The Washington times., 1935-06-01
NOW
Burbank Has
Rival Here
ORATORS WOES
Rx HELEN ESSARY

BY HELEN ESSARY
Trying to do a daily column
that is amusing, sincere, gen.
teel, kind and accurate-well,
think for yourself what a job
that is.
But we are thankful we are
not a June commencement ora
tor, trying to tell youth what
may be counted on in this
World-or the next.
If "the stringing along of the
Administration" helped the
clerks who, before the NRA,
stood behind counters eight
hours a day, six days a week,
wages $3.50 (the interchange Of
Georgian and Danish titles is
expensive), we are for "the
stringing along"-permanently.
The Elysian fields were I'M
doubtedly a weedy back lot COM
pared with the rose gardens at
the home of Mr.. and Mrs. Whit
man Cross, open today for the
Chevy Chase Garden Tour.
Theirs is one rose garden that
outshines a seed catalogue. Mr..
Cross is something of a Luther
Burbank.
Not only has he roses that
used to grow in your own grand
mothers flower beds, but he has
developed several fine new varle-
ties Of bushes.
Mrs. Cross has a beautiful
garden of perennials.
Despite upheavals IN d ru-
morS that worse is yet to come.
birthdays arrive happily at the
Democratic National Commit
tee.
Mrs. James H. Wolfe. chair
man of the women's division,
received a gorgeous birthday
cake from Utah the other day.
It was iced in pale yellow
flowers and green leaves.
Brown frosting said:
"Never stop thinking Of us.
We will never stop sending
good wishes to you. From the
Fifth Ward Study Group, Salt
Lake City,"
Two candles and a small
card said, congratulations"
Here's a certain hope for ur1'
certain United States currency.
A man in the reading room
at the Library Of Congress was
polishing his eye glasses With a
dollar bill. He said:
"They make the best polish
ers in the world. The older
they are, the better they shine"
Massachusetts, Blue Stockings
of the State Federation Of
Women's Clubs debate on birth
control and vote Is to l in
dorsing the principle of Fed
eral Legislation for the Dis
semination of Scientifically
Regulated Birth Control In
formation"
The federation believes in
the World Court. Defeats a
movement to legalize lotteries.
Wants to hear all that Mrs.
Roosevelt is saying and doing.
Asks if Madame Perkins is
at her Job. Has firm views on
Huey Long and Father Cough"
lin. Is a power in State poll
tics. And an indication of
what women are generally
thinking about when they
think.
Mrs. Jesse Jones, wife of the
chairman of the RFC, pinch
hits as a mother for Rowena
Simpsons graduation at Guns
ton Hall. Miss Simpsons
parents are Houston, Texas,
friends of the Jesse JoneseS.
Luis Olivares, first secretary of
the Spanish Embassy, who has
played in the Davis Cup
matches, had an expert tennis
game at the Chevy Chase Club
with Rim van der Wyck, Sec
rotary of The Netherlands Le-
CATION. ."Bits" Chesley, foot
ball hero at st. Adams and the
University of Pennsylvania, has
broken into song with the lead
ing solo I'm Going Screwy," in
the Masque and Wig Clubs
yearly stunt. The Willoughby
Chesleys didn't dream that
"Bits" could use his voice ex-
cept for charging the center
front on a football field.
Those doctors at the Naval
Academy want to make sissies
of the Annapolis boys. So the
athletic coaches say.
If an athlete gets as much as
q scratch or bruise in a game,
the doctors take him right out.
Say he can't run the risk of
worse trouble.
The coaches say this is the
way to make a guy soft; send
him back in the game even if
he does hurt. That's the way
to make guy hard.
We're a Happy Woman until
we think of our half-houSe-
cleaned attic.