The Washington times., 1935-03-22
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SENATOR Glass
TO You, Huey
ICES AND FAME
Rx HELEN ESSARY

elbow to take the dime a paSSer-
by at Fourteenth and F Streets
Rave him for a lead pencil.
But when his benefactor had
dropped the money in his ragged
pocket and gone up the street,
he grinned happily at a news
boy and said:
"DOn't tell me times aren't
gettin' better. This makes $2.7O
I've took in today!"
Senator Glass won't let Huey
Long call him Garter" The
gentleman from Virginia said
the other afternoon as the Sen
ator from Louisiana came up to
him in the Senate cloak room:
Its Senator Glass to you,
young man."
They say up on the Hill that II
Huey Long didn't leave Wash
ington and go to Louisiana now
and then there never would be
any real work done in the Sen
ate of the United States.
Huey has so much to say for
himself on all subjects. He in
terrupts when anybody else is
talking about anything, and so
slows up the law-making Of the
greatest deliberative body in the
world that nobody can get any
bills passed while the Kingfish
Is around.
Huey Long steals the show
wherever he is. Once in Chicago
he and a plain citizen Of the
town went out to dine at a mod
est German restaurant.
Nobody in the restaurant rec
ognized Huey as a parsonage.
But they did recognize him as
a swell performer. In half an
hour, the Kingfish had the en-
tire place under control.
In the first 10 minutes he was
squeezing the hat check girls
hand. Five minutes later he was
mixing drinks with the barten'
der. In 20 minutes he was in
the kitchen borrowing the cooks
apron.
After a little more persuasion
and showmanship, he had
changed places with the waiter
and was serving "beer und Wien
erschnitzel.
The diners were vastly enter
tanned. Huey's greatest asset Is
that he is a relief from bore
dom.
While mentioning restaurants
remember when you eat your
Nesselrode pudding that this de-
licious ice was named for Count
Nesselrode, once ambassador
from Imperial Russia to Wash
ton.
Count Nesselrode was a ia
NOUS epicure. He liked to give
dinners at the Metropolitan
Club-with food made by his
own recipes and guests Of his
own temperament. His most
popular creation was the club
sandwich. One of his pud.
dings washington chefs named
in his honor.
When the 1852 treaty which
Count Nesselrode made for Rus
sia was abrogated, the late
Archibald Hopkins philosophl'
cally remarked:
"Ah we'll, a treaty dies. A
pudding lives"
Dear H. E. j.:
You were incorrect in your
thoughts about the German
Embassy. The flag flying at
half staff was not a sign OF
mourning for the Versailles
Treaty. 1t was SO placed to
recognize the death of a dis
tinguished German.
NOTES ON SPRING
The full moon behind the
towers of 2101 Connecticut
Ave. turns a modern apartment
house into a medieval castle.
The Bureau of Fisheries Of
the Department of Commerce
reports that mackerel are wild
and very hard to catch.
Ohio, is a supporter of the
Cleveland Opera and the Cleve-
land Symph hony. Senator
George Radcliffe, of Mary
land, owns half a dozen
farms on the Eastern Sho'. He
wanted to move one old cottage
with choice woodwork from an
island to the mainland. But the
little Choptank River and a
piece of the Chesapeake Bay
were in the way. So he got a
couple Of Scows. Had them
hitched together. Had the cot
tage lifted to the scowS and car
ried Is miles in the open water
down to the peninsula and
there joined to another old
farm.
Certain injustices continue to
embitter our teSty spirit.
There's, for instance, the de-
termination of the telephone
company to leave the string off
the telephone book.
OF course, if one wanted to
hang the book on a convenient
knob one might get a string
ones self-but does one? Never,