The Washington times., 1935-12-30
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Revised Story of
Nervous BOy
PAINTING NOTE

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In case the dear children have
been trying your parental fervor
during these happy holidays may
be you'd like the story about the
little boy who grew restless in a
department store while his mother
was buying him a pair of gloves.
The store was extremely mod
ern. So was the little boys
mother. When the manager sug-
geSted that the child psychologist
on the third floor might be able
to calm her small son, the mother
said, "Oh, do let him try" Roger
had been so difficult lately that
neither she nor his father knew
what to do with him. He GER
tainly needed some one to under
stand his delicate nervous system.
Roger thereupon was borne
shrieking to the psychologist who
took him aside. Fixed a cold eye
on the youth and whispered some
thing. Something tremendously
wise and understanding no doubt.
Roger quieted down at once.
Quietly was returned to the glove
counter by his mother. Selected
the kind of gloves he had said he
hadn't wanted and went home
like lamb.
What was it, Roger" his
mother gratefully asked at dinner,
that kind, wonderful man said
to you that made you happy and
good? What was it that he knew
about troubled little boys that your
dear mother and father did not
know? Tell us what did he say?"
He said," Roger answered, IF
didn't behave myself he'd take
me in the cellar and whip me
with a strap until I couldn't sit
down for a month. He said if
more problem children were beaten
up they'd behave better. Gee nom,
that guy was smart"
Sudden change of theme-Mrs.
Hugh Campbell Wallace has in her
house on Massachusetts, Avenue
the recently finished portrait of
her father, the late Chief Jus.
tice Melville Fuller. which is soon
to be hung in the new Supreme
Court Building.
Although the artist who did the
portrait has never seen the late
Chief Justice, the canvas is an
excellent likeness. It shows the
fine intelligence in the shape of
the head and the glance of the
eye, the magnificent mustache
and the kindly expression in the
features of the famous jurist.
Mrs. Wallace, whose husband
was ambassador at two foreign
courts, resembles her father. If
were asked to select one of the
really Great Ladies of Washing
ton I should mention Mrs. Wal
lace among the first three. She
has quality that makes many
imitation Great Ladies one sees
seem to have come from the
comic supplements.
The former Chief Justice Full
Ter, by the way, adored the
thrillers of the almost forgotten
Nick Carter. He had dozens and
dozens of copies of tn exciting
old tales.
Nick Carter, so Mr.. Chandler
Hale, brother of Senator Fred
Hale of Maine tells me, was the
pseudonym of a professor of eco
nomics at a New England uni
versity. To entertain himself he
dashed off the absurd stories. A
publisher read two or three, made
an arrangement which brought
the professor to the offices of
"a penny a liner" every Saturday
morning. Then the professor
would talk out a plot. The
"penny-a-liner" would write the
story and have it in the pub
: lisher'S hands before Nick Car
ter'S next Saturday visit.
Mr.. Hale has about four hun
dred copies of Nick Carter's mas
terpieceS.
Returning to the portrait theme
10 Davidson, the sculptor, not
long back from a residence in
Paris, was asked by Dean Ache
son to look about at the guests
at the last Gridiron dinner-rep-
resentating, all of them, some
variety of achievement-and tell
him which man had the head
most worth sculptoring.
Mr.. Davidson studied the crowd
for few minutes. ConcentraJ-
ing on the men at the head
table answered:
"The noblest Roman of them
all is Supreme Court Justice Nc
Reynolds. I'd rather do him
than anybody in the room"
Things you ought to know about
the people who make the town
60 round
Miss Elizabeth Houghton,
daughter of the Alanson Hough-
tons, studied at Oxford while her
father was American Ambassador
at the Court of St. James =.
Frank H. Simonds, who under
stands wars and the portentS
thereof, is the wittiest phrase
maker in Washington. At re-
partee he is more devastating
than the long range guns he
deploreS. Mrs. Bowler Hull, that
terribly pretty woman with the
white hair and the young figure