Evening star., 1942-09-20
Hobbies and Lobbyists
Nesvs of Group Meetings and Local
Exhibitions
Exhibitions

well done as to deceive any one nos
an expert.
Mrs. Stockherger was first inter.
ested in all early American glass
Then she attended an exhibit OF the
Sandwich Society which featured
the milk white Sandwich glass. A
book on the subject crystlized her
interest in this phase OF glass coll
lecting and about eight years ago
she started her collection. Since
then she has picked up pieces in
| her travels from New England to
| Virginia and as far west as Ohio.
Before gas and travel rationing in
| terfered she and several friends used
to 60 on collecting trips to see what
| they could find.
Piece by piece she has gathered
this glass until she now has enough
to set a dinner table for eight en-
tirely with it. Most of her collection
is the original glass, but due to the
| scarcity of certain items she ha,
filled some gaps in her service with
reproductions. These. of course, she
will replace with the authentic
| Sandwich If she ever finds the
needed pieces, just as a stamp coll
lector may put torn stamp in his
album until he is able to replace II
| with a perfect copy.
Collecting, of course, can only be
done as the occasion arises, so Mrs
Stockberger has other hobbies. She
is an officer in her chapter of the
Daughters of the American Revo-
| luton. She also weaves most in
teresting pieces on hand loom
Her home is full of examples OF
her work on this old American tool
Mr.. Stockberger has found gene
alogy to be most ingrossing hobby
He is not content merely to tracs
a family back through single line
He goes back as far as possible,
then reverses the process and builds
up a family tree of the descendants
of that early ancestor. He finds
that genealogy possesses a feature
in common with the handicraft
hobbies, that of requiring the entire
attention of the lobbyist and
thereby driving out the worries and
cares that befog the mind at the
end of a Worrysome day.
Even the Stockberger home Is q
collector. All over the house are
interesting antiques and collectors
items, but there is one special room,
bedroom on the second floor,
which is entirely stocked with old
| ly,,, F,Iy which IA
longed to one or the other side OF
the family. Old, oval-framed. fam.
lily portraits and original Currier
SS Ives prints hang on the walls
Reminiscent of a room in a mu-
scum it is different in that all this
things in it have been part of this
family down through the years.
Having been raised in this hons
1t is only natural that Mr.. and
Mrs. Stockberger's daughter. now
married and living in Philadelphia,
should be lobbyist. She Is in
terested in China. Her main COL
lection consists of tea leaf luster,
which was made in England And
probably. like her mother, she scours
the countryside for additional pieces.
MEETINGS.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Society
of Model Engineers. o gauge work
night, home of Ralph Schrom, Ber-
wyn, Md, pm.
Friday - Mineralogical Society.
meeting postponed from last week.
At the National Museum, Tenth
and Constitution avenue NV. 8
pm. Exchange or auction of dupli-
cate specimens will be held.
Saturday Washington Radio
Club, call Gilbert Dawkins, Sligo
1850, for location.