The Washington times., 1935-01-29
NOW
Honor Guests
SnOUbOund
HATES BEAUTY
BY HELEN ESSARY

directs the participation of the
United States in the interna-
tional exchange of university
students, has a gorgeous idea.
Prof. Duggan'S friend and CO.
trustee of VaSSar College, Frank
lin D. Roosevelt, has somewhat
the same idea.
Here it is! Give each en-
bassy of the United States in
foreign countries an educa-
tional attache.
War has its two representa-
tives sometimes three or four
representatives. in each foreign
office in the person Of military
and nava! attaches.
Why shouldn't youth and it's
education have a representative
also? asks Prof. Duggan. It is
a truism that the hope of the
world Is not in diSillusioned old
men and women but in youth.
Give girls and boys of various
countries a chance to know
about each other and there
will be no wars, says Prof. Dug
gan.
The idea appeals to me. It's
reasonable. And it is a nice
change from forging guns in
order to guarantee peace.
Prof. and Mrs. Duggan were
guests at the dinner AmbaS-
sador Hans Luther gave for
the American Ambassador to
Germany and Mrs. Dodd. The
guests of honor unfortunately
did not arrive. They were
caught in a. snowdrift as high
as mountain near Leesburg.
Prof. Dugan is definitely a
scholar both in appearance and
occupation. He is small and
slight and has a Van Dyke
beard and twinkling eyes. His
record in Who's Who is about
ten inches long.
Dr. Ernest Meyer, secretary OF
the German Embassy, has an in
tense interest in colleges. Before
he goes away from the United
States on leave of absence, DR..
Meyer hopes to visit every Amer.
lean college of Importance. In
fact, he'd like to visit the unim.
portant ones, too.
After Ambassador Luther's
dinner, the men drifted away to
the library to discuss the fate of
nations, no doubt. eve heard
very cheerful laughter from
time to 'time.)
The ladies remained in the
big salon, where the Aubusson
draperies are of the same ex-
quisite blue-green as the big
rugs, and had a pleasant half
hour. Mrs. Roper, wife of the
Secretary of Commerce, was
persuaded to tell how she, her
self, had planted every bush and
flower in the garden of her
Massachusetts, Avenue Park
home.
Frau Leitner, lovely in moss
green crepe, who acted as the
hostess for the Ambassador,
moved from one group to an
other. She encouraged easy and
agreeable conversation.
Mrs. James J. Davis, in a
black bouffant taffeta gown;
Nine. Florescu, extremely pretty
wife of the Rumanian counselor,
and Mrs. j. Hamilton Lewis
were talking together.
Brilliant Natasha Scheffer
(Frau Paul Scheffer), who has
" just written three amusing Rus
sian stories; Mrs. Jesse Jones,
Mrs. George Peek always de-
lightful to meet) and young
Frau Schultz, the graceful blonde
bride of the embassy, were in
another group.
Mr.. Peek, president of the Ex-
port-1mport Bank, was about to
leave for Quincy, ILL.,, to tell
5000 farmers at an institute
some useful truths about trade
and the tariff.
Mr.. Jesse Jones recalled for
us the best speech he had ever
heard on the tariff. It was made,
he said, by the late Senator Rob-
ert Love Taylor, of Tennessee.
"Fiddlin' Bob" Taylor, one Of
the most lovable of Southern
characters and incidentally the
father OF Mrs. Jay G.. Hayden,
was once dared by his opponent,
Senator Carmack, to talk about
the tariff. So he said:
"All 1 know about the tariff
Is this. When it's too high, I
believe in lowering it. And
when it's too low, believe in
highering it,"
Overheard in the dining car:
Darling, do pull down the
shade I can't endure the
beauty of the snow over the
countryside"
She looked like Katherine
Cornell with her face washed,
He might have been her man.
ager. She continued:
when / look out of the
window, a purple passion surges
mp in me, a passion that is
rs exciting as hate!"
A small old woman and her
big son were sitting at a table.
The son said:
II don't think I'll have a
cocktail, mother. l just don't