The Washington times., 1936-07-31
NOW F.
Husbands Seek
COOkbOOkS
BUT S-S-SH!
BY HELEN ESSARY

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sonal runs on the public libraries
cookbooks.
This fact developed only after
discreet inquiries at four branches
Of the Public Library.
!. You see, there are lots Of
neglected husbands who don't
want 1t known that they are taking
q fling in the cookbook market.
They'd rather eat raw bacon, gran
lite eggs and black toast than let
anybody suspect that they are
neglected or failures as summer
housekeepers.
So. in an effort to protect their
patrons, the librarians and the
assistant librarians kept referring
my inquiries on the cookbook and
husband theme to other librarians,
most of whom seemed to be on
vacation.
Finally I got one pleasant per
son who told me a little about
hungry husbands in the summer,
providing-I wouldn't try to "fer-
ret out anybody'S name"
y A man who wants to borrow a
cookbook because his family is
away eating heartily at a big
hotel and his cook is taking a
holiday, is usually self-conscious.
He doesn't barge into a library
and roar in a big voice, Bring
on the cook books"
He approaches the desk with
hanging head and shifting eyes.
He trembleS. In a hoarse voice
he begins a rambling converse
ton. About books at large. The
New Deal. Sunburn. The
weather. Food in hot weather.
Finally he reaches what food in
hot weather. Only by the great
est tact can a t1oSt sympathetic
librarian discover what he wants.
When she gets the poor, fright
ened creature his book, he puts it
well under his arm. And sinks
out Of the library, bound for his
happy home and its Sinkful Of un-
washed dishes.
Big Chief Thunder Bull will soon
come to town.
That claim of the Sioux Indians
against the Government Of the
United States for money owed
them on land in the Black Hills
will be one of the first cases taken
up by the United States Court Of
Claims at its fall session. Il.
Big Chief Thunder Bull, tribal
counselor and distant relative of
Sitting Bull, threatened last week
to sell the Black Hills to Canada
because the Federal Government,
he said, broke a hundred-year-old
treaty with the Sioux. This treaty
guaranteed to the Indians one
third of all the wealth taken from
the Black Hills.
Mr.. william Zimmerman laughed
at Thunder Bulls idea. But he
does think definitely that the
Sioux have claims that should be
listened to attentively.
The Black Hills country Is rich
in mineral deposits Gas well as IN
Coolidegean summer White House
tradition). From the famous
Homestake Silver Mine many
great fortunes have been made.
Most of the Indians in the
Black Hills are now desperately
poor. They live in the worst sort
of rural slums. In tumble down
houses, ragged tents and dugouts.
When the United States made
a treaty with the Black Hills In
dams, prospectors were already in
the territory. Canada, which
seemed an agreeable landlord to
Thunder Bull, has better record
for treatment of Indians than the
United States. Breaking treaties
with Indians was once the favorite
sport Of this Government.
When asked the Court Of
Claims this morning about the
''Indian claim against the Gov.
ernment," the assistant clerk OF
the court said:
WHICH CA8AAAS we VO SVO 80
or 80 waiting to come up"
Met pretty Julia SEE, daughter
of the Chinese Ambassador and
Nine. SEE, on her way to summer
school at George washington Uni
versity. She had a big pile OF
books in her arms and looked like
an American schoolgirl. The en-
bassy has moved to Blue Ridge
Summit. Miss SEE. who wants to
enter the senior class at Cornell
University, where her father was
graduated, is staying in Wash
tngton.
When you are riding along the
Speedway in. the moonlight with
your own best girl, or somebody
else's, you probably don't recall
that the neighborhood used to be
called "The Flats" For genera
tons ''The Flats" were curse.
DR.. William H. Thornton, archi-
tect of the Capitol, had planted
willows in the sand deposited there
by the Potomac River. The shall
lows were soon a clogged swamp.
When Andrew Jackson looked
from his bare White House toward
the river for inspiration, he saw
crows pecking at the refuse on the
X back waters. Not very long ago,
when 1.-THE Flats had become a
menace to health, the Government
drained them. Transformed mud
into rose beds, tennis courts, base