The Washington times., 1935-08-13
NOW
FLOrG's in Reno
To Sue Bill
THE HASHES!
BY HELEN ESSARY

divorce.
We've been awfully excited
about it. At first we were dis
tressed.
1t is the first divorce we have
ever had in the immediate
family. We didn't know we
were going to have this one I'm.
til we got a letter from Flora
postmarked Pittsburgh"
She was on the train for
Reno, she said. She hoped we
wouldn't be shocked. She said
she just couldn't live with Bill
another day. But that Bill had
been pretty sweet when she told
him what she was going to do.
He said:
"Okay with me, if you feel
that way about 1t. But don't
take the children with yOu."
Flora said she had no idea OF
taking the children to Reno.
Though lots of women did.
Even if the ranch recommended
to her by that lovely Mrs. Rede
she met at Southampton did
give special rates for children,
she'd decided to leave hers with
Bill.
The ranch was one of the
most famous in Nevada. 1t was
kept by Mr.. and Mrs. Hash.
The name of the ranch people
upset us almost as much as the
divorce. Hash! What a hor.
rible thought. Hash-crash, bash,
pash, lash! The word rhymed
with everything revolving. What
a latchkey to more abundant
life! And how gastronomically
unpleasant!
Why was Flora getting the
divorce anyhow. Bill wasn't
too bad. But here was Flora
breaking up her home. For
what? That was the point.
What did she have on her
mind?
Letters on the subject Of
Flora's wrecked fireSide hurried
from New York to Philadelphia
to Washington and back again.
We were anxious about Flora'S
future and the children and
everything, until yesterday when
a long lively letter came from
Flora.
The second letter was post.
marked Reno. It enclosed a
sheet from a local paper. Since
reading the letter and the clip
ping we've stopped worry about
Flora and her divorce.
For Flora, say what you will
about her spontaneity, is clever.
She is separating from Bill in A
Big Way. She's engaged the law
yer who got the divorce for the
Princess Mdvani!
And that isn't all. She's stay
ing in the very room on the
ranch where Cornelius Wander.
bilt, jr., stayed. when he "matri'
culated!" At the ranch of Mrs.
Hash!
Neil himself describes the
ranch in a snappy column (part
of the newspaper clipping) en-.
titled High Spots In Reno"
One paragraph, beside which
Flora drew a line, tells about
''his dear friends, the Hashes."
The Hashes, Neil says, are
practically heavens anointed.
They have comfortable rooms.
Set a good table. And allow no
intoxicants in their establish
ment. This last proves, says
Neil, that all of the Hash House
boarders are respectable people.
We should think that so expec-
tant Divorces under roof even
as noble as the flashes would
provide enough stimulant with
out alcohol.
The sheet from the Reno
paper is enlightening. Except
for expectant widows and one
Congressman, it is the only
Reno product we have ever seen.
One long. delicately worded
advertisement offers good quick
evidence for ambitious divorces
and promises piouSly to keep
such matters out of the papers"
The advertisement is signed
"Chief of Police of Los An
geles-Formerly."
I almost forgot to tell you
about the reason for Flora's di-
vorce. I mean what she is 60
ing to tell the judge. 1t will
make you see how smart those
Reno lawyers are, especially a
fellow like this one who got the
divorce for Barbara Hutton and
is now staging Flora's emotional
comeback.
Flora, you see, has published
one or two little pieces in the
newspapers. She also joined a
literary society. Bill didn't like
the people in the society. He
said they were plain nuts.
When the lawyer asked Flora
to think of some dreadful things
Bill had done to her. Flora
couldn't seem to remember any.
thing good enough for a divorce
after 19 years.
The lawyer said, hasn't he
ever objected to your friends.
OF course, said Flora, he doesn't
like the poets and writer's I go
out with.
There you are" said the