Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-09-28
By MARGARET B. DOWNING.

Federalist has announced his inten-
ton to secure political honors and is q
Republican candidate for a seat in the
Senate of New York. He had previously
been successful as banker and he hac
tried his hand quite creditably at au-
thorship and had written for a few
years for the New York Evening Post
founded jointly by Alexander Hamilton
financier of the Revolution, and by John
Jay. first Chief Justice. Besides being
q lineaI descendant of the renowned
Hamilton this scion of the family is a
grandson of the first John Pierpont
Morgan, his mother having been Juliet
Morgan the youngest daughter of the
rnagnate. With such antecedents. Mr..
Hamilton might well have become a
wizard in the game of making money
and in the executive field. AS he is
Just turned 81, he has, according to his
friends, entered the political ring in
time to attain eminence. To reach
Washington's legislative halls is said to
be his ambition after he has been
trained in the New York State Leg1s-
1ature. Mr. Hamilton has frequently
visited Washington and he may do SO
oftener in the future He is the first
cousin of that Junius Spencer Morgan
Who married the only daughter of the
Secretary of the Navy and Mrs.
Charles Francis Adams, and he is a
distant cousin of Representative. Ham
ilton Fish.
It Is logical that young Mr.. Herbert
Hoover should be lured to the conec-
ton Of airmail stamps and he has an
excellent opportunity to secure the
unique specimens which. are sent to
the White House. President Hoover
formerly was an enthusiastic collector
Of various objects, such as carved
worries. elephant tusks and handsome
skins but of recent years he has not
given much attention either to these
treasures or to gathering new ones.
Those who study stamp possibilities
and the rising market for novelties may
turn q penny most prof1tably, as, for
instance, In the classic issue of the up
side-down air stamps which were sold
for $24 sheet and less than a year
later were bought by the veteran col
lector, Col. Edward H. r. Green, for
$2,500. Col. Green has an absolutely
unique lot, one sheet being the only
one so turned awry, but he can if he
desires get a big sum for each stamp.
King George, say the authorities, has
the most valuable assortment of air
mail stamps in the world, as we'll as
those of the commonplace methods of
boats. trains and in rural parts by
do1keys ana carrier carts. The
Hawker" is the most vafUafbie speci-'
men in the royal airmal collection.
as it bears the potent legend, First
Transatlantic Air-Post. April 1919"
The King has one of these: and of the
few which reached this country one is
owned by the avid collector of Utica,
n. Y Mr. Arthur Hind. Art stamps
like the Goya series issued by the
Spanish government in honor of the
Iberian expedition are. the experts say,
destined to get into the priceless" list.
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Lady MacNaughton, wife of Sir
James MacNaughton, who was with
the distinguished company entertained
by the Bar Association in Washington
a few weeks ago, has several times ex-
pressed regret that owing TO the phe-
nomenal weather, she could not enjoy
what she has been told was one of the
UNIQUE pleasures Of the evening the
thousands of firefiies or lightning bugs,
as they are colloquially termed. In
this she reminded Neutrality-suspicious. of
something which, owing to the discom-
forts of heat and drought, had been
not impressed on them before. At the
Bureau of Entomoogy attention is d.
rected to the fact that the firefiies
appeared at their usual time, mid-June,
and that they made the city parks
glorious for few hours daily as the dusk
and absence of moisture and the pretty
insects became fewer until by mid-July
they had entirely disappeared in the
suburbs and were rare indeed In the
city. What prospect remains for their
return in the normal weather which
washington usually enjoys is not yet
clear. Fireflies have always impressed
English visitors, and Lady Bryce, wife
Of James Bryce, Ambassador from Great
RFffHfn u-a q a47ff4Rrctorf4r
nrilliancy, she made special trips to
places where they were notably numer-
GUS. Nearly all British visitors COM
ment on them as one of the lovely
sights in Washington and surrounding
forests, and evening rides have been adj
Tiseo as the best method of prolonging
the experience
Sir Archibald Flower and his versa
tile and attractive wife, the latter called
the lady of the Shakespeare crusade"
have a charming estate called The Hill
st Stratford, and the mansion looks
directly down upon the sparkling
waters OF the Avon. Sir Archibald and
Lady Flower have been keeping open
house this Summer and their guests
were principally from this country. For
both have traditions in Uncle Sans
CONAN. Sir Archibald is a grandson
OF one who. having prospered in the
new world and who had settled in the
flch grain region of Illinois. felt the
urge TO return to his native land. The
immigrant Sir Richard Flower. went
TO New York soon after the Revolution
and his sons moved westward with the
tide OF empire and founded a British
colony at Albion, Ill When the second
Richard returned to England he bought
an estate at Stratford in 1880. During
the intervening century various Flowers
nave been eminent in the Shakespeare
cult, but Sir Archibald is called the
Knight OF Avon in compliment to his
earnest work in building the Memorial
Theater. Lady Flower is a native of
Cappoquin, in the land of Sir Walter
Raleigh, and she was Miss Florence
heane, of family strongly committed
70 Irish freedom. The Keanes are
lineal descendants of valiant King Con.
heroic ruler of ancient Erin. Many
members of the Keane fanny came to
this republic during Irelands struggles
Tor political independence.
The Spanish Ambassador and Sonora
de Padilla are gracious in regard TO
displaying and explaining the splen-
did array Of antique furniture of Ibe-
rian origin with which the embassy is
equipped. The Ambassador has made
q study OF household equipment in the
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