Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-02-02
BY MARGARET B. DOWNING.


Fish Castle on the Delaware at Edding-
ton, Just above Paramount Dam. It was
founded in 1882 and probably is the
Oldest club Of a sporting trend either
In the Western World or in Great Brit
ain. It has had a continued existence
Tor almost 200 years. william Warner
Baron Warner as he was known when
the proprietor. Lord De La War;, held
sway, founded this club. It was first
called the Fishing Company of the
Site in the Schuylkill." That meant 8
snail portion Of the present state OF
Delaware in Schuylkill County and
where Warner and his associates, most
~ opulent Philadelphians who liked to
fisn. had acquired the land. The club
mouse, plain frame structure with a
hoSpitable Veranda and broad glass
coor, bears above the entrance the date
OF its building, 1882. When the 200 years
are completed, in May of 1882 there win
De memorable events to record, and it is
expected all the fishermen of the Ma
ton viii join in honoring the mother
cIuo. Naturally some wonderful his
uoric treasures have been collected in
the years intervening since it was found
cd. There is the wonderful Ross punch
bowl, which holds nine gallons made
in Canton, China, especially for the
company years before the colonistS
dreamed of taking up arms against the
cherished recipe for punch brought
from England and this was mixed but
TOUR times year. It was a great &C.
caslon when the Ross bowl was brought
down from the niche in the dining room.
where it Is now permanently enShrined
Gen. Washington and the Marquis de
LaIayete were honorable members and
their fishers hats are among the treas
ures Of the Castle.
n X
President Cosgrave of the Irish Free
State has apparently overcome his
major difficulty, which is to keep the
youth of the Emerald Isle at home and
70 interest them in the development of
their own land. This past year has
shown fewer natives leaving Ireland
than has been recorded in q half CEN
fury, and at the same time many pros
porous sons of the Emerald Isle have
invested heavily in the manufactures
which are springing up all over Kerry
and around Dublin. OF course, the per-
petua1 crusade goes on in behalf of
the industries, the crochet lace in par
ticular, and the vogue is reviving for
lingerie and Summer wraps and gowns
There are hand-woven, soft and artistic
rugs made in Donegal, OF dainty design
and SO thick and well put together that
Tor centuries they have figured in wills
ana requests among what Is deemed
more enduring possessions. Some in
curing eyes are fastened on the next
United States tariff to see II 1t viii be
flexible enough to admit this splendid
carpet for bed rooms and boudoirs, for
hitherto the duties have made its impor-
tation prohibitive. President CoSgrave's
next addition to the Washington lega-
ton stan will be a commercial expert to
look after the adjustment of such trade
exchanges as the eminently fine ma
chinery of this country may supply for
Irish rugs, lace and hand-knitted wooden
garments.
rk \
The Ambassador to Paris and Mrs.
Walter Edge arrived in their new home
just in time to enjoy the opening of
that splendid exhibition held in the Ma
tiona1 Library OF France TO commence
rate eleven centuries of bookbinding.
The former Senator from New Jersey
takes keen interest in all that has to do
with printing or the making of books
and he has been one OF the keenest
students OF the exhibition. From the
ninth century, when Frenchmen began
to bind books, to the first quarter of
the twentieth specimens which form
epochs are displayed, with special re-
gard for the convenience of the book
collector or the lover Of rare volumes.
Treasures from the nonaSteries of the
Dark Ages are set forth and whole sec
tons are composed of the Illuminated
vellums from the old Benedictine foun-
dationS of the tenth, eleventh and
twelfth centuries. The slender, SIMS
ter-looking volume containing the con-
stitution of the republic of 1898 at
tracts the curious, because it is bound
IN human skin. It is regarded as the
most revolving book the world contains
and entirely representative Of the saw
agery and unbridled passions which held
sway In the French revolution. A coll
lection Of splendidly bound books, richly
decorated with eagles and bees presents
the era Of Napoleon and more distant
blophiles OF royal rulers Of France in
ciude the marvellous group of miSSals
which belonged to Francis and some
gorgeous prayer books used by the
Grande Monarch.
Miss Irene Roelofs, for many years in
charge Of the home information bureau
OF economics in Mount Holyoke College.
Mass, was recently detailed to the
American Woman's College in Constan-
tinople as chief dietician. The author
tiles OF this well known. seat of learn
ing in the former Turkish metropolitan
city have always lamented the unbal-
anced meal, which the students ate with
much relish-too much meat and too
many sweet things-and hoped to have
Miss RoelofS impress the necessity of
salads and cooked greens. It has been
slow work teaching the young Turkish
woman to eat vegetables contentedly and
not to tear baked tomato to pieces
hoping to find its center stuffed with
white meat of fowl or with young
lamb, for so it would be served in true
Turkish fashion. Teaching such con-
servative people as the natives about
the golden horn to partake Of new
dishes has been an adventure to the
former Holyoke teacher and is filled
with many amusing incidents She is,
however, proud of the recent Christmas
holiday menus, when, after fish soup,
she had served one sort of meat lamb
or chicken and four kinds of vegetables
including lettuce salad, instead of the
usual course Of as many different meats
as there were vegetables and dishes, in
four separate courses. Sweet things in
Turkey are delightful and more numer-
Gus and inviting than in the Western
World, so the food specialist wisely has
not attempted to improve on this part
Of the daily food.
X \
Mrs. Marshall Field and a number OF
Chicago friends are passing the Winter
in Lausanne, that lovely Swiss city
which lies directly across the blue waters
of Lake Geneva from the capital of the
Covenant of Nations. Mrs. Field has
been entertaining some of her London
kindred-Lady Beattie, wife of the ia
nous earl, hero OF the North Sea nava
battle. and Lady Beauchamp, who also
Is one of the many titled connections Of
the Field family. Recently Lady Violet
Astor Joined Mrs. Marshall Field ano
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