Evening star., 1934-12-30

became involved in meditation.
Senator Pendleton has a round, full
face. a high forehead, and the cheerful
expression OF jolly boy, mixed with
the dignity and culture of a man.
He is very wealthy and has a house
here, just of Scott Circle, which is
worth, I should say, $4,000. He has
another house in Cincinnati, over
looking the valley. which, with the
large tract of land surrounding it,
could be sold for several hundred
thousand dollars. The grounds are
filled with statuary and beautiful
shrubbery.
Senator Pendleton's wife Is the ac-
conplished daughter of Francis Scott
Key of Baltimore, the author of THE
Star Spangled Banner; with her he
has for years kept open house at one
of the pleasantest homes in WASH
ington. His two daughters are ac-
complished society girls, and his only
son is as big as himself. When he
goes to Germany as our Minister, it
will not be his first trip abroad. When
he was boy of ID, in 1874. he sailed
for Europe. and during the two years
following he completed such an ex-
tended tour as few Americans of that
day had accomplished.
Early Spring.
1t is the last day of March at Wash
ington. The sky is as blue as the
Lord ever painted it, and a warm sun
is shining down upon the black asphalt
streets of the Capital. Men are going
about the city without their overcoats.
and ladies have for the time cast
aside their sealskins. I am writing
without fire, for the sun sufficiently
warns the Spring air which comes
in at the open windows of nv Office.
Looking out of them toward Arlington,
across the Treasury Mall. I can see
that the grass is already beginning
to sprout, and the leaves of the trees
between here and the Potomac are
beginning to swell. Spring is at hand.
Within week or so the acres Of
parking which line the pavements of
Washington will be covered with green,
and the earliest flowers will be bios
soning in all of the many parks.
AhC AiCSfocht NHuTc0.
Grover Clevelands church has been
discussed for weeks, and all Wash
ington has been agog to know whether
the President would attend church at
all, ard If so, where. The New York
Avenue Presbyterian Church. the most
fashionable one of Washington, whose
pastor had been a schoolmate of
Cleveland. confidently expected that
he would come into its fold, and for
the first two Sundays of the new
administration 1t was crowded. On
the third Sunday it was asserted that
Miss Cleveland had gone to an un.
pretentious Presbyterian Church in
the questionable part of the CITY.
and 10! today it is announced that
there the President went yesterday
and that with this obscure congre-
CATION his worshiping will be done in
the future
1t is a curious fact that most OF
our Presidents have been either Pres
byterians or Episcopalians. Buchanan
was Presbyterian; he said his prayers
every night while he was in the White
House; he gave great deal to chari.
ties, and he attended the church which
so anxiously looked for Cleveland.
Polk was a Presbyterian, a cost-iron
one; his wife and he went to church
as regularly as Sunday came around.
and Mrs. Polk stopped the custom of
dancing at the White House. Pierce
was also a Presbyterian. He went to
church twice day, praying also at
the Thursday evening prayer meetings.
Lincoln often attended the Presby.
terian Church.
Jackson, though a hard case in
early life and to his death fond of
cock fighting and horse racing, took
the religion Of his wife after she
died, becoming a Presbyterian. He
read chapter in the Bible every
night before he went to bed, while
he was in the White House. and
had family worship in his bed room
with his adopted daughter at 10
o'clock each evening. He was strict
as to church matters and would let
no one speak slightingly of his pas
TOR here. One night he noticed a
nobby looking young man sitting in
pew near him, apparently paying
close attention to the sermon. "Old
Hickory" liked his attitude. On going
cut he asked the young man what
he thought of the discourse. "It
was the worst lot of stuff ever uttered
in a pulpit replied the young dude.
who, by the way, was a clerk in the
State Department
Il think you are mistaken, sir"
returned Jackson with an angry flush.
A few days after this, this same
young man wanted to 60 abroad as
secretary of legation in one of the
chief European courts. The Minister
it was Van Buren, who had been
appointed to England-wanted him to
go with him. "Old Hickory" how
ever, would not consent. THE fel.
low" he said, "is a fool. He cannot
appreciate a good sermon, and will
not appoint him" The result was
that the young man stayed at home.
The Episcopal Presidents rank the
Presbyterians even in point of num-
bers. Washington was an Episco.
palian and one of the vestrymen of
the church at Alexandria. However,
an old member of the church tells
me that he often rose and walked
out in the middle of a sermon, and
that he had no minister at his DEATH
bed. Jefferson was more of a Bob
Ingersoll and Tom Paine kind of man
than a Christian. When he went to
church. however, he attended the
Episcopal Church, and Madison, Mon.
roe and he all went to old st. Johns,
which still stands across the park
from the White House.
These three Presidents. as well as
Van Buren. all occupied the same
pew, and it is said that Zachary
Taylor, though not a church mem.
Der, also attended the same church,
1t was the same st. Johns Church
that President Arthur patronized. He
sat in the same pew in which his
wife used to sit before he married
her, and he has lately had a mem-
orial window puts into this old church
In her honor. President Arthur al.
ways rode to church in his carriage.
with his coachman and footman in
livery. 1t was only block from the
White House and ennna ~ The rl,,.nM