The Washington times., 1936-03-07
NOW
Chief Justice
ReUerses Self
SOME OMENS?
BY HELEN ESSARY

Chief Justice and Mrs. CharleS
Evans Hughes had dined happily
the other evening at the charming
home of Miss Mabel Boardman.
With the other gentlemen guests
Mr.. Hughes had been discussing
in the library, in the best after.
dinner manner, events OF large and
small Importance.
Returning to join the ladies in
the drawing room the Chief Justice
selected a choice antique mahog-
any chair and seated himself agree
ably thereon.
Then, "Creak! crash" the chair
fell quite apart! The Chief Justice
endeavored to avoid a fall. Reach
ing out to balance himself, he got
q little over excited and-So they
tell me-turned practically COM
plete somerSault.
When he finally reached the car
pet it was discovered that the head
Of. the Supreme Court had COM
pletely reversed his position.
The Democrats present are re-
ported to have purred softly with
an understandable satisfaction.
However, they helped the Chief
Justice quickly to his feet. And the
party went on as if nothing at all
had happened.
At the beginning of recent
White House musicale there were
other unseatings of the highest
judicial authority. Mr.. Justice
Stone was about to rest on one
Of those golden East Room chairs
when "Scrunch, scrunch," chair
leg fell off!
While Mr.. Justice Stone was
finding Sturdier chair, Mr.. Chief
Justice Hughes was arranging
himself for the music and-aS
Heaven is my witness!-the seat
Of his golden chair cracked and
faltered. Just in time to avoid a
disaster, he moved hastily into a
chair better equipped to sustain
the LoftieSt Tribunal in the Land.
AS said at the beginning, these
miShaps may be the handwriting
on the political wall. Or they
may be a proof that it's been a
long, hard, party-giving winter in
Washington. And the chairs of
the Best People are now little
fatigued by the support night
after night of so much valuable
citizenry.
DR.. de Bianchi, the Minister
from Portugal, says he has been
in Washington since September,
1888, and has never yet finished a
conversation.
He's tried at lunch. dinner,
cocktail parties and balls-every-
where he goeS-to complete just
one little remark. But no, it is
impossible to do so. Someone al
ways interrupts. not merely his
commonplaces, but his epigrams.
At formal dinner, if by chance
he begins some brilliant thought
on-shall we say the soup?-and
murmurs to the lady on his right,
This soup is superb, this evening,
At other dinners the soup has been
not So" the lady on his right
has turned to the gentleman on
her right.
One of those moments has come
when for no reason at all, formal
dinner goes in the opposite direc-
tion. Everyone at the table stops
being as charming as possible
with the partner at hand looks
quickly the other way and begins
talking over the shoulder to some
one else.
Perhaps" we suggested, 1--WE
were seated in the pleasant draw
ing room of the Norwegian Le-
CATION at one of the many fare
wells for the Baron and Baroness
Beck -Friis - incidentally being
seated at a cocktail party was
something of triumph) )-"per-
haps, if you based your converse
tion on a higher and more educa-
tional theme you might have
more luck. Why not try tn e
TVA?" ,.
The Portuguese Minister bright
ened quickly. ....
r"I should like indeed to talk
about the TVA," he said. 1T has
always seemed to me to be a
gigantic enterprise, and m mus t
have splendid results in develop
ing the country around"
"Oh, how do you do, Mr.. Min
iSter," said large lady bounding
into the conversation. Have you
had a nice winter or has"
Maybe the Constitution isn't as
popular an Old Grey Mare as she
used to be. ...
SO i, it would seem in Mont
gomery county, which, as you
know, isn't too far from the
Capital of the United States:
The Montgomery County Wo,
mems Club discovers this as a
shock, as it prepares to stage
a forum on March 16. Donald
Richberg will speak on this occa
sion on Constitutional Remedies
and Pink Pills"
Somebody will debate with Mr..
Richberg at the end of his speech,
if that somebody can be found
But-MrS. Raymond Clapper
who so happily kidnaps other
speakers for the Montgomery
county meetings, has asked more
than so leading citizens to de,
fehd the Constitution from Mr.
Richberg'S insinuations. Every
one of them has about answered
9SI-a khiC.