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Show THE HERALD-REPUBLICA- SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH, SUNDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1915 N, 7 oci v in vv as mneton asnions PRESIDENTS 4 THOSE WHO ONCE SNUBBED While Nation Awaits FIANCEE SOON MUST BOW TO HER AS THEIR SOCIAL SUPERIOR In ' ,f ; - f " ... 1 : r ' r - 'f " ; -- : ; . t v ... - ' I I'll' . - i v ' !: : ' v I1 111 , I - V v ' - And, course, a tradesman's wife is of different flesh and blood from the wife rf an official in the diplomatic ;rf f rrv ice. the Rub. Focafccntas There There are some. too. w ho cannot forget th.it Pocahontas, heroine anil prince though she wa. was afo an They profess that thfre is r.ot si much to he protid of in the old Virginia families that nre so old that they antedate the coming of the white man to America. Still other may mention, just as eaually. that Mrs. (alt has not been in the Washington 4f0." Or in the Va.hinsrtott loot)' either. Her tiar e is nt er.terrd in the latent wia! register if Washington. Washington wil! tolerate as a member of one of its numerous sets a erson. if he has money enough, w hos father presumed to make hi-- , livins by barter-in- s s"'ds mT a counter. Instance the I .e iters, Joseph inciter V father bavins been a retail shopkcc;er in Chicago. But. until .Mi. (Jalt beeatce prospective f irt iady vt the land, it had become unheard of, in recent xcars, for a tradesman himself to be granted entree into an official set. And a "tradesman's widow" presumably had no more chance. Precedent Overthrown. Yet 4 lure is going to bo a "right ahtnt tare in Washington society Indian. 4 -- wiirn the "tradesman's widow, de- scendant o one of the oldest Virginia families, and incidentally of the Princes Pocahontas, becomes buste- at the White House; and the news that it was to be has caused something at resembling; a s... nil earthquake The Washington. supercilious "We do not know her is no longer the badsre of distinction that it misht hac been, ami undoubtedly was a lew weeks past. It is beginning to be realized that soon will have to know her if we are going to be anybody in Washington. For the defendant of the Prince Pocahontas will be just as much and, in a wav, ;v officially, leader of the Washjut ington society as Pocahontas father I'owhatan ever was of the red men in this same valley of the Potomac. Jf Mr?. Gait should seek nny re- - ".' en.se on the snobbish ' who would not "know " a tradesman widow, nu he to forget to "know" them ned do is Ksue.-invitations to White when she House affairs in the near future. Such forgetfulness would be a deadly t Mi ai ; New Ruler of Washington's Smart Set. , trAr A' : . t y3 " . : ;i tkJ'tSv -- -t "trade-man.- " rt g ' rrr--. V " :r, 7 A ?,? v;J H -'- Sff V lIlA. .... VK Yv : i9M K ; i being ready with their clubs to beat out his brains, Pocahontas, the king's dearest daughter, when no entreaty could prevail, g6t his head in her arms and laid her own upon his to save him from death; Avhereat the emperor was content he should live to make him hatchets and her bells, beads and copper; for they thought him as well of all occupations us themselves." What became of Rolfe after s' not clear, but death in 1617 Pocn-honta- i-- ? his son, Thomas, after he received his education returned to Virginia, where the family since has been prominent and has married into other old families of the same colony, among them the Randolphs. Thomas Rolfe was born in 1015, but the date of his marriage to Jane Poythress and the year of his death are unknown. They had one child, a daughter, Jane, who died . V J sv : in Ifuo. Col. John Boiling of Cobbs. who was soon be Mrs. Mrs. to lower Mrs. of Gait's Norman a mother, late born Wilson; left, in 107(1 and died in 1729. was a Gait, photograph Upper left, member of the house of Burgesses. He Mrs. H. W. Boiling and the two sisters of the President's fiancee; the Boiling flat at Wytheville, Va., arrow married Mary Kennon, a daughter of Dr. Kennon of Conjurer's Neck and designating room where Mrs. Gait was born; below, Judge Boiling, Mrs. Gait's father, and group picture of Boiling also a member of the house of Burchildren, arrow pointing to Mrs. Gait seen when she was a wee tit of a girl. gesses in Virginia. They had six chil.- V'-- v ' - t ;Mr. (Vut was a I ' ' s 's I ' : Who Upon Behaved Di- er She Will or No, It Will Be Amusing to Watch Those Who Once Shunned Her Now Cultivate the Favor of the i i i 'kiM' ' Cr ' s ' ' ' Heartburnings sagreeably to Her; but Wheth- tWj , I ' , Those '''tii'" !: Mm i" vi'i . - A i- sure, that Has It Within Her Power to Snub Any and All and to In- . A b-- It Will Be Different, for as First Lady of the Land She - yv;X i . . . . y the rr.it raual way, to - J :' ' And there are some who mention in 'ir '""'S , . . J - r.- . V.-.- ::,.; , , . ' - - c- - I Tradesman's Wife. agln. , Those Days P.Irs. Gait Was Hopelessly Out of It, but Now flict ' m 'r v v ,..: :'T.:.:X:vr23S-,;::.-t- jt 5 : They Recall the They Turned Up at Her Because Then a Merc f.-f- t r,...;ii-w1-- the Capital Who Stand Appalled at What May Be in Store for Them When the Prospective Mistress of the White House Ascends to Her SHI XCTOX, Dec 4. History in Washington has repeated itself enough to prove the old savins' that one must say all the good thins possible about a per? on after he is le.itl and need sav only all the mean thins possible about him or more particularly her when she is. to he married, is just as true today as it was before the days of women? clubs and suffrage tight. All of which - preliminary to savins that Wahinston society is ju-as "catty about the approaches Wi!sin-- I 'alt nuptials as it might have 'been in the days when milady found her neighbors no gossip about hindrance to her crochet work. Of curse, there are women and women, a there are set and sets of j "Was hi net on - society. And they are not alt saying everything they think, And asain Mr". (Jalt has many warm defenders, even if she is just going to he majrried. Still there are women in Washington society men, too, for that mat-tf- r who somehow Tefer to the fact that Mr. Gait is a widow, and who to think that that fact means that uc has all the attributes fre-- t icntly assigned to women who many iV'.a V.-: Mrs. Gait. There Are Those in j- . With Eager Interest the Coming Nuptials of the President and Throne, for Days When Their FJoses She Was ... rti -vi. dren. pose the fashionable society of Washington at the present time. : If proof of this fact be wanted, ! look at the Social Register of Washington. Her name will not be found in it, as already mentioned. Will Be Different. But now it is going to be different. If Mrs. Gait feels that in the past she has been snubbed and "left r,- 5 .. i , out,'' she will, as mistress of the White House, have plenty of opportunity to return the snubs with interest, and to inflict upon those who have behaved disagreeably money enough. Besides, she was "in toward her. It will be for her to V trade. ' which, particularly in the wave the wand of social authority, .41, ' . ; I of the old Washington set. placed and to say Who is Who. to Washington with the confident ex- eyes The chances are, however, that she her in the undesirable middle class, of with whom "one does not exchange will do nothing of the kind. Those pectation of beins a "hijrli-flje- r fashion" at the capital, only to suffer visits." who enjoy the privilege of her inbitter disappointment. In a word. Mrs. Norman Gait was timacy declare that she is the most Fashionable Crowd. "out of entirely and hopelessly. amiable and charming of women, and The fashionable crowd is very new Her position was especially peculiar the likelihood seems to be that she . (a at present constituted, and leav-in- s because, if she had come to Wash- will let bygones be bygones, treat the diplomats out of .question), ington unmarried. :h Kdith Boiling, everybody as nicely as she can, and but none the less exclusive en that ac- descendant of one of the very best set af naught all fears of her adoptcount. It has been built up mainly families of the old dominion and re- ing measures of social retaliation. But it will be an amusing situation. lated by cousinship to all the really by millionaire and most The snobbishly exclusive people who, bavins discovered the truly F. V. Vs.. she would have been horror of a dtlis'nts of Washinston as a place of" received as a matter of course and women will forget their ' winter residence, have come here dur-in- s with open junis by the mcst exclusive "tradesman's widow' and will cultiAs vate the favors of the new mistress of the last twent3'-fiv- c years. Most and conservative of them were nobodies, socially or a tradesman's wife, however, she was the While House. As Mrs. Woodrow blow to the prestaae of any would-b- e Wilson looks into their eyes arid unacceptable. or actual social "leader' in trie na- otherwise, a generation hack.' It will now be understood what the Virginia people, today as in former listens to their pretty compliments, tional capital. conditions were aa found Mrs. (Jalt times, are aristocratic and exclusive. Nobody except Mrs. Halt knows when she first came to by Washington as Hut, since the civil war, and owing to what is to happen. Hut, in orwife of Norman the loss of wealth thereby" caused, der that the whole situation may be the newly married time was the city's most of them have been obliged to who at that understood, it is necessary to explain, (Jalt, work for a living:. In that ?date it is an outline of, the foremost jewelry merchant, owning or at leat to to keep a not accounted infra-disame his on brother) the shop rr.ther peculiar social conditions that (with scions the best of The earth Js a jfreat magnet; so is Pennsylvania avenue that is occupied shop. Indeed, many govern at the capital. in The source of their magthe sun. and oldest families are employed There is, to begin with, the fairly today by the business. Mr. ialt was not much odder than the stores- of cities and towns- as netic properties has been a puzzle to extensive and numerous coterie known now his wife. He came of an excellent clerks, and ?;one the less is thought scientific men' for ages. Yetare it magas 'official seems that society. It includes Virginia family. His father, who of them on that they probable account from a social members of I'onsress (and their womnets, for one reason, because they are in view. business the of started point Washington, and enfolk), members of the cabinet twirling in space, and that twirling is different. In a "irsinia lady of pood married had it Washiuston nil other persons in hish employment any. other body of suitable substance, ir. not cousin. tolerated Here Mis. elder his retail This trade a sufficient speed,' will make it aleo at family, under the p. oven: incut. into a magnet. Tills was EUgsested tfalt, on eomins to Washington, made socially, if it represents a means of on theoretical grounds several years imWho's Who in Capital. the unpleasant discovery that, not- livelihood for the present and effect has not been obago, There is the army and navy set. the withstanding the undeniably pftod mediate generation. For a past gen- tainedbutin the the laboratory until very make-u- p of which needs no explana- birth of herself and her husband, she. eration, even though it be the one recently, as reported in Science (New could not hop? to be received" in directly preceding, it is politely ig- York) by Prof. S. J. Barnett of Ohio tion. Professor Barnett There the '1.1 Wnshinprton set" society because the latter had a east-iro- n nored. Thus, for example, the Leiters State university. on the modnotea that rotation, at rapid rnle excluding persons engaged are among the leaders of fashion someti.nc called the ''cave dwellshould magof ern magnetism, theory ers representitjs old families Ions in retail trade. Like a sensible wom- the capital, notwithstanding the fact netize any magnetic substance "by a resident in Washiuston. an, she made no attempt to combat that "Joe" Letter's father, Levi Z.. nort of molecular gyroscopic process." is there the "fashionable the restriction and contented herself made his fortune as a retail shop- He goes on: Finally, crowd." compose! wholly ef rich with tlm company of the friends, not keeper in Chicago. "Rotation should produce in any It has been said that Mrs. Gait substance ail intrinsic magnetic in(mainly nev-rich- ) people and the a few, whom she liked and who liked hancers-oi- i comes of an old Virginia family; but tensity parallel to the axis of rotaof the rich plus the dip- her. The situation repeated itself rather this does not fully express the fact in tion, proportional to the angular ve-of lomats who are beloved by the rich (like the magnetism because a certain social prestijre en- curiously in the next generation. The her case. She is a lineal descendant locity and directed the oppositely to the earth) velop them and who seek the rich elder Mrs. (Jalt "t son, Norman, suc- of the oldest of all American families, magnetic Intensity which would be enfor the sake of beins ceeding with the brother to the jew- being the produced by an electric current cirof the Prin- culating tertained ami otherwise amused. elry business, married a young lady around the substance in the The boundaries between set and set of old Virginia family. Miss Edith cess Pocahontas, whose father was direction of rotation. If the rotating are not absolutely and definitely Boiling the same lady whose en- Powhatan, ruler of all the tribes of body is magnetic, magnetization, proto the intensity, should refixed: they merse into one another to gagement to President Wilson has Virginia at the time when the first portional not (except to a very otherwise sult; some extent. Thus there are Rome startled Washington society. He white people arrived in that part of minute extent)." members of ConsTvs.s. a few, who brought her to Washington; she found the country. from what "should ' hap Powhatan in those days was mili- penTurning, to what did happen, the results to the fashionable crowd. 'But herself confronted with exactly the at first disappointing, bays Pro this is because they have wealth and same problem that her husband's tary and civil governor of what is were Barnett. fessor are willins to entertain; the circum- mother had encountered and she now the District of Columbia. But "Preliminary experiments though doubtfully, to show stances that they nre in Congress solved it in the same way. She made his lineal descendant. Kdith Boiling appeared, In question in the case of a effect the rotated at a speed of (even thoush senators) does not help no attempt to "go out" in society, Gait, has not found herself acceptable large Iron rod revolutions about n ninety to the persons of more or less dubious Later observations mrde perin Becond. them materially in a social way. Many but was satisfied with the companion-shimuch is the en pressman's wife who comes of herown little coterie of south- immediate ancestry who largely com- - the same way, but with an attempt 'rn women of good birth who recognized her as one of themselves, shop or no shop. Tradesman's Wife Not Wanted. Please take note of how the matter exactly rdood. Mrs. Norman (Jail destined, if she had but known it. to the station of first lady of the land found herself, as the jeweler's wife, ineligible to the official set, because her husband held no ofticial jnisitioiT. She had nothing to do with the army or navy, or a like reason. She was impossible from the viewpoint of the fashionable crowd because die had not 7 V n -- heart-burnin- gs -- I. . rK : it' 1 multi-millionai- re cave-dwellers- .' sirs One of these was Maj. John Boiling, nobody will be better aware than she born 1700, died 1757. He was married of their insincerity. twice. The first wife was Elizabeth As it has already been stated, Mrs. Blair, a daughter of Dr. Archibald Edith Gait is a descendant in the ninth Blair and niece of Dr. James Blair, generation of Pocahontas, the favorite the founder of William and Mary coldaughter of the Indian chieftain lege. This marriage took place in 1728. After her death Major Boiling Powhatan. a lady named Bland, who married The story of Pocahontas is one of 1755. in died the familiar legends, but by a curious One of the issue of Major Boiling error many persons have the notion that the Indian princess, after saving! and his first wife was Archibald Bol- the life of Capt. John Smith, married ling, who was born in 1750. He mar-hiStudents of American history . ried four times: Sarah Cary, 170; not be informed that Pocahontas Jane Randolph, in 1774; the Widow need did not marry the adventurer, but be- Byrd, in 1797, and the Widow Clark, came the wife of a widower, Thomas in 1802. From the second of these or John Rolfe. After the story of wives there was issue. Of this issue Capt. Blair Boiling, Smith's romantic rescue from death had been told and retold and printed who was born in 1792, was an officer for two and a half centuries there in the state guard. He was twice bobbed up in certain quarters writers married, Hist to M. A. Webster, in and investigators who tried to cast 1824, arid s'econch" to Pcnalope Storrs, the whole tale into the cauldron of in 1827. Archibald Boiling was his son. and doubt. But the best historical judgment, today regards the story as being was married in 1852 to Eliza True-hea- rt Armistead. Their son, William strictly accurate in all its essential Holeomb Boiling, became the father points. Mrs. will 'be of Edith Boiling Gait. Smith's account, which VirCol. Robert Boiling, who was the found in his "General History of first of the name to appear in this ginia,", is very matter of fact. "A long consultation was held," he country, is said to have been a native wrote, "the conclusion of which was of Yorkshire, where he was born in two great, great stones were brought 1645. He was only 15 years of ,igo before Powhatan, as many as could, when he came to Virginia, and 30 laid hands on him, dragged him to when he married the granddaughter them, and thereon laid his head; and of Pocahontas. " m. THIS WORLD REALLY A WHIRLING MAGNET ic g. - - e;orj-eou!- . be-lo- ns I J at improvement In apparatus, failed to confirm this result with any ccr- taintv." Undismayed, the investigator, aided by bis wife, returned to the problem, and this timeI with better success. have made, again with "Recently Mrs. Barnett's assistance, experiments con- which have yielded definite and In the final expericlusive result. ments two nearly similar rods of steel were mounted with their shafting axes horizontal and perpendicular to One the magnetic meridian. of the rods remained at rest, while was alternately the other rotated by an air motor and brought to rest. After all suspected were sources of systematic error eliminated, an effect was left correthat predicted precisely with spondingabove the theow- - and inexplicable by on any other theorv hitherto proposed. "From experiments made for a different purpose by Lebedew in 1912 that in nonmagnetic it can be substances not more than a minute . sh-ow-n i How and When to Wear Gems Here's a story about jewelry lots jewelry. If you already have more than you want of diamonds, rubies, and other precious pearls, emeralds stones, it should help you; if you haven't any. It may when you get some, so pay attention. and fast There are certain hard an less aggrerules laid down by no on the subject authorities gation theof American National Reta.il than Jewelers' association for the wearing of jewelry. Kverybody knows of course, that it isn't considered good form to wear diamonds in the dayare other offenses just time, but there as the eyes of one who has grievous Inhow and when and where been taught to and not to wear certain kinds of Df fraction of the magnetization we have observed in iron is produced at the same speed." The magnetic intensity produced course, very by the rotation was, of been spherical, rod the small. Had like the earth. and rotated at the earth's speed, its magnetization would still have been far less than that of the earth. Despite this fact. Professor Barnett thinks that at least a part, and possibly a large part, of the earth's be due to the efmagnetization may fect in question, as we are entirely ignorant of the magnetic properties of all substances under the conditions prewithin almost the whole of the vailing earth. He goes on: "Schuster lias pointed out that an effect of this kind may explain both the mean magnetization of the earth and the secular variation as well. It seems more likely, however, that a part of terrestrial and solar maglarge netization is due to other oauses. such as the outward radial displacement of electrons by centrifugal and thermionic action." Literary Digest. For instance, if you would jewelry. be de rigeur, you must not, if you are a woman, put on a necklace heavily studded with large stones of any sort in summer. When a woman wears a she ought to have on filmv, filmy so to gown speak, jewelry. or la vallleres of fineDainty pendants web are proper. The reverseplatinum is true of winter, when the decree of jewel fashion calls for something heavy and substantial to match the The fewer rings in cummer clothing. A the better. narrow platinum band gold for jeweled adornment has gone so far out of fashion that it is now seldom seen, by the way set with one or two stones, preferably diamonds or a diamond and an emerald, should suffice. Public Ledger, Philadelphia. |