
with the pilgrims who were the pioneers
of Lord Baltimore's palatinate. But that
will not be an exposition but rather a.
mammoth historic pageant and the
opening of a State park on the hills
where the first urban center was estab-
ished. The Archdiocese Of Baltimore