Evening Star Newspaper, September 8, 1935, Page 41

About Well In Books, Art, Politics President Enjoys Old Home Meeting—Caro- lina Plantations Lure Yankee Dollars. World of Books. i BY ROBERT CRAWFORD. Just pinch-hitting for his wife is what the President of the United States told his neighbors who had gathered at a little old farm house near his old home at Hyde Park one evening last week to hear a Rit of news from the outside world. When the meeting was arranged they had expected Mrs. Roosevelt to talk to them—she is a member of the Demo- cratic Womens Club up there—but she had been called to Chicago to at- tend the funeral of her beloved friend, Mrs. Ickes, who had met an untimely death in an automobile accident. It was a familiar, homey scene at Hyde Park, such as was often enacted in the early political days of the coun- try, that took place that evening when President Roosevelt's old neighbors and friends, some of whom had known him from boyhood — just Frankie Roosevelt to them—gathered in the| twilight about a simple farm hou.'.ei that misty September evening to shake hands ‘with him and hear at first hand the news of what was really going on down at Washington. Were dreadful things being done— | was he absolutely pulling the roof off | Uncle Sam's Government, tearing the | insides out of the Constitution, hay- wiring the Declaration of Independ- ence, or just having a few repairs put on the White House, to preserve the historic mansion and make it more livable? Some of them remembered that Frankie always did do things, for there is a story among his neighbors that on one occasion when he was very much interested in some’ boyish activity and was rushing ahead, his mother asked him why he did not let some of the other boys manage the affalr. waited for them and that they had done nothing. Instead of coming to the meeting that evening on horseback and in horsedrawn vehicles, as they did in the early days, the friends and neigh- bors came in automobiles—there may not be a chicken in every pot or a slice of bacon on every breakfast table, but there is certainly a Sir Henry in almost every family through- out the country. Nine times out of ten the laboring man goes to work in his own car and farmers trundle along the countryside under motor power. In England laboring men go to work on shank's mare or ride bicycles. One of those big 6-foot Roosevelt boys stood by his father while he He answered that he had| OCIETY. Known Folk resentative Edith Nourse Rogers will be delighted that America is to have its own residence in Canada. She has always advocated that Uncle Sam should own his embassy and legation buildings and the Foreign Service Buildings Commisison, headed by Rep- resentative McReynolds of Tennessee, is considering construction or pur- chase of buildings in several foreign countries. The United States Treas- ury was so overcome with Finland's payment of her war debt, that even it advocates the building of a $300,000 legation at Helsingfors. All this reminds one that most mo- mentous news is coming over from the League of Nations at Geneva: Hand- some Capt. Anthony Eden, he of the beautiful teeth, the best dressed man in London, not excepting the Prince of Wales, is actually wearing at the morning sessions of the League a black and white pin striped suit— trousers and coat to match. With this he wears a white shirt and black neck- tie. 11 Duce must be frightfully in- terested in this latest sartorial ele- | gance and as for the Emperor Haile Selassie, he must be wondering what its all about. Capt. Eden—he does not appreciate references to the Garden of Eden and the puns on his sir name, he thinks it tiresome. On the other hand this brilliant young Englishman is no ordi- nary, common variety of garden. At Christ Church, Oxford, he took hon- ors in Oriental languages and distin- guished himself in the World War. | Mr. Stanley Baldwin, England's prime | minister, is very partial to Capt. Eden. | He evidently thinks him an excellent ambassador at large. | Mr. Beverley Nichols—you will re- | member that charming book of his, | “Down the Garden Path” and that | wondertul old house he describes— (in an amusing and somewhat fac- | tious article in Scribner’s Magazine, “Health and History,” thinks that if rulers and statesmen and members of the League of Nations had healthier, heartier stomachs, the affairs of the world would go along in a saner way and there would not be so much scrapping. He attended several sessions of the League of Nations at Geneva prior to Japan's withdrawal from the League and says the atmosphere should have been “electric.” “But it wasn't. Gradually I realized why. Firstly, the heat. Half the delegates were | sweating so that there was a perpet- talked to his neighbors. Citing a parable with the White House repairs #s an example, the President told them that, like the Mansion, the affairs of Government needed some going over, that neither the original structure of the White House nor the Government would be impaired—just strengthened and made more secure for the whole people. Using the | homely metaphor as he did, he said that in human life, in government snd in human structure, repairs must be made. Perhaps the President kept son | John by him that evening because it | made the road safer for traffic. John | appears to have a large part of the sporting blood of the family—he just | doesn't mean to, but when that little | old car gets out on the road, the devil | seems to get hold of the wheel and nl simply streaks ahead Along with strikes and a few other | exciting things down in South Caro- | lina, the real estate men claim that they are having a second Yankee in- vasion and Charleston seems almost as alluring as it did in old reconstruc- | tion days. During the past two | decades the market in plantation | | benedictine . | ual flutter of white handkerchiefs to | dripping brows. Yet no body thought of opening a window. Secondly, the smoke. It is a literal fact that after an hour it was impossible to dis- | tinguish the faces of the delegates | from the front row of the gallery, be- | cause of the fumes from all the | cherocts, pipes, cigars and cigarettes . - . & number of the delegates were late, attending official luncheons . . . they (the luncheons) meant sherry and sauternes and Ceintreau and . hors d'oeuvres and | lobster thermidor and chicken en| casterole and chocolate souffie.” Mr. Nichols says he fell to reminat- ing on all the acids that must have | been fermenting in these “distin- | guished stomachs, of old hearts wear- | written about the middle of the nine- | his morganatic wife, Mrs. ily pumping over-sugared blood | through hardened arteries, and I men, in such conditions, that we shall | ever reach the peace that the world | craves.” | Mr. Harold J. Laski, in Current | | History for August gives a delightfully | tion and affection for her. vivid picture of Prime Minister Bald- | win. He asks, “What’s Mr. Baldwin's | secret?> He is a good speaker, beau- | THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., SEPTEMBER 8, 1935—PART THREE. Engagement Announced Today A, MISS ELIZABETH HENDERSON PARKER, - Daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Alphonso Eastwood Parker, who today announce her engagement to Mr of Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Lawrence Diamond of Gaithersburg, Md. The wedding will take place in October in the Columbia Country Club. to the beautiful consort of Leopold III. From the time she entered Bel- gium, she looked upon the people as her own people and their interests were hers. She did much for the lace industry of Belgium, which had suf- fered sorely from the German inva- sion during the World War. Child welfare was her constant personal con- cern and she went among her people in an informal way, which endeared her to them. In Longfellow’s “Saga of King Olaf,” in the poem to “The Nun of Nidaros —who was Astrid of the abbess of the | Convent of Drontheim. the last verse seems patticularly symbolic of the beauty and romance of the adopted “Snow Queen” of the Belgians, and her sudden death. “The dawn is not distant, Nor is the night starless; Love is eternal! God is still God, and His faith shall not fail us; Christ is eternal.” The Oxford University Press will publish this month “The Complete Marjory Fleming: Her Journals, Let- ters and Verses”; this edition has been transcribed and edited by Mr. Prank Sidgwick. There are doubtless few | libraries for children that would be minus a copy of “Pet Marjorie, a Story of Child Life Fifty Years Ago’ now something like a century and & quarter ago. This little book was teenth century by Dr. John Brown of Edenboro and has come to be almost | asked myself if it is through such | & classic with the grown-ups as well as with the children. i Marjorie Fleming or “Maidie” as she was called by Sir Walter Scott, owes her lasting fame to his admira- He said that she was the most extraordinary | creature he had ever met and that | he found her much more companion- | Pproperties has been very active with | tiful voice, not a great orator—can | sble than the majority of older people. Northern sportsmen taking over the coastal plantations for shooting pre- | serves and sea islands for fishing and acquatic sports. Recently a little | group of South Carolinians discussing the invasion in a jovial mood figured | out that about 500,000 acres of land had been taken over by Northern people during the past 20 years and that property worth something like $50,000,000 had been acquired. Now even some of the lovely old houses along the Battery are being negoti- ated for as Winter town houses. Well, the latter would certainly loose their charm without the century-old rose- wood and mahogany furniture, the portraits and miniatures and the Queen Ann and George III silver on the beautiful old sideboards. It was in one of those charming houses on the Battery that a Scots gentleman was invited for a week's visit and remained for 40 years—in fact, until his death. In return for the millions rich Americans have put in the old castles in England, it is rumored that a Brit- 1sh syndicate is on the eve of invest- ing about $650,000 in New York prop- erty. The wonderful impetus housing i has received during the past two years | make the kind of speech his hearers | will not easily forget. An English-| man with his pipe . . . round jolly face . .. his air of easy bon homme . . . his zest for the countryside . . . likes sound books . . . he seems just like one's neighbor who runs to catch the 9:15 at the suburban station every morning—simplicity, sincerety.” It will be recalled that Mr. Laski | has been a popular lecturer here at both Harvard and Yale. He is pro- fessor of political science in the Uni- versity of London. A special prayer service for a peace- ful solution of the Italo-Ethiopian crisis is being held each morning in ‘Westminster Abbey, London. It is reported that the services are largely attended by all classes of people. It is not often that so much senti- ment and feeling is exhibited in the death of a foreign ruler as was dis- played at the memorial service for the beloved young Queen of the Belgians, which was held at St. Matthew's Catholic Church on Wednesday last. 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I read novelettes and my Bible . . . an Annibaptist is a thing I am not a member of—I am a Pisplekan (Episcopalian) just now, | and a Prisbeteran at Kirkcaldy—my | native town.” Wherever she visited | she changed her religion to suit her hosts. George IV, the first gentleman of | Europe has at last a biographer who seems to understand him and who puts | him before the public in a far more | interesting light than he has usually occupied, This service is due to Mr. | Fulford, to whom George IV was &/ man of parts, a King who consci- entiously tried to perform the duties scended to him. 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