The Washington times., 1935-07-18
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Book RecOunts
Inauguration
\ FASCIST FAD
By HELEN ESSARY

Inc japanese gentleman De-
gan the speech-making. Look
ing about the banquet table,
he said:
Ladies and gentlemen, 1
shall try not to cOckr0ach too
long upon your time"
The Englishman nudged the
japanese furiouSly:
mot cOckrOach, hencrOach!"
Said the japanese:
Begging your pardon, I see
that English is the language in
which the genders are so easily
mixed"
An Inaugural Blue Book is
out.
Adm. Cary r. Grayson, gen.
eral chairman of the Roosevelt.
Garner Inaugural committee,
with the assistance of his sub
committee on official program,
has published the most ambi-
tiouS and altogether attractive
volume of this sort I have ever
seen.
! The book is deliberately illus.
trated, with views of the in
auguration and other interest
ing pictures. It's text deals not
only with the 1888 Inauguration
but also with all the colorful
and dramatic inaugurals that
preceded it.
The volume is not for sale. It
has been published for the
libraries Of the country and as
m official record of the last of
the March inductionS of a
President into office.
Hereafter, in case you have
forgotten, inaugurations will
take place early in January.
That was one of the things the
Twenty-first Amendment to the
Constitution provided for.
The dark blouSeS women have
been wearing are reflection of
FaSciSm, says Helen Engelking,
who knows about styles. Styles
follow not couturieres, nor the
whimS Of beautiful ladies, says
Miss Engelking, but great ma
tional crises.
I've been brooding over this
idea all morning, and wondering
what it is King Halle Selassie
and his consort wear to church
on Sundays.
The American New Deal and
its players continue to excite
the interest of foreigners. Some
of the travellers from Europe
like the way our governmental
game is being played. Others
think too many Of the deuces
are wild.
Herr Won Ciriocy Wandrup,
the celebrated economist Of
Germany, is now in Washington
looking at us appraiSingly. He
has found much to admire in
the present American Set-up.
But he doesn't think the system
could be transferred to his own
country.
I About those Grosvenors:
= The Gilbert Grosvenors have
Just returned from a trip west
where DR.. GroSvenor, president
of the National Geographic
Society, went for the strato-
sphere flight which unfayorable
weather postponed until another
year.
! On their return trip they
looked in at college campuses.
| stopped at Wabash College at
Charlottesville, Ind, where DR..
Grosvenor'S father received an
LID, and where his special
I friend, General Lew Wallace,
i ;.AmbasSador to Turkey and
author Of Ben-Hur, was preSi-
dent.
j The famous lily-of-the-valley
bed at Wabash College was
copied by General wallace
from the garden the senior
Mrs. Grosvenor made in Con-
stantinople when her husband
taught history at Robert Col
lege there.
| DR.. Gilbert Grosvenor car.
ried last week some of the
! Wabash lily plants up to his
I father, who is 80 years old,
! for his New England garden.
Some summer plans hear
about:
Mrs, Pierre Gaillard Mona
Blodgett) has the summer
home Of the Blodgett sisters
at Mackinaw Island this sea-
son. Mrs. Gaillard's sister, Mrs.
Henry Parson Erwin, had the
place last year. Mrs. Delos
Blodgett is settling nearby on
the island.
The walter Guys and their
son, Ben, are moving into their
newly built cottage at Gibson
Island. The house painters just
left yesterday.
The Melville Grosvenors also
have got themselves a house on
Gibson Island.
&**
An old marriage custom from
an American diary in the early
1905:
"The Russian Minister'S wife,
Madame DaShcOff, sent the usual
wedding present Of her cOun-
try-twO coolers, one filled
with salt, the essence Of life, and
the other with bread, the staff
Of life. THE bride was Anne,
SISTER Of Dolly Madison, who
married Richard Cuts, q mem
Der of Congress from Maine)."