The Washington times., 1935-02-19

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VIRGINIAN LIFE
BY HELEN ESSARY

BY HELEN ESsARY
Our Monday morning feelings
are still hurting with the pain
Of this Sunday afternoon re-
mark:
Il hear you have a real job.
Not just writing column.
Everyone knows that's mere
play"
Well, this being the case, we
report world progress as follows:
At the recent Birth-Control-
Comes-of-Age Dinner, a clever
woman connected with a pho
tographer's studio, who was at a
table facing the speakers, said:
81 sat here for the celebra-
tons of wOmen'S right to vote,
and for the antiprOhibitiOn din.
ner asking the chance to drink
legally. Now here / am at this
kind Of a party. Next 1 sup
pose, I'll be watching a nudist
banquet"
The Assistant Secretary of
War and Mrs. Woodring are liv.
ing in one of the finest Colonial
houses in America. His Lord
ships Kindness, near Upper
Marlboro, is the place. It has
age and beauty and the present
happy occupancy of Mr.. Wood
ring, his lovely wife, and their
fine son (now all of seven
months old.
The romance of young Henry
Darnall, of the Province of
Maryland, and Anne Talbot,
niece and ward of the Four
teenth Earl of Shrewsbury,
200 years ago, caused His
Lorship's Kindness to be
one of the few houses in
Colonial America built by an
architect.
The Fourteenth Earl said his
pretty Anne should not marry
the young man from the Amer
ican backwoods merely because
she had taken a fancy to him
while he was studying at Stony
hurst, England, unless the young
man could furnish a sufficient
settlement. The young man,
rich in Southern Maryland to-
bacco and lands inherited from
Lord Baltimore grants, made a
settlement that so enchanted
the Fourteenth Earl that he
sent an architect across the
ocean to plan a proper dwelling
for the bride and groom.
Not a house drawn from the
memory of houses in the Old
Country. Nor from picture
books by Palladio.
In appreciation Of the Four
tenth Earl's generosity, the
young Henry Darnalls called
their home His Lordship's
Kindness"
Today the place, owned by
Mrs. Chandler Hale, stands
almost as it was built in 1735.
Its driveway of 80 holly trees,
its carved doorways and win
dows, its slave quarters, car
penter shop, and smoke house
make an antiquarian weep with
JOY.
The Pat Hurleys (secretary
Of War, last regime) have gone
Virginian in a big way. They
seldom come to the New Deal
town from their place near
Leesburg. Little Patricia is in
q Virginia school. Maj. Gen.
George F. Simonds, recently
made Deputy Chief of Staff, is
regarded as one of the best all
around persons in the Army.
Mrs. Simonds, the best. So the
young officers and their wives
tell us. Mrs. Alfred I. du Pont
and Mrs. A. j. Cowley (wife of /;
the general in command of the
Fifth Corps Area) sisters, and
Virginia beauties, wore stunning
white costumes, pearls and en-
eralds at wedding of Ida Bowie
Claggett and Mrs. Cowley's son,
Thomas Ball Wright. Douglas
HuntreSs, now Chicagoan, re-
ported on last Washington visit
that Chicago motorman, bored
with country route, turned the
switch, took his car around
Loop, and made a bagful Of
fares. Swell idea! We are
going to write an ode some day
to the track-bound motorman.
Americans regard themselves
as worthy parents. But Austrian
Minister Edgar Prochnik went