Evening star., 1938-06-05
BY JACQUES FUTRELLE. Jr.

- CRIBBLINGS: Mass tangled
thickets of rhododendron, now
blooming in the mountains of
- North Carolina, are worth the
tourists time seeing and writing home
about, but dyed-in-the-wool mountain
Tarheels call them, quantity enough.
"hells."
The Hampton Regatta, Glorious
Fourth holiday of yachtmen, will have
a new feature this year--a night
marine parade. Carrying bright flags
and colored lights, the boats will pass
in review in Hampton Roads, while
above will play the anti-aircraft food
lights of Langley Field and Fort
Monroe. Dates, July 2, 3 and 4.
Breton boys who go to the big city
and make good Gin Paris, Rouen or
Bordeaux are tugged by their heart
strings home for at least one of
Brittany's 101 annual pardons. And
in case some one asks what a pardon
is, it's "a pilgrimage to some local
shrine, the purpose of which is to
approach the sacraments and to gain
indulgences."
One Of the favorite pastimes in old
New England for professional and
amateur antiquarians is spotting
double witch cross" doors on houses
Look at door right now tan inside
door will do, in fact is preferable) and
become an initiate as we explain The
ordinary inside door has six thin
panels, formed by one piece of frame
work running up and down and two
running crosswise The lower cross
ridge Is about doorknob high. The
double witch cross door has a cross
ridge below as we'll as above the one
at the knob. 1t was supposed to keep
New England's witches out of the
home or room. The visitor at Mount
Vernon may see such doors.
60 DETAILED is the Automobile
~ Associations Gondon) new motor
ing book on Scotland that in addition
to showing itineraries over 11,150
miles of road and describing attrac-
tions at more than 800 cities, villages
and lochs, 1t carries a color map
showing the domains of the Highland
clans and Lowland families.
firing Of catching deep-sea fish of
the picturesque town of Tampico,
Mexico, the fisherman may turn nim-
rod and go not far inland to shoot
cougar.
The sports deck on the Queen Mary,
which has just entered its third year
of service, is 600 feet long.
The Rev. DR.. James Shera Mont
gomery, chaplain of the House of
Representatives, Is scheduled to preach
from the pulpit of the American
Church, the tourist church." in Paris
on July "a. Other American pulpit
orators to be heard in the million
dollar ediflce this summer include
DR.. Henry Smith Leiper of New York,
one Of the executives of the Federal
Council of Churches; DR.. Luther w.
Stalnaker, head of the Philosophy
Department, Drake University, Des
Moines, Iowa; DR.. E. Paul Sylvester
OF the First Congregational Church in
La Grange, ILL.,, and DR.. S. E. Gerard
Priestly Of the Divine Paternity in
New York.
What passengers will find on the
koldtbord-just prelude to the meal
- aboard the Norwegian American
Lines Oslofjord on its maiden trip to
America: More than 70 kinds of
timed fish, including the famous
MATES herring and 26 varieties of
herring put up in fruit, oil, wine, dill
and tomato sauces; Norwegian red
smoked salmon, Norwegian sardines
and brisling, fried kippers, smoked eel,
fish pudding, lobster, crab and shrimp.
But perhaps you don't like seafoods.
Well, there'll be roast, picked and
smoked beef, lamb, veal and pork; Is