The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1934-09-19


daring naval raid on Zeebrugge,
the German war base, in the
World War.
The new Assistant Naval At
tache of the British Embassy
and Mrs. Mark-Wardlaw had an
informal cocktail party for the
distinguished visitors the other
afternoon at their home, 1925
Highland Place.
Among the guests, who in
cluded some naval attaches OF
the various embassies and of the
Naval Intelligence Department
Of the United States Navy, were
Admiral Paul Yurevitch OraS,
Captain and Madame Sable,
Captain Yamaguchi, Captain
Casardi, Captain Robert Witt
hoeft, Commander McKinlay,
Commander Yosiyuki Itimiya,
Lieutenant Commander zyoo,
Commander Alexander Yakimi-
chev, Captain and Mrs. Pules-
ton, Commander and Mrs. Ans
den and Miss Amsden, Comman-
der and Mrs. Lotion, Col. Maui
rice Fitzmaurice Day, Wilson
Young, Miss Eve Mark-Ward-
law, and Master Adam Mark
Wardlaw.
It's most convenient to have
the Fountain of Youth in ones
own back yard.
Gen. Blanton Winship, gov
ernor Of Puerto Rico, whom I
met yesterday at the delightful
party of Lucie Witherspoon and
Dunbar Amman, believes that a
certain bubbling spring in the
garden of the governors palace
at San Juan, Puerto Rico, is the
fountain Ponce de Leon seached
for and everybody in the world
hopes some day to find. (They
tell me Governor Winship bases
his belief in the fountains quail
ity on personal experienced
Christopher Columbus, you
know, landed at San Domingo,
q neighboring island to Puerto
Rico, when he was out looking
over the New World. Ponce de
Leon followed Columbus. The
Standards who coloniZed this
group of islands made the great
military road that runs across
Puerto Rico and about 400 years
ago built the enchanting palace
the American governors now
enjoy.
It is the sort of palace one
hopes to meet in Heaven, if
Heaven turns out that way. A
huge low building of old stone,
its gardens of tropical plants
and flowers and fountains
wander slowly down to the edge
Of the sea. It has the grace Of
old Spain. Every American who
IS fortunate enough to live there
q while wants to stay always.
The Spanish influence is
rather intense today.
Seeing that agreeable Rupert
Blue, former surgeon general
of the Public Health Service, at
the same party reminded me of
his brother, Victor Blue, who
was a rear admiral and was one
Of the most famous fighters of
the Spanish-American War.
The Department of Kind Po-
licemen:
A handsome young man Dor
rowed his rich aunt's roadster
the other night and took the
Girl of the Moment out dane
ing. And later for a drive, a
long, long drive in the moon
light. Having eventually left
the Girl of the Moment in the
country, the young man started
back to Washington. On Wis
conSin Avenue in it's Montgom.
cry county neighborhood, the
car Stopped-dead. There wasn't
an ounce of gas in the tank.
Feeling much too tired from
the long evening to walk in
search of a filling station, the
handsome young man decided
to sit quietly. Maybe somebody
would come by and help him.
Somebody did come by. A police
man drew up beside him. A
very sympathetic policeman.
who most politely pushed the
exhausted roadster for a mile
and a half to a gasoline station.
When the gas tank was quite
full, the officer asked the crate
full but still fatigued young
man:
"Have you got to go to work
in the morning, buddy?"
The young man replied wea-
rily:
"Sure I have"
"TOO bad, buddy. what you
need is . good nights Sleep!"