Evening star., 1925-04-12

| Summer Col. Scott and several of his
friends visited Edinburgh for the sole
purpose of paying homage at Robert
Louis StevensoE's birthplace. To their
keen establishment and regret, they
found no tablet or marker of any kind
| on the mansion and in fact, expert
| enced some difficulty in accurately
locating the old home. Receiving per-
Emission to present this tablet which
is but six short lines and merely re-
cords the signal event for literature
| among the EngliShspeaking peoples
that Stevenson was born there, the So
ciety had intended to present the gift
/ this coming November, when the novel
list would have attained his seventy
| fifth birthday had he lived. But 1T is
now proposed to mark this memorable
day in a more substantial way than
by this meager tablet. Col Scott and
his society have the most complete and
valuable collection of personal relics
| and original manuscripts of the author
perhaps found in the world. 1t has
also most interesting collection of
personal possessions, as lock of hair
cut when the novelist wah but
years old.
DR.. Will S. Monroe, who for 10
years has been the president of the
New York section of the Green
Mountain Club, was given a dinner
and a hikers outfit by the members
of this organization last week, and
| If thes Attorney General had not so
lately taken over his duties and
found them so prohibitive of vaca-
tions he would certainly have been
present to honor his neighbor from
! Waterbury, Vt, the founder of the
Green Mountain Club and its earnest
supporter. DR.. Monroe has a farm
called the Crouching Lion, adjacent
| to the Camefs Hump, one of the sum-
mits of the Green Mountains, and the
famous Monroe sky line was his trail
over the adjacent peaks. DR.. Mon
roe's noted achievement was this es
| tablishment of skyline trails over
all the high ranges of the Green
| Mountains mixers. descending to the
lower levels only for water and for
| shelter in the camps in case OF
storms. President Coolidge's home
! is but a few miles from the Long
Trail and, in his days of greater
leisure, he frequently climbed the
high paths on hikes. The Attorney
General habitually followed these
trails, fishing and hunting. and though
this we'll developed playground is but
little known in this section, it has a
wide vogue in New York and New
England.
Blantyre, the splendid estate of the
! late Robert w. Paterson, art collector
and intimate friend of Andrew Car
negie, which is one of the most ex-
| tensive and ornate of the larger
, country seats near Lenox in the Birk-
/ shires. has recently been sold to Mrs
Paterson to Mr.. Howard Cole of Palm
| Beach. Mr.. Cole has in mind the
| founding of an 1S-hole golf course, a
| feature much desired in this partic-
ular section as the Lenox Golf Club
/ is crowded to the utmost and Is
stretching out for more space. Mr..
Cole is one of the leading members
and last year he purchased Belvoir
Terrace from Miss Eleanor de Graft
Cuyler, who had inherited it from her
uncle, the late Morris K. Jessup, and
! it is his intention to divides the year
evenly between the Berkshires and
the Florida resort. Blantyre lies near
! enough to Belvoir Terrace to make
daily golfing as easy for the owner
as sitting down to breakfast. 1t was
named for village in Scotland, dear
to MT. Carnegie and Mr.. Paterson be-
cause it was the birthplace of David
Livingstone, the explorer, for whom
both had a fervent admiration and
affection. 1t lies near some of the
famous places of Lenox, among which
is the big estate of the Goelets, owned
equally at present by the Duchess of
Roxburghe and her brother Robert
Walton Goelet; HOLLYWOOD, the Sum-
mer home of Mrs. Raymond T. Baker,
and Laurel Lake, owned by Miss
Georgianna Sargent. Blantyre was
built in 1918 and is 20-room villa of
the Elizabethan type, ideal for a
country clubhouse.
The residents of no city in the
United States will follow the hunt
ing trip of Theodore and Kermit
Roosevelt with keener interest than
in Washington, and their assumption
of the names Suto and Komi, sug-
gested by celebrated explorer in
Chinese Turkestan, where they will
make their initial attempt at big
reminiscence from others who have
| travelled most of this ground. As
| these seekers after strange beasts
and unknown birds and flora will be
practically in the hands of their
guides, their new names are easy
for the Chinese tongue and under
such the dispatches telling of their
in the daily press. Indeed. it will be
rather u difficult matter for them to
lay aside the Suto and Komi but
they may be called that in their own
particular circle for years to come.
| The name of Roosevelt temporarily
laid aside might have proved one to
conjure with even in the outposts of
civiliza ton whittier the two elder
sons of the twenty-sixth President
are bound, but friendly advice led
them to a contrary belief. The re-
| suits of this expedition will, how
| ever, never be seen in Washington,
something which many regret. The
Roosevelt collection at the museum
has thousands of visitors each month,
the children of Washington making
regular pilgrimages and the young
sters here for a day being led there
among the first of the sights they are
commanded to behold.
| Helena Normanton, the brilliant
| young American barrister who has
been making London sit up and Won
der, has started the most energetic
campaign in Chicago, her home city,
against both Miss" and Mrs" being
used to designate women. Or If a
| title must be had, the iconoclastic
Helena says, let it be Mrs" since
| Mr." is used by men, single and in
the bondage, and Miss" is prudish
and silly. Mrs. Rockefeller McCor-
mick has Joined the issue with the
visiting Briton, who is, by the way
married to an English literary. critic
named Arthur Clark. Mrs. Mccormick
sees no reason why a woman who has
made a name of her own should be
submerged in another when she mar
| ries, and she waves aside the embar-
easements which must arise when
husbands and wives go by different
naICas in world still ruled by con-
| ventions and conformists. Helena
| Normanton had q. merry tussle with
Secretary Hughes when she insisted
| on having the American consul in