Evening star., 1921-04-03
Cottage at Soldiers Home
May Be Used by President
Hope Expressed for Return to Old Custom
Other News of People and Things
Interesting to Washingtonians.

three of these beneficent activities:
Mrs. John Henry Hammond. who is
the daughter of Mrs. Henry White:
Mrs. Ellen Dunlop Hopkins. founder
and active director of that interna-
tionally famous womers School for
Applied Design. and Mrs. George c.
Rogerson. to whose generosity and
energy. :he painting of the war por-
traits, is principally due.
NO doubt nearly every other great
city of the Union has group of pub
ilc-spirited women to whom the fine
arts are a heavy debtor but they have
not yet singled them out for munich
, pal honors.
LaddiA the Presidents dog, is by
odds the most gentlemanly and unob-
best sitter" for the camera of all the
removed pets which have preceded
him in the White House. Once every
hour the smiling colored boy who
had the Airedale in charge Easter
Monday morning would lead him out
oy a chain, when he instantly became
the focus of hundreds Of kodaks. He
seemed TO know Immediately that he
! was wanted to pose and would stand
erect. with tail properly poised and
eyes fixed on the camera. Then he
would saunter among the youngsters.
snln a little. but make no effort to
play or get friskv He sat for hours
on chair on the south verandah. in
full view of the concourse. never NOV
! ing. but gazing placidly down on the
! crowd. saying in canine language: II
know you all want to see me. SO here
! am And there he stayed until the
whirlwind drove him in. Easter Mon
day evidently has his entire approval
Tor during the height of the fun not
even his dinner could tempt him in
side.
One of the things which President
! Harding intends to do when time per-
| mits is to select a design from a num-
ber Of book-plates which have tempt
ed hlm SO little is heard nowadays
OF book plates. compared to their wide
( popularity ten or more years ago,
IL might be imagined that inter
, est in them had lapsed, whereas it
was never more intense.
Several artists devote their entire
time to this work. and recent designs
| are marvelously subtle and appro-
pirate. For years the President and
Mrs. Harding have been gathering a
but they had deferred ordering their
! book plate because the choice was
difficult. as it is always in a miscel-
! laneous collection. A mark which
would be appropriate in the grave
works of history and statecraft
| would look heavy and pedantic on the
/ i1ghter volumes of romance and trav-
ell. 1t becomes stroke of genius to
sc lect a ook-plate which fits neatly
into all kinds of books
A hne collection of ook-plates NAV
be inspected at the Library of Con-
gress, and if only the family of dead
luminarfes would contribute these
! splendid memorials. the collection
! would spon become one of the great
est in the world.
| Mrs He1op Could Sh1a.-,
sesses book-plate of unusual
charm. the edges being treated after
| an old missal, with a mother and
chiid reading great tome together
at thew base: Above. is Mrs. Shepard S
name and the fine quotation. Dreams.
books are each a world. and books
| we Know as world substantial for
good. The late President Roosevelt
possessed rare and appealing book
plate, the work of an old oxford
Ovid: a treasure which the Library
time. e congress hopes to secure some
Count Claus L4argeren and his son,
who have been guests at Wardman
Park Hotel for the greater part of
the winter, are both well known
in their own lands and in those parts
Of this country where Scandinavian
literature ffourishes, as the authors
| of several books. The elder count,
more NOR than thirty-fiye years ago,
| Gibbons. 1.-The Faith of Our Fa-
thers. Within a month the aged and
lamented prelate entertained the
Swedish visitors in his home ad-
. Joining the cathedral. and both were
honored with an invitation to sit
among the distinguished men from
all countries who attended the obse-
guies Thursday. Count Largeren be-
longs to the old nobility of Sweden
Castle. is one of the stateliest piles
in the north Of Europe. The count
and his son will travel extensively
in the northwest before returning to
Tyreso.
The Duke of Devonshire has spent
weeks going from place to place in
the Dominion. making his official
farewells. and now the runlor is con-
firmed that Lord Haig is to. be his
successor as governor general of
Canada. Naturally. all the celebri-
are delighted to hear this, and
series of visits to Washington is GER
tain to follow the coming of. the
field marshal of the British army in
the European war to Ottawa.
. Once 1t seemed entirely within the
the general commanders and Gen.
Pershing, and the executives of the
American Legion have repeatedly in
vited them. Marshal .Petain. who
commanded the French army and
Lord Haig had definitely accepted the
| invitation when the furry about thu
German border kept them at home.
| But eventually 1t may be possible.
and Gen. Diaz. who performed such
heroic service in the italian army of
the Tyrol may also join this group
of renowned heroes. But Lord Haig
will undoubtedly come to Washington
! just as soon as his official obligations
in Ottawa have been discharged.
Americans in London during the
Easter season fell far short Of the
usual number. but then even the at
I fractions in the Holy Land and the
Riviera could not fail to lure thou
sands. But there were many at their
i favorite hotels, and among them were
the most famous sartoria1 and decora-
tive artists. who came to view that
superb exhibition of medieval vest
ments in Westminster Abbey. the first
of its, kind ever attempted in the
long history of that venerable edif1ce.
The copes, stoles and chasubles are