The Washington times., 1926-08-14
CLARA HOUGH
IS AUTHOR
OF NOVEL
Former Washington Wo-
man Writes Story of
.Norsemen

TINE washington chapter IN tn'
i colorful life Of Clara Sharpe
lIough, author Of ''Lief the Lucky
q Morse romance soon to be pub
lished by the Century Company
gives the Capital the right to claim
the budding novelist as Its own.
Mrs. Hough came to Washington
In 1918 to accept . position a.
scenario editor In the Department
of Agriculture and to be with heI
newly.nada husband, George A
Hourh, jr,, assistant to Herbert
Bayard Swope Of the War Indus
tries Board. The young couple SCI
np housekeeping IN q one.room-and
bath apartment In q once magnifl'
rent old mansion on Dupont Circle
formerly the Chinese embassy. Mrs,
Hourh's connections-ehe is a niece
81 Lieut.. Col. L. w. Prunty, y. 8.
A.,-plunsed the two at once into
the arl I life Of the city. gay even
Ia those grim final days OF the
war.
In Army Set
An army girl. Mrs. Hough had
keen much Of the United States be-
fore coming to Washington. Born
"a Mexico she had lived In Texas,
Arizona, California, Indian Terri
tory and the middle West. She 10
Graduate Of Mills College Of
California and Columbia University.
She began writing in her under
Eraduate DAYS o. after leaving
school continued her work as a
Newspaper writer.
Lift the Lucky" IL q romance
pf the Morse discovery Of North
america. It Is to appear In q
fear Of Viking renaissance, Swe-
lens crown prince during his re.
tent visit In the United States
made pilgrimage to the old stone
mill in Newport, r. l., once &C
credited TO Viking builders. Out
bn the Pacific Coast oluf Upsjon
has claimed the discovery Of an
Inscription cut by Norsemen on a
kock there 500 years before Co
hImbus. Down the Atlantic Coast
| replica OF q Viking ship is tracing
The journey from Greenland to the
6esonicentennial at Philadelphia.
These bits of news have piqued
public interest as to America g
drst olScoVererS.
Story, Not History
According to Mrs. Hough she
las not attempted to write his
tory. but she has chung to the
outline of the sagas which tell US
what little we know Of the Morse
Voyages to Vineland.
This fruitful land 10 never locat-
I'd with definiteness In the sagas.
Later scholars have tried to de-
Tide where the land might have
been. Some have called 1t Nova
scotia. Others Cape Cod. Who
B correct viii probably never DC
Known. History accepts their COM
ng as fact. It leaves details
The author of .'Leif the Lucky
has chosen to represent the
Vikings making their landing on
he Massachusetts, coast. The
adoption Of Christianity by the
bagan Norsemen, and the love-
hvaIry between Left Erikson a1d
bis brother ,Thorwald are "ther
threads woven into this epic OF
the discovery Of a new world.
Mrs. Hough now makes her home
m New Bedford. Mass, where she
was the first woman trustee OF the
bubble library. She Is, also. secre-
tary Of the New Bedford Girl Scout
Council.
And, last, but not least, the
mother Of two stalwart young sons.
y X =
DAWES PARTY
ON WAY HOME
Vice President and Mrs. Charles
b. Dawes are in Chicago en-
route back to Washington They
have been at wagonwheel Gap,
Colorado, on a fishing excursion.
y y
Chief Justice William Howard
TAFT, who has been I'll at his home
ht Murray Bay, Canada, is report
ed improving.
The Swiss Minister and Nine.
Peter. vacationing in the Thousand
tslands, were the guests at luncheon
Yesterday Of the former Secretary
Of State and Mrs. Robert Lansing
ht the Thousand Island Country
Club.
Nine. Francois Pfenning was also
! member Of the party.