Evening star., 1938-10-30

agreed by Maryland historians just the
brick brought from England, the white
keystone panels over the windows
and the classic keystoned arches in
the great Railways are evidences of
the beauty of construction as we'll as
chasteness Of the architecture of the
earlier Colonial times. The mellow
brick walls, tapestried with old Eng
lish ivy and closely framed with
ancient lockwood, are particularly
lovely at this time Of year.
Maryland and Virginia Affiliated
Clubs Entertained.
The purely social season at the club
was inaugurated yesterday by an OPEN
house tea-Jeffersonian atmosphere of
hospitality-for the afiliated clubs of
Maryland and Virginia, at which Mrs
Cordell Hull, wife of the Secretary of
State, was the guest of honor. Ruth
Elizabeth Shoemaker-Who has been
renominated-and Vesta Carey were
the high lights at the tea, as both are
candidates for the Maryland House of
representatives On the eve of the
most bitterly contested political cam
paign the State has had in some time
these two women have been here and
there and everywhere, outdistancing
the men on the hustings and in house.
toulouse visiting.
It appears that women are croWding
the Democratic ballots this fall as
never before. Mrs. Thomas F. Meal
lster-Wife of a Western State SUI
preme iudge-director of the women's
division of the Democratic National
Committee, says. according to the sur
vev, which has just been completed by
the women's division, nine women are
candidates on the Democratic ticket for
Congress. 13 for important State posi-
tions and more than hundred for
State Legislatures. In the New Eng
land State Of New Hampshire alone
there are 81 women candidates for the
lower house, while Vermont, that rock
ribbed Republican stronghold, has
three candidates.
Mrs McAllister, who has recently
returned from Nationwide check-up,
contends that the uneXampled progress
women have made in the councils of
the Nation under the administration
OF President Roosevelt and their real
ization that government can be made
an instrument of social benefit for all
the people has had its effect. That
not only women in cities and towns,
but the women Of the farms and from
isolated districts have been made a
part of larger life for women and are
joining more an more in local and
State activities for better standards of
living in the home. for better schools
and better roads. She claims that the
latter have been the means of Amer
ica's 130000,000 population knowing
better their own country. and that the
national parks, which have become the
Fairgrounds for the people, have en-
abled the East to better understand
the West. and the North the South
Young COmmitteewomen
Make Progress.
The youth movement in the party
has grown by leaps and bounds, and
younger people are taking on more
and more responsible work in the
councils of the party. Mrs. McAllister
points with pride to three new State
vice chairmen, FL of whom are under
40, and the youngest one, Miss Jessie
Phillips of Delaware, is only a. Mrs
Melissa Rigdon, State vice chairman
in Missouri, is "a, and Mrs. Blanche
Fritz Of Illinois is just about 40. She
was delegate at large to the national
convention in Philadelphia in 1886
These youngsters are full of pep. as
witness Mrs. Hollingshead, 5th con-
gressional district, Abba, Iowa, who
outdistanced her two male opponents
for the nomination to Congress and
has conducted her campaign on the
slogan ASK My Neighbor" Mrs.
Gasque. widow of the late Representa-
tive Gasque of South Carolina. was
nominated in September to fill the
Inexpired, term of her husband. The
erm. however, ends January 3, 1899.
But if those other nine women are
successful the halls of legislation will