The Washington times., 1935-01-14
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Gertrude Stein
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By HELEN ESSARY
Gertrude Stein anecdotes are
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BY HELEN ESSARY
Gertrude Stein anecdotes are
endless and usually good.
There, for instance, Is the
letter Miss Stein sent to her
dear friend, Ellen La Motto, in
ternational writer and crusader,
who is in Washington for a few
weeks. Miss Stein and her
faithful Alice B. ToklaS were
about to visit Miss La Motto in
Washington. So Miss Stein
wrote:
"Tt will be nice being with
you. Emily, / think, is nicer.
So are you. And so perhaps
are we. which is nice for all Of
u.s."
GERTRUDE"
No one could ask a more
satisfying note than this. Mis-
understand Gertrude Stein as
you will, you must recognize
her genius in expressing in a
few sentences of rhythmical
prose the thoughts that clutter
an average brain for hours.
The Emily" of the note is
Mrs. Thomas L. Chadbourne,
who, like Miss La Motto, is a
girlhood friend of Miss Stein.
Mrs. Chadhourne and Miss La
Motto took Gertrude Stein and
dear Alice B. Toklas the other
day to WeStover on the James.
Westover, the old Byrd mansion,
Is now owned by Mr.. Richard
Crane, nephew of Mrs. Chad
bourne.
Miss Stein was delighted with
Westover, as well she might have
been. Delighted with the entire
countryside. She revelled in the
roadside markers showing the
course of the Battle of the Wild
erness and the advance of the
Union troops during the Civil
War.
A reporter of a Richmond
paper asked Miss Stein what
had impressed her most on her
drive through Virginia. Miss
Stein answered promptly:
"The signs of General Grants
splendid strategy"
The newspaper man was young
and kind. He said:
81 think, Miss Stein, it will
be best for you if 1 do not quote
that remark. Because, you see,
you are booked to speak next
month at the University of Vir-
gfnia, at Washington and Lee
and at William and Mary"
Practically everybody we
know now admits sixty ripe
years (since old-age pensions
are a possibility and plans a
new career-if the pension bill
goes through Congress.
The personality and ability Of
Senatorial secretaries are inn
portant to the success of a SEN
ator's administration at the
Capitol. TWO newly elected Sen
ators, Radcliffe, of Maryland
and Burke of Nebraska, have
chosen secretaries of "back.
ground" and intelligence.
Miss Bertha c. Joseph is the
secretary of Senator Radcliffe.
In Baltimore, she was promi-
nent in politics and in women's
club activities, and was chair
man of the Women's Radcliffe
for Senator League. In the
Woman'S City Club on Mount
Vernon Place in Baltimore, in
the National Woman'S Party,
and in the League of Women
Voters, Miss Joseph has impor-
tant interests.
Mrs. Katherine Douglas of
Omaha is Senator Burke's Sec
retary. Mrs. Douglas is a bril-
liant person and very pretty.
She is the daughter of Mr.. Har-
vey Newbank, editor Of the
Omaha World Herald. The
World Herald is now owned by
Mrs. Gilbert M. Hitchcock,
widow of the Senator from
Nebraska.
Mrs. Douglas is visiting Mrs.
Hitchcock for few days, but
will take an apartment shortly.
Representative Stephen Cam
brill, of Maryland, got a bill
through Congress in the first
days of its session, to mark
the graves at Ragged Point, on
the Potomac River, where GER
tain Union soldiers are buried.
In 1865, during the Civil War,
. Union vessel was proceeding
up the Potomac River, when a
boiler burst. The ship was de-
stroyed. The bodies of the sea-
men were washed ashore and
buried in unmarked graves, not
far from the Ragged Point
Lighthouse.
Madame Van Swinderin, wife
of the Dutch Ambassador to
London and the former Bessie
Glover, who is now visiting her
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Charles
C. Glover, recently gave a royal
dinner in London to Juliana,
Crown Princess of Holland.
The Prince of Wales was a
guest. A London newspaper
said:
Madame Van Swinderin'S
charming, unaffected manners
are pleasing to European So
Ciety and to the Court of Saint
James in particular"