Evening star., 1934-07-15
0T SARAH BOWERMNN
One of Om Great Soldiers Of Science
Volume on the Chesapeake Bay Country.
Summer Fiction
Summer Fiction.

The plan of "The Chesapeake Bay Country
is both historical and geographical. Certain
chapters could be taken from the book and
published by themselves as a fairly complete
history of the period of discovery and settle
ment along the Chesapeake. Other chapters
could be similarly published alone as book Of
geographical and artistic description of the
region. No better guide could be found by q
motorist through the Tidewater country, or q
visitor to its historic buildings gardens ana
Colonial homes but it is no "vest-pocket guide,
and a generous place must be provided for it
in the family car. Some of the famous homes
of Tidewater Virginia described and Illustrated
are Upper and Lower Brandon, Westover, Shir-
ley, a small stone house called the oldest
house in Richmond; Tuckahoe, Blenheim, York
Hall White Marsh the Wythe House In VIII
hamsburg the oldest house in Yorktown; Rose
gill Mount Airy, Blandfleld, Powhatan, STRAIT
ford and Mount Vernon. Among the Maryland
Tdewater homes selected for attention are La
Grange, Mulberry Grove, Mount Republican,
Mount Victoria, Hard Bargain, Mulberry
Fields Tudor Hall, Porto Belo, Gross Manor.
Mattapany, Sotterley, Tulip Hill, Whitehall.
MONTPELIER Belair Poplar HILL Dover House
and Mattaponi. A chapter is given to three
old colleges William and Mary at Williamsburg,
ST. Johns at Annapolis and Washington at
Chestertown, Md. The sportsman will also md
for there are descriptions OF sailing craft OF
the Chesapeake and tales of fishing and wild
fowl shooting.
In this Tercentenary edition certain additions
have been made The most notable is the
rewriting of the chapter on st. Marys City,
the first settlement in Maryland, with the fur
nishing of a map of the early city, on st.
Marys River (called st. Georges River at the
time of settlement). Here, March 27, 1884, the
first colonists to Maryland, led by Leonard CAL
vert disembarked from The Ark and The Dove,
and shortly set about building the town which
was the capital of Maryland until 1894 when
the seat of government was transferred to
Annapolis. Many new photographs have also
been added to this edition. among them the re-
production of the Tercentenary bronze medal
by the Baltimore sculptor, Hans Schuler,
showing the landing of Leonard Calvert and his
settlers.
BOY AND GIRL TRAMPS OF AMERICA. BY
Thomas Minehan. New York: Farrar g.
Rinehart
h lot a neglected social problem, but most
difficult one not entirely due to the eco
nomic depression but greatly aggravated by it,
is this problem of the boy and girl tramps OF
America. Vagrant children have often been
by-product of war or revolution Russia has
its bands of wild children and Germany its free
youth movement. but there seems less excuse
for such a condition in the United States. "Yet
in the face of economic disorganization and
social change our own youth took to the high
road" Mr.. Minehan, a young professor OF
sociology at the University of Minnesota. spent
his vacations for two years in travelling the
road, riding in box cars and living in jungles
nophouses and jails, in company with gangs of
boy and girl tramps, and during the time gath
cred over 500 case histories But the boys and
girls were not just cases to him, as they are to
many social investigators. Sharing their hum
ger or their scratch meals. their cold or their
patched jungle shelter, their buffets from off,
of the law and receiving their condolences
at night on mission floors or under the stars,
he came to feel for them friendship and in
finite pity
In Mr.. Minehans appealing story he first
inquiries why these boys and girls left home in
the first place. One answer Is that some OF
them never had a home. and some have never
known their real parents. Too common also
Is the report of parents many times divorced
and remarked, with successive step-parentS
either finding children of earlier marriages
nuisance or conceiving actual antipathy toward
them MY mother has had IL husbands
in ALL" said Vera. II saw only eight of them.
My old man was married nine times. Three
Of his wives died. but my mother divorced all
Of her husbands" Family quarrelS with par
ents or brothers and sisters, drove other chill
dren from home: hatred of school or an op-
posed love affair sent others into trsmpdom
But the majority told a story of things not be-
ing so bad at home" until the big trouble
came" When father lost his job and mother
got some kind of sickness and Jims news
paper route no longer paid anything. and Mrs.
Rolph couldn't afford TO hire Marie any longer
to care for her children and Texas" couldn't
get shoes to shine even at a nickel. then
Texas" who was the oldest of the seven chill
dren, took to the road
How do these boy and girl tramps travel2
How do they get food? How do they get cloth
ing? Where do they sleeps What has become