Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-07-25

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the past four years. She has passed
| from the lower house official set to
the role Of cabinet officer's lady, and
from this, after a brief though brill
| liant regime, to that OF being a mem
Der OF the senatorial coterie. Mrs.
| congressional circle, which she graced
for so many years. and casts her lot
| with her former friends as often as
| opportunity permits Nearly all her
receptions and larger fetes were given
in the Congressional Club and her So
cial aids were invariably chosen from
| the wives OF representatives in Con-
| gress. The former Secretary of the
! Treasury and present senator from
J Virginia belongs to the large group
| of newspaper publishers and propri-
| etorS who are serving as national leg
! islators AS editor of the Daily News
! OF Lynchburg. Senator Glass has been
for many years one OF the makers Of
| opinion in his commonwealth. Mrs.
Glass and her daughters are among
the enthusiastic lovers Of horses. and.
I like the late Col Roosevelt, their
! idea OF a delightful trip is to take
it with a steed. after the primitive
mode. They live on the highway to
/ the scenic part of Virginia, and for
years no summer passed with
out a party of friends riding over the
| famous Natural bridge and through
the mountain passes, which are not
| only gloriousiy beautiful, but which
are additionally fascinating through
! being the scene of so many of the
stories of Fox and other writer's who
follow the feud history of these shut
in people OF this section.
| Lynchburg is one Of the great to-
| bacco centers of this country. and II
1t were seaport would control the
market of the world. Virginians like
Senator Glass have a pride that much
| OF the fragrant weed starts on its
travels to the uttermost points of the
| world via Norfolk rather than Bal
fillmore, which. from revolutionary
times has been the chief export place
for this highly appreciated COM
! n odity. Baltimore sends all that Amer
grade Of nicotine to Italy, which is
there powdered into snuff. used in this
shape habitually in King Victor En-
manuefs kingdom rather than as
cigars or for cigarettes. Some plant
| ers about Lynchburg have for years
held the privilege Of furnishing the
! tobacco which makes snuff for the
sacred college of cardinals. and Pope
Plus K would have greatly missed his
Baltimore consignment had he sur
vived the war. when such luxuries
| had to be foregone. The tobacco for
this special usage among the higher
! ecciesiastics of Rome Is sent over in
/ the pressed leaf, carefully packed and
sealed.
All those who saw that wonderful
! DEMONSTRATION of the career of the
| patriot Abraham Lincoln will be in
terested to know that the Illinois leg
! islature has just ordered Lord Charm
woods life of the great liberator. on
which the play was built, to be edited
! into a text book and placed in all the
rublic schools of the state. This. Of
| course, with the permission of the au-
, tior and the promise of his aid in the
! compilation and a possible visit to
this side to see the induction. All
of which shows a degree or inde
!, pendence on the part of the Illinois
legislators which would have caused
fur to fly had citizen of that state
! won the honor sought at Chicago.
American historians, while accepting
, the Britisher's estimate of the char-
/ acter of Lincoln. object to some OF the
deductions. especially those Whlch re-
! fer to the south.
! Some fun may be in order yet, since
Illinois, like every other state. num-
bers southerners and democrats
among it's voters and supporters Of
Il the public schools. 1t may be a pal
THAT 1t is sedulously reported that the
DISTINGUISHED Briton is about to turn
his facile pen on a life of Robert E.
Lee. 1t may be true, say many OF the
Lee relatives III w dSIlHS lou, uut IL 10
more than true that not hand will
be lifted among them to give him as
sistance or any of the intimate de-
! tails without which his life Will be
rather colorless. OF course the Ii
braries are open to the British his
torian. as are the files Of the War De-
ipartment The late Mary Custis Lee.
SO, well known in Washington. where
she resided at intervals during so
many years, was the last surviving
child Of the Confederate chieftain,
and she left a mass of manuscript to
| her nephew, who bears, after that of
George Washington, the most revered
name south of Mason and Dixon's
| line, Miss Lee was not partial to a
foreign historian for her father, such
as Stephenson's wonderful book on
Stonewall Jackson or this recent life
Of Lincoln. The matter had been
preached frequently. but she treated
it indifferently. The topic is one of
absorbing interest in social and lit
erary circles in every part of the
country and has. of course. raised an
army Of pros and cons. especially in
tthis matter Of having the Britisher's
life introduced as a text book into
| the American schools. 1t is certain
that no matter how marvellous a life
Of Lee Lord Charnwood will write.
| he will not be proffered this honor
| from the country which he has hap
died rather roughly in his Lincoln,
and certainly without sufficiently
Weighing all the evidence at hand.
It will be a lively issue with the
stump speakers and may take some
| of the attention away from the league
itself.