The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1935-04-01
NOW
Miss ROche'S
Z Police Job
BEAUTY SPOTS
BY HELEN ESSARY
Well-who will be among this
years crop Of April Fools?

Secretary of the Treasury, has
always been a nice person.
Quick to help the down-trodden.
See the record of her work in
the Juvenile Court and Of her
fights for the rights of miners.
Once Miss Roche helped a pc.
iceman rise. In Denver she
was a policewoman when George
Creel was commissioner Of po-
lice. and was young pretty
thing, just out of Vassar.
Commissioner Creel sent her
and a big policeman to watch
the goings on at dance hall.
The policeman watched the go
ings on, watched them notice
ably. He tried to make a date
with one of the girls.
The STEADY promptly
knocked the policeman down
and out. Josephine Roche hur.
ried over to the fallen man and
said sympathetically (she has a
lovely voice.:
"Oh, Mr.. Powers. I am so
very sorry. Are you hurt? Let
me help you up. There now,
can you stand? That's better.
Just lean on me-"
She brushed him off. Then
she took the tottering man by
the arm and led him out into
fresh air; called his friends, and
sent him safely home.
Mrs. D. Tucker Brown (Bar.
bara Brown, now visiting her
mother, Mrs. w. R. Trigg, in
Richmond, has told us about
her recent visit to Charleston,
the present goal of those who
aren't coming to washington to
see the Cherry Blossoms.
Barbara Brown found the cy.
press gardens beautiful. She
says only music could describe
the enchanting place.
A young University of Virginia
student called it the Tomb of
Pan. Perhaps Pans Elysian
Gardens would be better.
The cypress gardens are
owned by Mr.. and Mrs. Kit
tredge, of Dean Hall, and are
part of that estate. They were
developed by Mr.. Kittredge and
opened to the public in 1880.
The beginnings of the gar.
dens date to 1850. A fresh
water lake on the rice-planting
estate of Sir Alexander Nesbit,
of Dean, was abandoned for a
century to the subtropical vege-
tation of the Carolina coast.
Nature made an impenetrable
water forest of giant cypress
trees. The white egret and
heron came yearly in great
flocks to nest.
When Mr.. Nesbit made a gar.
den of the forest he did not
disturb its natural beauty ex-
cept to plant rare flowers and
shrubs along it's paths. Each
spring the gay flowers carpet
the shores against a background
OF solemn trees.
Down south they say that the
Charleston Magnolia Gardens
are one of the seven wonders
of America. Barbara Brown
asked her guide, old Tina Gail
lard, whose ancestors served
''ladies dressed in SATIN" about
the song birds around there.
Tina told her about the mockin'
birds, the cat birds, the thrushes,
and the wood-cracks (wood.
peckers).
Tina said:
1.-THE jay birds aren't in the
garden today, cause it's Friday.
Every Friday all the jay birds go
to take a grain of sand to the
debbel.
"YOu see, the debbel, he's max
ing a beach in hell for the bad
people Il pray to Jesus to carry
me straight to Heaben when 1
gOes). When the bad people say
to the debbel, how long I stay
in this place; he says, you can
leave for Heaben when you
counts all the grains of sand on
my beach.
"And that's the joke. That's
why nobody ever gets away from
He'll. Cause every Friday, Ole
Masta Jay BIRD carries the
debbel another grain of sand"
John Garland Pollard, who
used to be Governor of Vir-
GINA (he'S now chairman of
the Board of Veterans Appeals,
has published a third revised
and enlarged edition of "A
Connotary - Definitions Not
Found in Books"
It's a small, gay volume.
The drawings are amusing.
The definitions are apt.
For instance:
"Self-What you are when
yOu think nobody is looking"
Hard Times-When hitch
mixers are willing to go either
way"
"GOsSiping-A keen sense Of
rumOr
"Filibuster-A senator throw.
ing his brain out of gear and
giving his tongue free wheel