The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-04-11
PEARL IKON OF LAST SUPPER
 MAY END TRAVELS IN MUSEUM
Duplicate of Sutans Gift to Czar Made By Kobi Tribes
 men, Cannot Be Accepted By King of England Women of Italy Seek Entrance to the Professions Rome Celebrates Birthday.

London, April II. A mother of pearl fkon of the Lords Last Sup per- almost identical to that present. ed to the Emperor of Russia by the Sultan of Turkey as a peace offering on the outbreak of the late war with Italy, is in London awaiting a claim ant. It was destined for King George but because it is not an official gift 1t cannot be presented to him. and, since no one else has right to accApt 1t, the ikon remains without a master.
 The history of the ikon began when Italy cast covetous eyes on Turkeys Tripo1ian possessions. The Sultan in need of friends, determined to turn to his powerful neighbor on the north and in true Oriental fashion decided to accompany his overtures with a gift He ordered the Kobi, an Ara bian tribe celebrated for it's mother of pearl work, to make an 1kon or the <sLord's Last Supper for presenta-, 7Ion to the Russian Emperor. It was nc small order, for the mother of pearl had to be carried a twelve day camel journey into the interior from the seashore.
 While the tribe was at,work on the 1lxon one of it's members. who had served in the British army, paid vis- it to his old home, and when he saw what was being done he insisted that it would be the grossest. discourtesy to his royal master if a similar gift was not made for King George The. only difference between the two is that the Russian gift is Surmounted by the imperial arms of Russia while the English image bears the royal arms of Great Britain
 When the Russian gift was finished the agents of the Sultan paid for it and carried it away, but the KObi 5ribesmen did not know how to send the replica to King George. It was finally taken to Sir John Gray Hill of Liverpool, who maintains winter home on the Mount of Olives in Jeru- salem Lady Hill paid the tribesmen for their work and brought the ikon to London.
 The ikon is made in the form of a half room with the front elevation surmounted by the royal arms The figure of the Savior and his disciples about the table are done in full relief i'm solid mother of pearl. The work is very complete, even the smallest table utensiIsSiu in mother of pearl oc- cupying tl1ezr ordinary place on the table The workmanship is exquisite and the design exce1lenfly done It is probable that if no means can be found for delivering the ikon to the King, it will find a resting place in some London museum.
 Rome. April 11-With the passing of the Gfolitti Cabinet the leaders of the feminist movement in Italy have taken up a new campaign, in the hope that the new ministers of the govern n7ent will deal more favorabIy with their cause. &
 There is no militant element in the feminist movement of Italy, and no sex-a anfagonisTn, but women are anx-< 1ous to free themselves from certain restrictions which the laws of the land and the customs of society have inn posed Originally designed for the protection of women, it is declared these laws are now a burden. The vote is the women's ultimate goal but at present they are hoping partfcu- 1arIy for the opening of the pr rofes- sfons to them and the repeal of such laws as those prohibiting a. married woman from opening bank account without the consent of her husband.
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 The theory that feminine beauty cannot be divided into types accord ing to nationality but that it is abso- 1ute1y International in character will be demonstrated by a special exhibit of paintings by Angiada. the Spanish master, at the coming Exhibition of Fine Arts at Venice.
 He has been honored with an invi- tation to show his pictures in a sepa- rate room, and the exhibit will be composed entirely of feminine DOT traits.
 Within two years it is expected that the pavilions of the different countries around the Central Palace of the Ve- nice group of art buildings will be completed by the addition of those of Germany, Austria and the United States on the island of Sant Elene, which will be connected with the gar 6ens of the Exhibition by three beau fiful bridges.
 Rome will celebrate her z667th birthday on April 21, with a general haiEfiuC of dar< and f111JTnfrafi0r1 7,IIf there will be revival this year of the celebrated Feast of the Century, the ancient ceremony, which was last attempted in 1900, when the Forum and Palatine rang, it did twenty centuries before, with the invocation by Horace to the Alma So1'' in which he asserted that the sun in it's pas sage around the world would see no such sight as Rome. Although the year.