The Washington times., 1936-02-12

A Yankee aith q Rot-too.StOeet
outlook on life sdS 3itst returned
to his home after q tDeek'S stay
tn WdShfnqt0fl. He has tDrttteI
for me THIS sometimes startling
btyd'&ege Uieir Of the city on the
Potomac:
WaslA1stou was located along
the swan1ps # the Potomac as
TIE result Of a ohty compromise
growing dnt Of speculation over
the currency emitted by the Con.
tinental Congress- during the rev.
oiutionary Wer.
That deal gave the nation Q
metaphor: Not worth a continerf
tai; and Washington q tone.
For this is the place where the
politician is ever willing 70 give
you something that doesn't belong
to him in return for something
that never belonged to you.
Washington has a bad climate
and good oysters, innumerable
widows in search of husbands and
Q raison d'etre, thousands Of
Negroes who preserve a sense Of
humor in an essentially humor.
less town, endless clerks with
cafeteria minds and legislators
who owe their eminence to the
fact that they have no minds
ct all.
Washington has some lovely
debutantes whose figures are
among the few realities in little
world Of sham, sound two-dimen.
sional men like the Vice President
and the Commissioner Of Patents
who swing from nothingness to
nothingness in an intellectual
void against a God d-bleSs-our.h home
background.
Also in Washington are New
Dealers guilty of the ultimate i'm.
morality of arouSing expectations
that they can't fulfill, retired
lobbyists who sometimes do the
only graceful thing in their lives
by dying in time for the Sunday
editions, hordes of newspaper men
playing BoSwells to pontifical
boreS.
Ambitious ladies who manage to
conduct salons in the manner Of
Q provincial Madame de Etael sans
style; the, tomb Of the Unknown
Soldier whose party affiliations
have never been discovered and
whose memory is treasured up for
q life beyond the bonus.
Lambent blue light over snowy
fields on sunny afternoons of
winter, and rows of Georgian
houses In Georgetown sheltering
old ladies who would "be found
dead" with scarcely anyone now
alive. .-.
4 Z
Would you be a success In
Washington?
II you are a man come to town
with a white tie and an empty
head.
There is nothing new in this but
It will work. If you don't believe
it look around. Maybe you have
q successful man in your own
home. s
Twenty-Five hundred years be.
fore Jouett Shouse began playing
Spartacus to the American slaves,
q Chinese poet wrote:
! through ignorance having
wrecked my life
Hope that my son will be igno.
rant and stupid
And crown tranquil life
BY becoming a cabinet minister.
AAx
# you are a woman who would
like to be a success in Washing.
ton you need primarily an atten.
tive ear and an adoring eye.
These cardinal properties will
not be harmed by a few good
evening gowns Il suggest Won
net; even a Senator is bewidered
by artfu, simplicity and by
the time he has untangled their
relationship he is your slave).
A wistfully degage air also will
be useful if you are a woman.
And perfumes that suggest over.
tones of languorous melancholy
and a vague unrest.
Even Cabinet members have
been moved to act on the theory
that beauty can do no wrong.
And it is only in the triumph
Of feminine minds over wooden
masculine matter that Washing
ton faithfully mirrors the coun.
try Of which it is supposed to be
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