Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-08-11

No President has ever told of the
great quantity and variety OF obJects'
animate and inanimate, which pour
into the White House unsolicited, ana
ofttimes unwanted, from friends, we'll
wishing strangers and manufacturers
of products which they are seeking 10
exploit, This habit of the great
American public of sending token
or q. sample to the President seems
TO be steadily growing. The accumu-
lation of books donated in the course
| Of a. single four-year term would Iur-
nish enough reading mater for llfe-
| time, It is printed that Mr.. Coolldge
"a rries a cane on his daily stroll ana
within a. few weeks a hundred canes
more or less reached the White House.
| There have been received enough
radio sets, some in the thousand
dollar class, to provide one 1or every
room in the house; also dogs, cats ana
canary birds, tigers and bears, FUR
coats and fedoras.
X X X X
The WIDESPREAD publicity given to
Mr.. Coolidge's reputed tondness LOT
dogs during his early days at the
White House brought such a deluge
Of pups that the President was hard
pressed TO find homes for them, and
a quiet hint was passed along to the
newspaper correspondents to let up
for a, while on the dog stories. NOT
all Of the dogs that arrived were pups
with a. pedigree, either. Two travel
wearied and somewhat sadeyed black
and white fox terriers in a homemade
crate were received during the height
Of the dog rush, and two days later
came this letter of explanation from
an unknown donor in a village In the
Carolina mountains:
Dear Sir:
I take pleasure in writing these
few lines, hoping you and your
family are we'll and enjoying good
health. I am sending you d pair
of French fox terriers Of which 1
hope you will be pleased. The
mother and father of these dogs
was picked up on the battlefieldS
of France after being gassed by
the boys of the brave and noble
S1st division of the State Of South
Carolina, brought here, of which
I became the owner Of the breed,
and they are the only dogs with
that record that I know of. Please
give them a good home, for I only
got a small yard and 1 got six
more. But none to sell and they
are all nice ones"
X x X x
Congressman find many roads, to
fame. Representative John B. Sos
nowski Of Michigan is getting nation
wide publicity by the simple expedient
of advertising the quantity and quail
ity of his wardrobe. 1t is reported
hnk l. c,vt@ 1f41.
for golf and for riding; overcoats,
II pairs of shoes, So cravats and 8
dozen shirts. The quantities of other
accessories like socks and union suits
are not revealed. His hackers chal-
lenge Nick" Longworth to beat this
record and declare that "Nick's" pre-
vious hold on the title to the best.
dressed congressman" is now in
jeopardy. Sosnowskf halls from De-
troit
A trio of Washington authors have
made their first appearances in the
Summer fiction lists. Each of the
three is we'll known in the Capital but
quite unknown in the literary world,
for in each case it IS her first novel
Named in the order in which their
books have been published, they are:
Mrs. Elmer Schlesinger. formerly the
Countess Gizycka; Miss Nancy Hoyt,
still In the debutante ranks, and Leila
Warren, a little older than Miss Hoyt
and recently married. Mrs. Schle-
singer was Eleanor Patterson, the
Chicago heiress of decade ago,
whose family. with the McCormicks.
owned the Chicago Tribune. In her
girlhood she married a Russian. Count
Gizyclsa. This international alliance
lid not long endure and for many