Evening star., 1934-06-17

permitting, President Roosevelt, Will
be there-and just as close to the
course as he can get.
Harvard-Yale regattas seem to be
Invariably held on Fridays, and to
President Roosevelt, this one is the
regatta of regattas. for Franklin, jr.,
is to be one of the Harvard eight
and that is another reason for want
ing the Crimson Of his alma mater
carried to victory. The distinguished
skipper President, knows the sound
and has watched many race. North
Dumping Light. southeast of New
London and South Dumping
Island, are familiar to him; and then
there are Seaf1ower Cornfield, Money
hollow Rock and Mount Misery,
queer names given by the mariners
Of old.
They would not know their be-
loved Judge Hull, down in Tennessee,
If he put on all his decorations and
attended a public function. In
Smith County, Tenn, it's Judge Hull
and Capt. Hull, and never Mr.. Secre-
tary. Any honor the Secretary OF
State may receive is appreciated by
his home folks, but not even Repre-
sentative or Senator meant as much
to them as the title they knew him
by first-judge.
The Secretary served in the 4th
Regiment. Tennessee Volunteer In
fantry, during the Spanish War. But
that is not the reason for his recent
decoration from the Cuban republic.
the Cross of the Order of Carlos
Manuel de Cespedes. the highest
honor Cuba could confer was lately
awarded him for his efforts in behalf
of the abrogation of the Platt amend
ment. and not as Capt. Hull OF the
4th Tennessee.
The Cuban Ambassador, Mr.. Mar
ouex Sterling, was decorated at the
same time for his untiring efforts Tor
the repeal of the amendment. This
order was named in honor of Carlos
Manuel de CeSpedeS, who gave the
first cry for freedom in the revolu-
ton of 1868. The second rank of the
order was conferred on Secretary
Hun. the first being awarded only
to chief executives.
lnc VI LlAC Aobb
was not Senator Tom Platt, who Tor
many years held court for his fol-
lowers in the old Hoffman House in
New York, in what was known as the
amen Corner"-but Senator Orvlll
Platt
Even intimates find it difficult TO
induce Mrs. William Fitch Kelley,
the new president of the League OF
Republican Women of the District, to
talk about herself. and her interest
ing life in many places; but when 1t
comes to discussing the interests ana
the work the league has set ltseH 10
do during the next four or nVe
months, she wakes eloquent. or
when 1t comes to extolling the charms
or fine points of a friend. Well, this
is generally the way of people who
really do things. -,
At meeting of the league held
recently at her delightful country
house at Bethesda, Md, Mrs. Kelley
urged closer afhhation between the
members of the Republican National
Committee from the various states
and the work Of the league. She
IS also interested in the Young Re
publican clubs, and thinks their use
fulness is unbounded. All these or
panizations she thinks should be KNIT
more closely together and work IN
unison.
She calls the two-century-old church
in which the meeting was held. once
the meeting place of various reHg1ouS
sects "the auditorium 1t really
is her studio, for she has for many
Years been an earnest student ana
devotee of art. 1t all began IN her
pirlhood when young ladies went to
finishing schools mad took languages,
painting and modelling in clay: II
was a part of drawing room educa-
tion. There we're business careers In
those days, too, for women who hkeo
a life out in the world of affairs, but
Mrs. Kelley left college and pubic
affairs to her sister, Martha Mcclure,
the present National Republican Com
mitteeWoman from Iowa.
Several years of Mrs. Kelley's mar
ried life were spent in Rome, When
Mr.. Kelley was consul general to
italy. and there she reveled In the
art galleries, spending hours drinking
in the great masterpieces. But while
she was interested in the canVases
and the wonderful freSco, her heart
always turned to the statuary, and
later when her son, Mr.. Mcclure
Kelley, was to be in Paris for several
years she joined him there and ser
iously took up the study Of sculpture
in the studio Of the noted artist Bour-
dele
Mrs. Kelley comes Of distinguished
ancestry on both the paternal and
maternal sides, and has always taken
an active interest in the Daughters OF
the American Revolution and other
patriotic societies. Her grandfather
Asbury 3. Porter, some time OF Ken
lucky, later Of Iowa, was member OF
the first territorial legislature IN the
latter State, and the Mcclure side
came from the border McClures OF
Scotland, who emigrated to America
and Joined that hardy body of cove
nanters in Pennsylvania.
What an awakening of ghostly
memories there must have been last
Sunday when the Carlyle House Me-
mortal Trust of England gave a
special program which was broadcast
from "a Cheyne Row, Chelsea, the old
Queen Anne house which Thomas
and Jane Carlyle moved into on June
10, 1884, and where they continued
to live for over 10 years. After the
pathetic death of Mrs. Carlyle, in her
little brougham drawn up beside the
park she loved to look out upon, Mr..
Carlyle continued to live in Cheyne
Row which was No. Great Cheyne
Row, when first occupied by them.
1t was in this house that Carlyle
wrote his History Of the French
Revolution" the first volume of which
was accidently thrown into the fire
by a house maid in the service of
John Stuart Mill, into whose hands it
had been given for keeping BY the
way, a part of the broadcast was a
playlet dealing with this incident.
1t is said that it was difficult for
Carlyle at first to recover from the
shock, but with his hardy Scotch
perseverance he began and rewrote
the lost volume from memory 1t was