The Washington times., 1935-09-03
NOW
Asphalt Yields
Mushrooms
BORAH RATES
BY HELEN ESSARY

city streets-during a Demo
cratic Administration.
But even he never thought
this would happen:
"Poking their heads through
inches of asphalt pounded
solid by a ten-tOn roller, muSh.
rooms grew on the streets of
Fond du Lac, Wis, today.
Page Sen. F.. Ryan Duffy!
Foreign visitor at Union Sta
ton inquiries if entire popula-
ton of Washington is made up
Of colored porters.
Breathless gentleman leaving
roller coaster at Glen Echo re-
marked:
81 don't mind them dips so
much, but gosh, them curves
spell danger to me-"
I don't agree with Jay Frank
lin in Vanity Fair that Senator
Borah's place in the Congress
sional comic strip has been
ursurped by Huey Long. I'm
seriouS-minded and cannot con-
meet the Idaho Senator with
the funnies. But I do think it
Is entertaining that after all
the hullabaloo of the Young
Republicans, 70-year-old Mr..
Borah is at present the most
popular choice for the 1886 Re-
publican Presidential candidate.
What a marvellous geographi-
cal nomenclature the Indians
have given us. And what pity
all our cities and all our states
and even our counties could not
be "Chicagos" or "IoWas" or
"Alleghenys" or "SuSquehan-
mas"
Finding really euphonius tri-
bal names for each of the two
thousand American counties or
the many more thousands of
American cities and towns
might have been difficult. But
lot more could have been used
than were.
Surely there were enough
"Ohios," "PotomacS" and "Mer-
rimacks" for all our principal
rivers. Enough "Omahas,"
"Senecas," "Cheyennes" and
"Uticas" for the more import
ant cities and enough "Appala-
chians," "Wataugas," "UnakaS"
and "Adirondacks" for our more
lofty mountains.
These somewhat discursive
observations are inspired by a
Public Works press release. 1t
tells of certain allottments for
public works by counties in the
State of Washington, with such
charming Indian names as Kit
titas, Okanogan, Whatcom, Kit
>Aap and Chelan.
When Miss Ellen Raedy was
about to be made Judge of the
Municipal Court of the District
Of Columbia, people said:
Nonsense! However smart,
the child is too young for such
q job"
The Democratic Digest, the
party magazine that makes
everything right for Democratic
women, published a character
sketch of Miss Raedy in its last
issue. Got overzealous and said
Miss Raedy had begun to prac-
tice law in 1928!
A mere typographical error Of
4 hundred years!
Financial message from late
Vacationist:
"When asked the financial
state of my bank account yes
terday Il don't keep stubs, just
depend on the boOkkeeper) I
was so depressed that went
out and bought another bathing
Suit-with no stomach in it.
And took a 9O-cent taxi home"
Did you get dinner partners
last season who we're difficult
to approach? Who appeared to
find nothing to interest them
in your line of conversation?
Prepare for the fall by run
ming over to the Agriculture De-
partment. Have a look at the
literature there. You will dis
cover some sprigntly aids to
popularity.
Any dinner companion, how
ever remote, would be impressed
should you gravely inform him
that it is long time between
drinks for many Hawaiian cows.
(The Agriculture Department
can supply the detailsD
Then you could introduce the
record acreage Of soybeans, due
partly to their immunity from
Chlnch Bugs.
Or, should your partner be the
domestic type, try this slogan
for successful canning: two
hours from garden to can
"N'c'est pas?"
According to Phyllis. girls
have taken to black-eyed Susans
and gardeniaS in the hair.
Therefore, prepare for a boom
in marriage this winter.
Being feminine is woman's
best trick.
Mrs. George L. Radcliffe is
one of the most Skil}fu garden.
ers among Senatorial wives. The
wooded hillside on which her
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