The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-05-22
NOW
Bits of Hot Air
From Capital
MAY BE TRUE
BY HELEN ESSARY


which was scheduled to be hell
in July at Buenos Aires has beer
postponed indefinitely. There Il
talk of settling the date in Oc
tober.
Representative Hamilton Fish
jr, the New York Republican
who has vague ideas of running
for the Presidency some day
has prophesied that Mr.. Roose
welt will carry I'll but six States
A certain diplomatic family has
introduced to a Chesapeake Bay
country club the Continental
custom of changing from street
clothes to bathing suits on the
beach.
That noise that sounds like a
steam riveter at work is the
whirring of hundreds of thou
sands of locust wings. You can't
turn the noise off. It creeps
through the closed windows as a
London fog Sits under the elder.
down comforters.
Now that Edgar Hoover, Depart
ment of Justice hero, has caught
all of the American gangsters,
maybe he will catch himself wife.
The United States is the largest
producer of prunes. The Depart
ment of Commerce says so. Just
look around you at Washington
and be convinced" said the Repub-
1ican lady whose husband isn't 60
ing to be reelected this November.
Much of the exquisite lingerie
which will be part of Valerie
Prochnik's trousSeau when she
marrieS Jean de Sibour on June l
has been made by her mother, the
wife OF the Austrian Minister.
This is going to be a very hot
summer because the spring has
been so cool.
This is not going to be a hot sum-
mer because the weather will con-
tinue cool.
Mrs. Roosevelt thinks up her
next speech while riding home
from the last one.
Fried chicken is better if you
put the top on the pan and let it
sort of simmer after you think
you've finished the cooking.
Thomas jefferson said that it
was unlawful to build interstate
roads without amending the Con-
Stitution and thus giving, new
power to- the Government. And
now look at what the Constitution
lets them do. Doesn't let them
do. you mean," said the Democratic
lady.
When gentlemen in high office
go out to play golf or watch ball
game they tell their secretaries to
say over the phone:
sT'm sorry, the Senator isn't
In his office. He's working at
the Congressional Library"
Ice cream isn't fattening if you
eat fresh fruit with it-you know,
like crushed straw berries or
shredded pineapple.
Those Oriental Ladies of the
World who are meeting at the
Mayflower Hotel in dripping chit
fon and gold-tasseled fezeS, are not
descendants of the Oriental Ladies
Haround-A l-Raschid met as he
wandered, disguised, throug h
dance halls on Arabian Nights"
If you break the tops off your
crysanthemums and stick the tops
in the ground they will root and
blossom like mad this october.
Bright changes are planned
for the new French Embassy
garden but nothing will actually
be done until the new Ambassa-
dor arrives.
John Archbold, son of Mrs.
Anne Archbold who lives in that
big fine house overlooking the
Potomac, has bought himself a
small island in the Caribbean
Sea and will grow oranges there.
The best people have stopped
saying Kari-bee-an. The call it
Krib-ian with the accent on the
crib" Remember this
It's a. sea the Best People are
talking about now.
Central America is also one of
the new smart geographical ex-
elements. Mrs. Merle Thorpe,
whose husband is the writer,
says that wherever she goes they
discuss Central American and
Magyar civilization which, she
understands, antidates practi-
cally everything else.
This Magyar fad disappoints
me. The AztecS have always
been my conversational pride in
antiquity.
Charities and Causes get more
advertisement in Washington pa
pers than they do in any news
Sheets in the world. This is sur
prising, because all of Washington
is a cause" Or, to be bitter,
ian ak to grind
Assistant Secretary of State
Walton Moore and the delightful
Moore Sisters gave the best gar
den party of the Washington
spring. It was favored with Vir-
ginia sociability.
Graduation dresses at Cathedral
School for Girls must be IS inches
from the floor. This is three
inches longer than the dresses Of
most graduates mothers.
Margaret Arrow that numerolo-
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