The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1935-06-11
NOW
Boston House
Moved Here
DRINKING LORE
By HELEN ESSARY

BY HELEN ESSARY
When you love an old house
enough to move it bodily for
four or five hundred miles, you
must have courage, ingenuity, as
we'll as fine antiquarian enthu-
siasm.
Mr.. and Mrs. George Maurice
Morris are now having trans
ported from the countryside
around Boston a famous man.
sion which is prayerfully to be
placed on Kalorama Road
right here in washington.
! Nail by nail, rafter by rafter,
wall paper by wall paper-the
moving is being accomplished.
It is a terrific job. But worth
a hundred times more trouble
than it is taking. Because the
house is such a choice example
of early American architecture.
And so rich with New England
tradition.
The panelling of one room in
the house was acquired some
time ago by the Kansas City
Museum. It is now in Missouri
for the descendants of the early
plainsmen to admire.
However, Mr.. and Mrs. Nor.
ris are having this room COPIED
by their agents and will repro
duce it exactly once the Boston
house is settled in its Washing.
ton home.
A flair for beautiful old man.
Sions is characteristic of the
George Maurice Morris family.
Mrs. Morris parents. Mr.. and
Mrs. Wilbur w. Hubbard, own
Widehead at CheStertown. Md,
one of the most famous of the
old Southern Colonial houses.
They were talking. over long.
cold drinks, at the National
Press Club.
This Scotch and soda is an
interesting combination" said a
certain editor with a scholarly
turn of mind. 1--we wondered
often how the drink originated"
Then turning to Britisher,
he said:
"Since it's English, you tell us
about its invention!" The gen.
tleman addressed picked up his
glass, gazed at it affectionately,
and answered in a deep voice:
"The invention of the Scotch
and Soda! Old man, there's
always been Scotch and Soda!
cts as natural as mothers
milk"
From drink to food-which
has been done before. Hungry
people in the United States con-
sumed enough fish and she'll
fish last year to fill ware
house twice the size of the Com
merce Building. so the Bureau
of Fisheries says.
To be exact-1,645, 900, 900
pounds.
Nine. Munir, wife of the
Turkish Ambassador, tells us
that the official day of rest in
Turkey has been changed from
the Mohammedan Friday to
the Christian Sunday. Thus is
Turkey taking one more step
in keeping up with the JoneseS
Of the rest of the world.
Turkey has recently been en-
joying two rest days-the Mo-
hammedan Friday and the
Christian Sabbath. Mustapha
Kemal, President of Turkey,
decided Turkey would not pro-
gress as fast as the rest of the
world if it had fewer working
days. Hence the change.
: Senator and Mrs. Hiram
johnson, who restored River
dale, the thrilling old Calvert
mansion, and reluctan tly
moved from there to a house
on Maryland Avenue which
they in turn made charming,
are planning to move out into
the country. Where, they
haven't decided, but they're
leaving town some time soon.
DIR. and Mrs. Edward B.
Meigs are dashing off to
Switzerland this week to col
lect their pretty twin daugh-'
tiers. Mary and Sara. who have
been at Geneva for year. ..
Sunday was the anniversary of
the birth of John Howard
Payne. author of Home Sweet
Home" buried in Oak Hill
Cemetery, just near the en-
trance gate. His portrait ought
to be in the National Portrait
Gallery, which a wise Congress
will make poSSible-if Senator
Walsh has his way.
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