The Washington times., 1935-03-18
NOW
Vice Presidents s
Latest Woes
DEEP PINK TEA
BY HELEN EsSARY

handshake and a promise.
Sometimes it is a listening ear.
Again. tinkling glass.
Frequently in the office Of
Vice President Garner, hospi-
tality is a tinkling glass. But
this is secret-the Vice Presi'
dent says he's just afraid he
can't keep up his kind of hospi-
tality-the glasses cost too
much.
You see, Mr.. Garner uses two
sizes of glasses. Little ones for
Republicans. And big ones for
Democrats. OF course, the
whatever-you-call-it that goes
into the glasses is something
that has to be provided.
But that's all right. That's
friendship and good faith, and
peace-making and-politics.
Mr.. Garner loves to give that
away.
But he sure does wish they
wouldn't run off with his glasses
at the end of the hospitality.
Right while he's on the prem
ises, they slip the glasses in
their pockets and carry 'em OFF
as souvenirs.
It's a bad practice. It keeps
the Vice President or Mrs. Gar
ner or a secretary running to
the ten-cent store, and totlng
bulging paper bags up to THE
Hill"
We think Mr.. Garner ought
to make 'em bring their own
glasses-in two sizes.
Several years ago in London,
We had tea with violent young
John Strachey, who may be de-
ported for his communiStic
ways, and his father and
mother, Mr.. and Mrs. j. st. Loe
Strachey.
st. Loe Strachey pronounce
"Loe" as "Lou") was active in
the English Speaking Union and
had asked us, as Americans. to
call.
Principally we had tea with
Mr.. and Mrs. strachey. John
did not daily long. But he
dominated the gathering.
When the parlor maid had
closed the doors in the drawing
room, as they always do in Eng
lish houses for both privacy and
warmth, and we had drawn up
chintz-covered chairs between
the open fire and the tea table,
Mrs. Strachey said:
"Our radical son is coming in
for tea"
Her husband, a gentle. small.
ish person, beautifully groomed
and with the exquisite manners
OF the older oxford school, said:
eyes, we are looking for John.
Sometimes he disappOints us.
He's pretty busy with young
Oswald MOSeley these days."
John didn't disappoint us,
however. Soon he came bound
ing into the drawing room. A
big raw-boned lad, he looked in.
credibly young. He had broad
STOPPING shoulders, an enor"
NOUS nose, and thick black
hair.
We watched him eat thin
slices of bread and butter spread
with strawberry jam. He drank
three cups of strong Indian tea
with milk. And finished with
two cream cakes-the traditional
end of a British tea.
Between times he said quite
clearly what he thought of the
world at large. Then left us as
abruptly as he had come.
After he had gone the room
seemed quite empty.
Mrs. Strachey adored her son,
It was evident. He inherited his
height and his vivid personality
from her.
st. Loe, his father. editor Of
the conservative Spectator"
with it's inheritance of Addison
and Steele, looked at his son, we
thought, much as a nice hen
would regard a diving duck,
hatched out by mistake.
John, he considered, was some
thing like a family phenomenon.
What the boy would do with
himself and them, time would
tell!
Referring to Oswald MoSeley,
now the leader of the British
TasciSts, reminds us of the ex'
citement England was enjoying,
at the time we met John Stra.
chey, in the young peers radi-
caliSm.
There was much laughing at
Lady Cynthia Moseley, wife of
Oswald. and her real pearls.
She always wore them when
she spoke nobly at radical meet
1ngs.
Rotten taste, said the British.
Pearls on radical! Absurd!
Only an American could have
done such a thing. Gady Gym.
thia is the daughter of the
Marques of Kedleston and his
American wife, Miss Letter.
N. B.-We sometimes wonder
what the British would do with
out the all-American goat.
Discoveries Here and There;
Group of Japanese guests in