Evening star., 1937-01-23

most uncomfortable circumstances OF
all. Rain poured down upon the line
Of march. It was . virtual Summer
cloudburst, but icy cold. Harrison
and Cleveland, whom he had de-
feated, sat in an open carriage, wear
Ing top hats and wrapped In bear
skin rugs. Cleveland, unable TO open
his umbrella, turned to Charles s.
Fairchild, the new Secretary Of the
Treasury, and said:
Lend US your umbrella. We are
all honest men and will return It,"
Coming TO consideration Of the new
date from the weather angle, the
writer's offer this information:
"only once during the past IL
years has the weather on January 20
been really bad. Furthermore, the
temperature at noon on January 20
was higher in cases out Of II than
that at noon on March 4 Of the same
year and the mean temperature on
January 20 during the last 49 years
was 80 degrees. or only s points
colder than the average temperature
on March 4 during the same period"
QUITE another outlook on Wednes-
" days show Is expressed in a
lively piece by 1nez Galloway Robb
in the New York Woman for this
week Says Miss Robb. contrasting
our induction ceremonial with the
English coronation:
what this Nation needs Is 4 good
flve-dollar Inauguration. Something
neat and as gaudy as possible. with no
limit on the red plush and ermine.
AS a citizen, it grieves me to con-
cede that the mother country will
stage a better show in May. The
simple life is all right for those who
can afford it, but I think We owe
it to ourselves to keep up with the
Windsors."
She goes on: I'VE should look
around for q Zeigfeld and order a
high-class production with all the
props when the British EN-
pire crowns itself a King Emperor
even q last-minute substitute, who
hardly has time to warm up before
going in to pitch-it gives the citi-
zens q show that makes Ringing
Bros, Barnum and Bailey look like
tuppence." But, she says:
"All around Mr.. Roosevelt will be
gentlemen in plug hats and drab du-
plicate garments down to the last
crease. But. after all. what
Is q plug hat? A target for snowballs
in Winter and for brickbats in Sum-
mer. A crown, say I, for the Presi-
dent and coronets for his faithful
followers!
Weave q chaplet of strawberry
leaves for members of the cabinet.
Wrap them In crimson velvet and
mantle them in ermine. Fashion some
thing tasty out of raspberry leaves,
damask and skunk for our Senators.
Lets design something nobby in
poison oak and sackcloth and ashes
for the House minority. Let's have
gold braid for every citizen who voted
a straight ticket, and fur busby for
party workers.
IF England, the greatest democ-
racy Of US all, can afford the biggest
show on earth when she inducts new
ruler into office, I say we Americans
can't afford to be caught with our
plush mantles of. We, the people,
want q bigger and better show. An
inaugural day glimpse of Sstie and
Buzzie in their new Winter snow suits
isn't enough!"
ON SEVERAL occasions in the past
these columns have remarked on
articles descriptive of the development
of the auto trailer. The present issue
Of the New York Woman has a piece
by Reta Cowles devoted to the more
luxurious aspects of this new mode of
travel. Hitherto most writers have
stressed the economy of trailing. Miss
Cowles, however, calls her article LUX
uriously We Roll Along" and in it re-
marks that they're paying such prices
as 10, 20. IS and even IS thousand
dollars" for the de luxe edition Of the
new vehicle, now called the ''land
yacht"
"such people," she says, "as Henry
L. Doherty, Marquis H. d. Cranston,
John L. Senior, Charles A. Mum,
Arthur K. Bourne, w. G. Potts, Adam
Luke, jr.; E. Steusrt Davis, Philip M.
Plant, H. 8. Roberts, John s. Phipps.
Theodore Pratt, william Esty, Drayton
Cochran, Robert Grant, jr.; A. r.
Graustein, Count and Countess Lebe-
bur, Mrs. George e. Kent, Michael
Strange and Bill Plankington are now
owners Of trailers, which include
everything from rear observation plat
forms to canoe carriers on the roofs"
And the colored taxi-driver who
brought the reviewer down town the
other day remarked that he was going
to buy one, too. He said he wanted
to 60 South with his family for the
Winter.
A MOTHER sport which Is develop.
ing with such phenomenal speed
that 1t attracts many writers Is skiing.
In the February American John
Kieran has an amusing article on the
subject (called 1.-THE Skis the Iinit")
In which he traces the growth OF SKI
consciousness in our country.
At one time, he says, skiing was an
old Norwegian custom, just as raising
boards was rife among Russians. but
there was no cause for citizens Of this
country to 60 In for either as q sport
or an industry. They were quite
content with snowshoes. But now
there Is q strongly developing tendency
to give snowshoes back to the Indians
He then traces the beginning Of the