The Washington times., 1936-02-17
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Famous Errors
Of SOci1Lites
WHO'S HOST?
BY HELEN ESSARY

ny HELEN ESOhN1
It was Immediately after We
had spilled a large, loose, spoon
ful Of strawberry shortcake on
the fragile doilie and the inlaid
Viennese table of the Austrian
Legation dining room that Ma.
dame .Prochnik, wife of the Aus
trian Minister, gracefully turned
the conversation to other peoples
party manners.
She ; we'll remembered, she
said, what happened once when
her Aunt Edith asked the Most
Important Man in Town to din
ner. Before the dinner her Aunt
Edith had so addressed the cook:
'AIr. WitheringtOn likes escal-
lOped potatoes. So be sure to
use quantities Of milk,
While Mr.. Witherington was
eating heartily of his special dish,
Aunt Edith noticed a sudden look
of agony on his face. He began
to chew violently. Then he
stopped. Blushed and said. II
beg your pardon" Then with
drew from his distinguished
mouth a nicely Drowned milk
bottle top.
Madame Prochnik's Aunt Edith
thought the cook must have
dropped the top in the baking
dish when she was adding the
extra milk.
Another luncheon guest at the
Austrian Legation recalled the
time when the members of the
British Bar were being enter
tanned at the home of Frank J.
Hogan, and the waiter upset a
large platter of ham floating in
champagne sauce down the back
Of the biggest British jurist pres
ent. And how the jurist had to
be led, dripping with sauce, to
the bath. where the hose was
turned on him and he was re-
clad in one of Mr.. Hogan'S dinner
suits which didn't fit so well.
aR.. rYa,.,.,, ra,.;oa Txy,.;..l.& od5aS
her bit to such tragic tales. She
said that at large official din
ner, "a bachelor ambassador,
whom she had always revered as
the essence Of correctness, came
UP to her and said:
II am i'm o most horrible pO-
siti0n. You must help me.
have suddenly forgotten the.
names Of my hosts"
The choicest dining-out anec-
dote, we thought, was of the cos
tune a certain beautiful but alb
sent-ninded minister wore one eve
ming. This gentleman, arriving in
a handsome, flower-Scented draw
ing room, was discovered complete
in white tie, Continental grace and
brown bedroom slippers!
After such lighthearted and. to
us, comforting reminiScing, the
talk turned to q famous travelling
American, Thomas jefferson.
Thomas jefferson, you will re-
member If you have been reading
recent campaign speeches, is the
simple Democrat who, Senator
Arthur Vandenberg thinks. may be
invoked in memory to defeat the
New Deal.
The smartest man at the lunch
con table had some refreshing
ideas about the third President Of
the United States. He said:
Jefferson was an odd figure.
He succeeded without benefit Of
the lOg-Cabin tradition, hOg-and-
hominy, or red suspenders. Chief
among the monuments to his
fame are these:
'The University Of Virginia
designed largely from plans he
drew: the statute for religious
liberation in Virginia, which he
wrote, and his correspondence
with French chefs about sauces.
'Tn an age dominated by
Thousand Island dressing it
would be refreshing to turn to .
group Of men whose idol was .
man who mixed sauces with
craftsmanship and went to no
end Of trouble to do it"
Rambling Notes on People:
Young Mrs. william Gibbs Nc
Adoo goes every Tuesday morning
to Mrs. Georgette Ross Howard'S
Current Events Class at the Sui
grave Club. . An enterprise that
interests us tremendously is the
National Library for the Blind.
At the luncheon on Monday, Feb
ruary "a, at the Shoreham, ar.
ranged by Mrs. Thomas P. Gore,
wife Of the blind Senator from
Oklahoma, Mrs. Mabel Walker
Willebrandt, Rev. Paul Sperry and
Mrs. Ross T. Mcintyre will tell Of
the Talking Book and the thou.
sands Of volumes sent from the
National Library to the blind
throughout the United States. +. .
And now a sad note:
Have you seen the fishermen
- A. Hnto,aooo0 TJI1as,. live AIaa