Evening star., 1936-10-11
HY ROBERT CRAWFORD.

ANN1 HUhSl says VIC "0s
L. people are going around shop
ping for political bargains this
u Fall is screamingly funny-end
ouote-but she evidently has done
little bargain hunting herself and has
taken quite some spin in the present
campaign, having forsaken some OF
the merchants who formerly served
her. OF course Mrs. Alfred Mossman
Landon does not have to go bargain
hunting, but will do her shopping at
the old stand over which her huS-
band Is presiding. But II she does
not toss her hat into the struggle
pretty soon some one will grab 1t and
twirl it for her. Kansans say at the
foot ball game out there the other
day between her alma mater. the CO.
ed Washburn College of Topeka, and
the Kansas State University. her hus-
bands college, she stole the whole
show from the Governor when there
was wild tumult Of applause as the
crowd caught sight of her. Her dim
pling smile was too much, and it
was then an uproarOus cry went forth,
I'VE want Iandon." The women OF
the United States are taking q maj jor
part in the present campaign and 1t is
natural for the public to want to see
any prospective candidate for mistress
of the White House. The President
may be supreme in the executive office.
but when one enters the door Of the
mansion, it is the wife Of the Presi-
dent who makes the entertainments
a success, whether private or public.
Fanny Hurst Made Good
As Waitress and SaleswOman.
But to 60 back to Fanny Hurst: She
has always done her shopping first
hand when 1t came to any problem
leaving nothing to the figment Of her
brain. When she has wanted ma
terial for a novel or magazine article
she has always gone to the fountain
source and taken an active part. When
she wanted material for q novel Or
story about certain conditions in ocean
travel, she made a trip across the At
lantic in the steerage. When she
wanted to know q bit about Bolshevik
Russia, she set forth and looked
them over. She never writes about
shop girls, mattresses or other work
ing women while sitting al an elegant
mahogany desk with luxurious sur
roundings, but has always gone out
and taken an active part in the work
itself. Modelling and mannequins be-
ing a subject of lively discussion just
now between professionals and debu-
tantes, it will be recalled that Fanny
Hurst was awarded q $50, 900 prize by
q cinema corporation for her story.
'Mannequin' This she wrote from
the inside.
Miss Grace Abbott, known through
out the civilized world for her service
in the interests of women and chill
dren and who for IA years was head
of the United States Children's Bu-
reau in Washington. seems to have nm
1shed her Fall shopping and an
nounces that she is first and Aways
o. Nebraskan, and after that-thiS
Fall-a Progressive Republican. Step
ping out with Miss Abbott Is DIR.
Valeria Parker, the noted physician,
writer and social hygienist: going
along with them hunting bargains on
the Democratic counter Is one Of
the gold spoon guild. Mrs. Eva San
derson Child, former wife Of Mr.. Rich
ard Washburn Child. Ambassador to
italy under the Harding Coolidge
regime and author OF that most read
able biography Of II Duce. in the
writing of which Mrs. Child assisted
him. She maintains delightful es-
Establishments at Newport, New York
and in Pennsylvania.
Mrs. Peter Gerry Is Still Mrs.
Vanderbilt in North Carolina.
It's very amusing and sometimes
confusing that down in Asheville, N. G.,
where the magnificent George VAN
derbilt estate and the home industries
which he and his wife established
some years ago. Mrs. Peter GOelet
Gerry Is still called by q number Of
the people Mrs. Vanderbilt" and to
her devoted admirers and the recip-
tents of her bounty down there she
will always be that. Her marriage
to the junior Senator from Rhode
Island, after the death Of her first
husband. has not changed her former
status with them. The fact. however,
that Mr.. Gerry is Democrat goes =
long way to reconcile them 10 her
spending SO much time out Of the
State.
BY the way-lawyers. Of course,
know-it was not discovered until re-
Gently by a frequent visitor to the
new Supreme Court Building that the
splendid law library in the Justices
Library there, which comprises some
10000 volumes, was willed to the Su-
preme Court by the late Elbridge T.
Gerry, father of the Senator. OF one
Of the most distinguished ancestries
in this country, Senator Gerry, who