The Washington times., 1935-02-13
u c. ORDERS ALL TAKOMA FOLLOW GEORGIA AVENU
NOW
Curtis Dali Due
To Wed Again
DOLLY CURIOUS
BY HELEN EssARY

NuI LlS OdllS oO VIC AOoA1 40
about to marry a little South
ern clinging vine.
Birth Control came of age
at the dinner last night. But
many of the guests at the May
flower were 21-30 years ago.
The State Department may
have brought half its American
Embassy home from Moscow,
but the Soviet Ambassador is
zone of the family" in wash
ington.
The clerk making out the
list of guests for the Birth
Control dinner wrote their
names alphabetically and quite
without advice on Protocol
something like this: Mr.. Jones
Of Idaho, Mr.. Smith of Florida
and Mr.. Troyanovsky of Rus
sia.
Women in washington hav-
ing quite properly grown weary
of being "the power behind the
throne" are waving political
sceptres of their own. No news
in this.
But, an old letter written by
Dolly Madison, the wife OF
James, the fourth President OF
the United States, (she took to
turbans and red cheek SalVe in
her old age) shows what this
good soul thought about a
woman's place in government:
Dolly in Philadelphia. wrote
to Mr.. Madison in Washington:
81 wish you would indulge
me some information respecting
war with Spain, and the dis
agreement with England, which
is so generally expected. You
know I am not much of a poll
tician, but am extremely anxi'
Gus to hear las far as you
think prOper) what is going for.
ward in the Cabinet.
"On this subject, 1 believe
you would not desire your wife
to be the active partisan that
your neighbOr is. Nor will there
be the slightest danger, while
she is conscious of her want Of
talents and the diffidence in
expressing those opinions al
ways imperfectly understood by
her set"
Mrs. Irving Whitehead, vice
chairman for Virginia of the
Democratic National Commit
tee, has returned to Richmond
to complete the arrangement
for the First Institute of Gov
ernment to be held in Richmond
March z and 8.
Mrs. Whitehead has pink
cheeks, blue eyes and white hair.
She is as pretty as the icing on
O. birthday cake.
Women from the South are
keen about the Institute. Mary.
land has reserved 80 rooms at
o hotel.
"Don't talk to me about
hard times" said the clerk IN
the stationery store. Gust look
at that mob buying valentines"
We did look. We bought
some valentines, too. Rak1Sh
ones. There wasn't one wispy
sentimental card in the lot.
Cupid has stepped out of the
depression with a twinkle in
his eye. Disguised as an ele.
phant or a horse (Such is the
merry mood of the season., he
stands on his hind legs and
plays tennis in bathing trunks.
Apropos of either Unemploy-
ment or Birth Control (two
subjects which, like the poor,
are always with us) is this
story about the poor widow in
Maine. Her husband was quite
dead. Shed nothing. Abso-
lutely nothing but two little
children and an appealing look.
A relief agency gave her
$4,000. Like most people who
have suffered, she thought a
little trip would help her. SO
she bought a car with radio
attachment and took the chill
dren for a visit. She came
back as she had left. With
the car. the radio and the chill
dren. Plus twins-quite new.
No one else.
The Maine relief society de.
cided she wasn't a fine woman
after all. They took her car
and radio away. And left her
just as she was when they so
nobly helped her-plus the
twins.
The trouble about being First
Families is that you are mighty
likely to marry beneath you."
Not so with Ida Bowie Clag'
gett. Ida Bowie, who is the
great, great, granddaughter Of
the first Bishop of Washington,
Thomas Claggett, buried in st.
Adams Cathedral, is being mar
ried this month to Thomas Ball
winston Wright, of Richmond,
whose great, great aunt was
Mary Ball, George Washington'S
mother.