The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1935-04-26
NOW
First Lady Gets
Party Post
CLUB 'SPLURGE'
By HELEN ESSARY

Oy 4AGANAN GSSEAASA
Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt
has accepted the invitation Of
the Women's National Demo
cratic Club to become its hon.
orary president.
Mrs. J. Borden Hartman,
who is spending the winter
and spring in Hollywood with
her daughter, Ethel Borden,
has recently resigned as the
honorary president. Mrs. Har-
riman was wildly important
in bringing the club to its Of
ficial and social prominence.
Mrs. Roosevelt has shown a
nice interest in the organiza'
ton. Its members are delight
ed that she has agreed to be
its leading honorary officer.
Senator and Mrs. Key Pitt
man are offering RidgelandS,
their country place on Ridge
Road, for the annual garden
party of the Women's National
Democratic Club. The garden
party is the historic spring
splurge of a club that is al
ways up to something.
Mrs. David Tucker-Brown is
going to run the affair. Mrs.
Roosevelt will give out the
prizes, and Mimosa Pittman
CMrs. Key Pittman) will be
her amusing and smiling self
on the big day. May %.
The police dogs that guard
Ridgelands will be locked up.
This is something new in
Washington!
Mrs. James Carroll Frazer
and Mrs. George F. Becker
have opened a General Utility
Bureau.
They will feed the cat, take
your sightseeing visitor to the
Monument while you take a
nap, air your apartment, look
over your summer prospects for
buffalo moths, help you give a
party, launch a debutante
daughter or a battleship.
Signs of Washington spring,
other than dogwood blossoms
and head colds:
Massachusetts, Avenue Beau
Brummels are carrying their
hats in their hands instead of
on their heads. The Joe
Letters are looking at a shining
new green pea-soup automobile
... One Of Joe Letters early
cars, a limousine, was pitched
high enough overhead to let the
6-poot Chicagoan sit erect with
his party top hat on his head
-. .Myron A. Hofer is excited
over the deck plans of an
Italian liner. A spring-time
cruise or a spring-time yearn-
ing?
Spring poets are stirring, too.
Rhythmic thoughts on "Foun-
dations"-spiritual, moral and
phySical-100 lines long will be
awarded prizes by the D. c..
Federation of Women's Clubs.
First prize, $25, given by Mrs.
Harvey Wiley, retiring president
of the fedora ton; second prize,
$40, given by Mrs. w. w. Co.
blentz. The judges are Leonora
Speyer and Muna Lee. These
two are poets-already arrived.
| Here and There:
Certain United States Sena-
tors may shrink in stature after
long service in the cause of the
people, but they increase in
voice. New York gentleman
plans to divorce wife because
she is a Do-Gooder; charity
workers are mean at home, he
says. Anne Holloway, about to
be graduated from Bryn Mawr,
is at home in Chevy Chase with
the measles, trying to write a
term paper on PHILOSOPHY" &.
Washington delegates to the
three hundredth anniversary Of
the founding of the American
Chemical Society (there's a
group with a formula to i'm
prove the world find the re-
ception by Mr.. and Mrs. Francis
P. Garvan (he's president of
the Chemical Foundation at
Long Island home the best part
Of the international meeting.
Vice President Jack Garner
says Elite CHS combination
wife and secretary is just
about the best knitter in this
country.
Mrs. Garner doesn't take any
chances on dropping a stitch
when somebody wants little
Vice Presidential information
She has a knitting pattern typed
out on cards, one row to a card
AS she finishes each row, she
puts the direction card at the
bottom of the pile. No matter
how long she leaves her knit
ting, a glance at the top card
will show where she left off.
Up at the Capitol by that
rotunda across from the door
and stairway marked ITO the
Dome" two young things came