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Show 3 r I ESerkksburg, Va.r Colonial Home Af ill L" -1-'- Ki-ll I C i Ut wasnmgion s momer ana iisier, Live Again Its Historic Past Will ( i n-j Ugr- l a ' r?- -j i I Li I I -'fit - i I 1 1 ana, abcl tabfe iddec onij! rief lot ti tDv ( as: he t aobe it. airly urdt: ram: in ried, inch Then, keoi iown ead lely I Kenmore, the home of Betty Washington Lewis, sister of George Washington, in Fredericksbur?. y been restored by a national organization of women and funds obtained from the annual observ- Garden Week in Virginia this year will be devoted to the restoration of its gardens. I By ELMO SCOTT WATSON (Released by Western Newspaper Union.) Fredericksburg, va., is to live again its colorful 'k past during the week of April 22 to 27 and the center of I! attraction in the old Colonial town will be .Kenmore, p of Betty Washington Lewis, sister of George Washing-land Washing-land wife of Fielding Lewis, gunmaker of the Revolution, lil 22 to 27 is Garden Week in the Old Dominion and this it it has a special signifi- nee. JFor the receipts from the servance will be devoted to iiestoration of the Colonial Eden at Kenmore, a spot it was dear to George jshington and that had the ing care of his mother, iry Ball Washington. So, ring that week Colonial flumes, worn by the ances-i ances-i of the Fredericksburg will be taken out of old iks and attics or borrowed a museums, to be worn h by the descendants of . men1 and w6men who i there when LaFayette i entertained at a great ace Ball at Rising Sun tav-5 tav-5 after Washington's re-ffrom re-ffrom the war in 1783. cm ancient recipe books the of Fredericksburg wiU pet the recipes made fa- by Mary BaU Washington jotters. Ginger breads, tea, l-aeld hams and a ennro nt srfK ldelic!cies f Colonial days S t' palates of ; v,tl u,e ancient tire-13 tire-13 of Colonial times that W m the city. Hugh Mercer's ancient ary shop will also come J again, and visitors may amUS Pwdering room, wre over its ancient counl lavender and other as weU as tte potiQns find J"t ancient apothecaries 5?g0.a dred of Cincinnatt Society, gtti Sun tavern, where the fe ill6 Cincinnati was W aid where Virginia's ear- eeSl located. ittetoZ the postmaster K wvf rongs from Silt er of Washmg- iS? wok and dii-Srsthose dii-Srsthose things ictipes are Ul doe - laws' 0 Hi lad"- rabf not 1 JT:'"a" or Kenmore "a davag the sPintuals SwaS0"' whiIe kitchen W.rePare meals i dJEJ i,t0 8 ColoniaI gffiUhVvenings- ts in COStnm "CeiVe itS Nil 'othet r d wioniai date through-sSarecometo through-sSarecometo 15 Washing 63 Monroe, tedi!re,to smoke a kirn, irr? 1116 affairs feny in Si . affau-s of r and can T wnai fc' caa for what ""ulS"-on was you you I t k. d wher . -, otUarf i Bible thatg8v-Upon --m 6uons is still his visitors &a.T.V "a8e on the -ilCS 9nH T streets. For this was the home of Mary Ball Washington from March, 1775, until August, 1789. The property once occupied the whole square with orchard and garden, kitchen and servants' quarters. It was bought by Washington Wash-ington in September, 1772, from Michael and Esther Robinson and was a part of the original Kenmore Ken-more estate. The garden was separated from the Kenmore garden gar-den by a fence and gate and there was a box walk, a part of which is still standing. At the outbreak of the Revolution Revolu-tion Washington tried to induce his mother to move in town from her home on the Rappahannock, opposite Fredericksburg. But it was not until March, 1775, that she was persuaded. It was here that she received the courier sent by General i tiKf JV iatitilwiiiiiiHhw MARY BALL WASHINGTON (From the disputed painting by Middleton) Washington to tell her of the victory vic-tory at Trenton. It was here Washington came after the Battle Bat-tle of Yorktown with the French and American 'officers, and she received him with thanksgiving after his absence of nearly seven years. It was here he came in December 1783. Fredericksburg gave the Peace ball in his honor, and it was at that time that he made his memorable reply to Mayor McWilliams in which he spoke of Fredericksburg as "the place of my growing infancy." LaFayette's Tribute. It was here that Marquis de LaFayette came to pay his respects re-spects to her who was the mother moth-er of the greatest American. She received him in her garden, met all his fine phrases with dignity and gave him her blessing when he bade her good-by. He said, "I' have seen the only Roman matron of my day." It was here March 12, 1789, that Washington came to bid a sad farewell after he had received the notice that he had been elected elect-ed President of the new nation. With prayers and tears Mary Washington and her son parted, knowing they would never meet again. She died August 25, 1789. Town and country assembled to do honor hon-or at her buriaL Her remains lie in a spot she herself selected on the Kenmore estate and a stately state-ly monument "erected by her countrywomen" marks her last resting place. But for all such historic sites which Fredericksburg has, it will not be the only city in the Old Dominion to attract those who enjoy en-joy seeing places "where the past still lives." More than 80 historic homes and gardens throughout the state will be thrown open to visitors this year. Among them are eight homes in which once lived Virginians who became Presidents of the United States. Home of the Lees. Featured in the Garden week pilgrimage this year will be nine estates and shrines under foundation founda-tion or other public ownership, where gardens or grounds have been restored by and at the expense ex-pense of the Garden Club of Virginia. Vir-ginia. The principal one of these properties is Stratford, in Westmoreland West-moreland county, where two signers sign-ers of the Declaration of Independence Inde-pendence and Gen. Robert Edward Ed-ward Lee were born. Here the Garden Club of Virginia Vir-ginia has completed the restoration restora-tion of the Lee gardens at a cost of $50,000. Another as important, but whose , gardens .' are . not as yet completely restored, although well under way, is the Thomas Jefferson garden at Monticello, near Charlottesville. The Thomas Thom-as Jefferson Memorial foundation has restored the house and many outbuildings and refurnished with original Jefferson pieces this magnificent and distinctive mansion. man-sion. Last year the Garden Club of Virginia began the job of restoring restor-ing the Jefferson gardens, from plans discovered only recently. The outlines of the garden were discovered by archeological investigations in-vestigations and will occupy the exact location that they did originally. orig-inally. Jefferson's gardens were distinctive, for only native trees, shrubs and plants were used. Other properties for which the Garden Club of Virginia has done restoration include: the Victorian garden of the Manse, at Staunton, birthplace of T. Woodrow Wilson; the Mary Washington monument at Fredericksburg, over her grave; the Bruton church at Williamsburg, Wil-liamsburg, which will be the center of a celebration this year in honor of its complete restora- tion; the memorial garden at Lee chapel in Lexington; the groups of Wilton, famous Colonial restoration res-toration of historical organizations organiza-tions at Richmond; and the Rolfe property, in Surry county, the grounds of which were given by the Indian chief, Powhatan, to the son of his daughter, Pocahontas Poca-hontas and Sir John Rolfe, in Colonial Co-lonial times. Plantation Homes. Other estates to be shown will include the famous James River plantation belt homes, extending for more than a hundred miles along the James. Most recent of these restorations is Berkeley, birthplace of President William Henry Harrison. Seven estates in various sections of Virginia, never before opened, are to be shown this year, including ancient an-cient Elsing Green on the Pa-munkey, Pa-munkey, one of the most important impor-tant of the Colonial Virginia manor man-or houses, and owned by a signer of the Declaration of Independence. Independ-ence. Twenty-one places in restored Williamsburg will be opened to the public. The great tobacco plantations of Southside Virginia form another group. Piedmont Virginia is offering a group of boxwood gardens and famous old homes of unusual distinction, dis-tinction, including the places of President James Madison, two James Monroe homes and two estates in which Thomas Jefferson Jeffer-son spent his life. Two score other places of great interest, several of them nationally famous, fa-mous, are to be opened. "The Name Is Familiar BY mn B. STBEVCKMANS ond ELMO SCOn WATSON 4It' the Bunk!' "IT'S Just a lot of bunk," is a A phrase that owes its existence to a debate that occurred in the house of representatives in 1820. This is not to imply that congress was free from "bunk" before that, by any means, but the words "bunk," "bunkum" and "buncombe" originated during a debate over the famous Missouri Compromise. Felix Walker, a North Carolina mountaineer, represented the Western West-ern North Carolina district which in-eluded in-eluded his own Buncombe county. While everyone else was demanding a vote, Walker wanted to make a speech. His political friends tried f Madison UaiKeyN ( tUNCOMBEr- lu j McDowell jHaywoodJ iU- V Rutherford iA.Henderwnr . to stop him but he insisted on making mak-ing a long, pointless harangue declaring de-claring his constituents would be disappointed if he didn't say something some-thing for "dear old Buncombe." The word came to mean humbug or insincere in-sincere talk. And Buncombe county was named for Edward Buncombe, a wounded colonel of the Continental army who died in Philadelphia in 1780. Thus, the man whose name is used to designate des-ignate claptrap had nothing to do with it and had been dead 40 years when the word came to have its present meaning. Nicotine NICOTINE is a common word but Jean Nicot, French diplomat of the 1500s, after whom it was named, is little remembered. He studied in Paris, was a courtier court-ier to Henry II and envoy of Francis II to Lisbon in 1560. While In Spain, he obtained the seeds of the tobacco plant from a Dutchman who brought them from Florida. Nicot returned to Paris with these seeds and j became responsi- ble for the intro duction of tobacco tobac-co to France. But the word nicotine cornea from the scientific scientif-ic word for the species of the 45 plants and shrubs from which nicotine nico-tine is derived. They are called Nicotiana plants '?' i Jean Nicot and that is the word coined directly from Jean Nicot's name. Not all of the Nicotiana plants and shrubs are used for smoking some of them are beautiful annuals and perennials with attractive flowers. All varieties bear nicotine which is used to kill insects and only the genus Tobaccum is used by smokers to kill time. Why the Nicotiana plant was named for Jean Nicot who brought it to France instead of the Dutchman Dutch-man who brought It to Nicot can best be explained by the fact that Nicot wrote a French dictionary at the time and merely gave himself a break. Marcel Wave ALTHOUGH marcel seems to be the perfect name for the wave in a woman's hair, it was chosen only because it was the name of the man who invented the first successful success-ful one. But his name was Francois Marcel Grateau, so some thought must have been given to the way the word would sound or his middle name would not have been chosen. Francois was born in 1852 near Paris and his father fa-ther was a stone mason. His mother's moth-er's lovely nat ural wavy hair was the admiration admira-tion of all her acquaintances ac-quaintances and the inspiration for her son to put all his effort toward inventing an iron that would imi tate it Marcel Grateau In 1888, he succeeded and women flocked from all over Europe and England for bis marcel wave. Only 10 years later, he retired from active hairdressing. the acknowledged benefactor ben-efactor of his profession. He lived for 39 years more, however, how-ever, and died at his home. Chateau ThieL near Paris, in 1936, at the age of 84. Yet when he took up an apprenticeship in his father's trade of stone masonry he was made to give it up because they said he wasn't healthy enough! There is another and even greater paradox in his life: He was also discharged from his job in a beauty shop as a young man because the proprietor said he was not suited to that type of work! (Releaeed by Western Newspaper Union.) Kathleen Norris Says: Every Woman Should Make Some Plan to Avoid Dullness (Bell Syndicate WNU bervice.) 'JpHE Bhirtwalster is always an you who want to look slimmer than the scales imply, and this one (1905-B) is designed to look especially slenderizing. The pan eled skirt is slim-hipped and almost al-most straight. The plain front of the bodice continues the line of the skirt panel, to give a lengthening length-ening effect. The shoulders are Sometimes a dreadful dullnest comet into married life, for the woman. She remembers other days, eager joyous days of girlhood. Now comes a pause. By KATHLEEN NORRIS ! ! SOMETIMES a dreadful dullness comes into married life, for the woman. Not illness, not trouble, trou-ble, not money worry, but Just insufferable in-sufferable dullness. Life for Betty goes on without ex citement, without thrill. The kitchen kitch-en routine proceeds placidly; the children go to school; Ed comes home and has his dinner and goes out to his lodge meeting. Betty helps the boy and girl with homework, home-work, turns on the radio, yawns, mends a sweater and then decides to go to bed. Sometimes this even flow of un eventful days frightens an intelligent intelli-gent woman. Earthquake, flood or fire might horrify her, but at least they would find her active, adequate, ade-quate, swept oil her feet in the sud den new demand. But monotony scares her. She remembers other days, eager Joyous days of girlhood, dances, laughter, the glory of her engagement and marriage, the fun of showing off the new house, of telling her friends that she and Ed were expecting a baby. The baby's coming, too, was an occasion never to be forgotten; the flurry of getting him started; the happy, wearying absorption in his needs, and the needs of the second baby. All this might have been tiring, anxious, responsible, re-sponsible, but it was satisfying and triumphant, too. Ten Years Later. But now, 10 years married, with the thirties beginning to slide by, with Ed taking everything quietly for granted, and only articulate when dinner isn't satisfactory or little Ned sleeps too late in the mornings now comes a pause. And somehow the wife and mother knows that it is a dangerous pause, and that something must be done about it or it may have lasting and serious results. "Floyd leaves the house at eight-thirty," eight-thirty," writes a Kansas wife. "I go to the door with him and kiss him good-by. Then I get the two boys off for school, and turn back into my quiet house for morning dust, planning of meals. At noon I have a cup of soup or malted milk and a sandwich, and afterward lie down and rest for awhile. Then perhaps shopping, a movie, a club meeting, a hospital calL "At five, I am occupied in the kitchen, with the table to set Floyd is home, and there is quiet talk of what he did all day and what I did, not either interesting or important to either hearer, and then we settle down to evening paper and radio, or, on rare occasions, have guests for dinner and bridge very poor bridge all 'round, with nobody sure of the scoring or Floyd goes out and I am alone. Goes On No Change. "Everything pleasant, friendly, just as it was last year and will be next year. Our income is small, but enough, we all have good health, questions of budget and allowance were long ago adjusted. My bus-band bus-band is a trusted employee in a rubber firm; his salary is $38.50 a week. Recently he asked for a weekly raise of $7.50 and was refused. re-fused. It would have made some difference to us, but not an important impor-tant one. "What can I do to make our lives more exciting and glamorous? I am a home woman; I know I should be more than satisfied with what I have. But I'm not I'm restless and bored. Floyd'a people are straight American. My grandfather grand-father was a general in the Spanish army 30 years ago; my mother Swedish. Is it the mixed blood that makes me at once shy and eager? I did not speak English until I was eight years old." The obvious answer to Lola is that she has more, now than nine-tenths of the women of the world have, and that ninety-nice hundredths of them would feel themselves rich with a steady husband, a steady income, two small sons, home, gar den, car, perfect health, and that security from aerial bombardment that is becoming a luxury in the world. Suggestion for Lola. But that isn't fair. For she admits ad-mits herself that she OUGHT to ba content, and really wants to cure herself if it is her fault that she is not So instead of reproaching her. I am going to make to her several suggestions that may help her extricate ex-tricate herself from the rut into which she has fallen. To begin with, there Is an inner spirit or subliminal consciousness or soul or entity in every woman. It is a correspondence with elements ele-ments that are supernatural. Call this thing whatever you like Karma, Kar-ma, Yogi, mental healing, the in finite, Oneness it means that you recognize some influence higher than a merely earthly Influence, and your values in life are formed on something higher than a purely earthly scale. Most of us call this imponderable. infinite, intangible but very real presence, God. We don't attempt to analyze Him, work Him out on charts and graphs; we merely go into that stillness called prayer now and then, and await with perfect confidence a renewal of life within us; a new sense of potentiality, trust, and above ail delight and eagerness in the outwardly dull rou tine of every day. The Happiest People. The happiest persons in this be wildered world, in fact the only happy ones, are those who have found this secret for themselves. and revel in that unbounded glory of living which the orientals call "bliss." You can live in three rooms in a crowded tenement, and possess it You can be the wealthi est woman in the world end miss it completely. Yet it's open enough to find, and it costs nothing. Ask, and you shall receive it and to repeat re-peat it costs you nothing. It can be yours. Once this is achieved, a thousand interests and indeed fevers possess you. You want to live forever, so that you may have time to read a thousand books; accomplish a thou sand prison reforms and live to see them work; establish a Spanish class at 25 cents a lesson and watch it grow until you are besieged with class and radio engagements; plan a garden, and glory in its beauty; build a backyard grill and entertain enter-tain the boys and their friends there; find an old country place and move into it and have chickens and a cow; raise fine-bred Persian kittens; kit-tens; gather a circle of their friends about your boys and be sure that the group in which they grow to young manhood Is a safe group; study beekeeping, astronomy, bookbinding; book-binding; put up fancy preserves and sell them. Or, under state supervision, super-vision, take three or four small children chil-dren to board. The state pays much more than they cost and the work of building little citizens la a valuable one. Or go into politics, by the simple process of attending a meeting or two, accepting a position posi-tion on some committee, and contributing con-tributing your mite toward a better and wiser administration of your local affairs. The country would be better off if more women did this. A Plan Is Necessary. Some months ago I was walking through a dark Boston slum with a young professional man. It was broiling summer, and the high tenement tene-ment rooms were like so many little hot boxes glaring into the crowded night To my exclamation of pity and concern, the young doctor said, "It all depends upon whether you have a PLAN or not People without with-out plans are to be pitied, no matter mat-ter where they are." Frock Is Tailored : To Slenderize One il l1 'J- l 1905-B W" squared out, but not gathered, and the fullness under the shoulder shoul-der yoke takes care of correct fit over the bust. A smart double-collar effect finishes the deep v of the neckline and you can wear the dress merely with its self collar, if you like. A classic style like this makes up nicely in such street materials as spun ryaon or flat crepe, and in linen or chambray to wear around the house. It'a one of those comfortable pattern! that you'll repeat many times. Barbara Bell Pattern No. 1905-B is designed for sizes 36, 38, 40, 42, 44, 46, 48, SO and 52. Size 38 requires re-quires 47s yards of 39-inch material; mate-rial; Vi yard contrasting. Send order or-der to: SEWING CIRCLE PATTERN DEPT. 149 New Montjomery Ave. San FrancUce Calif. Enclose IS cents In colm for Pattern No Size Nam Address GAS SO BAD CROWDS HEART "My boirelt vert 10 ilnirrlh taf (tomich ae bad I vas ut nuurable. Bom-tmu Bom-tmu fig bloated me BntJ U aemed to crowd my heart. I triad Adlorika. Oh, vhat raUef. The Srrt dote worked like nufis. AdUnka remored the fu and waate ntuer and dif stomach ielt ae food." Mrs. 8. A. McAmls. 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