Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1934-05-13

oO yc Acu Illc Icd-oSe Sd1ipoi6h
under the patronage Of Mrs. Frank
lin Delano Roosevelt?
Now do not get this mixed up with
the Boston tea party, when the New
England colonists dressed themselves
I'D like Indians and proceeded to
make an ocean of tea. Neither must
it be confused with the Carolina tea
party, prior to the Boston social stunt
when the enraged Carolinians simply
stored the noXicus tea underground
and let it rot. Neither of those af-
fairs was really tea party, nor is
Mrs. Roosevelt's tea-set campaign.
At those early affairs King George
III, felt more like calling out his red
coats, than graciously assisting at the
parties; but its quite another thing
with Mrs. Roosevelt's tea-set party,
for Queen Mary of England, graci-
ously has bought one of the tea-setS,
and by her example moreover has set
the fashion for other royalties in Eu-
rope, and her cousin, the beautiful
Dowager Queen Marie of Rumania,
has also bought a tea set.
The Presidents wife was one of the
first to speak out for the white collar
man, the professional man, realizing
that he, too, had to eat and had family
responsibilities, and that after years
of expensive preparation for his work
he found the depression had laid him
low. So for several years she has
been interested in the Woman's Di-
vision of the Architects Emergency
Committee in New York, which was
started during the depression to bring
relief to unemployed architects and
craftsmen.
Mrs. Cass Gilbert, with whom ar
chitecture is a tradition; Mrs. Chris
TOPPER La Fargo, Mrs. Goodhue Liv-
prominent in public affairs, as well
as noted for their interesting salons,
have made a great success of this
unique campaign for the assistance
OF unemployed architects.
The woman's division Of the COM
mittee, through the tea-set cam
paign, have SO far been able to store
away $4,000 in their old cracked
teapot-no frozen assets for them
and are finding that the beautiful
china service. designed by Scheu
Lewis, and made exclusively for this
committee in connection with its re-
lief work, has interested buyers on
both sides of the Atlantic.
The tea set is decorated with draw
ings by Mr.. Lewis of famous Colonial
buildings of historic and architec-
tural Importance. and the campaign is
IF y,rniont RI G100 mn for
the women's division.
During the last decade the repro
duction of historic glass and china
has proved serviceable in raising funds
for several womens colleges, patriotic
societies-such as the Daughters of
the American Revolution and indi-
vidual clubs throughout the country.
Mrs. Roosevelt is the proud possessor
of one of the tea sets, and Queen
Mary's will doubtless become a part
of her world-famous collection of
china, which is distributed in the sew
eral royal palaces and castles in the
empire. Her Majesty's hobby is COL
lecting china, old silver and his
toric furniture, and it is not an
unusual thing to see her in some re-
most part Of the English countryside
seeking out some rare piece of furni-
ture, china or silver, with which she
wishes to replace or complete the Pc
ried furnishing of some room in one
of the royal residences. She is de-
scribed as not only a painstaking col
lector, but one with keen sense of
bargains.
The Dowager Queen Marie of Ru-
mania has always felt that she must
largely patronize the embroideries and
crockery of her own country, but she,
too collects china and has added the
American tea service to the collection.
It is not known just where Miss
Frances Perkins, Secretary of Labor,
and Gov. Clifford Pinchot of Penn
sylvania have placed their tea sets,
but they, too, patronized the archi-
tects' fund, along with the Museum
of the City of New York, the Royal
Institute of British Architects and
that noted British architect and
housing expert, Sir Raymond Unwin--
that delightful visitor to Washington
last Winter, who proved to be one of
the best after-dinner speakers Eng
land has sent in many day. He had
a real sense of humor.
1t is evident that recovery is some
where along the way in the United
States, for on May an American
boat landed 270 passengers in England
said to be the largest number of
American visitors who ever landed so
early in the season. Maybe this num-
Der included some of the 81 women to
be presented at the royal court at
Buckingham Palace, on the 18th and
18th of this month
Ambassador and Mrs. Robert Worth
Bingham are to have the busiest sea-
son the American embassy In London
has seen since the World War, for
the bookings are growing every day,
and there will be two more royal
courts held by the King and Queen
on June IL and Is.
A correspondent in London writes
that prosperity is rampant in Eng
land, and at the opening of the opera
season in Covent Garden the display
of magnificent jewels and ermine was
simply binding. Royalties were every
where and princesses and grand
duchesses were simply falling over
each other The King of Siam, who