The Washington times., 1935-01-21
NOW
Mrs. Joe Byrns
in Social WhirL
ANOTHER BLOC
BY HELEN ESSARY

BY HELEN ESSARY
Monday the week begins
brightly.
Only two requests to buy
benefit tickets in the mornings
mail.
Mrs. Joseph w. Byrns, of
Tennessee, has been frightfully
rushed with engagements and
responsibilities since her hus-
band was made Speaker of the
House.
Someone suggested that she
get a fire alarm bell and a
fireman's suit. Be ready to
dash off at a seconds call.
It would have been difficult
for the Washington Mahomets
: to go to the Maryland noun
tain. The weather being what
1t was and the Mahomets being
Of the number and Importance
they were.'
So the mountain did the trav.
cling. The Eastern Shore came
across the Chesapeake Bay by
ferry and by motor and Mr..
and Mrs. Wilbur w. Hubbard
gave yesterday at the Woman's
National Democratic Club a
truly Maryland luncheon.
Senator George L. Radcliffe,
the new Senator from Mary
land, and Mrs. Radcliffe were
the guests of honor. The other
guests, the Speaker of the
House of Representatives and
Mrs. Byrns and about hun
dred others of official i'm.
portance ate terrapin cooked
at Widehall, the home of Mr..
and Mrs. Hubbard at Chester
town in Kent county. Cooked
by the correct Maryland recipe.
Ate Maryland beaten biscuits,
Maryland ham, Maryland
oysters and Lady Baltimore
cake-all prepared at Wide"
hall.
And finished off this exquis-
ite menu with strawberry ice
cream and with Democratic
donkeyS done in pastry. During
the luncheon, while Senators
and such were feeling sorry
they hadn't been born Eastern
Shoremen, a chorus of Mary
land Negroes sang Maryland
Spirituals.
And, oh, yes, I almost forgot,
the party began with Maryland
punch served from great silver
bowls.
At the end of the luncheon
Gen. William E. Horton, the
Lord Chesterfield of Washing
ton, said with a deep sigh of
appreciation, "This is what I
call a party!"
Senator and Mrs. Radcliffe
and Mr.. and Mrs. Hubbard are
old friends with Eastern Sho'
SympathieS in common. Sena.
tor Radcliffe was born on the
Eastern Sho'. Widehall, where
Mr.. and Mrs. Hubbard live
when they are not in Washing
ton, is a famous Maryland
manor. It was built about
1882 and is a picturesque old
Georgian mansion. Its hall is
o vista of wide archways and
pedimented doors. Its gardens
spread to the Chester River
and in the Springtime wild
flowers grow between the flag
stones of the terrace.
Is there going 70 be an Anna
Eleanor Roosevelt bloc in the
HOUSE?
Mrs. Roosevelt's two close
friends, Representative Caroline
O'Day, of New York, and Rep
resentative Isabella GreenWay,
o. Arizona, often are observed
seated together and talking con-
genially.
Millard Tydings, Maryland
Lothario in the Senate, will be
home from the Philippines
about February. A post card
from Senator Tydings showed
him looking at the University
OF Saint Tomas in Manila.
N dime Saito, wife of the
Japanese Ambassador, brought
from her recent trip to Japan
q collection of beautiful dolls
which she will arrange in the
Emba ~ for the Dolls Festival.
It is the custom in Japan to
display on March 3, for the en-.
tertainment of Japanese girls,
ancient dolls. Some, two or
three hundred years old, are
elaborately dressed in the cos
tunes of the period.
On May S a similar festival
Is arranged for the boys.
More about the japanese.
Once, a previous japanese
Amha SSodor Mr. Dob,,oh;