Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-10-08
MISS MACDONALD
TO HEAR" SOUTH.
Music Arranged for Prime
Minister'S Daughter at the
Library of Congress.
BY the Associated Press.

Ishbel, daughter of the Prime Min
lister Macdonald of Great Britain, to-
day turned to Southern music for new
slant on American culture.
She accepted an invitatio to 60 to
the Library OF Congress, where q pro-
gram Of Southern negro and Kentucky
folk songs had been arranged.
Mrs. Hoover. Lady Isabella Howard,
wife Of the British Ambassador, and
Miss Ishbel made up the official party
to the concert, to which about 500
persons had been invited.
Expresses Beauty.
At q press conference today, Miss
Macdonald said she had never seen
anything so beautiful as the State din
ner at the White House. She was
especially enthusiastic over the Dolly
Madison gold and mirrored center
piece.
II have never seen anything like It
before" she said. 1T was beautiful"
She told reporters she had been per-
mitted to arrange today's program as
she liked and that she certainly wished
to go to the Children's Bureau and that
she also wanted to view the art collec-
ton of Andrew Mellon, Secretary of
the Treasury, If time permitted.
No log in mountain nook, but a
luncheon table in a secluded club corner
has been selected to serve Miss Mac
donald tomorrow at a noon forum Of
international friendship. Yet plans
have been made to accord her the same
freedom Of expression on the subject
closest to her heart that her famous
father enjoyed at the mountain camp
Of President Hoover in Virginia.
HiOh NH Hnetacaee
She will be guest Of the two highest
ranking women officials of the United
States Department Of Labor. Miss Grace
Abbot Of the Children's Bureau and
Miss Mary Anderson OF the Womens
Bureau,
Her greatest interest is the welfare
OF laboring women and the education
of children Her luncheon with the
Labor Department women is the one
engagement she has accepted outside
those which naturally arose from her
fathers program.
To give her a real opportunity to get
firSt-hand information on social welfare
work in America. the guest list has been
made very small, permitting the ques-
ton and answer method Of table CONVEX
Sation. 1t Is limited to women Of high
off1cial position. converSant with condi-
lions in England as well as in America.
and able to meet Miss Macdonald on her
own ground in frank and friendly dis
cussion. No speeches are to be made.
The Scotch girls activities today were
calculated to round out a rather COM
plete cross-Section of American life as
background for her queries tomorrow.
She had an engagement to have lunch
con with her father at the Canadian
legation. This presented an opportunity
to chat with two of Americas Congress-
women, Representatives Ruth Bryan
owen of Florida and Ruth Pratt of New
York.
The luncheon list numbered AZ, many
OF them specialists in rejecting varied
phases of economic. political and social
here. The reception to follow
the dinner at the British embassy to-
night was planned to permit Miss Mac
donald to meet face to face large num-
Der of representative Washingtonians.
Visits Children's Clinic.
Ishbel slipped away from the pomp
and ceremony of ofhcial doingS yeSter-
day to spend more than an hour at q
model school and clinic for children.
Dropping her role of official visitor to
assume that of investigator in the work
she holds dear-the educational phase
Of social service-She left the White
House shortly after luncheon. accom-
panied only by one OF the secretaries
Of the Presidents wife and an aide.
The prime minister's daughter had
an engagement for tea at Woodley, the
home Of Mrs. Henry l.. Stimson, wife
Of the Secretary of State, and after
that the state dinner at the White
House. She had not had one free mo-
ment during the morning after return
ing from the Presidents camp with Mrs
kynnvar for ~ hod hAav1 Rl1oA
visit to Congress and luncheon in the
Mansion.
At the school, the Washington Child
Research Center. DIR. Louise Stanley,
director of the Home Economics Bureau
Of the Agriculture Department, met the
special guests and ushered them into a
room in which about rs children play
every day, while highly trained psy-
biologists and teachers study from their
actions the most propitious aids in
children to develop with free
to use the play materials set before
them.
Taught to Say Mother"
A 16-month-old girl adopted by Dr.
Stanley was among the children the
visitors found playing in a yard at the
back of the building. The group was
busy as bees playing in a specially con-
pergola and on a long pile,
sliding on chute, choosing their own
toys.
Upstairs Miss Macdonald found q
giving a 3-year-old boy a
mental test.
Say mamma" the psychologist d.
rected.
Miss Macdonald smiled widely as the
boy answered: II don't. I've been
taught at home to say mother"
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