The Washington times., 1935-02-04
NOW
Honest Horace
Goes Natural
MIR. .ICKES' TACT
Bv HELEN EssARY

BY HELEN ESSAN1
It's probably another MUIR
der in the Rue Morgue," &C.
cording to the testimony aT
Flemington. Why not invite
the shade of Ed gar Allan Poe
to- give expert testimony"
Senator Hugo Black. that
- soft-spoken gentleman from the
South, with the tenacity and
force of 16 frosty New Eng.
landers, imported q cotton-field
hand from the Black home
place down in Alabama. The
Senator knew positively that he
could train Horace to be a
house servant and chauffeur.
It seems that the lessons
were progressing nicely. Mrs.
Black (who, incidentally, is par
ticularly pretty) was delighted.
Yesterday, however. Horace
"went natural" at the tele-
phone.
He roared into the receiver
in a voice that could be heard
across a cotton field:
eyes, ma'am, this is Senator
Blacks residence. What 'Zat!
You wanna speak TO Mrs.
Black? Well - well - er-a-
what's yOu'all's name? Jes' q
minute!"
Horace was back at the phone
> In a surprisingly short time,
and said:
81 jes' tOle Mrs. Black it was
you. An she says she can't
see you today. She says to
tell you she's SCUM asleep"
Remarks along the Washing
ton Way
At an Embassy tea party:
"I've always thought one
couldn't reach greater distinC-
tiOn than to be recognized by
the towns best buffers. Until
today, darling, when strange
butler announced me as Ma
daniel He probably thought I
was an ambassadors wife.
Wasn't that too divine?"
Also:
personally, I admire MIR.
Hckes tremendously. His hon"
esty and fighting qualities and
ability are marvellous. But-he
has the tact Of a-a-steam
rOller!"
At night club:
Large, hardfaced lady talking
to friends
"When I opened the front
door, there stood my husband.
/ just fixed him with family
look. And 1 said, Not a word
from you about where I've been.
T'm cold and all I want is q
stiff drink. Besides, / don't like
the way your face lOOkS!'"
Eloise Richberg, the delightful
little daughter of the Donald
Richbergs, was so disappointed
when Sir Wilmott Lewis came to
dinner the other night and did
not wear the shining suit OF q
knight in armor.
Another item for the Young
Folks Department:
Gracious, Mrs. Kahn" said
o small visitor in the office OF
the Representative from Califor'
mia as the mail man struggled in
with bulging sacks. "You get
more mail than Santa Claus"
Mrs. Kahn said:
Didn't you know I was Mrs.
Santa CLAUSE"
Postmaster General James A.
Farley, when he is in his gor-
6eous office down on PennSyl-
Yania Avenue, sits exactly under
the portrait of the first Post
master General, Mr.. Benjamin
Franklin. The live face and the
face on the canvas are really
not unlike-same shaped heads,
same light in the eyee same ap.
proach to life.
Mr.. Farley. by the way. has
appointed three times more
women postmistresses than we're
ever in office before.
There's a pleasant Anglo-Brit-
1Sh combination in the Leander
J. Mccormack Observatory at
the University of Virginia. The
maternal grandfather of Lean
der Mccormack Goodhart, COM
mercial secretary of the British
Embassy, gave the observatory
to the university.
When the observatory was in
stalled. it's telescope was the
largest in America. It's present
director, DR. Samuel A. Mitchell,
is a Canadian.
When the British astronomers
discovered a new Christmas
star (the star whose light rays
were first seen at Christmas
time thousands of years after it
appeared ir the univerSe), the
Leander Mccormack Observa-
tory flashed the news to a Ger.
tain little Washington boy with
q makeshift telescope.
Tho 1iff1o VY ch;,oo&o~n Ho. -