The Washington times., 1936-05-08


have just gathered again under
one roof when the capital was
razed!
= PunctiliOus Though Pillaged
On the same day that the pa
pers were headlining the pillaging
OF the Ethiopian capital came this
{ IN 4 press release from the digni
fled and always accurate State
Department:
~ "The American Minister at
III Adds Ababa, Mr.. Cornelius Van
III. Engert, reported to the De-
partment Of State today, as fol-
lows: May 4, ii q. m. adds
Ababa tfme) 90.
:, Thus with houses disappearing
In smoke and random shots hit
ting round about, the State De
partmentiS representative remem-
bered such details as difference of
time.
Their report stated among other
things:
1--WE nlw have one submachine
gun which by odd coincidence
b Italian. Was brought by pO-
Hceman WHO fled to our COM
pound for protection because he
used to sell Cramp (vice COnSuD
Abyssinian cTiriOs."
Here's the best story on Relief
I've heard since the New Deal
coined the word.
A Pennsylvania woman was
telling her recent life story to the
WPA State director:
There was me and Sam, he's
my husband, and five children.
We didn't have q job. It seemed
like we was an awful lot Of
people to be on relief. So I de-
cided to let Sam go.
"Then the WPA came in style
and got work with them.
There was nobody to leave the
children with while I was away
from home. So / took Sam
back"
Something else I've discovered
about the WPA employment Of
women. 90
Projects specializing in the pro.
duction Of leather packets and
coats made from sheep and COW
hides, which were tanned on FERA
projects, allow no waste. Pieces
Of leather left over from making
the coats of solid color are some
times used to make what are re-
ferrcd to as "crazy quilt sports
jackets"-jackets employing either
o patchwork design or regularly
shaped pieces forming a definite
pattern.
other leftovers are used in the
production Of baby shoes. Rugs
are made from raw wool highly
colored with natural dyes from in
sects and native roots. Platter
modelers are making the "Gate
way of Kish" and restoring to
their original form pottery and
stucco from the ancient city dating
from $500 B. c. to 612 A. D.
No, the workers did not come
from Babylon. They are employees
at the Field Museum in Chicago
Miss Evelyn Peyton Gordon
not long ago the brilliant young
society editor of a local paper
Is finishing a book about Wash
ington. Her story which must
be ready for the publishers or
June !, is certain to have wide
sale. All the Best People will be
rushing out for copies to see how
they are described.
The wives of four Republican
convention figures; Mrs. Arthur
Vandenberg, Mrs. William E
Borah, Mrs. Frederick Steiwel
and Mrs. Hamilton Fish, jr., were
at that very agreeable reception
Mr.. and Mrs. William p. Nc
Cracker gave for the American
Bar Association.
Two Convention Keynoters
Senators Barley and Steiwer
were also there. Their mood at
the moment was pianiSsimo.
Clothes, Masculine and Feminine
Senator John H. Overton. OF
Louisiana, was out in springtime
costume the other day-pale grey
with a black tie and black hand
kerchief. I nominate him as the
best-dreSSed Southern Senator.
Mrs. Mabel Walker Willebrandt
lets her clothes express her pub
lie role. When she was Assistant
Attorney General and bent on
prohibition enforcement, she was
stiff1y starched and tailored and
her manner was uncompromising
After she became counsel for
California beverage company, she
developed u surprise personality
She has now taken to clothes both
feminine and flattering. Her man
ner has changed too. She is more
Vivacious and always looks happy