Evening star., 1934-09-02

shadow and looked straight into the
keen but kindly eyes of Miss Coffin.
She wears her grandmother's old
lava earrings, set in the original set
tings Of a century ago. The canoes
may have been the head of q
bacchante, but time or prohibition
had worn the grapes almost away.
Miss Coffiin was at the census office
not long ago looking over some old
records which needed mending-and
thereby hangs a tale-she saw the
name, date of birth and parentage of
this same grandmother. Wasn't she
surprised?
Miss Coffin will tell you that she is
a member of Typographical Union,
No. 6, and of the Woman's Trade
Union League. She will not tell you
that she was instrumental in helping
to set up two centers for unemployed
women in New York. Nor that she
has done an immense amount of work
during the depression toward aiding
and encouraging both industrial and
white collar girls, out Of work. She
began her trade at Is, and the
younger the girl who may need as
SiStance, the softer her heart.
Modelling In clay is Miss Coflns
hobby and she gets an immense
amount of pleasure out of it. But
the wild goose chase mentioned above
led to the division where census
records, and valuable maps and other
Government records. are Dlepded by
the crepeline method. Crepeline,
wonderfully gauzy material, placed
over the manuscripts after they have
been mended, and then pressed down
until it becomes a part of the original
paper, so far as the naked eye is
concerned. This description is nom
professional.
American statesmen are in spots all
over Europe this Summer, and now
Is sure that he Is coming back to
the Senate, he is about to sail away
for Istanbul, Turkey, to attend the
Interparliamentary Union. which will
be held there in the Yildiz Palace,
September "a to 20.
The personnel of the American dele
CATION to Turkey, was named by Rep
resentative Andrew Montague of Vir-
ginia, president of the United States
group and Executive Committee men,
ber of the union. Senator Joe Rob-
inson-now abroad, Representative
Oliver of Alabama, and Representa-
tive Cochran Of Pennsylvania, are
members. Now that the lattices be-
fore the windows have been taken
down and the Turkish beauties have
discarded their wells, the parliament
tary group will be able to enjoy that
most progressive country.
Their host, President Mustapha
Kema-Pasha Ghazi, is modern in his
views and does not lose an opportunity
to urge Turkish women to abandon
the wearing of the veil, which for so
many centuries has been their custom.
At private ball in Dolma Bagtche
Palace, when one of the Ghazs
guests, an elderly lady who in the old
style. wore a veil tightly wound over
her hair, was leaving, she approached
the president, with other guests, when
he stopped her and with his own
hands unwound the veil, saying, as
he touched her white hair, your
hair is beautiful-isn't it a shame
to hide it?"
Somewhere down in Texas, they
are going to have q centennial cele-
bration in 1886. The location has
not been decided upon but a COM
mittee from Congress, headed by SEN
ator Connally, will visit the State
later in the Fall and determine what
Federal assistance will be needed.
II Duce and Mr.. Lloyd George, are
at variance relative to a war and
rumorS of war for the British states
man, according to the Manchester
Guardian, says: II will insure the
nations against risk of war for a
period OF 10 years" He seems to think
that all the talk about coming war Is
psychological and the statement was
made to M. Bertrand de Jouvenel,
special correspondent in London of
the Petit journal. Not SO II Duce, he
sets no special time.
Its too bad that the P. w. A. art
lists could not have been paid by the
yard for some of their work, as was
Sir James Thornhill, the English
painter of the seventeenth and eight
eenth centuries. His cartoons on the
dome Of st. Paul's Cathedral, London.
are being cleaned, and he was actually
paid by the yard for his murals and
ceilings; and according to the size, for
his pictures.
At last David Alec Wilson's book,
Carlyle in Old Age" 1865-l88l, has
been published in London. Mr.. VIII
son devoted a life time to collecting
every bit of information bearing on
Carlyle's life to even assembling a
library Of references; pursuing printed
refeences wherever possible back to
their authors, and seeking confirma-
tion or amplifcation wherever it could
be found. His interest was Carlyle,
the man and the sage, rather than
Carlyle the man Of letters. He wanted
the human rather than the literary
aspect of his hero. He must have
taken Boswell as his model.
Five big volumes were completed
when Mr.. Wilson died and then his
nephew, d. Wilson Macarthur, rounds
out the sixth. This is the nuts and
cogniac of the series-wit in a nut
shell-no offense is meant. This last
volume is a record of Carlyle's re-
marks to a more or less intimate circle
Of friends of his old age.
OF Plato, he says: "Plato's style is
admirable, but he has nothing par
ticular to tell you" Paradise Lost
is absurd; never could take to it at
all; Shelley had not the least poetic
faculty; I never could read anything
he wrote: it was all shrek merely;
Whitman is as though the town bull
had learned to hold a pen"
This is delightful of Browning. q
poet who was responsible for hun
dreds Of poetry clubs throughout the
world-all trying to figure out Just
what he meant, and who on one occa-
sion when asked by an intellectual
student what he meant in q certain
line, answered that he must have
known when he wrote it, but had
forgotten.
Carlyle says Of Brownings THE
Ring and the Book: "It's among the