Evening star., 1934-07-08

Mrs Ickes, the ancient Santo Domingo
Mission, near Brunswick, Ca, is soon
to be restored by the c. c. c. workers.
This Spanish ruin stands on the tip of
a 250-acre strip of land recently given
to Georgia for a park. The ruin is
said to date back some 374 years. DR..
Herbert Bolton of the University of
California, an authority on Spanish
as adviser in the restoration.
With the Paint and Repair Your
House" slogan ringing throughout the
land as a help to business and the un-
employed. ones mind turns to the
beautiful reproductions of old wall
papers. Go over to the old museum
next to the Smithsonian-and enjoy
the beautiful wall papers made in this
country. Gracefully romantic hunting
scenes and garden fetes. Grecian de-
signs. Some are very full Of color and
others in the soft green's, gray and
white. There are those after the early
American designs and patterns brought
from France. John Quincy Adams
imported some of the originals of these
designs which are now in the private
collections of several New Workers.
OF course, where the wall paper is
distinctively period it is best used
where furniture of q similar time
blends in. Paper depicting the chase
is lovely in a dining room with mellow
old mahogany furniture and antique
silver and brasses Four-poster beds
lend themselves to the old English
papers of the eighteenth century.
Mrs. Ollie James, widow of the late
Senator from Kentucky, is just now
bubbling over with the celebration to
be held in Bardstown, KY, in October.
To be exact, October 6, 1884, Just $50
years after Nelson County was created.
Mrs. James is particularly eloquent
when it comes to st. Joseph'S Cathe-
dral at BardStown, whose 10 major
paintings she says are credited to
Murilla, RubenS, Jacob Hast, one to
Van Bree and three to Van Dyck.
There is also one or two Van Eycks. If
these canvases are genuine America
Is indeed fortunate.
The history of the paintings goes
back to Louis Philippe, Duke of Or
leans and later King of France, who
when in Cuba in 1887, found himself
without funds. The Right Rev. Bene-
dict Joseph Flaget, French priest and
later bishop who had been driven from
France during the revolution. settled
in Bardstown. where Louis Philippe
came later, and was befriended by
Father Flaget. After Louis became
King of France he sent over the mas
terpieces of art which now adorn the
cathedral walls.
What untold art treasures the new
tenth Duke of Marlborough has come
into by the recent death of his ia
ther. Charles Richard John Spencer
Churchill. ninth Duke of Marlborough,
descendant Of the great English gen.
eral and his strong minded wife
Sarah. who led poor Queen Anne
many a sad chase
'The present duke Is the son Of
Nine. Jacques Balsan (nee Consuelo
Vanderbilt). who married the late
duke in New York in 1895, and whose
marriage to him was annulled by the
Roman Catholic Diocesan Court of
Southwick in 1926-six years after the
duchess had obtained a divorce from
him.
Her son, the former Marquis of
Blandford, now master of beautiful
Blenheim Palace, is proprietor of q
dairy produce, shop in Berkeley
Square. London. and counts among
his customers the rich and fashion,
able of England. Indeed. he has been
such a good salesman that the busi-
ness has been a success. So much
for American business stock.
Mr.. winston Churchill. a cousin of
the late duke. is reported to have
made comfortable little fortune out