The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1935-04-23
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STONE CASTLE
BY HELEN ESSARY

ceiving threatening letters and
had a mystery fire on her estate
night before laSt) are the rich
New Workers who built a Med
tterranean castle in the middle
of a field on the Eastern Sho' of
Maryland.
Near st. Michael'S, on the
other side of Chesapeake Bay,
where the tidewater laps lazily
on oySter-Shell beaches, Mr.. and
Mrs. Stewart made themselves
an estate like nothing ever seen
on the Eastern Sho' before.
Then they set liveried minions
to growing peaches and raising
manicured horses. Surrounded
themselves with high walls,
guarded by fierce dogs. Called
their place Cape Centaur. And
became the excitement and de-
spair of the old Maryland fam
lilies.
When her mother came to
get her yesterday at the en-
trance to the White House EaS-
ter Egg Rolling where she had
left her in Phillips care, she
thought Edith was a balloon
vendor. Where was Phillip,
mother asked right away. And
where did she get her balloons?
Phillip, said Edith, was inside
renting himself out to groWn-up
people who needed children to
get themselves admitted to the
White House grounds. Some
times Phillip got a dollar and
sometimes only a quarter. But
every time he got a customer,
he bought her a new balloon for
being good.
Miss Kathleen Talley, daugh-
ter of Mr.. Lynn Talley OF the
Reconstruction Finance Cor
poration (she'S going to be mar
ried on May Z to Charles Met
calfe SPENCE, knows the best
story of the season on traffic
risks.
The hero of her story was on
main highway at about three
O'Clock in the morning. He
knew enough to know that ne
was not himself. So he pro-
ceeded at the speed of five miles
an hour. And still felt he was
taking chances.
Every few miles, he stopped,
got carefully out of the car, and
investigated the road bed.
A policeman found him on
his hands and knees. Asked him
bluntly what he thought he was
doing. The young gentleman
said slowly:
pm just feeling around to
see if the road is still 'lere."
The policeman said:
""WeII, if you're that careful,
I guess you're safe. Go ON
home"
It takes faith in tradition and
in ones own self to dive an
electric roadster in the swirl OF
Washington traffic.
Mrs. David M ade Lea,
patron saint of the Episcopal
Home for Children, turned as
jauntily into the Easter Mon
day gasoline parade as if she
were at the wheel of day before
yesterdays stream-lined triumph.
From the plate glass window
which reaches from the seat to
the ceiling (no overslung and
restricted body lines here) Mrs.
Lea surveyed the world-un-
apologetically.
There's the tale about new
policeman who stopped Mrs.
Lea for not putting her hand
out of the electric to signal a
turn. Whereupon, Mrs. Lea
II don't want the window
opened. The day is cool. I
don't think anyone could fail to
see me in this glass show case.
Do yOu?"
The policeman thought while
and said he certainly didn't.
Mrs. Lea sailed slowly and ma
jestically On her way.
A Tennessee Lady tells us
that she has tried to like Doug
las Freeman's life of Robert E.
Lee. But she just can't forget
how Mortified she was when she
read that it was John C. Cal
houn who gave Robert E. Lee
his commission to West Point.
Everybody in Tennessee knows
it was Andrew Jackson who
gave Lee his commission. But
that's just the way people are.
They never give Tennessee credit
for anything.
There's that amusing answer
Rexford G.. TugWel gave the
lady editor who asked him what
was causing the dust storms in
the Middle West. You make
the Undersecretary of Agricul-
ture confess what he said
The versatile Gilbert Gros-
venors are awfully pleased that
their daughter, Mabel, now fin
ishing an interneship at Johns
Hopkins Hospital, is soon to
hang her shingle in Washing
ton as a specialist in the diseases
of children.
Austin Sullivan and Tommy
Mccormack were a little dis
turbed Sunday night to find,
oftar thew had NIT Sheila Snlli.