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XJR” ‘ > Uta. ■ sh y.-: Vice President Lyndon Johnson's wife, Lady Bird, holds an ancient vase from the Island of Cyprus, her favorite among a collection of ancient pottery which she has started. The 4,100-year-old vase, a gift from Glafkos ’ Clerides, President of the House of Representa tives of Cyprus, is unusual in that it is both glazed and engraved; showing that the art of glazing was known long ago.—Star Staff Photos by Tom Hoy. SOCIETY-HOME fV'L< I ■flßMg Other artifacts in Mrs. Johnson's collection are: 1. A 5,000-year-old brick excavated in Susa, the ancient capital of Persia. The cuneiform writing is an accounting of the daily expenses of building CAPITAL FOOTNOTES Lady Bug 'Dug' Plumber's Digging Discovery Because a plumber in Marshall, Tex., became Interested in digging around in old American Indian ruins, Vice President Lyndon Johnson’s wife, Lady Bird, now is a collector of prehistoric pottery. It all started a few years ago, when Mrs. Johnson went back to her old home town, Marshall, in Eastern Texas, to attend to some business. As she entered the Marshall Bank, she noticed a new glass case containing some artifacts pottery, spearheads, arrowheads and the like. "I thought what a lively place the bank was get ting to be, and what a nice public service it was for young people,” Mrs. Johnson recalls. She told her banker this, and learned from him that the pieces were believed to have belonged to the Caddo Indians, who inhabited the area “from pre- Columbian times to the time the white man got there.” A local plumber interested in archaeology had re cently unearthed the artifacts in his spare time, the banker related. “You tell him I just think it is the most fascinat ing thing, and I would admire to come and talk to him about it," Mrs. Johnson told the banker. When she was about to board a plane later that day, a friend rushed up and handed her e roughly wrapped box. There was no card or note attached, but the friend said it came from E. K. Arnauld, the town plumber. “He wanted you to have it,” said the friend. Inside was a little jug or vase, “such as might have been used to hold wine or oil or other foodstuff, or perhaps just for decoration," Mrs. Johnson says. W Sunday WASHINGTON, D. C„ JULY 14, 1963 EXCLUSIVELY YOURS Wives Will Sew For Blair House By BETTY BEALE Star Staff Writer Except far Ethel Kennedy, the entire feminine cabinet circle is about to use the needle. It will not be the kind of needle females are so often credited (by males) with using against each other. In this case it will be the needle in needlepoint. ' Mrs. Angler Biddle Duke who’s in charge of doing for Blair House—under Mrs. Kennedy’s supervision— what the First Lady has done for the White House, has every single cabinet wife signed up to make a needlepoint seat for a dining room chair in Blair. They will all be stitching like mad for months, with the exception of Ethel for obvious reasons. She has some other demanding, crying, pressing, tiny duties to look after. Future dignitaries who dine in the President’s guest house will place their posteriors on handiwork that will become historic because of who did it. I do not know whether the women plan to sign them, but they must, at least, put their Initials on the unseen border so that future genera tions will know which one was done by Mrs. Rusk, wife of the Secretary of State, by Mrs. McNamara, wife of the Secre tary of Defense, and so on. ROBIN DUKE, wife of the Chief of Protocol, is supplying all the .canvases and wool and having several designs drawn up to choose from. The seats will be blue and oyster white to match the superb and very complete set of Lowestoft chins (or Chinese export, as I am told it is more properly called) that was given to the Government with the house. In the renovation that is now going on in Blair House, cab inets are being built on either side of the dining room fire place for the purpose of dis playing its lovely blue leaf pattern. To crack the whip over the labor doing the fine nee dlework, Mrs. Duke put, of course, the wife of the Secre tary of Labor, Mrs. Willard Wirtz. Since there are 18 din ing room chairs, the latter will have other women from the top echelons of Government, such as Mrs. Llewellyn Thomp son, working for her. But the needlers are not (Continued on Page C-7, Cot 1) fl Jfl ■■ A j1 ■ - jT" *fl i b i Xjfll . fl -. /. < ■ | ■k ?■ * < 'OB ■ ’ k ■L MRS. EDWARD DAY ... the right choice to moke a stamp album for the house. —Star Staff Photo, by Randolph Routt j x as < _fli£ -IB □ "citadel," or fortification. 2. An oil-burning lamp used in Jerusalem at the time of Christ. It is only four inches long. 3. A two-inch high Etruscan vase, decorated with the figure of a lion, By ISABELLE SHELTON Star Staff Writer “It was as lovely a little piece as I’ve ever seen.” She was so delighted with her first acquisition, and with a bowl that Mr. Arnauld subsequently gave her, says the Vice President’s wife, that she decided to seek other pieces as she traveled to far-away spots with the Vice President Gifts have augmented the collection, as people have learned of her interest. She now has acquired enough treasures so that she has designed a lighted cabinet for them, to be erected at the LBJ Ranch in Johnson City, Tex. It will be of “mellow, honey-brown fruitwood,” like the rest of the wood in the ranch living room, she says, and will be lined with dull suede or buck skin, or possibly dull silk, in olive green. ("Velvet is lovely but it doesn’t go with pottery," she mused.) “These things set fire to the imagination,” Mrs. Johnson said enthusiastically. "Ancient history al ways has intrigued me. When you get an actual, physical thing you can hold in your hand, it brings that civilisation back to life, much better than just reading something in a book.” She does not plan a large collection. “It’s not so much the things themselves as it is the pictures they evoke of the life people lived. I want each one to have a personal meaning to me, either in terms of its history or how I acquired it. I expect to have great fun composing just a few lines to go on a card With each piece, giving its history and what it means to me.” ® UROH2 ■! M- H PII FHI IiIHmI 1 Ir 3 4 kifi IWM| I r IH * H | F E H Hh - ■ ■ ? %IK I KSwl lix k v EW -r / * -v- / kt j z y “ SKwW K l r MRS. STEWART UDALL ... looks over books she's collecting for the guest house. Diplomatically Speaking, C*2 Modern Manners, C-5 probably used to hold perfume. 4, Three vases from Cyprus, all about 2,700 years old. Mrs. Johnson is struck by the similarity to the decora tions on American Indian pottery. "Take this,” for instance, she said, picking up a piece of Wick that had been excavated in the ruins of Susa, the ancient capital of Persia. “Archaeologists say the cuneiform writing along the side is an accounting of the dally expenses and number of workers used in building a citadel, or fortification, in Archaemenlan times,” she said. "To me this brick talks of those ancient times. I never see it without thinking of those millions of man-lives—all those sweating bodies building some thing that now is dust. "I hope the man wno kept the records didn’t have as much trouble with his bookkeeping as I do,” she mused. "At least I can erase my mistakes.” The favorite piece in her collection, Mrs. John son said, is a 4,100-year-old vase from the Island of Cyprus, glazed a soft red. It was the gift of Glafkos Clerides, President of the House of Representatives of Cyprus. "The interesting characteristics of this vase are that it is both glazed and engraved. It shows, there fore, that in that early period of history (2,000 years before Christ) people knew the art of glazing," Mr. Clerides wrote Mrs. Johnson. Her second favorite in the collection, Mrs. John son said, is a tiny two-inch-high vase unearthed in the Etruscan section of Northern Italy, dating from 700 B. C. It was given her by Ann Bruno, an Ameri can newswoman she met in Rome. Mrs. Johnson is enchanted with the figure of a lion clearly outlined in the design. “I wasn’t aware lions inhabited Italy,” she said, until they brought them in to eat the Christians, that is.” S bT iTfl : n a IHI' fl C. 