The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1935-08-15
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Senator Cohen
Bushes
POLITE CARMAN
nv HELEN ESSARY

BY HELEN ESSARY
Said Representative Carl l..
Mapes, Of Michigan, during a
lull in the House lobby inves-
tigation, to Mr.. BENJAMIN B.
Cohen, who helped draft the
holding company bill:
II enjoyed your speech in the
Senate"
Mr.. Cohen was frankly
startled at being taken for a
Senator. But, Mr.. Mapes said,
had Mr.. Cohen forgotten how
many Senate speeches Mr..
Cohen wrote for busy law
makers. Whereupon Mr.. Cohen
blushed and hung his head.
# the transit company man.
ages to put on one-man cars,
I hope Conductor 1850 isn't
lost in the cause of economy"
Conductor 1850 is on the
Chevy Chase line. Long ago
when the streets were less clut.
tered with automobiles than
now, Conductor 1850, when I
boarded his car, used to say,
GOOD morning, Nam, how's
the family?"
Recently I took a Chevy
Chase car down town.
"It'S been most 10 years since
/ had you as passenger" said
Conductor 1850 as he gave me
. transfer.
Yesterday, while waiting for a
red light to change. I glanced
at the street car parallel to my
automobile. Conductor 1850 was
smiling over his spectacles.
No. 1850 isn't as young as he
was. But he looks like a fine
old fellow. In the years and
years he has stood at the back
end of a swaying street car,
thousands of dollars have
passed through his hands. And
I'm pretty sure he has never
had to hire a lawyer to help
him dodge his income tax.
Speaking Of transportation
there's the saying that a bus
mans holiday is taken on an.
other bus.
Not so with one Washington
busman. On his day off he
rides on street cars. He says
they are cooler than BUSES.
They had just naturally lost
their taste for each other.
The judge who heard the teSti-
n1ony granted the wife a divorce
and said:
MADAME, I'll award you SIS
. week"
The bereaved husband STEP
ped up gratefully.
"That'S mighty generous Of
you, Judge. I'll try to do my
part by her, too"
Movie Moods.
I wish Katharine Hepburn
wasn't going gaunt and gaunter.
In her advertising posters, she
looks like a stag at bay. I like
her better starry-eyed. Inwardly
glowing. With nostrils dialated
and the love light on her hair.
DR.. Herbert Spencer Dickey,
the explorer, told a friend of
mine that Indians in the South
American jungle know all about
canned soup, but are vague
about Skyscrapers. This is prob.
ably the influence Of Ameri-
can advertising.
DR.. Dickey discovered that
the natives of Colombia, Ecua-
dor and Peru were more keen
about American short cut
housekeeping than long-raDge
architecture, when he found
some Indian guides looking at a
magazine. The Indians stopped
long at an advertisement of
canned coup. Went through
elaborate and gleeful motions
of eating-or rather guzzling.
A photograph of the New York
skyline they thought was
"plenty skyrockets."
Mrs. Alexander George, cook
cry expert, went to school with
both Secretary and Mrs. Henry
lace Is a clever home economis
.(meaning she sets a good table,.
Mrs. Wallace is mighty pretty
to be such a good cook.
Old Home Week in the
HuntreSs family-Jack is back
from Boston and Douglas from
Chicago for a visit with their
mother. Mrs. Margery Huntress
Little Peggy Matheson has
the same sort of delicate beauty
as her sister, Julia. She had a
big rush from the stag line
Thursday night at the Chevy
Chase Club. Mary Cootes was
at the dance in dark blue and
white organdie, having more
partners than any one person
needed.
Dear Helen ESSary:
What's this about Eddie