Evening star., 1922-12-10

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SEPTEMBER MORNING." BY WALT
of bouquets for special occasions, like
flowers for the debutante, for the
bride or for birthday party. A prize
of SIS was offered by Mrs. Bayard
Henry. who is the president of the
Little Gardens Club within the urban
limits of the Quaker city. for the
| most artistic tabi" set for four. and
on which cloth or doilies. dishes. CEN
| dies had to be provided with an ex-
! penditure Of IS or less. This prize
! was won by Mrs. Thomas Sewhall,
who spread her table with drawn
crash runpers embroidered In crimson
and black. with black candlesticks
/ The centerpiece was bowl of black
glazed ware. which had once been
an electric fixture and broken. and In
| this were a few sprigs OF barberry
| and some honeysuckle vine. Her
four plates came from the five-cent
counter, but matched perfectly the
other decorations. and all this dainty
! equipment cost exactly $2.1S. These
f! l!tlle gardens clubs hold exhibits
| all through the winter in Boston and
| New York and they reach class OF
| people whose domain is measured by
; feet not by acres and who must count
on brains and intensive cultivation TO
! obtain results easily reached In larger
! spaces.
! The Marquis de Several. for many
years the Portuguese minister to Lon
don, and known everywhere as an In
! innate friend and comrade of the late
| King Edward. died a few weeks ago
and is deeply mourned by the British
press Like the Viscount d'Alte at
this capital. the marquis survived in
the political sense the upheaval
which eliminated Portuguese royalty
and placed the government in the
| republican ranks. He was the most
noted after-dinner speaker OF the
present age except perhaps the ven-
York. Chauncey Depew. But the
marquis had the advantage OF the
| New Yorker in that he could tell ex-
cellent stories in four tongues. He
; was known for his fastidious taste
| in dress. and made the fashions far
| more than the tailors did. He clung
! to the sharply curved rim to his silk
hat and deep velvet collar on his
evening coat, and he utterly refused
to have anything to do with the
Tuxedo jacket. His monocle. his gold
topped cane and white kid gloves
with yellow silk embroidery on the
back were as familiar In the London
clubs as that Of any lord of the
realm. The marquis was the dean Of
the corps of ministers and had served
in London for more than thirty
years. He was also a favorite with
King George and Queen Mary and a
guest at Windsor several times a
year.
Portraits of Washington by Gilbert
Stuart are being carefully located by
the trustees Of the National Gallery
of Art with the hope that eventually
they will be deposited in the Ameri-
comparable to that of London or
Paris Stuart is deemed a genius
worthy to rank with REYNOLDS. Gains
borough, Hopner and Romney. His
canvases lack the fire and color of
these renowned English masters. but
his subjects were of later day and
of those less gorgeous in attire. The
last portrait for which Washington
sat to this revered American master
was in 1898. this being within six
months OF inc TSNcEcu pdtTlol uc-
mise. and this canvas is among the
most valuable of the world and Is
known in art inventories as the Rawle
portrait. now the property of Mr..
George S. Palmer of New London,
Conn. william Rawle was appointed
district attorney. and served in Phil
adelphia during all of Washington's
second term. 1793-s7. The portrait
was begun then. but was finished aft
er the first patriot had returned to
Mount Vernon. It is IS by 80 inches
all critics to be the finest Of all the
paintings which Stuart made of
Washington. The federal government
would undoubtedly be supremely
happy II Mr.. Palmer recognizes the
evasion of a patriotic duty involved
in keeping a work of art Of this in
ternational Significance in private
collection of a small insular town
ship, when IT would, in the National
Gallery at Washington. D. c.: prove
an Inspiration to hundreds of thou
sands annually.
Pittsburgh has recently ordered the
demolition Of the spacious old dwell
ing which occupied at one time the
central point in a largo country es-
tate called Homewood. and volleys
Of protests from historians. artists
and architects have assailed the
mayor and the city council. Though
Pittsburgh is called the Mother OF
millionaires' and owns some OF the
most extensive and costly mansions
in the western world, the house built
by Charles wilkins in 1882 has been
regarded as the first and greatest ex-
ample Of Neo-Greek architecture. em-
ployed in the domestic sense. and re-
sembled those splendid Palladian
houses in London, Venice and other
old world cities. which are as zeal
ously cared for as the canvases OF the
old masters. The Wilkins mansion
at Homewood. though almost CEN
tury old, is in the most perfect pres
ervation and its grilled iron. its
stained glass windows and exquisite
floors of parquetry have been sold
by the heirs for a sum which closely
approximates the original cost OF the
entire mansion. The city has en-
croached on Homewood and its
primeval forest has been laid low,
and now the opening Of new streets
demands the leveling Of the mansion.
The Carnegie Institute has bought
the pillared portico and it will be
preserved in its entirety in the south
wing Of its new building.
Easier for Sleepers.,