The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1935-02-26

She is now travelling through
America studying our noun
tains and our depressions. Like
wise our educational centers,
as she goes.
Australia is such a melting
pot as America. DR.. Bentivoglio
is the daughter of Italian par
ents, who, while making a
world cruise, decided to settle
down in Australia.
| Some guests seem to say:
"Here / am. I dare you to
make me enjoy your impecuni-
Gus home"
Others seem pleased to be
On the premises.
But Col. Ralph Hallett en-.
deared himself forever to a GER
tair hostess at a mere tea
party when he said:
"YOu don't mind the very
good time / am having, do
you?"
But to return to far-off Aus
tEalia-jump back a few para
GraphS-Capt. and Mrs. Ches-
ter Wells are entertaining, at
Woodend, the graceful blond
Miss wentworth, whose father
helps run the big island CONT.
ent.
Mrs. Wells was an Austria
liam. She met her American
husband when the young En-
sign wells paused in Australia
on a Naval Academy cruise.
Town Talk:
The Professors Jamboree,"
which Isabel harrington has
written for her girls at Chevy
Chase School for production
next Monday night, talks about
the professors of the present
Administration.
Forty girls, quite beautiful all
Of them, will satirize the Roose-
welt intellectualS. Some of the
actors are children of the pro-
fessors they initiate. The play
ought to be good!
Senator George, of Georgia,
is going out again, after his re-
cent attack of pneumonia.
The George Thorpes say their
son-in-law and daughter, the
Arthur Packs of his Britannia
Majesty'S diplomatic service, are
about to gather up 2-month-old
Denise Beresford Pack and move
from South America to their
new post at Madrid. Jane
Thorpe, MRS. Packs younger sis.
ter, is studying for the opera in
Paris.
The American tendency to
banquet being what it is, here's
a story told by a young Scandi-
navian diplomat about a dinner
of an Ironmongers' Guild in
London. ANY English guild,
you know, is a worshipful order
with traditions. customs, an.
cestry and what not.
Even SO, the visiting diplomat
was aStonished when, during the
English meat course, q waiter
asked him:
Brandy or gin, Sir?"
mo, no. thank you." said the
gentleman quickly. And during
the rest of the dinner wondered
why anybody should want either
brandy or gin in the middle of
meal. Later he found out why.
In the early sixteen hundreds,
O. member of the Ironmongers'
Guild was stricken with heart
trouble while eating heartily of
raast beef and Yorkshire pud-
ding. When the poor fellow was
borne home quite dead, to his
wife, she was indignant because
no one had thought of giving
him brandy. Her husband often
had heart attacks, she said, and
she always revived him with
brandy.
So she left a trust fund which
provided brandy to possible in
valids in the middle of their
annual banquet. AS long as the
guild should survive.
A later benefactor said: Why
always brandy? Why not gin
sometimes. So he left a gin
trust fund.
Since these sympathetic times,
every guest at the banquet of
the Ironmongers' Guild has been
asked during the meat course:
Brandy or gin, sir?"
st. ThomaS's Parish feels that
1t is time their church emerged
from its basement. Therefore
they are busily and happily en-
gagged in raising money at din.
ners and meetings and at the
doors of the faithful.
Soon st. Thomas will be a
real church and lift it's spires to
the sky as emblemS of faith and
beauty.
u. S. SUES JEWELER
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