The Washington times., 1935-12-19
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By HELEN ESSARY

1WO-InlEQS OF Gle ldHllly I'LL lSI'
mas presents unbought!
All out-of-town gifts unmailed!
Cranberry sauce unjelled!
Bedside lamps for guest room
unrepaired!
Christmas seals unlocked!
And into this deliriouS pre-
Christmas landscape comes from
the Walker.W bran dts this
blithe note of escape. The ad-
vance holiday notice is decorated
with palm trees, placid ships on
blue seas, tropical heroes doing
beside their guitars, burden-bear-
ing donkeys and cacti without
their pricks, and says:
I'VE are leaving the United
States this Christmas Season to
be gone until after the New
Year. We are running away
with no forwarding address. We
will be on boat. or in Mexico
or on some 'cOcOanuttreed
insland' trying to make an oasis
of peace in the period between
the rest of hectic 1885 and on
rushing 1885,"
My blessings on you, Myrtle and
David Walker and the two Mabel
Walker Withdrawals, Senior and
Junior! But I hate you
Notes on celebrities:
Henry L. Mencken, that deter
mined iconoclast, came over to
Washington from Baltimore to
dine with the Bishop of Oklahoma,
the Most Reverend Francis c..
Kelley. The Bishop says that Mr..
Mencken, who protests he believes
in nothing, knows more about the
canonS of the Church than most
Of the members of the American
Catholic Hierarchy, which met in
Washington last week.
Major Henry Leonard, the U. S.
Marine hero in the Chinese Boxer
rebellion, at present lawyer and
chairman of the Horse Show AS
ISOLATION, has just returned from
England with Is thoroughbred
horses which he bought for his
breeding farm at Blith wood
Manor, near Forest Hills, Mary
land.
The CzechoSlovakian Minister,
Mr.. Ferdinand Veverka, was slated
to be appointed minister to the
Court of St. James in the event
that Prime Minister BeneS was
made president of Czechoslovakia.
Mr.. Benes is now the new pres
ident of CzechoSlovakia. Mr..
Veverka has gone to Prague to
spend Christmas with his family.
He'll probably go to London after
the holidays.
Governor Harry L. Nice, Of
Maryland, sometimes said to be
the beginnings of a Big Boom for
the presidency, wore his tails and
white tie" to the cocktail party
given Sunday afternoon by the
Chairman of the Republican Ma
tional Committee and Mrs. Henry
L. Fletcher.
Mrs. j. Borden Hartman who,
after a summer in Paris and Lon
don was i'll N New York, is quite
we'll again and is now at the Sui
grave Club. After Christmas Mrs.
Hartman will open Uplands, her
home on Foxcroft Road.
This is more than a social note.
It is the beginning of a season.
Mrs. Hartman is one of the
personalities of Washington or of
whatever landscape she may hap
pen to be decorating at the mo-
ment.
Her return to the Capital will
revive a phase of national life
that nobody has been able to imi-
tate in her absence-the Sunday
Night Salon. At these weekly
Suppers of Mrs. Hartman, guests,
chosen from various Washington
groups, have been won't to speak
their minds freely on public mat.
tiers. Inspired by such a battle
of ideas they have determined
later to improve the world or do
over their own careers.
Most Washingtonians are a
cowed lot. They are afraid of say
ing "Mr. Minister when it should
be "Mr. Ambassador" OF address
ing the best looking man of the
evening as Mr.. Secretary and
having him turn out to be a
waiter.
They are afraid of not knowing
the Right People. And afraid of
knowing the Right People too we'll,
because in few of any Washing
ton months the Right People are
likely to be the Wrong People.
Moreover, the Wrong People of to-
day may be the Right People of
tomorrow. Or may be they'll al
ways be the Wrong People.
Mrs. Howard Ellis, who has just
returned to Chicago, after a visit
to Mr.. and Mrs. Louis G. Caldwell,
brought a salty spirit of Lake
Michigan into this broken-spirited
community. She was frankly and
irreverently fascinated By the
Washington show. She asked the
Mexican Ambassador, Senior Maize
raS, to tell her how he got each of
his medals. medals in Washing
ton hitherto have been seen but
never heard.)
When Major Ferry Heath, that
famous bachelor, was presented
she said:
Nonsense, there isn't such
name. Somebody will next be
introducing a Miss Daisy Dell!".
NJ ..... IL. ELL i LII a..