Evening star., 1934-08-05
Tales of Well Known Folk
In Art, Literature, Politics
Good Ship Prosperity" in Presidents New
OHice-Mrs. Ickes Indian-Lore Life Line
Ann Marshall "Toots" for Arkansas.

fate win reaeh-but those who have
enjoyed her delightful hospitality
hope they win continue In happiness
and prosperity.
One Of Hollands much-advertised
slogans during the past few years
has been, Buy a diamond"--rather
a luxurious bid, but the diamond
market needed boosting, and doubt
less the most skillful lapidaries In the
world are found In the Dutch King
dom
One need not. however, go all the
way 10 Holland to buy a diamond, for
some Of the most beautiful ones are
right here at home, according to Ann
Parks Marshall, from Arkansas.
She says that one Of the Oldest and
most historic jewelry houses Of New
York gets some Of It's purest, white
diamonds from her State; moreover.
Mr.. Andrew w. Mellon gets his
alumina from there; famous bev-
erage manufacturer gets his grape
Juice down there. and Ann, daughter
Of Representative Tilman b. Parks.
gets the biggest kick out OF telling
folks all about the riches of her
native heath.
Mrs. Marshall Is her fathers man
Friday. When he's down in Arkansas
mending his fenceS-as he is right
now-Ann keeps the home fires burn
ing up here. She never delegates her
duties TO any one, but sees all comers
who visit her fathers Office In the
new House once Building. The work
is sometimes very heavy, but she evil
IDENTIFY believes literally in the OPEN
door policy, for one just walks right
In, and moreover is asked to sit
down-this is not always the case on
Capitol Hill.
Not long ago Mrs. Marshall was
showing a visitor around and took
him into the Ways and Means Com
mittee room. Uncle Sam certainly
furnishes luxurious quarters for the
gentlemen on the Hill, and this room
Is one Of the show places. The vis-
itor remarked that the cornucopiaS
which are part Of the exquisite deco
rations of the candelabra, were up
side down and the fruits of all kinds
spilling out Ann was equal to the
occasion, and answered the policy of
the administration was not to bottle
up the fruits of the earth for a few,
but to let them flow out to all the
people.
Mrs. Ruth Pratt, the former clever
Republican Congresswoman from New
York, has had some rather rough
shedding lately, but, with her usual
persistence, she has come out ahead.
The controversy over her election as
a delegate to the Republican State
Convention was settled In her favor.
She was invited TO become a candi-
date from the fifth Assembly district
by the leaders of the district. Mrs.
Pratt was for many years a resident
OF the fifteenth Assembly district, but
moved to an apartment on East Fifty
second street after leaving her hand
some former home to the Soviet con-
sui general. Mrs. Pratt, when in Con-
gress, asked no quarter and gave none
on account of her sex. Yet she is very
feminine in all her ways and is al
ways exquisitely dressed. She was one
OF the few women in the House who
head for figures. 1
An amusing thing occurred in the
British House Of Commons not long
ago, when the Duchess of Atholl rose
TO a point Of order and was ruled
mot properly attired" because she was
hatless. SO she coolly turned around
and borrowed mans hat, but was
assured that her point Of order still
was out Of order.
Lady Nancy Astor's old hat has be-
come one Of the hallmarks of the
Commons, and Sir Austen Chamber
lain's top hat Is a symbol of the
House, since for AZ years he has worn
his hat, members said, to show how
the dignity Of Parliament should be
maintained. But 1t turns out that he
wore 1t because the top light from
high windows and the skylight was
extremely trying to his eyes during a
long sitting.
Here's another: Lady Houston, called
England's richest woman and known
as q lady bountiful to the poor of
London, recently wrote in her maga-
zine, the Saturday Review, that "the
deaths of the Duke of Wellington and
the Duke of Marlborough have created
an unexpected problem for filling two
vacancies that have arisen In the
Order of the Garter. AS one would
be Of no use to me, modestly sug-
gest that ! be given them both" BY
the way, Lady Houston, the widow of
a shipping magnate, is interested in
flying and financed the first airplane
flight over Mount Everest. :.
Next Sunday the Maryland Yacht
Club will stage tercentenary regatta
at Fort McHenry in celebration of the
waving Of the Star Spangled Banner
on that memorable morning in 1914
when Old Glory was flown from the
ramparts mid the rockets red glare
and the bombs bursting in air. At
the celebration on the 18th there will
be fireworks, too.
Celebrations and historic pageants
will be plentiful throughout the States
up and into cold weather. All parts
Of the country are vying with each
other in making this year Of pa
triotic observance.
Gov Albert Cabell Ritchie is to re-
turn from abroad in time to deliver
the principal address at the celebra-
tion August Is of the 35oth snniver-
sary of the first landing of English
colonists on American shores, on Roa-
noke Island. There is to be quite an
ambitious program lasting several
days and Mrs. Roosevelt and Sir
Ronald Lindsay are among the in
vited guests.
Think of a country home on Park
avenue and Thirty-ninth street, New
York; Or could one during dog days
figure such an anomaly? Notwith-