Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1936-02-23


the "a. w. Mellon Educational and
Charitable Trust"
Mr.. Pope has an international repu-
tation. He is in charge Of the extern
sions to the British Museum which is
to house the Elgen marbles, and Is as
sociate architect for the extension Of
the Tate Gallery in London. The
Scottish Rite Temple on Sixteenth
street is also his work.
The Cottage of
Lawrence of Arabia.
On January 20 bust of Lawrence
Of Arabia, made from life by his friend,
Mr.. Eric Remington, was unveiled in
the crypt of st. Paul's, London.
The modest little cottage which
Lawrence loved well. and in which he
wrote his Odyssey" is being kept just
as he left it. Iron grills have been
put at the windows and doors and the
interior is being kept intact. The cot
tage has but two or three rooms The
one upstairs was the room to which
ne loved to slip away and write and
work out plans in which he was inter-
ested, and then on the first floor he
made small bed room like a room on
a ship. He had cut through the thick
walls Of the old cottage round port
hole and arranged near it piping
system by which a spray of water
was thrown against the glass. The
bunk was built in the wall. Lawrence
did much of the carpentry work him.
self and the tiny state room he used
as guest chamber for his friends.
Mrs. James H. Wolfe, director of
the woman's division of the Democratic
National Committee, who has been
preparing for the grand roundup of
the 10000 Democratic donkey banks
for some weeks, expects to climax
the event with grand show next
Saturday night in the Pen Woman S
Studio at the Burlington Hotel, when
the drove of District of Columbia
donkey-banks will amble in.
The title of the skit to be given
on the 18th is, Candidates and Cauli-
flower"-rather an ominous title sug.
gestive of an old-fashioned barnstorm.
ing road company, when a succulent
member of the caulif1ower family
played a hazardous part in the re-
ception of the thespians.
The donkey roundup on the 29tf
will be a Nationwide celebration BY
Democrats in every hamlet, village
county and town. when the women OF
the party expect to open the banks
each club reserving its fund fol
local needs-none being given to
the national fund Postmaster Genera
Farley will not get those pennies. fol
they are to carry on the educationa
compaign, which has been in action
for two years. getting ready for the
final graduating exercises next No.
vember, when the women say they
will triumph at the polls and get a
still larger share of the plums which
President Roosevelt has so generously
handed the sex during his admins
tration-hope springs eternal in the
human breast.
Speaking of donkeys:
r A bull in china shop Is mild
incident to the confusion of those
ferocious animals which broke loose
in the New York stock market las
Monday when they slipped on the
Supreme Courts decision in the T
V. A. case. Pandemonium reiene6
supreme and those wild animals
snorted, tossed their horns and BIZ
the dust. History repeats itself and
if the elder Jay Gould could have
only seen the show, he would have
realized that he was only an infant
in swaddling clothes, when it came
to excitement on black Monday, or
was it Friday
Kings and queens of the goth CEN
fury are not "cousining" and using the
pronoun I'VE" as much as they used to
do. Democracy is the order of the
day among crowned heads. as was
exemplified in Edward, Wits letter
to the President of France, thanking
him for all his courtesies and sympathy
at the funeral of his late father the
King: He said the Queen and t.
putting first the Queen Mother.
New Life of King
Edward VIII Out.
What is said to be very revealing
and rather different book about roy
atty is Mr.. Basil Names Our AM
bassador King" He writes of Ed
wards early boyhood, his training
at oxford and his service in the
World War, which he thinks broad
ened him, endeared him to his peo-
pie and helped to make him, after his
father, one of England's best beloved
rulers
His travels in all parts of his en-
pire, Mr.. Maine emphasizes, was the
best school for his understanding
mind. His familiarity with conditions
and his people at home was gained
by direct contact and discussion
of the difficult problems which
have confronted neutrality-suspicious.
since the war. AS landlord he has
been helpful in solving some of the
problems of his tenants which have
existed throughout the years-if not
centuries. Edward VIII is a large
land owner, as the Duchy of Corn
wall alone includes land in Devon,
Dorset, Berkshire, Wiltshire, the Scilly
Islands and London. Housing, min
ing, fisheries and farming have all
received his close study and personal
observation-and yet some people
think the life of king, even in this
day, is just one grand sweet song.
About II years ago there was a
great deal written and talked about
child poet of 10 years who was
writing some readable poetry. Child
geniuses are often overrated, which is
in the very nature of the phenome-
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