The Washington times., 1935-01-24
NOW
Kmgfish Learns
TOPIayPipes!
NEW PIED PIPER
BY HELEN ESSARY

the people nave ever elected q
pair Of Presidents to the White
House."
I So said Mrs. Carrie Chapman
Gait in introducing Mrs. Roose-
velt to the Conference on the
Causes and Cure of War.
They say it's true. Since it's
about Huey Long, it probably is.
= The gentleman from Louisi-
ana is learning to play the
Sicilian pipes.
He is learning to trill and
warble so Sweetly and so poig.
nantly that when the great mo.
ment comes the Houianians will
spring on the Long band wagon
and ride away TOTO glory with
more abandon than the Pied
piper ever aroused in Hamelin.
The Siciliah pipe movement.
though rather new in America
except among the prep school
lads, has practically engulfed
England and the Continent.
Sicilian pipes are as old as
history. Shepherds first footed
them in Sicily. They are made
from bamboo followed out and
pierced with holes. Their music
Is ethereal, clear, compelling
and greatly appreciated by
Rdolescents.
It is quite likely that Mr..
Long will introduce the Sicilian
pipe in the Senate, at least as
far as the cloak room.
The Senator from Louisiana
has returned TO the Senate hap.
pier than ever.
He slaps more backs, shakes
more hands, jokes with more
colleagues than ever. Christian
charity apparently has entered
into the heart of the Kingfish.
Frequently he can be observed
lending aid and comfort to the
small and lonesome bloc Of Re-
publican Senators, even sitting
down among them.
When Senator johnson of
California, speaking against
World Court entrance, Travelled
back 100 long years and more
and read speech of Car Alex
ander, even the face of the
courteous. Democratic leader,
Senator Robinson of Arkansas,
seemed to register temporarily
dimmed interest.
It was not SD with Huey Long.
He walked over and took seat
near Senator Johnson. And
assumed an expression of kindly
and absorbed attention. He's
Q philanthropist-that's what
Huey Long is!
In contrast to the Demo-
cratic Senator from Louisiana
is the Senator from Arkansas,
who reminds me of a little
black mouse who sees all that
is going on but never moves.
Mrs. Caraway is almost al.
ways at her desk, chin on
hand, watching but not talk.
ing. Her neav black dress
Is as retiring as her person
ality.
Now that we are so crazy
about crime, it's nice to know
that gunmen's molls and the
like dye their hair red. Or if
dyeing is too much trouble or
takes too long-you know how
little leisure there is at times
in the life of a gunman's
moll-the old locks are COW
cred with a wig. And the color
Of the wig is always red.
Mr.. j. Edgar Hoover, of the
Department of Justice, told
this gossip of crime and the
beauty parlor to a group Of
women at luncheon. And the
women blushed-some Of them
-henna rinses being what
they are nowadays!
Marjorie 1den, whose hus-
band, Shane Leslie, the Eng
hsh writer, will be the guest
of the Arthur OBriens on
Saturday night, was once the
little girl to whom Robert
Louis Stevenson gave his birth
day.
During a holiday in England,
little Marjorie Iden complained
to Mr.. Stevenson that she had a
birthday only once every four
years on February 20. Mr..
Stevenson said he had no fur.
ther use for birthdays. He
would like to present his to
Marjorie. And he did!
Discoveries along the way
Mrs. Borah tells about one Of
her husbands Irish constituents
who when asked what this flu"
was like, said:
Its the kind Of thing that
takes you six weeks to feel
like yourself again after the
doctors tell you you are we'll" "
Mrs. Marvin H. MacIntyre,
wife of the cheerful Colonel of
the White House Secretariat, is
gracious and smiling, and like.
wise magnificently systematic.
She runs her house by a sys-
tenn of accounts that would de.
light the most exacting English
houSekeeper q remember the