The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1935-08-29
NOW
AShUrSt to Get
\ Acquainted
BRADLEY IRE
BY HELEN ESSARY

ton for the home trenches.
The big handsome oratorical
gentleman from Arizona will
stand on the busiest corner Of
Prescott, his home town, most
mornings from 10 until l
o'clock. Just as he has done
for about 20 years.
"A man beside him who knows
the townfolk will introduce Mr..
Ashurst to newcomers and to
passers-by whose names he can
not recall. In this way the
Senator will prepare for the next
election day.
In the evenings, Senator Ash
urst will go to the movies. In
washington, he is the movie
fan of Capitol Hill. Goes three
or four times a week. Ere
quently twice to the same
movie. Because, he says, he
sometimes falls asleep. He has
to go back again to be sure ne
has missed nothing.
When Assistant Attorney
General and Mrs. Harry W.
Blair wrote to Mr.. and Mrs. Her.
mann Hagedorn, whose pleasant
home in Spring Valley they are
renting and said 1--WE are enjoy
ing your place tremendously
especially the library" Mrs.
Hagedorn wrote back:
III am so glad you like our IL
hrary. When q befOre-yOu-came
inventory showed two books
missing, our last renters Said'
do not blame the loss on us:
In the three years we have lived
in yols, house, not a person I'm
our family has touched book"
Mrs, Boaz Long thinks the
Puerto Rican embroidery is
about the finest to be found
anywhere. st. Andrews Mis-
sion. she says does exquisite
work. Mrs. Long hopes that the
artistic handiwork of our some
times forgotten American prin-
capality will some day be prop"
erly appreciated.
ROMANTIC REALISM FROM
RENO-BY POST CARD
- Relieve. 1t or not, / hate to
leave this place. An experience
here should be part Of everyOne's
education"
Mrs, Basil Manly, wife OF
the Federal Power Commission,
is another of those careerlng
young grandmothers. And a
srnartly dressed one, too. Look
ing young is a talent in Mrs.
Manly's family. Her mother,
Mrs. Laura Bradley, is the great
grandmother Of young Willard
owen Briggs III (son Of former
Laura Manly and Spike Briggs
and doesn't look half her respon-
sibility. Mrs. Lowell Mellett
sang her own version OF The
Man on the Flying Trapeze" so
effectively the other night at
the Harry w. Blairs. that Mr..
Edward Goltra, former National
Committeeman from Missouri,
likewise steel industrialist and
Beau Brummell, was inspired to
try the song as he knew 1t in
st, Louis where he said it was
written by a stage hand at the
Pope Opera House during the
Prince of Wales visit. MISS
betty Lou Jones, who is going
10 be a debutante in a year or
So. arranges delightful going
away boxes for her sea-going
Rtiends-a gayly wrapped pack"
age for each day Of the voyage
plus. a half a dozen more Tor
cheerful good measure.
X u II
II a too ingenious tax expert
had not once met the late Mr..
Edison Bradley strolling about
DUPONT Circle, the big flat iron
apartment house would not
now be where the Edison Brad
lev mansion once was.
The tax man incognito led
Mr.. Bradley to talk about his
paintings and other art treas
1lres. Got himself an invitation
to see the collection. Then sent
in an assessment so Startlingly
accurate that Mr.. Bradley
promptly dismantled his home,
Scattered his collection and
moved away from town.
Obviously secret and evil-the
Shipping Board approval OF
agreements between the Kawa'
Saki Kisen Kabushiki Naisha
and American Diamond Lines
Inc, and bet Forenede Damps'
KIDS Selskab and the Swedish
American Line.
A little Irish influence in the
Department of Interiors report
on motor fuel: Barring unfore
seen developments in September
gasoline consumption should
continue to exceed expecta
tons" Translated: The De
partment expects a larger COD
sumption than it expects"
About 40 Boy Scouts from the
Philippine Islands had a swell
time at the dinner the Philip