Evening star., 1934-04-08

5. SOTuell d very
esting and sympathetic article on the
wives of foreign service men abroad
takes a generous view of their many
trials and tribulations, which she
says sometimes come from insufficient
funds and also from constantly hav-
ing to change locations and ADJUST
their menage to foreign environments.
Their Journeys abroad before her
husband became Secretary OF State,
Mrs. Hull says, we're always to OBJ
serve and compare conditions In for
eipn countries with those connected
with Mr.. Hull's congressional duties
at home.
During these visits she saw some
thing of foreign service living condl-
tions, but it was after her two official
trips with her husband as Secretary
of State that she fully realized that
the problems which entered into the
lives of the women of the service
we're more difficult of adjustment
sometimes than those of their hus-
bands. or men of the family.
In arriving at new post, Mrs. HUH
writes, 1.-The hard work of getting set
tied in the new home seems to me
to fall upon the wives, whereas their
husbands simply move into a new
office. where they have much the
same work and surroundings as eX-
listed at the last post-the same sort
of desks, chairs and filing cabinets" y"
But the wives encounter in each
new country different furniture.
curtains ard utensils. There is also
a new routine of household shopping
to learn, and servants speaking dill
ferent language to train, the chill
dren to see to and entertaining 10
arrange"
Mrs. Hull thinks the wives OF the
foreign service are entitled to large
share of the gratitude and appre-
citation on the part of all Americans
for the splendid manner in which
they are assisting their husbands to
carry out their official duties.
Maybe Mr.. Philip Holland, Amer
lean consul general at Liverpool
would not entirely agree with Mrs.
Hull about the wife's duties being
more trying Say, for instance, when
it comes to hunting abroad the way
is rocky sometimes for the men who
have been accustomed to picking up
any old gun and going joyouSly in
search of game. 1t was not what one
shot, but how many he Shot.
In England, however, Mr.. Holland
had to get accustomed to going
shooting" instead of hunting because
hunting over there is riding to
hounds, while shooting is hunting
where he came from. And, too, the
shooting arms must be of a certain
kind and cost a certain amount, if
one wishes not to be high hated.
A large amount, sometimes as much
as 300 pounds for choice gun, and
so pounds, the cheapest. So the con-
sui general had many misgivings just
how to proceed when he was first in
vited to a friends shooting box. He
was advised to read Volume III, from
the Lonsdale Library by Eric Parker,
and l3 other Well-knoWn SportSmen.
Having done this MI Holland went
in search of a gun. He conflded to
the manager of sport shop that he
couldn't afford any such extravaganza
as 300 pounds, that down in TenneS-
see he was used to some pretty good
sport and a bag any man would be
proud of. He explained that he just
took long cared, deep-voiced hound
and a So gun, single-barrel, muzzle-
loader. and, oh, boy. how the Mollie
Cotton tails, Bob Whites (quaiD and
other game naturally became bullet
conscious.
The Shopkeeper was sympathetic,
and politely drew him to the back of
the shop, and with sly wink, showed
him some quite suitable double-bar-
relied, automatic ejecters, whose owners
had overlooked recovering them. He
assured Mr.. Holland that any number
of men shooting in fashionable circles
used them and he could rent him one
for six ShillingS day-and the ammu-
milton was reasonable.
In his story, Shooting in England"
the consul general says that the de-
tails are not written for those few
American patricians who either know
their England or chase the fox in
their own country.
Ship a-hoy! and standby! James
Roosevelt, eldest son of President
Roosevelt, has found just the boat for
his fathers vacation, and the Black
Hawk, a 68-foot schooner, is on her
way under full sail from Miami, Fla,
to the South Salem, Mass, yards of
Fred Dion, boat builder, to be over
hauled for the Summer sport of the
seafaring President and his boys.
The Black Hawk-sounds Indian
tC n hn I,o1
twice the tonnage of the Amberjack
II, on which President Roosevelt sailed
the waters of New England last Sum-
mer. when he was fogbound for sew
eral hours, and had he not been the
skipper that he is, would have caused
much uneasiness.
The schooner was built for Ber-
muda racing, and is described as
pretty gal as ever sailed the deep"
She can make eight knots on her
auxiliary power. has a 60-horsepower,
four-cylinder Diesel engine and can
accommodate as many as Is persons
in de luxe state rooms.
Speaking Of the sea. Tomorrow the
signal anchors a-weigh" will be given
and 10000 officers and men of the
United States feet at San Pedro,
Calf, will start the cruise for Allan
tic waters
1t will be enough to make the ver-
lest land lubber enthuse when that
great armada, bulk of Americas sea
power, sails majestically down the
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