The Bismarck tribune., 1929-02-09

Ancn ne remln0eo hef that she Vas
outdone. however. by an Indian tribe
who live wholly on odors.''
Meat never has 4 place on her din.
ner plates. any more than alcohol
finds way into her glasses. or nico-
tine into the atmosphere. But she
doesn't choose to call herself q vege-
tartan. Sanditarian is the word
she finds most appropriate. and she
explains that 1t Is composed OF san. .
from the Latin word "sanus." or
healthy. and a derivative Of the word
diet" healthy diet. she insists.
makes no truce with meat. which she
labels nothing but dead animals"
Her chef Is so expert a technician
that her subterfuge meat dishes ara
said to have won over WI Ting fang.
the Chinese diplomat. and to have
sent him back to China with a trunk
full OF sanditarian recipes. The more
"
Tingfang was a diplomat
Ii meat Is bad. alcohol is worse,
she believes. And. being the widow
of that Senator Henderson OF Missouri
who introduced the thirteenth amend.
ment. abo!ishins slavery. she has not
forgotten some Of his battles.
So. one post.Volstead spring day.
when she was feeling particularly in.
dependent. she lined up her servants,
led them down cellar and ordered
them to follow the lead OF their gray
haired mistress as she carried a
priceless bottle OF wine down to tho
street and. there. with a magnificent
gesture. poured into the gutter the
burgundy colored liquid. Reluctantly
the servants did their duty. The gut.
ters ran red with wine. and Wash.
ington's thirsty went on a three day
drunk following the precious deluge.
More recently. when the first train
from Kansas City had brought back
to the nations capital the Republican
leaders from the convention, Mrs.
Henderson got UP a grand dinner for
Senator Smoot that she might thank
him for the dry plank In the party
platform.
A Dealer in Land.
But the wine glass and the ash tray
were not always taboo. Referring to
earlier customs. Mrs. Henderson. in
her book on health. writes this apollo.
gia for bNgone hospitalities: my
own atrocious SHINING in converting
the dining room into a dram shop
and the library into tobacco Joint
was as execrable as the bad taste of
mentioning self. II would
have been easy to serve dinners with.
out wine or cigars II l had been In
the habit OF entertaining Americans
only"
But. most emphaucally. she is not
IN the habit Of entertaining Ameri.
cans only" Her outdoor swimming
pool Is an international pond, with
diplomats splashing around in friend.
~ amity. Her tennis court is really
extraterritorial. Foreigners throns
her Monday afternoon tea dances.
where this energetic widow. In an
elaborate afternoon frock, receives
the guests as q frisky black dog snaps
at the heels Of the bedroom slippers
which SO strangely complete the
hostess costume.
And. by the way. she who dances
for health rather than for pleasure
outdances many who twtrl about for
pleasure rather than health.
Galleries and arteries. important as
they are to Mrs. Henderson. are. how.
ever. subordinate to her main interest:
the value OF q plot OF land. Lett q
comfortable fortune by her father, the
late Judge Elisha Foote Of New York.
one time commissioner OF patents. she
has multiplied it magninceutly. for
she Il nobody's fool when It comes to
real estate.
For MANY years Massachusetts, ave.
nue had been the corridor Of the leSa.
tions and embassies. The street was
SNUG and complacent, confident that
no upstart thoroushfara would dare
challenge tts position. Then. one
morning. Mary Foote Henderson de-.
clared that Massachusetts, avenue was
terrible place. She called It Dead
Mans Gulch." and vowed she'd swing
the diplomatic trah,c over to Sixteenth
street. on its high part. out near Flor.
ida avenue. the city's former boundary
line.
The city laughed and called the plan
crazy. First she built her own castle.
with its high turrets and it, sunken
swimming pool: it, Venetian palaxzo.
Inen she built halt . dozen or more
great stone mansions and rented or
sold them to foreign governments.
Now the Sixteenth street diplomatic
ust includes the following: Mexican.
Italian. Spanish. Cuban and French
smhasstes. and the legations Of Lithu.
ania Honduras. Egypt, Poland. vene-
sueA. Nicaragua, and the serha.