Evening star., 1936-05-31

farm lands which are now teaming
wheat and corn fields. She is equally
proud Of her Connecticut ancestor
who made the fields ito grow and
blossom as the rose" And he was
the one who asked a Belgian farmer
he found there, whose little place was
the perfection of thrift and order, If
there were any more like him in Bel
gium. On being answered in the af-
firmative and told that there were
hundreds, Mr.. Frysinger furnished the
capital which brought a small colony
of them to the States. This was the
beginning of the Belgian population
in Illinois. which is the largest in this
country. In 1927 Miss Frysinger re-
ceived from King Albert the agricul-
tural decoration.
The interest Miss Frysinger takes
in her home economics extension work
among the rural population is prac-
tical and natural because she has in
herited from generations of ancestors
in this country and abroad love for
the land, the pride of ownership and
all that goes with 1t. She says she
gets her fighting qualities for what
ever she undertakes from an ancestor
who was on the staff of the Duke OF
Wellington at the Battle of Waterloo.
When she went up to Congress to ask
for an appropriation '1r the present
international confereli-e of country
ch thnttnl,t eh unulI ho
some opposition. SO she cleverly took
with her five or six farm women as
dramatic background - and did she
succeed? Well, that gallant, patriotic
George Washington Centennial Rep
reSentative Sol Bloom of New York
came to her assistance and she walked
away with a cool ten thousand.
Blessed with delightful sense Of
sentiment which she finds among the
farmers wives in their more or less
isolated home lives. Miss FrySinger
says some of the letters which she re-
ceives telling her what her work
means, to them, read like a romance.
While she is graduate of several in
stitutes of domestic science and art
in this country and has taken special
courses at the School of Cookery in
London, and the Gordon Bleu in
Paris. she has had but little time of
late for the practical side, but does.
whenever she has a chance, slip into
the kitchen and do a few stunts
When teased by Miss Zimmern-that
most interesting English woman who
with Lady Aberdeen organized the
association Of country Women-about
poking holes in some of the packages
of exhibits from different countries
which had arrived at the Department
of Agriculture, Miss Frysinger pleaded
a pardonable curiosity, because she is
simply enthused about all the won-
derful things being sent from the diff
ferent countries and parts of the
United States for the public exhibi-
ton at the United States Government
Auditorium on Constitution avenue.
Country WOmen's Meetings
Will Be Unique.
Washington will have to sit up and
take notice of the country women's
meetings for they are going to be
unique in the history of conferences,
in that the farm women are going to
do most of the talking. The outstand-
ing purpose of the meeting is to pro-
mote an interchange of experiences
between the women of this and for
eign countries, relate their problems,
discuss ways and means for better
living and the advancement of the
community activities, unite more
closely town and country problems
and methods of solution. Something
like an old-fashioned Methodist ex-
perience meeting.
Mrs. Franklin Delano Roosevelt
will relate few experiences herself:
over 20 years ago she joined up with
one of the first farm organizations
in her State and ever since has been
active in it. Mrs. Henry Morgenthau,
jr., wife of the Secretary of Treasury,
whose happiest moments are when
she can retire for a week end to the
Morgenthau farm up in New York.
speaks the language of the farm
women. knows their needs and
problems, is taking a hand in some
of the dramatic skits which will be
presented on Thursday for the enter
tainment of the visitors.
The Gracious Lady of Hyde Park.
The interest throughout this country
and even abroad in the illness of the
Gracious Lady" of Hyde Park has
taken the form of hundreds of letters
and kilograms and loads of flowers.
Mrs. Roosevelt doubtless thought of
much of the attention as a courtesy
to the mother of the President, but
that would not account for the inti-
mate personal tributes and the solici-