The Washington times., 1935-02-07
Now
This Racket of
Reducing
DESSERTS WIN
BY HELEN ESSARY

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NrS. Cordell Hull accept no in
vitations to dinner, except, Of
course, from the White House.
Mrs. Hull, who had a delight
full "at home" yesterday after
noon, may be entertained at
luncheon. And is. Practically
every day. Twice a day, if she
could manage to be in two
places at the same time, this
very. successful leading lady
among the Cabinet hosteSses
might be lunching at parties
given in her honor.
Only a woman with a strong
mind and a concave waist line
will dare admit this winter that
she is not reducing.
Everywhere one goes, or is
ut dinner, supper, at the con-
cert, waiting for a taxi, or buy.
ing galosheS-Someone speaks of
"her exercises; of how she has
Just come from her gymnasium
where the major domo shouted:
Eat ones to the bare floors!
Thin ones to the matS!"
And of how the fat ones
wished they weren't so well up
holstered themselves. They
hated kicking and rolling on
hare floors.
This exercising is a racket, I
Z tell you! The food stores and
physical experts are in cahoots.
Bending and stretching we go
I our morning ways.
Then, weak and hungry from
20 much exercise, we eat for
luncheon thick soups, fish and
meat courses, moulded cheese
salads and whipped cream des-
sertS. Obviously, here is a
vicious circle.
I know one woman, and you
know her, too. who exercises at
home in deep luxury. After the
family has gone and the maid
has tidied the bedroom, she
breathes deeply of the warm,
cozy air and kicks jauntily
about-on her own soft bed.
And just to prove once again
! that there is no justice in the
world, this un-Spartan-like per.
eon keeps" her beautiful figure.
Madam SimopouloS, who has
gone with her husband, the new
Greek minister, to London, and
has left her Washington friends
lost without her gay humor,
used to say that the only time
she ever felt like taking setting
up exercises was when she was
shopping on Connecticut Ave
nue. at II o'clock in the morn.
ing.
The fresh morning air and
the color and sparkle of the
shop windows and the quick.
stepping people made her feel
ambitious. But Connecticut Ave-
nue. never seemed the place for
calisthentics. So her exercising
always began-tomorrow.
You've probably known all
along that:
Mrs. James M. Helm, social
secretary to Mrs. Roosevelt, is
pretty, clever, chic and extreme
" fluent in French.
AS a little girl she had French
conversation daily with her
mother. AS young lady CMiss
Edith Benham) she was social
secretary to Baroness Rosen
when her husband was ambaSsa-
dor from the imperial Russian
Empire. And also to Lady Spring.
Rice, wife of the ambassador
from Great Britain.
Also:
That the beautiful Mrs. An.
thony j. Drexel Biddle, who was
in town recently at one of Sen.
ator Joe Guffey's tea parties,
has visited mines all over the
world. And remembers the flow.
erS growing outside the slopes
Of a mine near johannesburg,
South Africa, as one of the love-
Iest and most unexpected bits
Of gardening she ever saw.
Representative Samuel L. Col.
Inns, Of California, calls Mrs.
Florence Kahn, likewise Repre-
sentative from California and
one of the most popular mem.
hers of the House, sis"
But then, Jim" Farley, Post
master General plus, speaks to
Miss Mary w. Dewson, chair.
man Of the advisory committee
Of the women'S division of the
Democratic National Committee,
as Molly"
Mr.. Joseph H. Choate, who
has the terrific job of control.
ling the alcohol situation for the
country, has a house in MaSSa.
ChuSetts Park and would love to
walk down town in the morn
ings.
But, he says, with automobiles
making right and left hand
turns, he is afraid to cross a
street on foot. There's neither
pleasure nor safety in walking.
Mr.. Choate'S father was Am
bassador to the Court of st.
James. He, himself, before he
came down to help with the New
Deal, was one of the leaders of
the New York Rar He iS So tall