Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1934-06-10
Tales of We'll Known Folk
In Art, Literature, Politics
Mrs ROOSEVELT Dynamic Personality Described
by Her Daughter Days Drive Capitol
Solons to Summer Dress-C. C. c. School.

ess-C. C.. &. School.
two great parties can go long way
in preparing the ground for a success
full campaign. She certainly ought to
know something about it, for she has
side by side with Mr.. Keat-
ing in his campaigns and newspaper
editing, and as chairman of the Com
mittee on Entertainment of the Wom-
ems Democratic Club, has rounded
out during the past Winter most in
program of dinner speakers
of both the Democratic and Repub-
lican persuasion.
She has demonstrated that she
wishes to hear both sides OF an issue,
and her long years as a newspaper
in the West, well as in
OF folloW-up mind that enables her To
weigh question before deciding.
Mrs. Heating is awfully proud of
the Democratic Club House, in New
Hampshire avenue. and has doubtless
had good deal to do with giving it
that air of elegance and comfort for
which it is noted. If memory does not
play truant, it was the old Whittemore
residence, once noted for its exclusive
1t is not as large as the
Women's Club, on Sher-
idan Circle, which also is charmingly
and not bit mannish. By
the way, Mrs. Clyde Kelly, wife Of
Kelly of Pennsylvania,
is the new president of the Repub-
Hcan Club.
Mrs. Heating Is also much interested
in the political clubs organized by
young people and she believes one
cannot begin too early to acquaint
themselves with the serious problems
now before not only America, but the
entire world. After all, it is upon the
shoulders of the youth of the land
that. the results of the present trying
times through which the world is pass
ing must fall.
She will tell you that she almost has
some children of her own, for there
she is interested. And, oh, yes, she
will show you the portrait of her
dream child. A beautiful head of a
blond baby which hangs in her draw
ing room. She knows literally, and
has seen a dream walking, because
during three years she frequently went
to the art gallery where this lovely
head reposed and looked at it long
ingly. Finally the urge to buy was
too strong and she had it sent to her
home.
Mr.. and Mrs. Heating have the old
English way of calling their library
the book room, which, by the way, is
an old Southern custom. In this book
room are no end of interesting things
besides books. But a look at the
shelves show the owners turn to old
literature and the classics. Dickens
is there, Thackeray, Fielding and
Smollet and books on philosophy and
political economy, besides reference
books, and a fair sprinkling of new
literature ON many subjects.
A strong strain of Covenanter blood
which came from her Pennsylvania
gives Mrs. Heating Scotch
sense of humor sometimes, and she
likes to tell about her husbands first
$40 gold piece-shades of the Treas
ury, avaunt, for he hasn't it now.
He sat all day, on his pay day, when
a boy Of II, waiting to collect his
co laru m, O nauyeponor ua liJ mt
know how much it was to be-but
he needed the money very much for
he had family to help support, so
at last when he was called in and
handed the gold piece-words failed
his legs did not, for he ran
all the way home and, placing it in
his mothers hand, could only say,
There
The passing of Mr.. Brand Whit
lock, Americas beloved diplomat,
and none whom the world loved bet
ter to honor. has brought grief to
his many friends in the States,
which he served so well in serving
the entire world during the World
War. Some one has written, that
whenever a wartime Belgian said,
THE King, the cardinal and the
minister, his countrymen knew ex-
actly whom he meant. The King
was Albert, the cardinal was Mer-
cier, the minister was Brand Whit
lock. On May 26, hundreds stood at
the tiny Episcopal Chapel of Holy
Trinity, in Cannes, France, and
listened to the beautiful service of
the church, but the widow asked to
go alone to the grave when the body
was inferred.
Mr.. Thomas Mann, Germany's dis
novelist and writer, is
visiting the United States at the
present time, and many of his ad-
mirers will take down that wonderful
story, The Magic Mountain" and
reread it with renewed pleasure. And
Seumas McManus, the Irish poet and
novelist-it's difficult to say in which
art one likes him best, is also here
He arrived in New York on June 2,
from California, where he completed
his latest novel, Three Knights
Knocke"; he has an ear for euphony
which is characteristic of his race.
Mr.. McManus said on arriving that
this was the first novel he ever COM
pleted outside of Ireland, and added
that it was mot a question of where
you are, but what you have inside;
how deeply you are saturated with
the spirit of the country of which
you are writing" When asked about
new poems, he said "life has been
too fast"
Word comes from Italy, that Ga
riele d'Annunzio's Lives of Illustrious
Dogs" is to be modelled on Plutarch,
and that the work is to be complete
with a glossary Of the canine Ian
guage. Somebody said there is al
ready small library of animal die
,ionaries-quite unique information to
he average reader-the largest read
ing public.
Plutarch's lives and dogs lives
might sound anomalous, but to any
Washingfon's Smarfesf