Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-24
Tales of Well Known Folk
In Social and Official Life
Duchess of Roxburshe, American Woman, |.
Classed High as Fisher of Salmon
North of the Tweed.

has been conferred on this devoted gar
dener in recognition of her unflagging
efforts to inspire home cultivation, both
by precept and example. Her phlox Is
to be found in every country in the
world and after more than Is years II
remains the most satisfactory and pro-
life of all the white varieties. 1t will
be remembered how partial Mrs. Cool
idge is to white phlox and Miss Jekyll is
her favorite. She frequently visited the
bed on the north front lawn of the
the hot dry days of Midsummer. This
bed was placed near Pennsylvania ave-
nue. and was SO cool and fragrant that
many weary pedestrian, glancine
through the iron fence, went on his way
refreshed.
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AS Mr.. and Mrs. David Bruce have
been prominent in the efforts of South
ampton to reproduce and unveil with
proper ceremonies the new town flag, il
is likely the Secretary of the Treasury
will attend this interesting event, which
is scheduled for early September
Southampton takes the greatest pride ir
its age and in its unchanged, condition
1t was prosperous whaling port q
century and a quarter before the Revo-
lutionary War, and its gallant sailors
went after the profitable sea beasts ir
every part of the world. Southampton
received its charter as an incorporated
town from Gov. Thomas Dongan, who
ruled the province for James II. The
new flag will inclose the first municipal
emblem, man blowing a field with a
team of horses precisely as may be seer
today in rural Long Island, and this
will be between alternate stripes of CO.
lonial buff and blue. On the top of the
flag will be the date of the patent to
Southampton. one of the most venerable
in all New York and the oldest in Suf-
Paul will pass part of the heated term
in Southampton and they have also in
mind brief trip to Europe on which
Mrs Bruce may be with them.
X X X
Mrs. Thomas A. Edison has been en-.
livening the controversies waging the
world over as to whether woman'S place
Is in the home and whether in fulfill
ment of her traditional obligations she
should remain there, eschewing all other
activities Strange to say, this rigid
formula is announced very often ever
by women and from pulpits in many
parts OF the country. Mrs. Edison /:
evidently Of the mind that women have
AOASdhcA IIiclT IllSu cSIdIe ana she
eloquently pleading with them to re.
enter the dignified avocation of home
keeping and in larger numbers become
producers instead as Of at present con.
sumers of the home. Mrs Edison points
proudly to her record of A years during
which the fires of the modest hearth
glowed with even, steady radiance. Mar
ried to one who is internationally famed
for irregularity in partaking of food anc
securing the adequate amount of sleer
and rest, she has met these axacting re-
quirements Serenely and, to her spouse
with the highest degree of satisfaction
But many women protest that. not being
married to geniuSes. their hours fol
meals are fixed in the domestic firma-
ment and that the routine of the home
keeping leaves many empty hours OIL
boredom If other interests were no,
evolved. Forty-four years ago, Mrs
EdiSonS formula would have passed, but
not now. Thousands of examples car
be produced, say the advocates of the
present state of womankind to show
that many who are perfect in the home
also transact other important bushes,
for the state and for the general better.
ment Of humanity.
Gen. Grant was one Of the few Chief
Magistrates of the Nation who in sub.
sequent years visited the Orient. and
Wnen he and Mrs. Grant were enter
tanned In the imperial palace in Toxic