Evening star., 1935-06-09

eXpurgated, "Wutherlng Heights.
"Pickwick Papers" "Old Wives
Tales: in more recent books. Tech
MICS and Civilization" and Was
Europe Success?" She says it would
be easier to make list of one hum
dred-or one thousand.
Every one was terribly polite to
Rebecca West, when she was in Wash
ington, and put themselves out quite
bit to do things that they thought
she would like, but she went away and
said that she did have a good time
here, because it was so funny" This
is a most doubtful compliment-or
maybe it's just British humor.
The first secretary of the Canadian
Legation at Washington, Mr.. Merchant
Mahoney. has received his BIRTH
day present from his majesty King
George v, having been made a COM
mander of the Order of the British
Empire. civil division. Another Ca
madam subject. Mr. Edward johnson,
the new director of the Metropolitan
Opera of New York, has also received
this order. while the plucky little
Doctor Dafoe, who so unselfishly
struggles with the Dionne quintup-
lets, bringing them safely through
their first year in spite of all opposi-
ton from promoters. has been made
an officer of the Order of the Brit
iSh Empire
The poet laureate of England, who
was a delightful visitor to these
shores several years ago, has received
the Order of Merit. Mr.. John Mase-
jubilee celebration, and brought forth
several beautiful offerings. He was
not keen about being selected for the
post of poet laureate, and 1t will be
remembered that he was reported to
have said at the time that he could
not write odes to order.
Mrs. Roosevelt was most fortunate
in having Mrs. Cass Gilbert. widow
of the distinguished architect of the
new Supreme Court building, as her
guide when she visited the court a
few days ago. The friends of Mrs.
Gilbert. say she was one of the in
spirations in his work The great
white building, beautiful to contem-
plate. towers over Capitol Hill like
giant Mt. Everett, or Popocatepetl
as seen from Mexico City. There are
scarcely adjectives enough in the
English language to describe its su-
perb SpaciouSneSs and the wonderful
-
The National University Docket"
for 1885. has a pen and ink frontis-
piece OF the building with a scene in
the background depicting one of the
early contributions of William the
Conqueror to court development when
he assembled his followers on the
battlefield OF Hastings in 1866. The
development Of the courts as they
are known today is traced from the
above date down to the present time
a most painstaking piece of work and
one that required an enormous
amount of research.
OF course every one cannot be so
fortunate as to have Mrs. Gilbert as
a guide over the Supreme Court
building. but there is nice young
man who knows a lot about it and
he shows the public about. He de-
scribes the sculptured panel above the
bench where the. august body Of the
court sits; the figure to the right in
the panel Is supposed to be like
ness of the Chief Justice, Mr.. Hughes
its a bit difficult to recognize at
first. as the Chief Justice has on a
very decollete robe-a kind of Ro-
manesque effect such as the great
solons of ancient times wore. The
panel represents justice, industry and
the arts, and the guide said something
about peace or the paths of peace
but right there in the foreground of
one of the paths" was a gigantic
figure of a man with a drawn sword
and a belligerent expression-speak
softly and carry big stick.
The National League of Women
Voters, with headquarters on Jackson
place, are getting out a new publica-
ton which promises to be helpful. 1t
is a News Letter" which will be is
sued bi-monthly during the year and
will be available to non-members.
The purpose of the publication is to
send out news of current develop
ments of national significance in the
field of the leagues program of work.
The journal of the American Asso-
citation of University Women for June
has an interesting article, "The Brit
ish Answer to the Challenge to In
tellectual Freedom relative to women
who distinguished themselves in
science and other branches of learn
ing in the eighteenth and later CEN
turies. It has paragraph about
Elizabeth Blackwell, an English wom-
an who in 1897 completed her "Curi-
Gus Herbal" book which describes
500 plants in the Chelsea Physic Gar
den and of which DR.. Maude Royden
says. 1T was not always realized that
medicine used to be largely in the
hands of women in and before the
Middle Ages Nowadays one seldom
sees even small garden that has not
its beds of rare herbs such as the
great-grandmothers of the earlier
centuries cultivated.
There Is also mention in this same
article of Elizabeth Blackwell, an
American woman, who about a hun