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Show .1MLMWLY TAKES MS OUT Visit1 Sewing Class at Rus sian Embassy j "wASHINCmiv, Feb. 15 Hewing ma-hinea ma-hinea and knitting needles suspended at i ion wbaa Hear Admiral Newton A. tJt-Vully and his adopted family of ifvtn Russian children appeared at the Rusalan embaaay, where a group f fashionable women had gathered for heir weekly meeting of the aewing class In sd ef Huaalan refugees. Holding the hand of a 6-year-old girl. Admiral Mcully commended the ork ef thta sewing claas and Its pa rent organism tion. tha central com. rnlttee of Kuan tan relief, which has ueadquarter in New York. This practical philanthropist. Admiral Ad-miral McCully, who frankly describes nianeclr as a lover of children, spoae "f the simplicity of the Itusntan character char-acter as one of the traits most wor-iny wor-iny of preservation. The nurse is charge of the children held the two youngest nearby. An- tber small girl, evidently accustomed o being made much of. was reconciled recon-ciled to leaving the admlral'e side by ne of the ladies of the class holding ner on ber knee and attaching a wrist watch to the small arm. HI of the seven children wore Amer-itn Amer-itn made aallgr suit of blue serge. which their snbatltute parent deft de-ft red they were clearly entitled by heir eighteen days at a a. In reply to a question as to his In-ended In-ended method of education, Admiral vtcCully said be purpoaed for the next rive years to bring up the children though they were bis own. At the end of that .time. If the elder ones 'leoired to return to Rusala. he would -nable them to do so, or If any had reen claimed by now unknown kindred, kin-dred, he would1 return them to their i claimants later. j i Following the brief talk, the ad-mfral ad-mfral was the center of a short re-1 leption. when tbe ladies of the sew- mg etas went back to ther tasks. This work, sew In Ita third season, ia carried car-ried on In the dining room of the former embaaay. with Mrs, Kdward W. Koot. daughter-in-law of the former senator from New Tork. In i hare a. atra. Robert Lansing ia chairman chair-man of the Washington branch, ilrs. Livingston Far rand la treasurer and Jdra. Hherman Miles la aecretarr. i Latter in the day Admiral McCully 'called with his family at the navy department, where they were received wua due ceremony by Secretary Ian-lela. Ian-lela. Before returning to their home in I atreet. they made a call on Secretary Sec-retary Wilson at the department of labor. The children will be legally adopted by tbe admiral according to the law of South Carolina, his home I state. |