Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-07-06

=. Is perience aof interest d. talent has:
been the life, the career, Of. Mrs: Wiliihm
Vaughn Moody of Chicago, wife 81 ono or PHI
great poet-playwfights, conirade, and, cenfidante
Of distinguished men of arts and letters, vet,
creator OF million dollar business IS inventor
and creator Of things good to eat. :i:,ss,, =
For a auaFtsr Of ., century Mrs, Moody; has
been q purxeyor to the enlightened: she has
lived to challenge the famous remark Of the
French ,epicureaR, who, despaired ;9f America
because, it was q country which bad seven
philosophers and only one sauce" y a.,
She has been able to, do 50 because she
realizes that cookery IS am artt-often AN ont
ragged and degraded one, but stan an, art. She
realizes that the very word taste" which finds
its first meaning in the things of the palate,
Ia the ultimate word in the distinction Of every
appreciation of every creation. '$'. So :.
She knows, as every travelled and experienced
person does, that tine men, of genuine cuitipa-
ton who are without touch Of the -epicurean
are few, that the palate and the palette sre not
far apart ;! y, ''' ~ 80 ;tstts-,. b.
watch her as she sits for MRS. Jacobs
portrait. Observe, as the artist chats on in
desultory conversation, what topics bring her
face to life. ..-t. '..' ,t*..- -.
Frequently painted she was called by an
ether portraitist "a giided Huddha." He might,
we'll have done SO, looking at her in repoSe.
FOR her magnificent figure sits on the painters
platform CAS- few women know how to: sitD
(now somewhat grayfng) is drawn back above
full-hdded eyes set at family oriental slant.
Her short aqIirhe nose expresses race, and
the almost masculine chin expresses resolution.
IT IL the external calm OF Buddha
Put, then, q poets name, some theory Of
= education, some painting by an American
hand, is mentioned, and the Baddha cenes to
FTI0.A SH~nu
Alike, they have the power to wake her =.
And, when she wakes, see the right eyelid
Mt while the left one c,Irs into q smile and
little kindly wrinkles run about the rnbuth as ,
she begins to talk, It may be she ,Yfl embark
upon some "Reminiscences Of .. friend; Or It may
he some narrative of deicately combining three
subtle nevors to form something entirely new
I'm the world OF taste. ~! Il: y ~ :
She cslpot paint, nor compose music nor
write poetry, though, she has been the. close
friend Of those. who did But she Is ip her
own field as truly. o. creative genius. as any Of
them-an American ,Brillat-Savarin 49,:
And she has been from the, f1rst completely,
conscious about iii She has been from 1.-THE
first creator, not AN .initator., ,t.i:!r
1t Is as if the fruits OF. the earth, the fSh Of
the waters. the fowl and beast and all that
grow on land or in sea; expressed 10 her their
essence, to be orchestrated by her Into conp6-
sitions to please civilized maR .;.!st,;;i.
when heard that she was o Collateral de-
scendant Of Francis Parkman, born nj that
little gem of American towns, still ilnshiHed by
the mechanieaI hand OF twentieth century
American hfel PaEkman, Ohio remembering
those Ohio towns, With their, New England DOOR :.
wavs and gable lines surviving from early New
England emgrations ilto Ohio, / was at d loss
TO account for her by any Theory Of inheritance:
Kor il was New England, not the South, that
had given that ,epicurean Frepchman his
despair Of u.s.. 80. E.. ::.i;; = 80
N hot
verse, descendant Of French @Hugilenots, THAT
I. could imagine Whist lost cogpuscles Of ances:
trail blood had come to life again in her. !; =:
Nov IN y9pF ,iMssinatloH,. cut bach, aYeyfFcni
this tNentteth century today, with It's recpkhi-
teon o. the energies of women In any direction /
aaee which Prey desire 10 have free! play aid
Remember the girl Of the nineties \
Imagine: girl OF breeding, OF social position,
- family tradition remember, II You are
90 enough To- remember, what confronted such
girl when she was, ambitious and energetic
remember what was likely to happen II her :
se.aliy lost its means and she was confronted .
mt onlX b. the desire. but by the necessity Of
eapitAlsaing her tslents, - i! =. :
There are numerous examples ioG what hap
pened In other fields to Stch wosae1 8 MIS-
Moody the striking example Of; Nhat hap
pened with. the girl whose greatest talent vas
Sor tire divine art Of cookery. ,i.,.
Her; dlyagations in the direction of .atfainiv,G
aooe9. in her real talent Illustrate sonae Of the
ee1oePffosHs Of the ,nineties which the twentieth
eentsary hNds most absurd -.,,.t.,,t,l1
k0f, Though. she had always leved to 10 into
NE kttchens and, trahsccnding the Jealous eve
- her mothers cook ':put. things vtOgethes As,d
30 what they would make some time. was 10
paas before the prejudioes OF the EOS, we're to
DO overc6we. .,,.4... -. go. ~. ......,
.'"':. ~.,|Et - :. -'..' s,.s4*Tsxt. ;
NO one in those days thought ct, o. kitchen
1.s~ - p laboratory, nor gave TO the ooaabina-
0oA Of heAr- and salt and water and esgs. the
@0nAned nahAe 'of "chemistESy.s ,is.s,s,ItrA'