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who wished to be present. She calls
the more than half million dollars
which she has given the park IAN
investment in human health and
happiness"
Park Occupies Site
OF Civil War Battle.
The park occupies the site OF
one of the bloodiest battles of the
War Between the States, which is
known out there as the Gettysburg
of the West" but now the battle
field with its broad acres, smooth
lawns, swimming pools, tennis courts
sand other amusements, echos to
the merry laughter of hundreds of
little children.
The handsome Loose estate is near
the park but during the invalidism
and since the death of her husband
Mrs. Loose has lived in an apart
ment house whose windows overlook
the lovely woodland. One of her
pet joys is the children's party which
she gives annually to SO or 100 little
ones from an orphan home. There
are games, goodies and gallons Of
ice cream and cakes, and for party
favors she gives each little guest a
pair of new shoes-she takes special
pains that they shall not all be
alike, but that there shall be some
individuality about them as she
does not care for charity uniforms
for the less fortunate. She thinks
they have bearing on the psychol-
ogy of the child. Here in WASH
ington through the Newspaper
Women's Club. of which she is an
associate member. she contributes
to their pet charity-the clubs bed
at the Childrens Hospital-and sees
that Santa does not forget to take
the children toys.
Also Collects Rare
And Antique Jewelry.
The Loose Park as a playground
for old and young Mrs. Loose calls
her meter, but her hobby and also
that of her late husband, Is rare
and antique jewelry which they
collected in all parts of the world
and which now reposes with other
of her beautiful objets dart in
the William Rockwell Nelson Mu-
scum in Kansas City. She is gradu-
ally depositing there what she calls
her treasures in sculpture, tapes
tries, Chinese and Japanese ceramics
and ancient priests robes. It took
years to collect the lovely things
but she says they never meant to
be collectors-they just saw the
things and wanted to take them
home with them. :.
Mrs. Loose always says ut was
that necklace that started us!" She
and her husband had attended the
durbar in 1ndia-by the way, a Chi
cagoan and Washingtonian, the
lovely Mary Letter, was Vice Refine
of India at the time-and were
leisurely seeing the sights when they
were shown a very ancient jeweled
necklace which had been worn on
state occasions by one of the great
maharajas. The necklace was a
triumph of the goldsmith's art of
several centuries ago in its work.
manship and design. The rubies,
sapphires and emeralds are not
faceted but are polished and set
deep in the settings; the pearls are
large and lustrous like moonlight on
the snow. The whole thing was so
gorgeous that it reminded Mrs.
Loose Of the Arabian Nights" She
did not dream of possessing it, when
what was her surprise on leaving
India, her husband handed her a
box-and there was the necklace In
all its loveliness.
Corcoran School
Showing Impressive.
The showing of popular price art
at the Corcoran Gallery last week
especially the work of the former
members of the Corcoran School of
Art and advanced students now
studying there-was unusually good.
It must have been a pleasure to
Mr.. Minnigerode, director Of the
gallery, who In his hopes and
dreams for the Corcoran School
of which he is also director-some-