The Washington times., 1935-06-12
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The Optimism
Of Shriners
ELECTION QUIP
By HELEN ESSARY

/ Why did the crowd shout to
that amateur Shriner band in
the automobile:
J "Play In My SOlitude'!"
T Is it possible that Shriner's
wife is as light-hearted as a
Shriner? Or as optimistic?
For instance-there could be
only one member in a family
like that clustering fellow who
pushed his way through the
crowd waiting for seats at the
picture show and said, quite
clearly:
Il want nine seats! Together.
At once"
Margaret Wood White who
has just completed the portrait
of President Roosevelt which
his family likes best, says that
the facial resemblance between
the President and his mother,
Mrs. James Roosevelt, is amaz-
ing.
Their heads are shaped alike.
Their eyes are set alike. The
features and the expression are
almost the same.
Mrs. Whites portrait of the
President has just been hung
in Harvard College. 1t is a fine,
sympathetic canvas. Done in
profile, it reveals the determina-
tion and idealism that are the
Presidents special characteris-
tics.
Mrs. White, who is quite
young and very attractive, is the
wife of Victor White, an artist,
and the daughter of DR.. Robert
w. Hood, one of the most bril-
liant professors at Johns Hop
kinS University.
DR.. Wood has the chair of ex-
perimental physics and has been
decorated by many governments.
He is practical inventor, a
genius at scientific and color
photography, and writes novels
and nonsense verses which he
illustrates himself with wood
cuts and drawings.
Representative Isabella Green
way, Mrs. Henry Wallace, Mrs.
Bennett Clark, Mrs. j. Crawford
BiggS land WEI have hats alike.
.. 1t is rumored that a Wash
ington designer is making a
perfect costume for this sum-
mer's afternoon parties (show-
ers-five to seven) out of the
waterproof material used for
shower bath curtains. Did you
hear about that lady from Mon
tana who, looking over the Nor.
mandie, said: well, I'm sure
its very nice. And I'd not be
one to criticize. But I can't
say it's the style of furnishings
was brought up on" The
roses at the foot of the garden
of that part of Cathedral School
that used to be the home of
Canon Austin form a wall of
gorgeous color along two blocks
OF Thirty-fOurth Street.
To be added to the campaign
Of those noisy Grass Rooters
this year:
Senator Morris Sheppard, of
Texas, is the smallest man in
the Senate. During the last
Texas campaign, his Republican
opponent was a great, roaring
hulk of a fellow. During one
small-town speech, he added to
the usual political attack on his
opponent this net personal
touch:
"What! Send a little guy
like that to represent the pe0.
pie of a gr-great State like
Texas? Lissen, folks, I could
swallow that shrimp in two
bites"
In day or so the shrimp''
campaign trip brought him to the
same little town. He heard about
his opponents boast. He an
Swered it in this way:
81 learn that the opposing
candidate has said he is so big
and 1 am so little that he could
swallow me in two bites. Well,
If he should swallow me-then,
my friends, he'd have more
brains in his stomach than he
had in his head!"
Senator Sheppard carried the
town by a big vote.
Mr.. Leland Harrison, connois-
Seur of art and new American
Minister to Rumania, admiring
the paintings and the furniture
in the home of Representative
and Mrs. Sol Bloom, exclaimed:
"Here are some beautiful pho.
tograph frames. Italian RenaiS-
Sance, probably"
Mrs. Bloom said:
81 made them myself. They
are my pattern. You see, / do
the frame with certain mate.
rialS, decide on a design, stud
the frame with semipreciOus
stones. It's really quite simple"
Not to us would it be simple!