The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-10-23

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town thinks of
him almost as native son. AS
young boy he went to the
Western High School. 1t was then
the custom for the Chinese to
wear their hair in queues, even in
foreign countries.
Some of Ambassador Sees for
mer classmates affectionately
remember him as young
Chinese boy with his queue tucked
Under his uniform coat, drilling
as intensely as any American
cadet in the Western High School
corps.
Madame SEE is one of the most
beautiful women in Washington.
She often wears Chinese costume,
is slim and dramatic and the
mother of six children.
The Junior League of Washing
ton is all enthused about theater
for children. It is sponsoring four
entertainments this winter at the
Roosevelt High School. The first
of these, "HanSel and Gretel, in
simplified opera form for children,
will be given tomorrow morning at
1920.
On succeeding Saturday morn
ingS, 1.-THE Land of Once Upon a
Time" Adventures in OF" and
Stories in Black and White will
be given. The Community Center
is cooperating with the Junior
League in these productions which
are being staged by the Junior
Programs, Inc. part of the Ma
tional Music League of New York.
Jonathan Latimer Criswell,
grandson of Mr.. and Mrs. Arthur
Sears Henning, has reached today
the mellow age of ten days. His
mother, Mrs. Richard Bair Girls
we'll, lies propped up on her pillows
at Columbia Hospital, preparing
for her Phi. D. in psychology at
columbia University.
Mrs. Criswell. with manuscripts,
reference books and lead pencils
spread over her bed, has been for
the last week writing her thesis:
Race Attitudes in Mixed Glasses
of Colored and White Children"
The death of Mrs. Anne Mans
field Sullivan Macy who, for nearly
so years, was the brilliant teacher
of Helen Keller, famous deaf and
blind woman, reminds us of the
visits Mrs. Macy and Miss Keller
paid to Mrs. Philip Sidney Smith,
member of the Washington School
Board.
Whenever Mrs. Macy and Miss
Keller came to Washington they
stayed with Mrs. Smith and her
husband, DR.. Smith, the geologist.
1t was amazing to see Mrs. Macy
and Miss Keller together. To OBJ
serve Miss Keller's evt rdi~ary
dependence on her teacher. Miss
Macy's affection for her pupil and
their happiness and sympathy in
each other.
It isn't our plan to turn this
department into a combination
birth and I'm Memoriam" col
umn. However. the passing this
week of Mrs. Henry Barton Jacobs
marks the end of an epoch in
social and cultural Baltimore and
Newport and is of intense interest
to Washington.
What Mrs. StuyVesant Fish was
to New York, Mrs. Jacobs was to
Baltimore. But more than Mrs.
Fish, Mrs. Jacobs was an inSpira-
ton and a financial help to art
and charitable enterprises. After
the death of her first husband,
Robert Garrett. president of the
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, she
found herself heireSs to about
twenty million dollars.
Later she married DR.. Jacobs,
her late husbands physician, and
lived with him in the brownstone
Garrett mansion in Mt. Vernon
Place, designed by the late Stan
ford White She entertained law
ishly here, at UplandS. her coun-
try place in Maryland, and at her
villa in Newport.
Mrs. Jacobs drew a sharp social
line. She was definitely a great
lady whose life was filled with
self-impoSed duties
Two years ago she presented
her private collection Of art treas
ures, admitted one of the finest
in the United States. to the Balti,
more Museum of Art. A wing is
now being added to the Museum
so that her gifts may be ade-
uuately housed.
Mrs. Jacobs founded and main
tanned the Hospital for Children
and also six free clinics. She was