The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1935-07-02
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Luxurious Pools
In Capital
US. PIONEERS
BY HELEN ESSARY

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Dover House, the Lord Balti-
more hunting lodge, now owned
by Mrs. Eleanor Patterson, is
big, gaily tiled, and fed by
springs from the surrounding
hillsides.
! Around the pool, on pleasant
days, groups gather under
bright umbrellas. Or dash off
for a quick game of tennis on
the courts screened by rose
vines.
At night lights inside the pool
make the water a heavenly
shade Of blue. Flood lights from
trees bring imaginary moon.
light and catch the swimmers
as they glide through the cool
water.
Marwood on the Potomac,
where Mr.. Joseph P. Kennedy,
chairman of the Securities and
Exchange Committee, is living
now, has a fine outdoor pool.
Its bath houses have tele-
phones.
The friends of the Malcolm
Mathesons enjoy the pool at
wellington, their home just off
the Mt. Vernon Boulevard. Wei
1ington's pool is in a clump of
woods at the foot of a path
leading from the garden.
Mrs. George Barnett has a
nice pool at Wakefield Manor,
her marvellous country place in
Virginia.
At Arbremont, which over.
looks Rock Creek Park, the
Henry Parsons Erwins have built
Q big swimming pool.
Attention, Senator Vanden-
berg - who demands a Sena-
torial investigation of the COM
plants of Alaskan pioneers
Have you read the report of
the Rural Identification Ad-
ministrator?
(Not that I'd ever read it if
I hadn't been told to-
However, the report says that,
Of the families Of farmers in
this country:
Seventy-three per cent have
to carry water from wells or
other sources of supply.
Seventy-seven per cent have
only outdoor lavatories.
Ninety-three per cent have
neither bathtub nor shower.
Seventy-six per cent have to
use kerosene or gasoline lamps.
Thirty-three per cent heat
their homes partly or entirely
with fireplaces.
Fifty.four per cent heat their
homes partly or entirely with
stoves.
Forty-eight per cent have to
do their laundry work out of
doors.
And Alaska pioneers complain
of hardShipS! The sissies!
During the past two years
when Mr.. William Stanley has
left his home at Laurel, he has
headed his car for a 20-mile
drive on the Boulevard to his
Washington office.
Now Mr.. Stanley is leaving
the Department of Justice.
He'll head his car in the oppo-
site direction on the Boulevard
and drive 20 miles to practice
law in Baltimore.
The former Assistant. to the
Attorney General and his de.
1ightful wife will be very much
missed in Washington. They
are both attractive people, and
Washington society has en-
joyed them.
Claude Bowers, American Am
basSador to Spain, who is a
biographer as we'll as a diplo-
mat, was asked the other day
in Washington if he were doing
any writing. Ambassador Bowers
replied:
"I'm writing more than ever.
In Madrid in the summer the
town closes up from two to
five every afternoon. Everybody
takes q SieSta. / never could
sleep in the middle of the day,
SO / just WRITE"
Louisa G. says she is always
glad when June is over. Com
mencements and weddings make
her feel so old. The bring a
season of looking back.
She remembers when she
thought college sophomores
were middle-aged. Now they
look to her as if they should be
wearing rompers.
At a wedding now, the bride
seems young enough to be eat
ing her spinach strained. Once,
to Louisa c., a bride was a
woman finished with life.
Paul Daniels, amusing young
State Department bachelor.
says weddings likewise affect
him sadly.
He either feels sorry for the
groom, or sorry for himself be-
cause he isn't in the groom's
place.
Representative Virginia
Jenckes, of. Indiana, comes Of
fighting stock.
Her grandmother held a
marauding Indian band at bay
in Vincennes in 1900 by cutting
off the hand of their chief with
the family Ratchet as he was