The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1935-05-10
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Senator BOrnh' s
Charming Wife
LOBBYING HINT
BY HELEN ESSARY

INDUCED in by the Cabinet La
dies and the Senate Ladies next
Wednesday, Mrs. Roosevelt will
receive the psychiatrists.
Mr.. and Mrs. Elliott RooSe-
welt, who are visiting at tn e
White House, have bought a big
ranch near Fort Worth, Tex.
Elliott and the former Ruth
Googins will make their home
not far from Mamma Ruth"
who, her friends tell me, is a
charming, forceful woman.
Mrs. William E. Borah. wife
Of the Senator from Idaho, is
one of the most delightful Of
the senatorial wives. She is
very nice to look at, and has a
gay sense of humor. She in
sists that nobody knew there
was a Mrs. Borah until she
had that recent desperate case
Of parrot fever.
However, this anecdote, which
Mrs. Borah carefully repeated
to the Senator, tells who the
real prima donna in the Borah
family is:
At a tea party, Mrs. Borah
overheard this whispered con-
versation in the corner near
the punch bowl:
"WhO is that woman over
there? That small one with
the light hair and the blue hat?"
ooh, that One-that's Mrs.
BOrah."
"You don't mean to tell me!
Well! How could that attractive
woman cvos live with man like
Borah as long as she has?"
The prettiest brunette debu.
tante of the year has decided
on the date of her wedding.
Miss Bessie Gill, daughter OF
Mr.. and Mrs. Theodore N. Gill
and William Barron Kerkam.
Junior, will be married on June
% at st. Johns Church in
Georgetown at 4:30 in the after
noon. -..
"The Sights and Secrets OF
the National Capital" is an old
Washington guide book, pub
lished in 1869.
What a title for a column us
name would be!
Senator Hugo Black, who Is
bent on investigating Washing
ton Hobbies, might turn to Page
1873 of 1.-THE Sights and Secrets"
He's certain to want to know
that:
almost all important lobby
schemes have agents of both
sexes who are persons OF educa'
ton, intelligence, and great
powers of insinuatiOn and fascl'
nation. Women make excellent
lobbyists. They are more plausl"
BILE than men, and cannot be
shaken off as rudely.
'"The female lobbyist has
more potent arts than those OF
the sterner sex. congressman
and officials are famous as be-
Ing the most susceptible men
in the world. Men in public life
are very Obliging when they
choose to be and these lobbying
women know how to win fav0rs
from them"
McCook, Neb., population g.
6s8 assorted souls, has devel-
oped two G. o. P. Presidential
candidates.
McCook's two favorite sons,
Senator George w. Norris ana
q s, Comptroller Genera! j.. r.
McCarl, are the heroes Of the lat'
est booms.
Comptroller McCarl was once
Senator Norris secretary.
They tell me that the booms
have no more strength than
Fourth of July skyrockets. l
don't know about that.
But "McCarl of McCook" at
least sounds we'll. And it's an
enterprising town tn a t grows
one presidential candidate Tor
each 5000 citizens.
Mrs. John Randolph Rogers,
of Grand Rapids, Mich, whose
father-in-law, Randolph Rogers
did the world-famous bronze
door at the Capitol, is visiting
her daughter, Miss Elizabeth
Rogers.
The door, you remember, has
eight panels telling the story OF
columbus. On each side of the
door are five heads in bronze OF
historians who have written OF
Columbus.
The sixteen statuettes in the
inches of the door are OF popes'
enperors and beautiful ladies,
contemporaries of the great dis
coverer.
The head of Donna Beatriz is
the likeness of Mrs. Randolph
Rogers. The sculptor could
not find a portrait of the real
Beatriz. So he used his wife as
q model.
In the Misses Howry's house
at 1904 o st. is a sideboard $50
years old. And the alabaster
lamps were sent by President
Polk as a wedding present to
their grandmother. The old
hooks in the Howry library de-
light collectors. like their first
editions of Oliver Goldsmith's
animated Nature" and Wirt's
''Iife of Patrick Henry"