Evening star., 1935-02-03
Tales of Well-KnOWn Folk
In Literature, Art, Politics
Mr. Ogden Mills Spicy Book Hits New Deal
Southern Homes Going to Northern
Buyers-Winmills Divide Farms

umes of history. philosophy and liter
ature, besides 4.600 parchment follos,
dating from 954 to 1882. The library
contained 5000 volumes.
Prince Caetani mad an interesting
and rather unusual life for one who
was later a success as diplomat. He
was graduated from Columbia Uni
versity in 1908, having majored in
applied science. After his graduation
he went West to Idaho and became a
miner, and in the World War he di-
rected the explosion of mines which
blew the top off Col di Lana, the
mountain summit where Austrian in
fantry were entrenched-thu paving
the way for a successful attack by
the Italian troops. AS a patron OF
the arts the prince was also prom
inent.
Gentlemen of the foreign service
get out your toppers, spats and for
NAL clothes, for Representative Edith
Nourse Rogers of Massachusetts is go
ing on the war path for you and is
going to fight to finish that cut OF
5000 900 which the budget proposes.
You know she Is member OF the
Foreign Affairs Committee and the
civil service. and the career man and
the veteran of the World War is her
particular charge. Mrs. Rogers never
Scatters her interests in Congress, and
will go to the mat any day for the
legislation she stands for.
Everybody is wondering why Mr..
j. Pierrepont Morgan sold those great
masterpieces of his gallery just at
this time. Could it have been to pay
for the six tons of tea that he got
at Christmas time from China? 1t
seems Mr. Morgan still carries on
custom started by his father. diStrib-
uting tea at Christmas among his
friends. The origin of the custom has
never been explained, and the names
of the recipients are not made known.
The l22 cases of tea, each blazoned
with a startling red dragon, must
have presented colorful picture piled
on the sidewalk before Mr. Morgan's
office at Broad and Wall streets just
about the holiday season.
The hunting set of Washington and
the surrounding country are quite in
terested in the new Elkridge- Hartford
Hunt Club, formed in December 1t is
said to be about the most complete
fox-hunting establishment in Amer
lea. Fine hunting country up around
Elkridge and through Hartford Coun-
ty where many of the beautiful old
estates have been cut up into small
farms or closed, owing to the late
depression.
The old Elkridge hunt was the sec
and oldest hunt in America and
rather reliable records which are avail
able on the subject show it was start
ed during 1872 at the small town of
| that name between Baltimore and
Washington. Many of the members
/ of the club are from the old families
of Maryland, some of whose fathers
! and grandfather hunted over the
ground.
The uniform of Hartford. adopted
for the new organization, is scarlet
| with white collar, while the evening
dress is scarlet with white facing. As
! yet no distinctive button has been
designed, so the members will wear the
buttons of either the Elkridge or
Hartford for the remainder of the
| season.
1t is said that there has been a
Wedding out of the best hounds of
both packs, and the combined pack of
half-breds will be shown at the Rid
ing Club hound show in New York
this week.
A royal princess, the daughter of
the former King of Spain. arrived
with her husband in New York the
other day, but even such a rarity was
not accorded such a reception by the
curious as was given Cavalcade, Mrs.
Dodge Sloane's 3-year-old champion,
when he was led from his luxurious
private car out at Los Angeles last
week. Moving cameras clicked and
CaValcade posed with all the assur-
ance of movie actor. He is pre-
pairing for the 100000 Santa Anita
handicap February 3. Mrs. Sloane,s
Brookmeade Stable is reported to have
earned S251, 1873 in 1884, making her
the leading money winning owner in
any country. So much for a woman,
whose charities are wide and far
reaching, and who likes books, pic
lures and the beautiful things of life.
One sometimes wonders when he
goes down in the hunting country If
there will be any Virginians left in
the old places in Virginia In the next
so years. There are new names and
new population Thousands of acres
of the Old Dominion have been bought
up by people from the North and
other parts Of the States. Where
once the farmers hunted over the
fields and woods with a few old
hounds, there are now blooded hunt
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