Evening star., 1920-01-18
Soc gi@2CY

aiding the Czechoslovak museum in
| New York which is now open Tor the
public Through clippings from news
| papers through posters, leaflets and
| te official proclamations of organized
! societies. the Bohemians and those or
allied blood in this country have gain :
cred in book form. irrefutaole eVl-
! dence of their cohesion from the mo-
ment war was declared by the central
empires and they declining to be al
ligned with alien enemies. had shown
! their active sympathy for the coun-
! tries at war with their ancient enemy
the Hapsburg and their concerted ef-
forts to aid, which resulted in the
glorious new and free Bohemia. The
museum is located in the heart OF
| little Bohemia in New York city S
East Side and is being visited by nun
dreds of admiring friends. There are
awt sets of each exhibit. one intended
to remain here in lasting grat!tude 10
| the American Czechs who AIDED SO
signally, the other to be sent to
Prague to become part OF the arcnlVes
of the nation. Nearly all the ENJOYS
| and ministers from the Slav and Bal
kan states have Joined DR.. Masaryk
and his staff in their visits to TINS
unique museum of Bohemian patriotism.
! Washingtonians are deeply graft
fed over the honors which have been
bestowed on Mrs. Lawrence Benet IN
! being awarded the medal Of the
Legion of Honor of the first class.
Mrs. Benet was formerly Miss Mar
saret Cox of Georgetown, and is the
! niece and was once the ward OF one
of the most beloved of Washington
judges. the late Walter V. Cox, whose
sketches of the bench and bar are SO
useful to the historian. Mrs. Benet,
and indeed all who receive the deco
ration Of the Chevalier du Legion
|d'Honneur from the French govern
ment, are entitled to more privileges
than are generally understood For
instance, no less than four great
schools are maintained by the gov
ernment, at which sons and daughters
of these officers and men may be
educated gratuitiously. Two of these,
one for boys and the other for girls,
are in the suburbs imm ediately out
side of Paris. and give an advanced
scientific or commercial training. The
other two are intended for the chill
dren of the highest rank of the Le-
Gion of Honor One, for boys, is IN
the famous old court city of St. Denis
and the other on that thoroughfare
ant anxiety during the advances on
Paris, les Chemin des Danes, the Road
of the Ladies. 1t was formerly
boarding school for girls maintained
by the daughters Of ouis XIV, who
were in the habit of going in gay
Napoleon took it over and placed it
under government control to educate
and care for the many orphaned
daughters of his officers, and it has
remained SO during all these years.
Any of the sons and daughters of men
or women whom the French govern
ment has deemed worthy of Napo-
Icons great order of merit may. upon
making out the proper papers, be ad-
mitted to remain as long as it re-
quires to receive the full course of
instruction. Certain other educational
advantages are conferred on the chill
dren of the members of the Legion
of Honor. such as admission into the
renowned Academy of Fine arts, the
Paris School of Design or in any of
the colleges connected with the his
toric University of Paris.
Robert L. Brookings of ST Louis. who
resided in Washington almost contlnu-
ously during the war and is such fire.
quent visitor now as one of the Amer
lean signatories of the international tri-
bunal for determining German repara-
tions, is one of that large group OF men
who is devoting the income of vast
fortune toward developing the educa-
tional Institutions of their homes. Mr.
Brookings has already bestowed on the
Washington University of st. Louis
cluster of buildings without peer in the
world, and as he is a bachelor without
close relations, he has. with the aexcep-
ton of few unimportant legacies
willed his fortune entirely to the cause
of educa tion in Missouri, the state uni
versity, at Columbia, and the Washing
ton University, Of which he is principal
trustee. Mr.. Brookings resides in one of
the beauty spots on the Mississippi
river, place made famous through the
numerous descriptions Of Mark Twain.
Kennett Castle, at Selma. just where the
bluffs between the junction of the Mis-
souri, and Mississippi rise to the loftiest
point recorded from there to the delta.
Those who read "Innocents Abroad will
recall how the celebrated humorist
harks back to the bluffs at Selma, and
how he mea sures heights on the Rhine.
along the Turkish shore, even in the
halowed regions along the Jordan and
the holy mounts of Scripture by his re-
membrance of the great bluff at Selma
hundred and fifty in number, which led
from the landing to the hospitable door
of the castle Kennett Castle was built
by Ferdinand kennett, who was rich
enough to build stronghold like
feudal knight, early in the 1S40's. Mr..
ing lodge of the famous castle, and red
coated hunters dash through woods
which are still prin1eval, though on
each side of the vast domain of Selma
rise the black chimneys of glass works
and iron works and other huge indus
trial plants which are making the banks
of the Mississippi below st. Louis look
like stretched-out part of Pittsburgh.
Anent the agitation started against
the proposed smoking room in the
Woman's City Club a silver haired
elderly woman, whose sprightly move
ments belied the years her kindly eyes
revealed, was slowly divestinga her
wraps preparatory to engaging ain a
bridge party at local hotel. She
listened silently for a moment to the
chattering of a somewhat younger
group over the pros and cons of the
propriety of the proposed "declarat ton
OF principles of equality given through
suffrage and establishment of a
smoking room in the magnificent clubs
house which the club has just pur-
cha Sed.
Finally she could stand it no longer
and with a bareback of the proud
head that left unquestioned her right
to membership in the oreaniza ton
giving the party-the Daughters of
| 1S12-she delivered herself of this ul-
timatum:
have always done as I wanted to. IF
want to smoke am going to smoke.
If l don't want to smoke l am not
going to smoke. If any one else
wants to smoke they may smoke. n
they don't want to smoke they don't
have to smoke, and if they object to
seeing the women smoke that want to
smoke they can join the w. c. r. L
or the Y. w. c. A."
| And she marched to her table and
| 1t is said, further attested her inde-
DendenCe bV leayin~ hahipd-in ,,o;,t :.