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6C Richmond Times-Dbpetch Sunday Dec 101944 Looking at You ESTATE SILVER Famed Confederate Woman Spy Belle Boyd Will Be Heroine of Forthcoming Biography have just received a shipment of Fine Silver from Estate! Invite you to see It tomorrow morning! lovely Gifts Antiqui Waylay Not Umni Ti SS7-JNS IM Haw SOTrt Sculptor Will Speak Wednesday Dr Suzanne Silvercruys sculptor painter and lecturer who will address the Tuckahoe Club at St Giles parish house Wednesday at 3:30 is also an author whose latest book "A Primer of was published last year A graduate of the Yale School of Fine Arts Dr Silvercruys has been awarded the honorary degree of doctor of humane letters by Temple University and has received numerous other decorations from this country and many foreign lands In private life she is the wife of Major Edward Ford Stevenson USA and has her studio at the Hotel des Artistes in New York Dr Silvercruys recently completed a portrait bust of the late Wendell Willkie the only one for which he ever sat which is row in process of being cast and will be exhibited at the Metropolitan Museum of Art early next month for the first time By For those last-minute gifts GG recommends: A powder mitt which sells for tnly and is refillable The cylinder kit in maroon faille printed with tiny blue polka dots and designed to hang on a hook in the bathroom after first hanging on the tree It is looped with blue satin ribbon at each end and tied together in the center with a bow of satin It holds a conditioning cream a box of skin freshener box of face powder a container of makeup foundation a lipstick in ivory and gold a red and gold plastic rouge box and a compact in gold and blue This sells for $950 A a miniature bobsled in thin wood sectioned to hold fat little bottles of your favorite perfume It costs $10 includes four bottles a pair of solid wooden shoes carved out to hold squat flacons of two fragrances a bottle in each shoe The shoes are fitted into a pretty drop-side box which sells for S3 Perfumes: romantic woodsy wonderful with tweeds naughty provocative for sophisticated clothes "Tigress" sultry seductive for furs and for the exotic clinging heady CONFORMAL Personalized SHOES Something Entirely Original and Exclusive In CORRECTIVE Footwear SHOES INDIVIDUALLY MOULDED TO EACH FOOT 50 sophisticated smouldering heavenly exotic sweet but dangerous "Perhaps not not hut slinky black magic: A gaily decorated box of refreshing toilet water and dusting powder for the girl in the service of her country S2 A vanity box for the bride making a temporary home in furnished rooms sturdy complete with toilet water dusting powder perfume powder body sachet and bath salts all in a roses-a nd-s pice fragrance $3 A garden of bath salts enough for eight to 24 baths A shave mug for the man with a jar of or a shave set with a mug an after-shave lotion talcum in a handsome red-lined box to hold his tie clips and collar buttons The mug is $1 the talcum 75 cents and the set $275 Nail polish in sets of any price from an inexpensive bottle and adheron to the nicer groups containing matching lipstick rouge and several bottles of the enameL A beauty kit at $750 in a simulated leather case of lizard with all of the essentials for perfect skin care and the removal and ap- plication of makeup and a flacon of perfume for a touch of glamor A surprise Christmas tree pack- age When the box is opened a tiny green Christmas tree pops up laden with perfume and lip-' stick and at the base of the tree is a box of silky-smooth face pow- der Three for $1 A new lipstick and rouge set named after the forthcoming movie It is a deep vivid blue-red wonderfully becoming and wearable The lipstick and rouge sells at $1 and 50 cents respectively but a set in a miniature trunk with lipstick rouge powder and perfume costs only $5 Give her something really new For further Information on the products mentioned send a stamped self-addressed envelope to GG at The Times-Dis patch or phone her at 3-4242 CONFORMAL SHOES 520 EAST BROAD STREET AT PEOPLES SHOE SERVICE Also WEATHER BIRD SHOES FOR CHILDREN from $350 fo $550 The above photograph was made especially for 'BeIIe Boyd Confederate Spy forthcoming book by Colonel Louis A Sigaud from an original negative belonging to the Brady collection in the 1 landy Studios in Washington love for finery and jewelry is evident Wife Gan Solve Difficult Problem Of Other Woman is another woman" a problem too often passed off with a smirk comes in for down to earth discussion in the current issue of Look Magazine infidelity can wreck your marriage unless you love your husband enough to meet it' is the challenge made bv Ernest Groves and Gladys Iloagland Groves authorities on human relations to the wife whose husband has turned to another woman continue the authors will be the greatest hazard you will have to overcome It will not be easy to put your husband's welfare ahead of your hurt and humiliation but you can do it and you will if you still love him He is in difficulty for the other woman always spells trouble for a man Your loyalty your willingness to stick by him now may save him and your The wife is asked to subject herself to self examination by answering these questions: yours a good sex adjustment? Is your husband lonely? Have you hen-pecked him? Have you failed to build him up? Have you let yourself For the authors state that the wife has gone a long wey to solving the problem if she finds out why her husband turned from her But in working out her solution she is warned to avoid five mistakes: stoop to sleuthing injure your husband's self-respect 'tell the boss relatives or friends involve the And most important of all be too proud or too stubborn to take the first step or go more than half way in seeking a basis on which to rebuild your Womens Groups Donate Gifts For Servicemen The various organizations of Richmond are planning Christmas parties this week Seven of these groups are among those donating gifts for others The Woodland Heights Garden Club the Forest Hill Club the Highland Springs Junior Club and the Ginter Park Garden Club chapter four are all bringing gifts for wounded soldiers to their Christmas parties Instead of presenting gifts to the soldiers themselves the Thomas Jefferson Garden Club conceived the idea of presenting toys to General Hospital to be used to entertain small children while their mothers visit their wounded husbands and friends Christmas packages for the USO will be contributed to the Red Cross by the Ginter Park Garden Club chapter three Members of the Barton Heights Woman's Club felt that the underprivileged children of Richmond would need Christmas gifts so they are giving their presents to the State Welfare Department for distribution to needy children KEEP UP APPEARANCES I removing1 as many spots as you can yourself with Mufti Handy for quick use on i lll )i that tftcrX By Lillian Franklin Trimmer Mora sensational than Scarlet and as clamorous as Mata Hart Belle Boyd the most famous of all women Confederate spies is retuminz to public attention again this week with the appearance from the Dietz Ptmi Inc here of the book Boyd Confederate by Colonel Louis A Sigaud himself a famous secret agent The Richmond Dally Dispatch forerunner of The Times-Dlspatch on September 3 1862 reporting the 200 Confederate prisoners exchanged mentioned but two by name: its officers was Major Norman It Fitzhugh of Stuart's Cavalry Division a brave officer who was captured a short time since Miss Belle Boyd of Winchester who has become celebrated from the fear in which the Yankees held her was also among thoe who Richmond saw Belle on numerous occasions and there may he living Rirhmonders who remember her in her dramatic recitals as Rebel for Belle toured the country until her death in 1 Unhappily there can be no member of the Richmond Light Infantry Blues living who could tell of the great honor done her by this famous battalion When lielle was riding as an honored guest along the road to Rirhmond her exchange at Fortress Monroe where she was later to defy Butler her entourage passed the camp of the Richmond Blues To her amazement famous Confederate unit was drawn up in review order Her heart swelled with under standable pride and pleasure when the Blues presented arms as her carriage went Serenaded by Band In Richmond rooms had been reserved for this 18-ycar-old girl In the Ballard House and that evening the Richmond City Band serenaded her After staying about 10 days at the hotel she moved to a Mrs boarding house on Grace Street Other boarders at the time were General and Mrs Joseph Johnston General Wigfall members of his family and other celebrities While here to Belle's surprise an offirer who had been prisoner in the Old Capitol in Washington with her came to call and placed in her hand a note and a box The note read: token of the affection and of her fellow prisoners and the box made her believe in fairy godfathers: it contained a gold watch and chatelaine enameled and richly set with diamonds One has but to read of Belle In prison to understand the gift She sang to cheer the men and her voice must have been exceptional (or people stood in the street to listen Later of course she sang on the stage She helped prisoners to escape successfully: she fell in love with the prisoner across the way she inveigled the warden to buy her wedding trousseau she started a bow-and arrow rubber-ball communication with friends outside Women were catty toward Belle they are yet for a brief articla on her published in the Southern Literary Messenger about three years ago brought forth newspaper denunciation of her as a from a woman render and started a whole town arguing character pro and con It was this article and the clipping of the Indy's long-cberlshed irritation over Belle that led Colonel Sigaud to write her true story retiring from business to devote his time to research on this famous worker in his own field of secret service Strange how women could still be jcnlous nearly half a century after her death For Belle wasn't beautiful although women admitted men stated in writing and newspaper reporters who interviewed her in prison declared that she had one of the most beautiful figures they had ever seen Imprisoned Twice Belle who was Imprisoned twice went to prison and came way with several trunks of handsome clothes but on her way out among her laces and ribbons were smuggled uniforms for the Southern soldiers and gold to buy what their worthless paper money couldn't She could he highly romantic she loved Ihe moonlight and tenii-mental meetings with the men "ho courted her When love touched her she won the man over to her side in the war and so strong was his affection for her that he suffered imprisonment disgrace and died of his hardships for her She appealed to men to the point that the superintendent of the prison Wood defied the Secretary of orders and allowed her all sorts of privileges time after time When she defied Butler to his face refused to sit in the in says raged as to her But the most famous of early dramatists in America Dion Bouccicault made her the heroine of a successful play and Joseph Hergeshcimcr used her twice fictionized in his books She wrote her own story but the book is now a collector's item Colonel Sigaud has proved her story true enough through his research in War Department files and has cleared the mystery of many of the men she mentioned only by initial Of interest to Virginians is her ancestry Belle came from several of the fine old families of Virginia and among her ancestors were Revolutionary War heroes and such names as Van Meter Burns Glenn Stephenson McKesson Cooper Bruce Campbell Stewart Earle Beall Caswell Birdsong and Bell clothier hats flovei upholstciy ana other art idea of many kinds of material A favorite for over 35 years 30c and 60c slses MHFYI 1TI MULTI-BSE SPOT REMOVER iepHMJMj? va 1 1 ose YW Hobby House Give Party The Junior Hobby House Group at the YWCA is giving a Christmas party December 16 at which the various interest groups in the organization will put on the procram from 1 until 2 in the auditorium of the Members of the group may bring their mothers or a friend to the party The arts and crafts group will decorate the tree: the dance group will give a folk dancing exhibition the dramatic members will give a pantomine and the cooking class will serve the Raw relish is a good way to stretch scarce cranberries this year and make use of tneir bright color says the United States Department of Agriculture Here is the recipe: Take 1 cup of cranberries 1 orange 1 apple cored i to i cup sugar i teaspoon salt Pick over berries wash and drain Cut orange in quarters and remove anv seeds Grind berries apple and mange rind and all through food chopper using coarse blade Combine with sugar and salt Chill presence of a man who so treated even he was cowed and softened She married three times and was known to have been engaged four John Kstrn Cooke of General Stuart's staff later author of the many popular war novels saw Belle on her return from prison to Richmond and said: she was released and sent south to Richmond where I saw her she was as thin and white as a ghost a mere shadow of her former self" On second release from prison she was captured three times she came to Richmond again and stayed at the Spotts-wood lie use It was late in the evening of December 4 and the Dispatch of December 5 announced her arrival to her surprise On December 12 she was said to he the life of the party it a dinner in her honor The famous Edward A Pollard editor of the Richmond Enquirer (luring the war years was aboard the ship on which Belle masquerading under another name was sailing for England to carry dispatches It was on this trip that the young ensign put in charge when ship was captured fell in love with the famous young woman Their romance is one of those stories that would be almost unbelievable if put on the screen today But Colonel Sigaud has investigated every statement concerning it There is a mystery in connection with the ensign and with Belle's prison fiance that even the famous secret agent of World War I fathomed The answer may lie in some yellowed letter in somebody's grandmother's old hair trunk in a Virginia or West Virginia attic and both mysteries are challenges to literary sleuths today Courier to Jaclcson Belle Boyd was a native of Mar-tinsburg then in Virginia and her sensational activities from the age of 16 when she became courier to Jackson and of the White Horse" centered in the Valley She was known as the of the although her career took her south to Atlanta and to Tennessee where generals invited her to dne and spoke for her from balconies under which hands serenaded her She spent 'i rounip of years in London in fact wns fashionably married and began her stage career under the patronage of a Richmond-born actress Avon La Jones one woman who jealous of her and helped her to a second successful career Of Belle MTTwet Leech in Here's a gill that will put a sparlfe In her eye as well as in her costume A graceful lapel pin heavily encrusted with rhinestones brilliant and beautiful Just one of the shining surprises AEen has to oner for your gift selection $1000 Olhm ISjOO to 12730 Plmt 11 fas flowers plants for Christmas 8 TV GRACE DIAL S-728S Specialists la PEHMANEjVTS HAIR STYLING Scientific AO FACIALS Iaclnding BACK MASSAGE Through her near ancestors and their kin Belle Boyd was connected with the family of Thomas Jefferson Robert Lee and George Randolph Belle Boyd has one living daughter who through Belie would be eligible to the United Daughters of the Confederacy as well as through her ancestor Captain James Glenn already listed in their lineage book to the Daughters of the American Revolution father served in the Confederate Army although he had reached middle age and her mother nursed in the army hospitals cherishing the quinine that Belle rode across the lines on horseback to procure often disguised as a Negress or as a boy It is anticipated that the story of Belle's life as authenticated by Colonel Louis A Sigaud will stir much controversy and as Colonel Sigaud hopes will bring to Belle the honor from this generation that she merited from her own for the last years of her life were spent calling for God one flag one country The author of Boyd Confederate Is a resident of Brooklyn and was on General staff in World War I and was cited by him for and meritorious counterespionage service at general head-: quarters A where Colonel Sigaud was in command of the American Intelligence Police in France for two years After the war Colonel Sigaud served in the Military Intelligence Reserve Section United States Army from 1920 to 1940 His decorations are: the Purple Heart (staff award) Victory Medal with two battle clasps the New York State Con-! spicuous Service Cross and the French Order of the Black Star Maison Levin's ifcC? 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