The Washington times., 1936-04-17
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Legal Lotteries
Spoil Fun
WAITS WIN
By HELEN EsSARY

S@A@Ss S@SSA0 S~A@N~ w SS~@S~~~o w.
now awaits the Daughters of tn
American Revolution.
Here is a favorite story o
Senator Joseph T. Robinson o
Arkansas.
The hero is a gentleman from
st. Joe. The unhappy fellow, s.
Senator Robinson says, had beel
sued for divorce by his wife ol
grounds Of cruelty and incom
patibility. Robinson related:
"TO prove that the charges
were without justification, the
Arkansas defendant told friends
Of his unusual kindness to his
wife. He was always consider
ate, the st. Joe man declared.
Every night during a recent
cold spell he had brought the
Ak in and stood it by the
fireplace so that the cold han
die would not chill his wife'S
hands when she cut the break
fast wood.
"He exhibited their store bill.
He had allowed her to buy 25
cents worth Of soap every three
weeks. He said he had 'batched'
for three years before he was
married the last time and that
rs cents was more than he had
spent for soap in the entire three
years.
"A year earlier when his wife
threatened to leave him unless
he quit tobacco he had advanced
her S1.5O for q new dress to win
her back. To humOr her whimS
he had consented that the dogs
be excluded from the fireplace
room excens on the coolest
nights. when his wife was laid
up last summer by q fall from
. hay wagon he had MIXED the
cows himself and aiken the hoe
and kept { e garden free from
weeds.
"He hopes his next wife will
be more appreciative of kind
ness"
Imitation, my DEAR" said q
woman newly come to Washing.
tom who had dined about ap-
parently too often, but not too
well. Limitation. indeed"
''It isn't coming. It's here.
Just look around this room, I"
and she glared ut her dinner
partner as she tOyed with her
brandy.
The proposals to legalize lot
teries in this country are havinI
tough Shedding. And quite pror
er1y, In my opinion, because ther
would not be any fun in a lega
lottery.
We enjoy buying chances in tn
Irish Sweepstakes simply becaus
we not only like to get somethin
for nothing, but we can never los
all for the reason that we enjo
the thrill of doing the illegal o
forbidden.
Do you remember how mucl
fun we had in the good old pre-
hibition days when we bougn
liquor ''just off the boat" fror
furtive gentlemen who had jus
distilled it IN Baltimore, and no,
we retailed to each other storie
Of our clever strategems in out
whiting the law? =
BY all means, let us linger on i
cur illegaHty. 1t is one of the fe'
pleasures left in a depressed an
morbid world.
Mrs. RooSevelt'S grandfathe,
who was named Theodore, wa
responsible for founding the fir
orthopedic hospital in New Yor
City. She herself tells the Stor
Of how it seemed impossible to il
tArest people in this cause. He
grandfather had an inspired idea
He asked New York'S smar
wealthy people in to a reception
When the dining-room doors wei
opened, little crippled waits frol
the slun1S of New York were thel
to plead their own cause by the
helplessnesS. Thus the funds wei
raised.
Miss Ruth de Forest Lamb who's
book "The Chamber Of Horrors
is q volume of authentic instance
as to why the present food an
drugs act ought to be amended,
small and pretty. She looks not {
all like a crusader. Among tt
suggestions Miss Lamb makes al
that oranges that have their out(
skins cOlored must have the fal
plainly marked upon them. An
that such cans Of anti-fat prepar
tionS as are chiefly sugar an
flour cannot be sold as reducer
Obviously a dangerous Woma
Miss Lamb!
Model Fathers Department:
Mr.. Paul Walker of the Fecer'
Communication Commission flint
time to go to the school affai
in which his two boys are inte
eSted.
Justice Cox of the District
Columbia Supreme Court bench
another exemplary father WI