The Washington times., 1935-06-07
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By HELEN ESSARY

BY HELEN ESSARY
Secretary Wallace's favorite
Story-to date!
When the Department OF
Agriculture was struggling to
transfer surplus animals and
grain to hungry people, a city
boy political appointment was
sent to Nebraska to buy cattle.
The city boy had been raised
In New York. The only COW
he had ever seen was on the
wall of a tenement surround
ing a playground.
When he got to Nebraska he
was confused! But the depart
ment had given him some pretty
pictures of COWS with prices at
tached. So he went around the
State buying animals. Paying
what the pictures said they
were worth.
One day, after he had bought
Q herd to be slaughtered, he
discovered he had acquired a
strengthening animal. 1t was
a goat, although he didn't
recognize it. He couldn't tell
the Nebraska people how little
he knew. He wired quickly to
the Department of Agriculture
for advice. The department
said to describe the strange
animal. The city boy did:
TITS kind of wild and short
and has long straggly whiSkers!"
At once the department an
Swered:
"For heavens sakes, don't
shoot. That's the poor farmer"
Dear Mr.. George Peek:
! We have been reading that
the President has abolished
your job as Foreign Trade
Adviser-the job that got you
into controversy with Cordell
Hull.
We have always admired
you, tremendously, Mr.. Peek.
But didn't Ray Moley ever
tell you what happened when
q fellow ran headlong into a
long-legged, soft-voiced Tennes-
Seean who bided his time?
Mr.. Elwood P. Morey (scot-
fish Rite Mason) and Mr..
Michael T. Keane (Knight of
ColumbuS) have been fishing
together over on the Eastern
Shore of Virginia during the
Potato Blossom Festival. In
those two counties on the Pen
Ursula which, by the laws of
geography and logic, ought to
belong to Maryland, are pro-
duced the finest potatoes in
the world. Well-almost the
finest.
Seasonal Notes:
The bathing suit Of that
pretty Nancy Lesh is Of white
rubber with a small anchor
cut out on each hip where the
sun may burn a jaunty pat
tern There is no investment
in color and satisfaction for a
lazy gardener like a dollars
worth of pink petunias {.
Young Henry Classic is follow
ing in the footsteps of his IA
Their, Henry H. Classic, OF the
Department of Justice, by grad
uating (this week. at the Uni
versity of Virginia Ordway
Whitford is wearing a delec'
table suit of watermelon pink
wool, topped by a long white
i coat. She knit the costume
herself . outdoor eating and
drinking would be mighty pleas
ant in the summer in Wash
ington. Perhaps some of those
little restaurants on Connecti'
cut Avenue might manage lie.
gally to move a few tables,
checkered cloths, and chairs
out on the sidewalk.
! Americans who could spend
their money at home travel
thousands of miles to sit at a
Paris sidewalk cafe and watch
other People. washington is
full of amusing Other People.
! The will of Wilfred I, dupont,
which recently gave NemOurS
as a home for aged people and
children, is reminding many
Washingtonians of the splendor
Of this Wilmington estate.
NemourS is like Versailles.
Definitely Louis Sixteenth. With
a chateau, spacious gardens,
little lakes, fountains, and wa
ter courses. And white
marble Temple of Love-a
replica Of Marie Antoinette's
summer house in LIE Petit TIL
anon.
At the end of the entrance
avenue are the iron gates which
Henry Eighth gave to Catherine
Parr, later owned by Queen
Mary and Queen Elizabeth.
Two white marble sphinxes on
the terrace were a present from
Louis Fourteenth to his Adj
nninistrator General, Jean Bap-
tiste Colbert.
The sphinxes gaze along a
vista bordered by tall urnS,
Japanese evergreens, avenues
of horse chestnut trees and
oaks. across a lake with foun'
tain groups to a marble colon
made. The front garden ter
race leads through the Cath
crime II gates, made by Jean
THOU. q great French iron