The Washington times., 1935-08-22
BETHESDA ESTATE OWNERS FIGHT u LABORATORY
NOW
Bishop Ryan, s
d. e.. Fame
WHAT ACAKE!
By HELEN ESSARY

OF Bishop Ryan from MS posi- as
rector Of the Catholic University
for the See of Omaha, Of which
he has been made bishop, will
be a loss not only to eccleslaS-
tical but to social Washington.
The new Bishop of Omaha
has been one of the most inter-
eSting persons in a Capital
crowded with celebrities.
b At official and Catholic cere'
monies he has been a diStin'
guished figure.
Handsome, witty, poised and
interested in many subjects,
Washington hostesses have re-
garded him as a special asset at
q dinner or luncheon. In spite
Of many invitations, Bishop
Ryan made a never-to-be-b broken
rule not to dine out more than
twice a week. Running the
Catholic University was a full
time assignment.
He has made an excellent col
lege president. Among other
desirable changes, Right Rev.
Ryan reorganized the law school,
developed the summer school
from. an attendance of 500 to
1900, and increased the Scholas-
tic rating of many Of the uni"
VerSitv'S deDartmentS,
The Bishop of Omaha, or
Bishop Ryan, as Washington
still thinks of him, is leaving
Washington just at the end OF
a successful university endow'
ment fund campaign.
I Representative Samuel B. Pet.
tengill, of Indiana, has written
some fine verse. His poem about
his favorite dog, "Jacky-Boy," "
was published during the last
campaign in a South Bend
paper.
Thereupon, Mr.. Pettengill had
q letter from a woman, saying
she had meant to vote the Re-
publican ticket. But Congress
ought to be made up of men
who felt and wrote about dogs
as Mr.. Pettengill did. So she
would vote for Mr.. Pettengill.
Mr.. Pettengill's "The Dome
Of the Capitol" declares in
flowing rhythm:
] haze not get found the ca
dence
OF the song of the CGpitol'S
Dome.
1t is @ long, sloW measure;
The suing of the decades is In
it
And It's beat is the timing OF
generations.
1t is q long, Slow cadence
That poets haze not found.
But that song with a measure.
less measure
win 90 on
on past springtime and seed
time,
on past 1DGr time and peace
time,
on 1Uitt a SWelling creScendo,
on to a grand diGpGson,
OH
! knoD that song tDil go on.
Disgusting half the women Of
Washington from time to time,
with permanent waves, hair
dye, facials and red finger
nails, should enable man to
see through a peach short
cake.
Not so with a certain well
known Connecticut Avenue
beautician. It's the saddest
story of the summer. And the
the most incredible!
The hero, or the victim, Mr..
O., walked into a near by shop
for a bite Of lunch. He said
he liked the look Of the peach
short cake.
The waitress put a delectable
dish before him. Mr.. O., be-
ing both hungry and hurried,
ate the cake with a rush. The
whipped cream seemed tough.
The peach had a new flavor.
But Mr.. @. chewed heartily,
ate all that was on the plate.
Hurrying back to his shop
for an appointment, he was
taken with violent pains. Sud
denly he couldn't see. Faint
ing, he was borne away to the
Emergency Hospital.
The doctors there discovered
him dangerously poisoned.
What had he eaten?
The deliriouS Mr.. @. moaned,
''Peach short cake" An in.
vestigation followed.
The waitress at the lunch
room, it was discovered, feeling
playful, had given Mr.. Q. the
short cake out of the window,
just as q joke.
It was a fake short cake.
Completely artificial. It almost
killed Mr.. @.
Moral-Many a man has been
completely destroyed by window
dressing, particularly in Wash
ington.
Mrs. Dolly Gam and Mrs.
Marvin H. Mcintyre wear thin
blue dresses when they do their
summer marketing Joseph S.
Dixon of the Wild Life Division
Of the National Park Service,
says that Death Valley coyotes
eat fish in Lent. They paw the
minnows out of the shallow
pools. Mr.. Dixon approves Of
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