davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The Washington times., 1935-11-06
Brazilian Visitors

Nine. Aranha, wife OF the Am
baSsador of Brazil, who arrived in
New York last week from Brazil,
was accompanied by Mile. Alzira
Vargas, daughter of the President
of Brazil, who will spend some
time in this country; and also by
Mile. Alais Aranha, sister Of the
Ambassador, who will visit her
brother and Sister-in-law. Nine.
Aranha also was accompanied by
her two daughters, Mile. zazi
Aranha and Mile. Dedei Aranha,
The Ambassador met them in
New York. They are now on a
motor trip through the State OF
New York, and will come to Wash
ington tomorrow.
Mile. Zazi Aranha is Of debu'
tante age and probably will take
part in many Of the social func'
tionS for the debutsntes, but as
yet no formal party has been
planned by her parents at which
to present her to their many
friends.
Miss Suzanne Mullett- will give
a dinner party at the Shoreham
Friday evening in honor of Lieut.
and Mrs. D. Murray Cheston, oi
Baltimore, whose wedding was ar
event of last month.
The Washington times., 1935-11-06
Diplomatic and Official Notes:
PRIME MINISTER TO VISIT CAPITAL
to Fete
Visitor From
Canada

The President and
Mrs. Roosevelt will have as
their overnight guest on Fri
day the Prime Minister Of
Canada, Mr.. w. L. Mackenzie
King, in whose honor they.
will entertain at a small in
formal dinner that evening.
The Prime Minister will spend
a few days in the Capital and
will be at the Canadian Le-
CATION during his visit. Mr..
Hume Wrong is the Charge
d'Affaires of Canada.
Mr.. William Phillips, acting
Secretary of State, will enter
tain at dinner Saturday eve
ming in honor of Mr.. Macken-
zie- King.
The Secretary of Commerce and
Mrs. Daniel C. Roper have as
their guests at their home in
w oodland Drive, the latter'S
brother, Mr.. w. M. Mckenzie. Of
Gibson, N. c.
The Washington times., 1935-11-06
British Envoy
DinnerGuest

The Ambassador Of Great
Britain and Lady Lindsay were
guests of Vice Admiral the Hon.
Sir Matthew Best, and Lady
Best who entertained at dinner
on board H. M. S. York last eve.
ming.
Others in the company were
the Chief of Naval Operations
and Mrs. William H. Standley,
the Commandant Of the Marine
Corps and Mrs. John H. Russell,
District Commissioner and Mrs.
Melvin Hazen. Captain and Mrs.
William D. Puleston, Captain and
Mrs. Stephen Rowan, Miss Irene
Boyle, Mr.. Francis D. @. Osborne,
Minister Counselor Of the Brit.
iSh Embassy; the Naval Attache
of the British Embassy and Mrs.
Frederick Bradley, Capt. H. p.
Boxer, Comdr. r. R. Wallace
and Flag Lieut.. j. r. B. Longden,
members of the AdmiraPs staff.
This afternoon Admiral and
Lady Best will give a farewell re-
ception on board the York before
she sails tomorrow.
&&k
The Minister Of Austria, Mr..
Edgar L. G. Prochnik, will be the
guest speaker tomorrow evening
| at the Cleveland Park Church.
when he will give q talk on Arts
and Sciences.
| = 4
The vice consul at Geneva,
Switzerland, Mr.. James w. Rid
dleberger, is in town for an in
definite stay and is at Wardman
parly Hotel
The Washington times., 1935-11-06

Hreturned from a motor trip to
Kansas.
And now Mig is gone. When
the H. NJ. S. Danae steamed
up the West Coast and was all
set to continue on into San
Francisco Bay, other plans had
to be made. For the Golden
Gate was quite securely fas-
tened with a paddock of heavy
fog. So that was that. An
chors slushed down to Davey
Jones hideout and the officers
and crew prepared for a
lengthy wait out in the chum-
my-enfolding grayness. The
sonorous horns beloved around
them, then Mig, a half-grown
black kitten, emerged from be-
low decks. Presto-as if by
magic the fog trailed off at
lightning speed. So Mig was
given a title-Nig, the F. 6
Chaser.
Down off the coast of Flor
ida, another misty day threat
ened to spoil wel1-laid plans,
and again the feline stalked out
upon the deck and again the
skies and sea cleared.
And now Mig is gone-no
The Washington times., 1935-11-06
Host Saturday

The Ambassador of Germany,
Herr Hans Luther, will entertain
at a dinner for young people on
Saturday evening, the guests later
attending the dance to be given at
the Sulgrave Club by the United
States Minister to Haiti and Mrs.
George A. Gordon.
Another dinner which will pre-
cede the dance is that to be given
by Mrs. Joseph Letter in her home
on Dupont Circle.
The Washington times., 1935-11-06
House Party
At tAdmiral's S

The home of Admiral a n d
Mrs. Alfred johnson in R
Street is the scene of much ac-
tivity these days with their two
daughters in town for a whirl
of festivities. Their sons-in-
law are here, too, so it is a
case of "the more the mer-
rier."
Mrs. Charles Burke Elbrick,
the former Elvira johnson, has
been here for several weeks,
and has lately been joined by
her husband, who is the Third
Secretary of the American Le-
CATION in Port au Prince. She
has remained on to be in the
wedding party of Marjorie Tai
man and Senor Don Mario Rod
riguez. They will return to
their home in Haiti before very
long.
Mrs. James Elwyn Brown,
jr., who was Caroline Gilbert
johnson, is eagerly looking
forward to her husbands new
detail. He has been trans.
ferred from Santo Domingo to
Stockholm, Sweden, and with
him she will sail in about a
week.
Former Vice Presi d e n
Charles Curtis, Mr.. and Mrs
Edward Everett Gam and Mrs
William N. Doak, widow of the
former Secretary of Labor, will
be honor guests tomorrow eve.
ming at the reception and
house-warming which Mr.. and
Mrs. Richard W. Deaver will
give at their home in Brandy.
wine Street, overlooking Broad
Branch Road. Mr.. Deaver was
recently appointed head of the
National Memorial Park Asso.
citation. They formerly made
their home in Cleveland.
Among those who will assist
the hostess are Mrs. Harold
Edgerton, Mrs. William Baker
Nine. Tamara Dmitrieff, Mrs
George Powers and Miss Lola
Williams.
There will be dancing in the
recreation room, which is fur
nished in modernistic style
with blue and gold the predom,
mating colors. Yellow and
rust-colored chrysanthemums
and autumn leaves will be used
in decoration throughout tn
house, which was the initial
building venture of Mrs. DoaI
and which was purchased from
her by Mr.. and Mrs. Deaver
Mrs. Gam, Mrs. Deaver and
Miss Williams have recently
The Washington times., 1935-11-06
To Be Hostess

Mrs. Charles H. Robb, wife Of
Justice Robb of the United States
Court of Appeals, will entertain
the Peirce Guild on Friday in her
new home at 1700 Hoban Road
Arrangements will then be com
pleted for a Thanksgiving party
to be held at the Washington
Home for Foundlings, Of which
the guild is an auxiliary. on the
afternoon of November %, when
there will be cards, sale of knit
ting bags and other articles, fol
lowed BY tea.
The Washington times., 1935-11-06
101ow TOPICS
Reception
Tomorrow

zone knows where. When the
Danae docked at Baltimore the
F. G. was nowhere to be seen.
1t is all too bad, for he was an
elegant mascot, and had a bril-
liant future in store for him
in London, where he could
work wonders with his unusual
powers.
The Washington times., 1935-11-06
Copyright ISsO

The home of Admiral returned from motor trip tOrOn
The Washington times., 1935-11-06
SoeA Y Gown %
u. S. Minister
In Capital

The United States Minister to
Bolivia, Mr.. Fay Allen Des Portes,
has arrived in Washington for a
weeks visit at the Mayflower be-
fore going to his home in Winns-
boro, S. c. Mrs. DeS Portes went
directly South from New York and
plans to accompany her husband
when he returns to the Capital.
Their son, Mr.. Fay Allen DeS
Portes, returned to the United
States in June and is now attend.
ing the University of South Caro-,
lima.
The Washington times., 1935-11-06

in Paris. They will be joining
him about December l. The At
torney General and Mrs. Homer S.
Cummings, the latter in becom-
ing gown Of pale green trimmed
with bands OF, mink, were accom-
panied by Mr.. and Mrs. j. Bruce
Kremer.
The acting Secretary of War,
Mr.. Harry H. Woodring, with
pretty Mrs. Woodring, in chalk
white crepe, and his sister, Miss
Ida Woodring, in flowered print,
was. talking with friends. The
Minister of Austria and Nine:
Prochnik were accompanied by
their daughter, Miss Valerie
Prochnik, who wore black velvet
banded in ermine. Nine. Proch-
mix was in satin gown Of elec-
trio blue and cerise. Others seen
were the Minister Of Switzerland
and Nine. Peter, the Minister Of
Sweden and Nine. BoStrom, Judge
and Mrs. j. Crawford BiggS, she
was in q gown Of brown and
gold lace, Mrs. Duncan Cameron,
Mr.. and Mrs. Demar est Lloyd
and Miss Angelica Lloyd, the latter
in pale blue lace.
Following the musicale, the
guests gathered in the dining
room for a buffet supper, which
included delectable Polish dishes.
Associate Justice and Mrs. Har-
Ian Fiske Stone were seen there,
as were the Minister of Hungary
and Nine. Pelenyi, the Minister
of Panama and Nine. Alfaro and
their debutante daughter, Senior
1ta Amelita Alfaro, the Assistant
Secretary of the Navy and Mrs.
Henry Latrobe Roosevelt, Ad-
miral and Mrs. Mark L. Bristol
and Miss Sibilla Skidelsky,
daughter Of Nine. Bianchi, wife
of the Portuguese Minister.
With House Guest
Others seen were Mrs. Wilbur J.
Carr, in a pale pink lace gown
made with a brief cape, with her
house guest, Mrs. Thomas Mac
Donald, of Tyron, N. c. Mrs.
Macdonald wore black satin
The Ambassador of Chile, ac-
companied by two Of his daugh-
ters, Senorita Marta Trucco and
Senorita Rebeca Trucco, and his
niece, Senorita Ema Gaete, was in
the large company.
Miss Elizabeth Howry, in mid
night blue lace, with her sister,
Miss Mary Howry, in powder blue
chiffon, greeted friends on all
sides. Mr.. and Mrs. James Brown
Scott were present. She wore
gray lace.
Others seen were Representa-
tive and Mrs. Sol Bloom with
their daughter, Miss Vera Bloom.
Mrs. Bloom was in beige lace and
Vera wore burgundy crepe. Saw
Mrs. Fred Britten in severe black
velvet, with strands Of pearls
about her neck.
Glimpsed Right Rev. James Hugh
Ryan, Mrs. John Allan Dough
erty, Mrs. Lawrence Townsend,
Mr.. and Mrs. Jouett Shouse and
their guest, Mrs. Sidney Smith;
Mr.. and Mrs. william A. Scully
and their daughter, Miss Kate
Hyde Scully; the Gaucheron sis
ters, Mrs. Tracy Dows, at whose
Georgetown home Mr.. Totenberg
has been a guest since coming to
Washington; Mrs. william P. Mac
Cracken, Mrs. F. Wilkinson Bun
ker, Mrs. Harold Hinton, Miss
Laura Tuckerman, Mr.. Walter r,
Tuckerman and Mrs. Ralph
Worthington.
q a. q.
The Washington times., 1935-11-06
Dolly Cameron Says:
POLISH EMBASSY SCENE OF PARTY
Charqe d'Affaires and Wife
Entertain Guests at Dinner
Followed by Musicale

The handsome Polish Embassy in Sixteenth
Street was the scene of a brilliant function
last evening dinner followed by musicale at which the
young Polish vioins Roman Totenbeg, high acclaim.
The Charge dAffares of Poland and Nine Sokoowska re-
ceived their in the main salon, in which hang por
traits of Polish noblemen Throughout the embassy great
bowls of chrysanhemums autumn shades pro-
fusion.
Nine SokoOwska ashblonde and charming selected gown
of pale pebbly crepe made cosefng lines with
''V' decoletage in back.
Evening star., 1935-11-27
A Juvenile Phenomenon.

A boy Of seven was recently taken by
his father before Mayor La Guardia in
New York City for q demonstration Of q
remarkable power akin to mind read
ing" The purpose Of the visit was to
secure q permit for the lad to appear in
places of public entertainment. He was
piled with questions, to which he gave
more or less prompt replies, showing an
amazing facility for either guessing or
in some mysterious manner divining the
answers. From the standpoint of the
amusement stage he qualified and the
Mayor granted the requested permit.
The requirement of an official permit
in such a case is necessary precaution
against the improper exploitation of q
child. Whether in this case the lad
possesses genuine gift for guessing or
mental seeing" or is simply coached to
respond to q shrewd system of cues
through the questions asked, he undoubt-
edly is an unusual child. perhaps excep-
tionally psychic, perhaps merely remark
ably bright, attentive and alert.
What Is the future OF such a.boy7 II
Evening star., 1935-11-27
Sarah Josepha Hale.

The name of Sarah Josepha Hale, 1t
seems, deserves to be writ large and per-
manently in American history. Yet to
the present generation it is almost totally
unknown. Probably the explanation is
that women as class have accomplished
so many remarkable things in recent
years that 1t no longer is considered
marvellous for q woman to achieve emf
nence.
But, be that as 1t may, Mrs. Hale cer-
tainly earned greater and more durable
fame than she is being accorded. She
was q person of distinguished gifts, de-
voted enthusiasms, firm convictions and
wide influence. Almost without excep-
lion the enterprises she initiated were of
high constructive value. Tt was part OF
her genius to realize that social changes
can be instituted successfully only
through the home. Beginning with faith
that desirable reforms are feasible If so
sponsored, she taught a pattern and a
method of progress which have had rev.
pulmonary effect in the life of her country.
The span of Mrs. Hale's career extended
from l788 to 1879. Thus it embraced the
period when the Federal Union was being
eonnded and correlated. She was fortu-
nate in the circumstance Of her time, but
for the power which made 1t possible for
her to use her opportunities to their best
advantage It Is necessary to examine the
Evening star., 1935-11-27
Name of Luray, Va,
A Derivative of Lorrain
To the Editor Of The Star:

To the Editor Of The Star:
Mispronunciations are indeed persist
ent, but not less SO are erroneous deriva-
tions.
According to the most reliable tradi-
tions, Luray was named by William
Staige Marye, brother-in-law of Isaac
Ruffner. the owner of the land on which
the town was situated. Hawksbill Greek,
on which Luray stands, anciently had
also another name-Lorrain Run. Marye
drew the name Luray from Lorrain.
Both names-Hawksbill and Lorrain
Run-are inscribed in two old deeds,
dated. respectively, in 1874 and 1877, the
first being from Francis Thornton to
Joseph Stonman, the second from Ston-
man to Peter Ruffner, Isaac Ruffners
father.
In 1912, the year of Luray's birth, there
were two thriving towns on the Hawks
bill only miles or so apart-Blackford s
Furnace, below, and Mundellsville, above,
the present town. Formation of a new
county between the Blue Ridge and the
Massanutten Mountains was in the air.
MIR. Marye, a merchant at Mundellsville
and perhaps the most eminent man in
the community, was gifted with taste
for the picturesque and good Judgment.
He persuaded his relative to devote the
high land between the two towns to
residential purposes, Ruffner agreeing
because the land was "too steep to plow." 4"
1t is said that Marye drafted the act for
establishing the town in which the name
Luray first appeared in print in Febru-
ary, 1872. Being something of a poet
he wrote a collection of sacred songs
Marye simply softened Lorrain into
Luray and created euphony so pleas
ing that immigrating families from Page
County gave the name Luray<to their
new towns in Ohio, Illinois and Mis-
souri,, visitor to the Luray Caverns
planted the name in South Carolina,
and even a German soldier, captured in
one of Mai. Harry Gilmores raids,
named his Kansas town Luray.
In course Of time the idea grew up
that "Lorrain, an old name Of the Hawks
BILL" was an Indian name meaning
crooked waters" But the ethnologiSts
Of the Smithsonian Institution know of
no Indian word similar to Lorrain.
Hence, 1t seems most unlikely that Adam
Miller originated the name Lorrain Run.
He settled near it in 1726. His Euro
pean birthplace and later home were
both near the border Of the Province of
Lorraine.
The recent story that Luray derived its
name from Lewis Rainey, an old set
tier" is without foundation. Luray was
planned town, laid out on untenanted
fields on both sides of the Hawksbill,
and its name was written as Luray in
the legislative act nearly six months be-
fore the site was surveyed. At the first
lot sale, in September, 1872, Rainey
bought lot and was enterprising enough
to erect on 1t the first building in Luray,
a combination dwelling and blacksmith
shop. The achievement was commend
able, but the town was not named for or
from him. A. v. s. MELBOURNE.
Charles Town, w. Va.
Evening star., 1935-11-27

he possesses genuine gift Of divination
and retains 1t in later life he holds q
great potentiality for success in any line
of activity. But 1t is not assured that
this boy, granted that he has o real
power Of Interpretation and mental vision,
will retain 1t through adolescence and
into his maturity. Such remarkable facul-
ties have been known in the past to fade
and disappear. being simply juvenile pre-
cocities that pass with physical and men,
tai development. If they are retained the
child grows into the stature Of a genius.
The exploitation Of such child is
harmful to him, even dangerous. Profess
sionalism is always apt to induce trickery
to exc out or to add to the SHOW"
Wisely conceived laws prohibit the undue
utilization of juvenile talents on the
stage, in any line, in order that the little
folks may be protected and given nor
NAL chance for education and physical
and mental development. This little boy,
who now goes on the boards under lin
itations as to hours and frequency, may
earn enough to provide fund for his
proper education along normal, useful
lines If his earnings are not all taken by
his seniors for their own use.
Evening star., 1935-11-27
THIS AND THAT
BY CHARLES Z. TRACEWELL.
Let us take a very simple illustration.

Let US take very simple illustration.
Almost every one knows now that dur
Ing the past five years the keeping of small
tropical. or exotic" fishes in the home
aquarium has grown to the proportions
of a real hobby.
Whereas, before 1880, there were q
score Of men Cfor this is mans hobby
keeping "tropicals" in an average city,
today there are hundreds Of persons.
This hobby, as many another, has bred
the boaster, the fellow who imagines,
because he has purchased pair of gup-
pies for 10 cents, and Nature has at
tended to their multiplication for him,
that he is a fish breeder"
The question to be asked, however, Is
threefold:
How many good books on the hobby
has he read2
Does he subscribe to the best maga-
zines?
Does he use his own head?
1t is only when these questions can be
answered satisfactorily that one is in
q position to repose trust in the fellow.
Consider beginning fancier, a man
who, as Is usually the case with Begin
ners, had too many fishes in his aqua
rum.
They developed the "ick," popular alb
breviation for the parasite Ichthiopt terus
multiflius.
He was told by quiet fancier, who
fulfilled the above requirements, to use
one level teaspoonful of salt to the gall
lon, and gradually raise the temperature
of their water to 80 degrees, and keep
1t there for several days.
Totor Tho ron fpfn ypoao
who loudly "pooh-poohed" such treat
ment.
Raise 'em to 90 degrees" he said,
boldly, confidently and loudly.
The unwary beginner was impressed.
Didn't the fellow tell about all the fish
he had bred?
So, when he went home he raised the
temperature to 80 degrees, and kept it
there all night.
When he woke up all his fishes were
dead.
Had he stuck to the original prescrip-
ton his fishes and his investment would
have been safe.
r.
1t Is notable fact that the more a
man knows about something, usually,
the quieter he is about it.
we Will HcVcI 1OIecJ d HceIlHS WIFI
the great Steinmetz of General Electric.
A great figure mentally, though little
physically.
He was a dwarf.
His mighty mind needed no boasting
Nothing could dwarf his intellect along
his chosen lines.
Yet to hear him talk was to listen
to quiet words, quietly spoken, without
fubdub.
A casual listener, not knowing who he
was, might not have been much i'm
pressed, but all the same he would have
been listening to master mind.
If there is any way to tell the real
expert, the man who knows, from the
faker, the man who wants to believe he
knows and, even more, wants to make
others believe he knows, it is by quiet
talking. Mentally and physically the
man is quiet, because he knows knowl-
edge neither boasts of itself nor runs
down" others. 1t just goes straight ahead.
Evening star., 1935-11-27

forces which were innate In her own soul.
The daughter Of Revolutionary soldier.
she was born on q New Hampshire farm
and remained in a rural environment
until she was forty years OF age. Her
education was the work Of her mother,
her brother and herself. The accident
which brought her into public affairs was
the sudden death Of her husband, In 1922.
With five children to support. she turned
to writing as profession.
From 1928 to 1897 she edited the Ladies'
Magazine at Boston; then, from the last
named date until 1877, sine was literary
editor Of Godey's Lady's Book. The i'm
pact of the two periodicals upon the
feminine mind of the Nation was COM
pelling. It set the standards, dictated
the pattern Of American womanhood.
In morals and manners, the arts and
sciences, all the cultural and sociological
fields of effort, 1t blazed trail which
millions of people. perhaps unconsciously.
still are following.
But why notice Mrs. Hale just now? In
answer to that question a fragment Of
the basic chronicle of the United States
may be cited. 1t is this: From George
Washingtons proclamation in 1889 until
Abraham Lincoln's in 1863 there was no
national Thanksgiving. The annual ex-
preston of gratitude to Providence was
revived through Mrs. Hale's intercession.
1t was campaign which she started In
1S46 that resurrected the custom.