The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1935-07-19
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CCC COnQuers
Mosquitoes
ARTEXHIBITION
a. 100 Women Strikers Win First SIkirmiSIn
BY HELEN ESSARY

hasn't been a mosquito at Re.
hoboth this season.
Not one fiendish, nipping
mosquito to drive pious people
into slapping, scratching tor
ment. Rains that usually bring
swarms of the evil pests to the
marshy lowlands have come
and gone. And still-not one
mosquito!
This blessed state is a result
of the draining of Delaware
swamps by the CCC workers
under the direction of Mr.. A. w.
Corkran. So successful has been
the CCC activity around these
parts that the State may go
Democratic-I beg your pardon
Administration.
This idea Is entirely my own.
Delaware, though it is not much
larger than the Department OF
Commerce Building, it has only
one Representative, has been
sending two big strong Repub-
lican Senators to Washington
since - we'll - practically since
the Blue Hens Revolutionary
regiments) formed in the town
squares and went off to fight
the British Red Goats.
Rehoboth is a more restful
place without mosquitoes than
1t was OF yesteryear. Reliable
citizens tell me that once the
mosquitoes were so mean and
powerful-and so many-that
they went from door to door
puncturing the automobile tires
of summer people and residents
alike. Every automobile owner
had to find a garage for his
car-if he wanted to make the
Annapolis ferry. Perhaps a
mosquito blight would help the
parking situation in Washing
ton.
Speaking Of making the ferry
early Monday morning is a
restless hour in Rehoboth. At
4::30 a. m. in every cottage and
hotel, alarm clocks go off
violently. Up jump visiting
husbands and house guests
(sorry-but there's never q
scandal here. this used to be a
camp meeting ground. Fall
into their clothes. Snatch a
limp breakfast, and tear off to
the noise of baking automo-
biles and "Goodby. darling.
Come again soon. Bring Bill
and Edith next week" Down
the flat turnpikes to Malta
peake.
When the whirr of departure
dies down, the cottage housewife
goes back to bed and tries to
catch up on her sleep. Gener-
ally she can't. So she steps into
her bathing suit or shorts. Gath.
ers up empty glasses. Turns out
the ash trays. Throws away the
dead flowers, and with a well,
that's that-until Friday" trots
down to the beach for a little
"under-the-umbrella gossip" on
the hazards of hospitality.
We are getting ready for an
art show next week. There will
be a preview for some choice
guests, exhibitors and members
Of the Village Improvement AS
ISOLATION. On Tuesday and Fri.
day tea will be served at small
tables in sight of the pictures.
The Best People-mentioned
some of them last week on the
flower committee have re-
served tables.
| Added to that part of the list
already published are: Mrs.
James Murdoch, Mrs. Theodore
Afford, Mrs. Kimbrough Stone,
Mrs. Edward Goodrich, Mrs.
Lille Yelverton, Mrs. Henry A.
Berliner, Mrs. Frank Stetson,
Mrs. Edwin Roland, the Misses
Florence and Lucie Mortimer,
Mrs. G. D. ArrowSmith, Mrs. c.
c. Koones, Miss Maidee Ever
and Miss Minerva Danforth.
During the past week the
beach has gone State Depart
mcmillan which nothing this
side of the Court of st. James
could be sweeter. Mr.. James
Clement Dunn, chief of protocol,
came down for a few days.
Likewise Mr.. Robert F. Kelley
eastern European affairs,
and Mr.. John F. Simmons of
the wise division. Mr.. Simmons
mother will be here all summer.
From the French Embassy
have been Mr.. Charles Saint
and Mr.. Claude de Boisanger.
Mr.. and Mrs. Victor M.
Maurtua, of the Peruvian EN-
basSy; Sonora Elena Escobar,
MS. Sidney Gest and Mrs. Hugo
A. Rennert are adding a little
Spanish interest to the beach.
Life on the sands recently
was enlivened by the presence
Of Jock, Evalyn and Neddie
Mclean. children of Mrs. Eva
lyn Walsh Mclean. Minus
bodyguards, they were visiting
the Randall Hagners.
The Austrian Minister and
Madame Prochnik flew to Har-
risburg one day, to have lunch
with Governor and Mrs. Earl.
Governor Earl was a diplomat
at Vienna.
Mrs. Henry Shepherd, Mr..
Bruce Aitchison, Mr.. George L.