The Washington times., 1936-09-04
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thrilling Items
On Farming
RED MYSTERY
BY HELEN ESSARY

down in his home State has its
delicate moments.
His friend, Jim Simpson, out
one day last week rounding up
the Democratic vote, met an old
mountaineer, and said:
"Of course, you're gOin' to
vote for Roosevelt"
"Well, I don't see no use,
Jim, in bringing out Rippibli-
cin."
why Roosevelt is a Demo
craft"
Wasn't him ar01 Taft Presi-
dents together Once?"
you're thinking of Theodore
Roosevelt. He's dead"
la! Jim, don't ever let that
out"
A vulgar journalistic contempt
rary sent this with discouraged
sigh:
you just never know what
to expect. I went over to the
Republican National Headquar-
tiers and asked for the itinerary
of the Princess CantacuZene,
who is Stumping for LandOn.
They said, No sir, they would
not give me a list of her stops.
"Then / heard about the me-
chanical COW the Agriculture
Department is sending around
to county fairs. 1 asked for its
itinerary and got it.
(which, my dear, led me to
believe that the party in power
isn't coy about its mechanical
cow"
Further proof that the Agri-
culture Department is on its toes.
AS sweet and soothing contrast
to the disturbing news from most
ASiatic and European nelghbor-
hoods, Commissioner Dawson has
radiogrammed this happy omen to
the Agriculture Department:
1.-THE combined Chinese and
Manchurian production of oil
seeds is expected to be sub
Stantially larger than last year."
This would seem to indicate that
there is enough oil to smooth out
troubled diplomacy. The oil bean
crop, if you are as hazy on such
subjects as I was, includes soy
beans sesame, peanuts, cotton,
rape hemp, pernilla, and linseed.
While on the subject of less we'll
known farm items, I might as well
pass on other recent discoveries in
this field.
It is distinctly untrue that the
Jerusalem artichoke is a poor
land crop"
Since reading leaflet 16 of the
Bureau of Plant Industry, I also
know something about Calama-
groStiS epigejoS. I now never con-
fuse it with LaSiagroStiS SplendenS,
as many persons do.
Well aware am I that the former
Is sometimes enormously called
"Chee" grass, which title properly
belongs only to the latter.
Late Vacation Note
Mrs. Henry P. Erwin (Helen
Blodgett) and Mrs. David st.
Pierre Gaillard Mona Blodgett)
have a joint ownership in their
childhood home on Mackinac
Island and manage the process
with sweet reasonableness.
One sister takes the island one
year, the other the next.
This year it is Mrs. Erwin's
turn at Mackinac.
The Gaillards are at Gibson
Island. There the three young
Gaillards have taken to the Chesa-
peake as enthusiastically as their
father took to the sea when his
father, at work at the Panama
Canal, was putting through the
Culebra Cut.
Other Gibson Islands, who swear
that there are no mosquitoes and
never a sea nettle to spoil their
fun on the Bay. are the Corrin
Strongs and Walter Guys. The
new house Of the Guys is fasci-
mating place.
It's guests rooms have recently
been occupied by Col. and Mrs.
Richard Dear and Richard Dear,
jr., a senior at the University of
Pennsylvania. Colonel Dear, now
the medical officer at Fort Belvoir,
is the famous Dick Dear who once
broke the worlds record as a col
lege runner.
Oh, Miss Perkins!
Secretary of Labor Frances
Perkins has a paperweight on her
desk which looks like a golf ball
teed up.
Sometimes during a press con-
ference she plays with it. Turns
it round and round absentmindr
edly.
It was at one of these times
that a woman reporter, given to
irrelevant thoughts during Sc
rious moments, noticed the
smudge of red on the middle fin
ger of Miss Perkins left hand,
wondered if the mark had been
left by red ink or by smoothing
on lip rouge!
Pistols for two, probably, will
follow this letter.
Dear Helen Essary:
1 see no reason for your re-
cent criticism of King Edward
VIII or what he does with his
golf balls.
He has quite as much right
L. nHanaad hin crn1f