Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-12-29
Tales of Well Known Folk
In Social and Official Life
Ancient Document Recently Unearthed Rectes
Incidents in the Military Career of Secretary
Adams Illustrous Forbears

warrior and scientist, and italian
| women spun fine linen from his era
| According to scholars it was late in the
eighteenth century before the English
at home and in the colonies began to
use the spinning Wheel and clumsy old
models, some brought over from Lon
don as commercial ventures, were soon
improved on, until in the Revolutionary
years the wheel was one of the lightest
simplest construction. easy to handle
and rapid enough to have performed a
worthy role in keeping the Revolution
airy Army well supplied with needed
garments. All those who wish to study
the American evolution Of the spinning
wheel should visit the Wadsworth
Atheneum in Hartford, Conn.
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Miss Eliza Haywood, first woman
publisher of a magazine in London, is.
according to the conclusion reached by
Its fourth estate, just as worthy of
honor and a local celebration as the
first woman who achieves anything
unique swimming the channel. cross
ing the desert, flying above the At
lantic, crashing into a forbidden pro-
feSsion or trade. Miss Haywood in
17S5 published a fair-sized magazine
which she called THE Female Spec
tator," and as AddiSons great journal
was then in the height of power, this
modest feminine counterpart shared the
prosperity. The Female Spectator"
lasted through three years and Miss
Haywood profited little by her VEN
ture, but it was not the era when for
tunes were made in the publishing
business. If she has any kindred in
the present generation who preserved
the old numbers, they can make for
tune. Groups of woman journalists are
presenting pages from this early VEN
ture, and so we'll did these take with
the British public that Miss Heywood's
life has recently been presented in a
good sized volume with abundant ex-
tracts from her texts which show a
quaint humor and knowledge of con-
ditions in her time which bear a strong
resemblance to problems of present-oay
Londoners. She deplores the lack of
good craftsmanship. a familiar cry in
the twentieth century.
Edward Bruce, who won one of the
prizes in the international exhibition of
art at the Carnegie Institution in Pitts
burgh by his painting, THE Pear Tree"
Is the cousin of former Senator William
Caben Bruce of Maryland and, like him,
is OF the eighth generation of the first
Bruce who fed from the Scotch high
the painter, has spent years in Mallorca
and his picture which gained the votes
OF the awarding committee shows a
typical pear tree laden with luscious
golden and pinkiSh fruit against the
background of blue sky and still bluer
waters about the Ballearic Island. NAL
lorca, Menorca and Iviza. the names
which can be repeated glibly by any
school child, compose this group, which
lies rrsA, 49,
surface OF the mid-Mediterranean less
than nights sail from Barcelona.
Thousands of Americans visited the
Ballearics last Summer. Many of them
were artists attracted to Barcelona and
Seville by the richness of the art treas
ureS displayed in the two expositions
Architects were also there in numbers
to study the religious jediflces of which
the Cathedral of Palma is the treasure.
Palma, capital of Mallorca, largest
island, is unsurpassed by any city in
continental Spain in various aspects,
not the least of which are the superb
roads which wind at ascending grada-
lions and from all directions from the
city to the rugged mountains which
form an encircling panorama. NAL
lorcans have been wont to express con-
tempt for those who repeat the ancient
saying about "See Naples and die" for
the harbor of their chief city surpasses
Naples and will enkindle in the beholder
the more national desire to live thou
sand years in such environment. Mr.
Bruce had his studio for two years on
an elevation in full sight of all this
beauty.
Frank Jay Gould, youngest son of
the flnancier, the late Jay Gould, is do
ing his best to make the French Riviera
even more appealing than it has been
cans. He recently invested huge sum
IN building mammoth hotel in Nice,
the Palais de Indifference, on the Prone
made des Anglais. 1t would appear to
the casual observer that Nice needs an
other costly hotel even less than does
the boardwalk of Atlantic City. This
gem of the Riviera is practically city
of hotels, lovers of villa life invariably
choosing Monte Carlo, where there are
many private domiciles and few hostel
rie5. But the new establishment is to
cater to United States people. Special
dishes beloved In certain sections are
in readiness all the time and all the
delicacies which may be imported were
at hand for Christmas. Several thou
sands who have voting privileges in this
republic spend the Winter on the
french Riviera, cannes. NICE ana NOME
Carlo, and Mr. Gould took care to lure
the cream of there to splendid Christ
mas celebration in the gorgeous new
palais in Nice.
~
Mary Garden like social queens of
Europe, adopted the sun cure so en-
Enthusiastically last Summer that in pre-
pairing for her several new roles in the
present opera season in Chicago she
has mad, to devote as much time and
pains to whitening her skin as she did
to practicing scales and releasing with
the troupe. Her principal new produc-
ton is libretto founded on the younger
Dumas Lady of the Camelias," tradi-
tionally asking for a fair, frail woman
quite unlike the deeply tanned and very
athletic-looking Mary Garden after her