The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1935-05-14
NOW
DOQIDOOd Here
In It's Glory
ALL OUR OWN
By HELEN EssARY

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must be shared with most Of
touring America.
But, as one weary hostess re-
marked, 1--WE have the dogwood
all to ourselvesw
This spring, probably owing
to many cold, rainy days, the
dogwood about the District has
been particularly lovely.
Lazy gardeners revel in dog
wood. Flowers and shrubbery
must be carefully tended. But
dogwood f1ourishes on suburban
lots, on great estates, and in
neglected woods.
Hundreds Of nearby dogwood
trees are now in glorious bios
som.
Battery Terrill, once a Civil
War rampant, now the home Of
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles H. Tomp-
kins, is encircled by large dog
wood trees. Such enchanting
homes as those belonging to the
Charles Elliotts III. the Charles
Riborg Manns, as Ridgelands Of
Senator and Mrs. Key Pittman,
and the home of the Vinson
ChapinS have vistas Of dogwood
trees from almost every window.
The poSsessorS of new houses
have told architects and build
ers to spare those dogwood
trees" The Fred L. Harveycut-
ters' new home in Kenwood
Overlooks its own grove Of %
dogwood trees. Mrs. Will
Wright's pink dogwood trees are
as carefully cherished as her
garden.
When DR.. Henry s. Graves,
now provost Of Yale University,
was = Chief Forester Of the
United States and lived in
Washington in Cleveland Park,
on Newark Street, his chief d.
versions were dancing and
planting pink dogwood trees to
offset the native-born white
ones in the garden Of his home.
Along Wisconsin Avenue, near
Georgetown, in the gardens of
the famous Weaver mansions,
are pink dogwood. Turn off
Connecticut Avenue by the Blu
reau of Standards and see the
dogwood in the gardens Of Penn
broke Hall, owned by the late
Alfred p. Thorn, once an official
Of the Railway Executives Of
America. The Holy Cross Acad-
envy and the Geophysical Labo-
ratory have beautiful dogwood
trees.
Among the best neighborhood
trees are those owned by the
Leonard p. Steuarts and by the
Henry Parsons Erwins at Arbre-
mont. The dogwood in Rock
Creek Park, Chevy Chase,
Takoma Park, Spring Valley,
and out in Brookland by Cath
ole University also is exquisite.
Mrs. Lucille Foster Mcmillan
tries to be exact in giving out
civil service appointments (She'S
a Civil Service Commissioner,
you know. She did find it diff.
ficult the other day to sign up
as a mere truck driver a man
named Ben Hur. The third
of June Is Rose Day. Every
Southerner will wear q rose in
memory Of Jefferson Davis .
The old Alexander House at
1647 Thirtieth Street, now
owned by Colonel William j.
Donovan, Of New York (some
people say Herbert Hoover
made an awful mistake when
he failed to make Bill Donovan
Attorney GeneraD views the
Potomac from its drawing room
yeranda. The garden is a
series Of graduated terraces,
with a turf q hundred years
old and unmarried by planting.
Speaker Carlisle bought the
house from the AleXanderS in
1883.
Louis Fischer, in his new
book, Soviet Journey. finds
the Russians Of today "a child
like, progressive, eager people
who listen to lectures on blast
furnaces on the days of their
rest and who discuss MARKHAM
uialecticS while making love-"
Vague thoughts-mostly hate
full.
Being a man Of vision in
washington often depends on
the adjustment of b:-focal
lenses.
No woman who is not sure Of
her place in the sun should
wear an off-the-face hat.
Ohioan Slated