Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-09-01

miums. Now I md that the aomlnlS-
tration Is contemplating either a de-
lay in the payment of this money or
a tax upon it. What can I do?" An
other letter was from mother who
said she had changed her complaint
of the high cost of living to the high
cost of death.
Some interesting statistics show
that women are annually recipients of
80 per cent of the money of the death
claims paid by life insurance COM
panies and are named beneficiaries of
about $87, 200 600, 900 of the $190, o00,-
100000 of life insurance outstanding.
Women constitute 65 per cent Of the
beneficiaries Of estates left in trust.
All the world loves q lover and SO
does Mr.. Bartlett B. James, Phi. D.,
distinguished author and poet Of
Washington, as the following letter
from his royal highness, the Duke of
Kent, will reveal. 1t also shows the
punctuality of the family Of the reign
ing house Of England in all matters
of that courtesy which has so en-
Not often has such universal inter-
est been created in a love match
and a royal one at that-as the court
ship and marriage Of King Georges
fourth son, the Duke of Kent, and
Marina, the beautiful Greek princess.
Handsome, gay and unaffected; inter-
ested in people and things.
DR.. James. in looking over his latest
collection of poems, Rambling in Po-
litical Personality" shortly to be pub
lished by Putnam, New York, after
re-reading one, THE Bayeux Tapes
try" which had been inspired by those
lines in King Lear" in which the
Earl of Kent in speaking to Edmund,
son of Earl Gloucester, says: Il love
thee and would sue to know thee bet
ter" decided not to publish it with
the other poems. but to inscribe it to
Marina, Duchess of Kent, who, like
Matilda, wife of William the Con-
queror, had adopted England as her
home and people:
DR.. James, in his letter to the pri-
vate secretary of the Duchess Of Kent,
says: Mindful of her recent en-
trance by marriage into the traditions
of the royalty of Great Britain, I have
the honor to offer through you, for
her gracious acceptance, to her royal
highness, the Duchess of Kent. the
accompanying poem. I am. sir etc,
etc. Almost Immediately there was
received the Duke of Kent's acknowl-
edgement:
"Motcomb Street, S. w. I. The pri-
vate secretary to H. r. H. the Duke OF
Kent presents his compliments to DR..
Bartlett B. James and is desired to
convey to him his royal highness'
thanks for the poem which he ad-
dressed to her royal highness. the
Duchess of Kent, August 8, 1885"
The poem of Is or IT verses is very
beautiful: Picturing the life Of Ma
tilda and her women as they wrought
the famous Bayeux tapestry, which
represents So scenes from historical
events of almost nine centuries ago.
Just few lines of the poem:
"Bayeux displays the fabric anciently
In ladies bowers knit industriouSly
BY Queen and maidens, seeking to
portray
What should for England be its dawn
ing day"
There the fond wife saw, glorious, q
realm
Laid at her feet
Thus to prepare the way, when should
arise
Great Shakespeare, lifting to the
boundleSS skies
The deeds of dynasties, and people
known
AS English; first in this great fabric
shown"
Dr.. James Women of England"
COLONIZATION of New England"
Young George Washington"-the last
written for the Bicentenary, and many
plays and scenarios are well known.
In passing: The Bayeux tapestry,
which is now in the Hotel De Vile,
Bayeux, Normandy, is on linen and
is II yards long and 20 inches wide.
1t was embroidered by Matilda and
her ladies in colored worsteds. There
may have been others who entered
into the immortal work, but it Is
ascribed to William the Conqueror's
Queen.
There are now on exhibition in the
Metropolitan Museum Of Art, New
York, two fine Gobelin tapestries &C
quired at the sale of the late Mrs.
Whitelaw Reds splendid collection.
The tapestries represent the months
of April and September and belong
to series known as the Hunts of
Macmillan" These tapestries, woven
in the late seventeenth century, after
series designed by Bernard van
Orley, and first executed on the looms
about 153O-1535 at Brussels, brought
at the sale $11 900 each.
There is now on exhibition in the
Corcoran Galleries Of Art small but
creditable exhibition of oil paintings
and pastel portraits by Miss Ruth
Porter Ward, a student at the Cor
coran School of Art, and who also
studied under Tarbell, Hugh Brecken-
ridge and other we'll known American
artists.
Miss Pard's pastels of children are
particularly intriguing, showing care
full technique, subdued handling of
colors and yet not sacrificing warmth
or freshness. The pastel which she
simply calls "Childs Portrait" Is
fetching with its saucy little retrousse
nose. charming sly eyes and little |
mischievous expression that invites
a second look. Another head Of a
child. kitty Lee" is brought into
notice by the suggestion of red in the |
chairback, which reflects a peachy
down coloring to the cheek and lights |
up the dark eyes of the child-rather |
pensive and not very expressive.
Mr.. G. Powell Minnigerode, director |
Of the Corcoran Galleries, always in |
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