The Washington times., 1935-08-20
NOW
Delegates Haze
Gay Time
HUNT FOR zoo
HELEN ESSARY

TWO about getting good attend
ance at its conventions. So
Strickland w. Gillian tells me.
In Cleveland last week, where
the association met, hotel people
phoned every delegate at 1880
a. m. There was to be no non
sense about staying away from
morning sessions because of a
little night-before-gayety.
That early morning remorse
may have encouraged some Of
Jthe delegates to a second nap.
Little good that did them. At 8
O'Clock the phone rang a second
time. Rang loud and long
last call-time to get up.
At 8 o'clock, promptly, break
fast was served. At $50 the
morning session began-at the
breakfast table. The delegates
sat and listened to speeches
and liked them.
After each speaker had fin
ished, a few delegates, as is the
way of conventionites, would
throw down their napkins and
look longingly at the door.
Immediately the president Of
the association, Mr.. William H.
Baggs, of Pittsburgh, would
grab his gavel. Pound violently
and shout cheerily:
Don't one of you leave this
room Or-or I'll throw this gavel
ut you"
Not one man left. Not one OF
the 1900 until the last word OF
the speech was said.
The speaker the apple men
wanted most to hear was unable
to go to the convention. He was
Senator Harry F. Byrd, brother
of Dick and Tom, and the
largest single apple grower in
the country. Tom runs Harry's
orchards.
They say down in Virginia
that Toms good management
made Dick an Arctic explorer
and Harry a United States Sen
ator.
(Which way is the ZOO?" a
driver Of a Observation-Disclosures
car, crowded with children and
grandparents called out. TSaid:
Keep straight up Connect
cut Avenue. Two blocks further.
You can't miss il"
In front Of the big sign, "Na-
tional Geological Park" the
Pennsylvania car paused and
then moved on. I waited for it
to catch up with me, and said
to the driver.
"YOu passed the place. Didn't
you see the sign, National Zoo
logical Park'?"
"Sure; but it's the Zoo we
want"
Stopped in at Republican ma
tional headquarters yesterday.
The rejoicing there over that
miserable little sinner, Rhode
Island, that has just returned to
the heavenly fold, is still in
tense.
The Ambassador to the Court
Of st. James, Robert Worth
Bingham, had a British accent
when he was in Washington the
other day. Mr.. and Mrs. James
Lloyd Wright say in a gay post
card that Bavaria is the best
part Of Europe they have come
upon yet. A party with DR..
Otto c. Kiep, who used to be at
the German Embassy may have
helped make up their minds. J..
Theresa Saul Gardiner, at the
Chevy Chase Club the other
night in a beige gown with a
sable collar that accented the
red Of her hair, looked like the
cover on next months fashion
magazine.
She is the president of a big
Garden Club. Rather sere and
yellow from too much duck
shooting. (She's quite rich so
she can afford to shoot unbe-
CominglyD Her jaw is stern
from too much ordering about
Of her corps of gardeners.
But her husband loves her.
He must. She said at luncheon
the other day:
every April Paul says, MY
dear, you are getting that pink
dOgwOOd look again!'"
There's a rumor that Presi.
dent Roosevelt is going to give
q medal to the best American
woman poet. The medal will be
supplied by the American ASso-
citation of University Women.
The association will also Sc
1ect the poet-this makes the
prospect easier for the Presi-
dent.
Mrs. Hiram B. Smell, wife Of
the minority leader of the
House, and Miss Elizabeth Peet,
dean Of women and head pro-
lessor Of Gallaudet College -
the only American college, by
the way, for the deaf and in.
articulate-are enthusiastic at
the prospect Of poesy's recog-
nition