Evening star., 1920-06-13

nicipal museum at Glasgow and the
Edinburgh textile showrooms, where
an exhibition of these venerable
relics is permanent attraction.
practice to give a fine Paisley shawl
to brides and special friends and,
though this custom was much ridi-
culed even by her majesty's loyal
subjects. It was an act of virile pa
triotism. which kept alive these fac
raoh's hosts. The Paisley shawl
reached its perfection in the village
| Of that name near Glasgow and for
time forced even the fine Cashmere
| and East Indian Weaves into the back
ground.
The mandatory has now abso-
iutely passed away and only by dill
gent search and by Offering tempting
prices has the Glasgow museum been
| able to secure it's collection. Queen
Victoria sent one OF the handsomest
specimens of Paisley shawl ever seen
in this country to Miss Harriet Lane,
| when she became Mrs Johnston. but
no one seems to know exactly what
has become of 1t. There are some
private collections Of shawls in Eng
land and Scotland as much priced by
| their owners as china and old silver
and brass
The Duchess OF Roxburghe, who
| was Miss May Goelet of New York. has
some two hundred shawls in her art
gallery In London. draping tables,
In cases of extremely rare specimens.
are framed and exhibited under glass,
AS returns come from the Chicago
convention speculative glances are
| cast at the church buildings aasocIa-
ated with various great names now
| much In the public mind. Like Vir-
ginia. the Episcopal church seems to
oe mother of presidents and In Wash
| lngton st. Johns continues to hold
the record. Gen. Pershing, though
! not a regular communicate, is more
affiliated with that venerable edif1ce
than any other here and SO also is
Gen. Wood. Senator and Mrs Hard
ing are baptists, a large and i'm
portant division of Protestant Chris
tian1ty. hitherto unrepresented among
! Herbert Hoover is Quaker and, like
| man who will be very prominent
two weaI;s hence in San Francisco.
Mr.. Mitchell Palmer, the Attorney
General. he has attended the modest
little chapel of the Friends in 1
street. Senator and Mrs. Hiram John
son have not affiliated with any con-
/ gregatieB in Washington, though Mrs.
Johnson, who was Miss Minnie Nc
Neill of Sacramento, is Presby-
terian. Every chief magistrate Of
the United States except Thomas
Jefferson, has been a regular attend
ant at some Washington church and
II has been quite matter eff pride
to guard these historic edifices st.
Johns claims greater number than
any enc church, for the reason that
every President who belonged to the
Episcepalian faith was an attendant,
whereas Presbyterians, Methodists and
others divided their allegiance An
! drew jackson, first follower of Calvin
who came to the presidency, declined
ia attend fhn established
byterian Church, afterward attended
| by Buchanan and Cleveland, and he
| encouraged the founding of the
| Second or New York Avenue Presby-
| terrain Church, which Lincoln also at
| tended.
| BENJAMIN Harrison, who was aise
of this way of believing, attended the
Church of the Covenant. while two
other executives, Martin Van Buren
and Theodore Roosevelt, belonged to
distinct branch Of Presbyterian
ism called the Dutch Reformed The
present executive. also a Calvinist, at
tends, the old southern church, the
| Central, new existing in a fine new
structure out on 10th street: Andrew
| johnson. Gen. Grant and Maj McKin-
ley attended the venerable Metropoli-
| tan Methodist Church, but Rutherford
| B. Hayes went to the old Foundry.
then on 14th and G streets, and now
| rebuilt on 18th. A church to which
| fragrant memories of two Presidents
cling has recently been demolished,
and a splendid modern edif1ce will ap-
pear soon on the great boulevard.
which spreads away west from the
| Lafayette Park, 18th street. This is
All Souls Church. attended by Millard
Fillmore and William Howard Taft
| The two Adamses were likewise Uni
| tarians, but no church of that denom-
| nation existed in Washington during
] their administrations. Garfield belong
ed to the Disciples of Christ. and Gov.
| Cox of Ohio. prominent candidate of
| the democrats. was also an attendant
| at their church here when he was
serving his state in the lower house.
| The ambassador to France and Mrs.
| Hugh Wallace were among the distin-
guished guests present in Rouen re-
Gently at one of the most picturesque
lceremonies held In honor of the