Evening star., 1923-08-26
Tales of Well Known Folk a
In Official and Social Life|
Field of Prize Corn IN Rear of 18th Street Home
Is Delight of Senator Capper, Farm
Bloc Leader

ager of the British team will be the
guest of Gen. Pershing for the week.
There will be massing of military
bands while the tournament is in
progress, an unique feature due to
Gen. Pershing's interest.
Meantime the Hurlingham big
four" crack British club. which ar
rived on the Aquitania the middle of
August. is the guest of the Hon. and
Mrs. Frederic Guest at their home
near Roslyn. This team will play in
all the games after the Army series
and Will receive much social atten-
tion. The members are Lord Rock
savage, Maj. w. q. Barrett, Earl w.
Hopping and Capt. +. u. Guest. All
the American champions from ocean
| to ocean are foregathered and Long
Island is agos with the preparations.
For the duration OF the polo games. all
red tape has been cut and every
thing arranged for the comfort and
and spectators. Mr.. and Mrs. Guest
viii give the most elaborate enter
tainment of the week, ball the night
after the final Army games. and all
the important hostesses about South
ampton are busy with hoSpitable in
tentions. 1t is the belief that these
games are the initial contests which
will hereafter be held annually be-
tween the American and British army
polo champions and between the most
intrepid players i'll athletic clubs, and
that they will be an event of the
opening autumn as universally ac-
cepted and regarded as the foot ball
games between the Army and Navy
and the champion teams of the larger
universities in the late fall. Alter
nate years the games VIII be held in
England. If the program now being
prepared by the managers of the mill
tary teams is approved by the gem
eral army staffs.
Although Americas most renowned
humorist, Mark Twain. never achieved
fame as an editor, it is the editors OF
northeast Missouri. who are providing
the funds for the Mark Twain Park
Association, and, with headquarters at
Moberly, propose to purchase at least
100 acres Of land, surrounding the cot
tage outside of Florida, Mo, where
the illustrious man Of letters was
born. Missouri ~ rather late getting
into line in honoring her famous ma
tive son. Tor two other states have
all eady established memorials in
homes occupied by Mr.. Clemens and
his family ut different periods. He
lived for several years in Elmlra.
y. y. and the old IAangdon mansion
there, the early home OF his wife.
The more familiar residence in Hart
ford. Conn. once on the outskirts or
the city and with the writing tent set
in large field. is now quite within
remains of the field. but the tent has
been preserved in the side yard as
typical of Tom Sawyer's creator. Mr..
Clemens permitted no one to intrude
when H. was writing in the tent, and
when he required food he would ring
big bell suspended from Il pole. hut
the bearer Of the food was not al
lowed near him or to speak TO him,
but placed the viands in covered
basket at least 800 yards away. Soon
Of fIa IL of ha hnr ic
friends obtained title to the Hart
ford residence and have turned il into
d complete Mark Twain museum.
The park at Florida VIII perpctuate
rather than the years Of literary sue
CeSS.
Sir lzaak Walton's tiny fishing cottage
at ShalloWford, near Norton Bridge sta
tion. about six miles from Stafford has,
after long and involved legal procedure.
passed from the truStccship of the civic
authorities of Stafford. who held il i'll
accordance with the gentle fisherman's
will. to u board of ardent Sportsmen.
These already have set about the
restoration OF the cottage, which had
become delapidated in its general ap-
pearance and quite different from the
days when the calm philosopher mad"
it Il retreat for "loverS OF the angle"
Though all the essential features will
be preserved and the old-worl air mad.-
dominant, many modern improvements
will be added and some extra space in
the wings converted into quarters for
visiting fishermen and for those who de-
sire to paint the historic spot or to cast
line in Norton stream. Sir 1Zaak never
resided in this cottage except when
holdaying during the season when the
fish We're abundant and he often brought
congeniaI friends to share the delights
of his modest home and the adjacent
well stocked streams. 1t was III this
cottage that the humane owner shell
tered the prosecuted Bishop Morley and
not only caught the food for his guest
hut prepared 1t with his own hands All
Of which the new owners of the cottage
intend TO emphasize and they will adorn
the shelter under the roof where the
bishop lay hidden for ten days, with his
picture and full account of his flight
from London.
One Of the brilliant midsummer
fetes in England was the garden