The Washington times., 1937-02-19

places TO gar
den pilgrims.
This is o fleet aSSA'''
footed. buoyant John j. RaskOb
year, generally. And soon the roads
leading to estates with a romantic
past and q practical present will
be crowded with limousineS and
"flivvers." Then must the gardens
be serene and smiling, whatever
February and March winds and
ice may do.
My Maryland friends have writ
ten me that they are counting on
a beautiful garden pilgrimage
from April 80 to May 8. The date
seems a long way off. But before
long you'll be buying a spring hat
and looking in the cellar for rusty
garden tools.
So be prepared as Mrs. H. Row.
land Clapp and Mrs. Blanchard
Randall, jr., and the other mem
bers of the Maryland Committee
are prepared. Select we'll ahead OF
time the places you want to visit.
Houses near Washington will
naturally be most accessible. But
after all, when one a garden-pil-
grimaging goes, one may as well
take a trip to the Eastern Shore
or Western Maryland and break
away from home life in good
cause.
Swepson Earle's chesapeake
Bay Country" tells fascinating
tales about old houses and gar
dens in Maryland. The volume is
now in it's fourth edition,
SwepSon has added several chap
ters about the Maryland tercen-
tenary observed at st. Marys City
two years ago, and some other well
done sketches and pictures.
like his new chapter on "The
Great Bay" The illustrations OF
bay boats, bugeyes, schooners and
clippers with sails set for far-aWay
ports are as inviting as a spring
breeze.
Mr.. Earle's story of Tulip Hill
in Anne Arundel county shows
new views of garden vistaS and
arched Railways. Tulip Hill was
restored by its present owner, Mrs.
Henry H. Flather, who is chair
man of the Washington committee
of the Maryland Garden Week.
Cremona, a famous st. Marys
county manor also to be shown,
was restored by its present owners,
Col. and Mrs. Howard Davidson.
Colonel Davidson discovered"
Southern Maryland while he was
in charge of Boiling Field. An
tiquarians are delighted with the
swinging stairway at Cremona.
The stairs is like other stairs ex-
eept that the landing has no base
supports. 1t is hung from the cell
ing by heavy chains.
Enchanting old Dover House,
once the Seventeenth Century
Hunting Lodge of the Fifth Earl
Baltimore now the country home
of Mrs. Eleanor Patterson, will lie
among the many houses to tempt
the viSitationS of the pilgrims. Mr..
John j. Raskob ha, consented for
the first time to open his Queen
Annes county estate.
About 20 historical houses in
Annapolis, once "the Athens of
America" will be on exhibition. SO
successful has the Maryland capi-
tai been in it's private restoratious
that there is much talk of big
restoration of Colonial Annapolis
IN the manner of the Williamsburg
revival.
Continuing OF. pleasant themes
here are a few notes on Isabella
Greenway. formerly Congress
woman from Arizona. They are
from one Of her admirers who
rejoices in a new word, charm.
ful," to use in describing Mrs.
Greenway.
Charming" thinks my CORE
spondent has been worn so thin it
has little meaning left. Charmful
according to the dictionary, means
''full of charms" and therefore is
more telling.
Mrs. Greenway made a flying
visit to Washington this week to
visit her close friend Eleanor
Roosevelt and to look in on Con
gresS once more. She delighted
the newspaper women at Mrs
Roosevelt's press conference, SC
her admir~rs declare because OF
these qualities:
Mrs. Greenway has humor:
"I'm really an ultra pro-
gressive," she said. 81 (em-
phasis on the ~ voluntarily
retired at So"
She is modest:
81 spent my three years in
Congress trying to make my
constituents think / was q
career type woman and all the
time they saw right through
me and knew it,"
Mrs. Greenway resisted great
pressure in refusing to run again