Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-03

as extensively as the time and means
at the disposal of each individual per-
NIT. The reputation Of golf as the
rich mans pleasure has passed abso-
lutely, and the same fallacy about polo
is also now being refuted.
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Gov. Ritchie has always shown sim
cere interest in Maryland history re-
produced in pageantry, and he Is said
to have been responsible for the floats
used at the recent dedication of the
Southern Maryland boulevard, where
the States contributions of two FIRST
Ladies were charmingly presented.
These were Louisa Catherine Johnston,
who became Mrs. John Quincy Adams,
and Margaret Mackail Smith OF CAL
vert County, who married Zachary Tay-
lor. 1t is true that Louisa Catherine
Johnson was born in London, but this
was merely accidental, for her parents
were of the old gentry OF Maryland.
She was the niece of Gov. Thomas
Johnson, a member of the first Board of
Commissioners of the District OF Column
bia, later executive of his State-the
first under the Constitution. From this
office Gov. Johnson entered the Su-
preme Court of the United States Truly
a Southern grande dame was Mrs. John
Quincy Adams, and during her regime
the State receptions at the White House
we're dignified functions, at which light
wine and cake were passed to the guests
by the colored servants just as they
bowed themselves out of the presiden-
tial presence. Mrs. Adams presided
with consummate grace over the United
States legations in London and st.
Petersburg when her husband was Min
ister Margaret Mackail Smith was a
Of Jol ar Smith nj
the extensive tobacco planters of CAL
vert County and a man much esteemed
in his community. Mrs. Taylor was In
fragile health and her eldest daughter,
Betty, wife of Maj. w. w. Bliss, U. S.
A., presided over most of the White
House amenities during President Tay-
lor'S two years in Office.
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William Howard Tafts memory will
in due season receive special honor
from Ohio, since his election to the
presidency, followed by that of Mr..
Harding, has made the Buckeye State
stand in line seven to seven with Vir-
ginia, which had previously claimed
with pride to be the mother of the
Chief Magistrates of this. republic. Now.
honors are easy and in addition to
having seven native sons who have
achieved the highest place in the gift
of the people, Ohio may truthfully
claim to be the mother of the wives of
Presidents. Seven were born within its
boundaries, whereas Virginia can show
only five First Ladies, while a total of
six is reached by New York. Ohians, as
a rule, seemed to wed in their own
commonwealth, while Virginians went
afield. Washington and Jefferson mar
ried daughters of the Old Dominion,
but the second and third Executives,
Madison and Monroe, found their help
meets elsewhere. Gen. Grant was. the
first born Ohioan to be elected Presi-
dent. Mrs. Grant, however, was from
Missouri Natives of the State were
President and Mrs. Hayes, President
and Mrs. Garfield; President Benjamin
Harrison. although politically from In
diana, was born in Ohio and so, too,
were his two wives, Caroline Lavinia
Scott and Mary Scott Dimock. Presi-
dent and Mrs. Mckinley, President and
Mrs. Taft and President and Mrs
Harding finish his unique record. Six
of these ladies actually presided over
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