The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1935-08-02
EnUOu Relates
An AUegOry
WEEKEND WOE
BY HELEN ESSARY

back to the shore. Only quite
different.
Rehoboth women, the Aus
trian Minister was going to
prove in his treatise, do not
gaze oceanward when looking
for their men. They look land
ward for the great, strong crea-
lures to come tearing over the
lowlands and Swamps Of Mary
land and Delaware.
Every Friday and Saturday
they turn their backs to the
sea, and sit with their gaze di-
rected toward the roads and
ferries whence come their men,
folk.
Mr., Prochnik was delighted
with this idea. He seemed to
think it had a fine moral.
Would make a great essay.
Would show in some insinuating
way the difference between
fishermen's wives and city
wives-when abandoned.
Unfortunately, the Austrian
Minister did not put his thoughts
in writing for me, although I
gave him a pad and pencil as
he sat under his flowered beach
umbrella. He merely added a
frivolous note, conversationally.
He declared that the look OF
the women on the sands of
Rehobofh was a calendar. II
he didn't know the day of the
week, a glance at the carefully
combed and waved heads told
him that Friday had come again.
The women had arrayed them
selves in beauty for the week
end coming of their lords.
But the saddest part of the
allegory, according to Mr.
Prochnik, is the conclusion, The
men do not notice the expectant
beauty of their women when
they first arrive, but spring JOY
ously into the sea.
Further grief awaits the hope
full wives. After days Of mind"
ing the children and herding
about for feminine gossip, they
expect the men to go cheerfully
to parties.
But do the men go? No,
declared Mr.. Prochnik. They
say bitterly:
"What! Parties at the sea-
shore! We came down to rest. "
I wish the Austrian Minister
had written the piece for me.
He is a witty man with an I'm"
expected turn of mind. Also,
whatever he said about Reno.
both would have authority. He
and his attractive family gave
the stamp of diplomatic prestige
to this pleasant place way back
yonder before it had been dis
covered by the Right Washing"
ton People.
Mr.. Jesse Finley, who has an
attractive cottage on Oak Ave
nue., Is delighted with the Reho-
both Vol. Fire Department. He
thinks the Volunteers are worth
half a dozen city fire companies
In efficiency and speed.
This spring Mr.. Finley was
happily engaged in watching a
carpenter put a corner cupboard
in his cottage dining room. The
carpenter, also the chief OF
the Fire Department, was saw
ing a corner off a shelf when
the fire siren sounded.
He dropped the saw in mid
air and dashed for his truck.
Mr.. Finley followed, as well as
he could, in his own car. The
Chief bounced far ahead of him.
On one, two or three wheels.
When Mr.. Finley finally
caught up, the Chief was up
on the roof of the burning
house, putting out the fire in
the chimney with an automo-
bile chain. There was no COM
motion. No destroying floods Of
water, But the fire was out
in time.
Madame Djlalal, wife of the
Minister of Iran, looks gorgeous
in a bathing suit. But she
doesn't like those mountainous
waves that curl over and stick
their tongues out, any better
than I do. Mrs. Peyton Cor
don went out in the ocean today
in a new brown and gold bath
ing suit and met a big wave
gracefully. For four rays
Johnny Wheeler (the brother OF
Mrs. Marshall Exnicios) tried to
"catch the ferry" He was stay
ing at the Weir's beautiful
pink villa. Naturally he missed
| the ferries. Esse Weir, I'M
derstand, is thinking of turn
ing her cottage into a beach
club. .Marjory Garland came
up from Bethany Beach to the
dance at the Henlopen with
every officer of the Pennsyl
vania National Guard Zen
camped at Bethany by the
hand. When little Johnny
Parker's mother introduced him
to Mrs. Edward Goodrich, he
said, Come away, Mother. Her
husband is a murderer"
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