The Washington times., 1936-03-21
BY HELEN EssAR--

tial desk are a big brown desk
blotter, a thermos water jug and
four glasses, a nodernistic elec
trio desk lamp, Government re
ports and books (including the
Congressional Directory.
Also a marble desk set with
two fountain pens, a glass vase
with a dozen fresh roses in it
an open package of cigarettes, a
cigarette lighter, half a dozen
ash trays, several penny boxes
Of matches, scissors, a letter
opener, half a dozen pencils
Other odds and ends include his
political menagerie"-a whit
cloth elephant. a gray velvet
donkey, a small burro, a gaily
painted wooden mule, a small
metal squirrel and a blue china
rooster.
Westinghouse:
Mayflower guest inspired BY
crowds going to Mrs. Townsend's
Musical, remarked to cigarette
girl:
''My wife'S from the same Cali.
fOrnia town as DR.. Townsend.
Shell be so pleased to see how
much money the old man is
taking in here"
Patron in one of Washington s
Seafood places:
"Waiter, these are very small
oysters. And they aren't as
good as they ought TO be-"
Waiter.
'eYessir it's fine they are so
small then, isn't it sir?"
We are adopting the European
custom of bestowing the title Of
doctor not only upon doctors OF
medicine but also on doctors. Of
philosophy, an academic decora'
ton 7hich always used to throw
me into panic until I saw a list
of these submitted in various
Americ.r r. universities for the doc
torate.
One profound scholar in a mid
Western university wrote an essay
of 200 pages proving that sugar
is put into ice cream to sweeten it
II you don't believe it, see Flex
ner's English, German and Amer
lean Universities" and go out fol
Q doctors degree yourself.
Mrs. Harry Wallace Blair, wife
of the Assistant Attorney General
who, as Emily Newell Blair, is 9
writer OF distinction, keeps 8
diary. Each conversation or event
of Importance that comes to hel
personal notice she records ano
comments on in very private lit
tie book.
Georgetown, settled in its aris
tocratic ways before Washington
was born, is staging a remarkable
s. exhibit on April Is, Is and IT
Inherited treasures-choice pieces
Of furniture, silver, portraits
manuscripts, china-that once be
longed to the families who
founded the old town, will be or
display at the Parish Hall Of
Christ Church. Debutante de
scendants of those who began
Georgetown will tell the histories
Of the exhibits.
What are among the most
thrilling moments of life?
I put this question to a highly
Intelligent, well-traveled man oi
the world. He answered without
o moments hesitation:
"The split second in the
theater before the curtain
rises; the sight of ones first
tropical island rising green out
of the sea after q long lonely
passage; moonlight on the
AcrOpOlis at Athens; and my
Wife'S look Of pleased surprise
at the hat brought her from
Paris"
Remarkable wife. I should say
Drowned Out" old subscriber
near Hancock, Md, writes to say
you've had a little trouble
with the flood down in Wash.
fngtOn. Suppose the Capital
had been located at Hancock.
The Potomac has almost
washed us away up here. May
be you don't know that during
the second session of the Con-
gress Of the United States a
proposition was made to fix
the residence of the United
States Government within 80
miles Of Hancock town. This
was not agreed to. Hancock,
you know was the most west
ern point voted on during the
discussion as to the site Of the
National Capital. Hancock lies
ON a narrow strip Of Maryland
between Pennsylvania and Vir-
ginia State lines. If the Capt.
t0I Building had been put any
where near where / live, the
floods would have washed out
both oratOry and investiga-
tiOn."