The Washington times., 1935-06-19
NOW
Garner Proves
He's Honest
CHATTY BIRDS
BY HELEN ESSARY

pISSlucLlGS uOWu IA 4eAdo' NdC.
tus Jack Garner, for instance.
Cactus Jack so proved him.
self at the end Of a bridge game
the other night. He hadn't
wanted to play bridge at first.
Had said he wouldn't mind sit
ting in on q little hand of poker.
But bridge was a sissy game.
However, they had urged,
please, Mr., v. P. Just this once.
Besides, see who your partner
Is. Mr.. Garner looked at his
partner. She was the pretty
wife of a Senator. He said,
well, he believed he'd have try.
The game began we'll. Got
better and better. The Vice PreSi-
dent and the Senator's wife won
the first rubber. Now it was time
to change partners.
Mr.. Garner said no, he liked
the partner he had. He wanted
to play as he was sitting right
now. The hostess and the other
guests said very well, since they
had got him into this game.
they would let him make his
own, rules.
AT the end of the evening,
Cactus Jack and the Senator's
wife were far in the lead. AS
the hostess handed them the
prizes, the Vice President said:
I'D like to take them, Ma am,
but II wouldn't be fair. You
didn't realize where I was sit
ting, There was a mirror just
behind my partner and 1 could
see every card she held. Looks
to me like bridge is a sissy
game, after ALL"
When Mr.. Joseph P. Ken
nedy, chairman of the Securi-
ties and Exchange Commission,
who is the guardian of the lost
sheep on Wall Street, entertainS
at Harwood, his country place
outside Washington, he some.
times has big screen set up
outdoors, and shows previews
of good motion pictures.
Last night the moon came out
full and yellow. Little clouds
raced across the sky. The old
trees on the shores of the Po-
tomac were magnificent back
drops for the drama of Joan
Crawford's cure of husbands
taste for other ladies.
Several fortunate guests
sat on the lawn in big comfort
able chairs and wished all sum-
mer nights were as lovely as
this.
A French hairdreSSer, just re-
Gently come to Washington
from New York, is speaking:
"Ah, these careless ladies Of
WashingtOm! They are beauti.
full But they do not know how
to fix the hairs. 1t is terrible
how they do. / assure you,
Madame, these Washington Ia
dies hold their hairs whit
makes me 7eeck to see it-with,
Mon Dieu, the bobby pins!"
. Mr.. George R. Putnam, Com
missioner Of Lighthouses, is
getting letters daily now say
ing:
ooh, please, Mr.. Commits
SiOner, have you a lighthouse
which / can buy cheap? / want
one 50 very much"
Since radio signaling has be-
come so nearly perfect, certain
lighthouses along the Atlantic
Seaboard, particularly on New
England's rockbound coast, have
been abandoned by the Govern
ment, and sold for what they
would bring.
An artist and his practical
wife bought one of the first
lighthouses the Government
turned loose. Set up compact
and romantic housekeeping
therein. The news of their
enterprise went forth, as news
will. r.
Promptly the remaining un-
occupied lighthouses were COB
bled up at a bargain. Now none
are left for sale-at any price. i
We love birds. But really
this spring the dear little
feathered creatures have been
chatter than unsual. At about
4 O'Clock in the morning out in
our neighborhood, they begin
giving their orders for the day.
DiSciplining the children and
arguing about what happened
the night before.
Their voices are louder than
they were last year. Perhaps
the birds caught cold in the
late spring rain.
Jane Tewksbury, who was
married to Ensign Merrill Glenn
entson last Saturday night, was
really the loveliest bride of the
spring. She carried herself well.
Her simple, graceful veil and Sc
we're, well-cut gown set off her
own beauty. E. Bruce AitchiSon
is inheriting the legal ability of
his father, who is a member of
the Interstate Commerce Com
mission. They say he can talk a
bird off q bough or a man out
of Jail. :. j. Edgar Hoover has
given up hunting criminals, tenn
porarily. And is out encouraging
romance-shopping for wedding
presents.
The Smiths in the new tele-
phone directory are not only
keeping up with the JoneSeS.