Evening star., 1948-07-18
by Jessie Font Evons

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headquarters now for many WASH
ingtonians on vacation.
Robert v. Fleming, president Of
the Riggs National Bank, and Mrs.
Fleming are delightful hosts for
long week ends at their attractive
cottage on the ocean front. The
cottage is situated within a white
picket fence that gives privacy and
charm to the Washington colony,
of which it is a part, at Rehoboth's S
Indian Beach development.
Among recent guests were Mr..
and Mrs. Charles H. Tompkins, Gen.
David McCoach and Mrs. McCoach,
Wilmer J. Waller and Frank Morse.
Miss Lucy Mortimer is at her
wide-veranda home among the
pines on Oak avenue in Rehoboth.
With her is her brother, Col. Charles
Mortimer, U. 8. A., retired. A
former curator and custodian at
Lee Mansion, Arlington National
Cemetery, he had an outstanding
responsibility in its authentic re-
furnishing.
In cottages at the far southern end
of Bethany Beach are DR.. and Mrs.
Lee Mccarthy, Mrs. William H.
Bride and her family of grown-ups
and toddlers, and Mr.. and Mrs.
Martin Wiegand with jolly house
parties for their University of
Pennsylvania son, Martin, jr., and
their Connecticut College daughter
Barbara.
The latter is busy also getting
ready to accompany her aunt, Miss
Barbara Wiegand, whose namesake
she is, to Europe on the Queen Eliz-
abeth for the International Luth-
eran Church Conference in Holland.
Other summer cottage residents in
this vicinity include Mr.. and Mrs.
Thomas j. Broyhill of Arlington
County, Va.
Buckley Griffin and Isabel have
one Of the new housekeeping apart
ments facing the beach on Beth
any's boardwalk.
No Dogs or Radios.
At the Seaside Inn" where we
are, neither dogs nor radios are per-
mitted to compete with scenes in
the nearby meadows and the pound
of the surf. At the inn are DR..
and Mrs. Arch Rittig, their daugh-
ter Ann Lee, and her schoolgirl
chum, Lynn Mitchell, DR.. Alfred
j. Buscheck, Robert H. Montgomery
and his wife Ruth. and Mr.. and
Mrs. John Yesair. Mr.. Yesair is a
biologist with the National Gamers
Association.
A summer guest in Bethany who is
an essential part of the six-week
conference of the Christian Mis-
sionary Society of the Disciples OF
Christ Church group Of Maryland,
Delaware and the District of Co.
lumbia, is Miss Annie Laurie Greg
ory, in charge of the Kramer School
cafeteria during the scholastic year.
Here, she is the dietician who will
help make the summer sessions sue
cessful in Bethany's famous So
year-old, octagonal wooden taber-
nacle 100 feet in diameter. Her
first work squad of young people
has arrived to help her.
Blossoms and Contrast.
The countryside from the Mata-
peake Ferry landing is unusually
green this summer, and the fence
rows are fragrant with the smell
Of honeysuckle and aglow either
with yellow lilies in bloom for mile
upon mile, or brilliant red rambler
roses. This wayside planting was
the gift of the late Mrs. Coleman
du Pont, whose husband took the
leadership in making possible Della
wares uniformly good system OF
roads.
Sharp contrasts still flourish ir
the Sussex County portion of the
State, which, next to Rhode Island
is the smallest In the Union, was
one of the 13 original colonies ano
was the first State to adopt the
Constitution December 6, 1887. The
newest and shiniest autos share the
road with mule or horse drawn
carts. On the broad, level stretches
OF farming land, slow-moving teams
of oxen may be seen at work as
we'll as tractors.
We are in the midst of the broiler
and fryer Kingdom" Of the DelMar
Peninsula. One can almost judge
the prosperity of the individual
homemakers along the roads by the
condition of the rows of one-story
chicken houses to the rear of their
holdings.
Lewes Is Charming.
When fishing and surf bathing
activities pail, there is the lure OF
the historical. Nearby Lewes, be-
cause it was founded by the Dutch
in 1881, is to Delaware what Ply
mouth is to Massachusetts,, or
jamestown to Virginia. It's ship
pilots. famous since the days of its
Colonial government under four
flags, are still its central life.
1T has been plundered by pri-
vateers, and has bargained with
Capt. Kidd for his loot; been un-
successfully bombarded in war and
knows all about shipwreck and
sunken treasure"
Its Thomas Maull house. privately
owned and built about 1750, housed
Jerome Bonaparte and the lovely
Elizabeth (Betsy) Patterson of Bal
timore, when, on their way back to
France in 1903, their ship was
wrecked in a storm of Lewes and
the hospitable Maull family gave
them shelter temporarily.
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