The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1935-08-31
NOW
What? No Ants
At Gallery?
CHINA RISES
BY HELEN ESSARY

O414AN&A AS4AJAAO
By HELEN ESsARY
Since world events make
fashions-I want to know
will the State Department gen.
tleman next to me at dinner
this winter wear an Ethiopian
loin cloth or do I 60 chain.
store marketing with Roman
fillet in the hair.
Newspaper headline:
"One hundred and twenty
four monkeys still on the loose"
I'd have thought there were
more.
C. Powell Minnigerode, di.
rector of the Corcoran Art Gal
lery, had a letter Saturday,
asking him how to get rid of.
red ants. Mr.. Minnigerode
may have struggled to keep
certain varieties of art out Of
his gallery, but he has never
really had to set a trap for a
red ant.
One young galle4J attache
keeps three hives of bees some
where about the place. There's
evidently some live animal life
among the canvases and Statu-
airy.
The French may be a grasp
ing nation, but the French visa
on a passport costs 1894. Eng
land charges for a visa, $40.
Even adding the fee of diSem-
barkation, trip into France is
comparatively bargain.
A few days holiday there,
emitting champagne, board,
lodging and general diversion,
costs a tourist only 1894.
The sum of $4,000 will be
spent to survey the big trees in
Sequoia National Park, Cal. The
Interior Department thinks it's
time to check on the tall stories
Of travellers.
Erroneous records and state.
ments of the sequoias' growth,
size and location" will be cor
rected.
Miss Janet Ditto who used to
teach history at Central High
School, was recently visited by
a pupil of 30 years ago-Mr.
Taugu Clarence Sun, a banker
and induStrialiSt in China.
Mother and daughter combina-
ton in club organization-Mrs.
Eleanor Cronin and her daugh.
ter, Mrs. Arthur Condor Eve
Ign Cronin) Condor were among
the seven founders of the now
flourishing Bethesda Woman's
Club. When DR.. Hans Kinder
played the cello in the Cleveland
Symphony Orchestra he was very
plump. Since he has been con-
Quoting the National Symphony
Orchestra he has got back his
boyish figure.
The oldest civilized nation in
the world-the most populous,
and potentially the most power
full, is the last to have an Am
bassador in Washington. It
seems an anomaly that thi S
should be so. But then there
are anomalies without end in
official life.
There are satisfying eXplana-
tions why China has just now
claimed the dignity of an Am
bassador to Washington when
such nations as Peru, Poland,
Chile and Argentina have been
50 represented for a long time.
The best explanation is that
China herself has not before
wanted ambassadorial rank for
her diplomatic representative.
It costs more to maintain an
Ambassador than a Minister.
And the Chinese government is
not rich any longer.
Anyhow, it is now Ambassa-
dor SEE and not Minister SEE.
The title changes but not the
person. At that, the former
Minister was required by pro-
tocol to present his letters of
credence all over again to the
President. 1t was just as
though he had lately arrived
fresh from Peiping.
T Mr.. Christopher BilIopp in
the Baltimore Evening Sun
says:
1--WE are unreliably informed
by a gentleman with a South.
ern accent that the proper pro-
nunciatiOn Of Ualual, where all
the Italo- ethiopian shooting is
alleged to have started, is You
all-YOu all. On the other hand,
an acquaintance from the agri-
cultural Middle West insists it is
Wal-Wal."
Easy enough, Mr.. Billopp. But
suppose you lived in Washing
ton-how would you say Povi-
las zadeikis, and Phya Abhibal
Rajamaitri. newly representing
Lithuania and Siam?