Evening star., 1933-12-17

i
ing the latter with cubbish sarcasm,
ever voted q cup for the most popular
girl in America and the best oil around
sport, it would be given without dis
Senting voice to Anna Roosevelt Dali,
for nobody but the boys knew how
splendid she was during the campaign
to help out whenever she could, and
was always a jolly, good pal to every
one of them playing no favorites.
Speaking of childish children. little
Elizabeth. daughter Of the Duke and
Duchess Of York, Is begging to go to the
theater during Christmas week to see
Miss Jean F'orbes-Robertson play Peter
Pan. This little princess is almost eight
Americans who have seen her Of late
say she is very charming and Is almost
as popular as her mother.
The American Ambassador to Eng
land and Mrs. Bingham are returning
home to spend the Christmas holidays
in Louisville, KY. The closing of the
London Embassy at the Christmas sea-
son will be q disappointment to Amer1-
can students at oxford, some OF whom
are usually invited to the Embassy
when up for a few hours at the Yule
Tide Lady Nancy Astor is particularly
generous in her hospitality to them
during the Easter vacation. She has
again put herself i'll the spotlight by
mounting one of the back benches in
the House of Commons after a heated
debate, and inviting all to join her in
what she termed "a tiddley" on the
Just what q "tiddley'' is can only be
guessed by the absent, but London
paper reports that while the cocktail
party was in progress it was watched
by an approving crowd on Westminster
Bridge. Would not such a party on
the terrace of the Capitol even at this
time raise a storm of criticism and
the notorious man of prohibition days
with the green hat and carpet bag
would fade into insignit1cance.
A paragraph from a Moscow paper
tells OF a wonderful literary find that
is nothing less than the original manu-
script Of Sir Walter SCOTS great novel,
THE Talisman." which was lost for
many years and recently discovered in
perfect condition in the archives of the
Moscow Historical Museum. Investiga-
ton reveals that the manuscript was
purchased from a London auct1oneer In
1868 for l 900 poundS-about $4,000,
by Count Orloff Davidoff, and that the
Soviet government would now be will
ing to consider offers for its purchase.
Last Friday evening there was to be
sold at auction at the American Art
Association Anderson Galleries In New
York. copies of the first five editions
of IZaak Walton's, The Compleat
Angler" and some other general litera-
ture from the library Of the late Levi
z. Letter of Chicago and Washington.
Some of this library was sold in Feb
ruary, 1888. This collection was par
ticular1y rich in Americana and con-
tanned copy OF Beverley History OF
Virginia" in four parts With IA fine
plates and with Robert Beverley's arms
in gold on the cover. There was six
Washington letters from George Wash
ington, also Hartley letters consisting
of nearly 200 letters and documents.
Jeffersons own copy of his Notes on
the State of Virginia" with 16 pages
of original manuscript, with marginal
notes in his small, clear handwriting,
was owned by Mr.. Letter. In last Fri
days sale was q copy of the first edi-
ton OF Adam Smiths Wealth of Ma
tlons" in two volumes It would seem
that prosperity is no longer just around
the corner, but has come out irl the
open If the success of art and book sales
is any indication Of prosperity-for this
is luxury. Two Sargent portraits
have been sold recently and a bust
portrait Of Gen. Washington. bv Rem
brandt Peale
The shades of Thomas jefferson and
Andrew Jackson must have fingered
around the White House last week as
the President and Mrs Roosevelt OBJ
served the national cheese week, and
history repeated itself when Mrs.
Roosevelt announced cheese would be
served at every meal during the time
designated, in an effort being made
throughout the country to help the
dairy farmer get a fair price for his
products, and move the existing sur
plus OF milk Mrs Roosevelt said that
fortunately the President liked cheese,
and Gov. Eugene Talmadge of Georgia
would say that the man or woman who
did not like eggs scrambled in melted
cheese, with a dash of paprika and
served with strips of crisp bacon. was
not worthy to be ranked among the
gourmets of the earth.
When Mr.. Jefferson was President,
in an effort to stimulate the cheese
market he was presented with a man.
moth cheese whose size was only eX-
ceeded by the one sent to President
Andrew Jackson by Mr.. Meacham of
New York State, as an advertisement
to raise the price and popularize his
dairy products This cheese was four
feet in diameter, two feet thick and
weighed 400 pounds. The Peoples
House-as Mr.. jackson frequently re-
ferred to the White House, was filled
to overfiowing the day the cheese was
cut, not only with citizens. but with
the dairy product, for it overfiowed
the dining room and the public apart
mentS of the mansion, as well as the
lawn, and Its pungent odor was for
some time daily advertisement of its
potency
The peasants of France and Switzer-
land almost defy cheese, for 1t is a
large part of their daily diet; cheese
making in England as described In