The Washington times., 1936-05-02
NOW
Here and There
In Capital
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" BY HELEN ESSARY
rODAY-DISCOVERIES OF

GODAx-DxSCOV va
THE PAST WEEK
The Portuguese Minister, DR..
de Bianchi, has a motion picture
camera which Hollywood PROBES
SIGNALS think is pretty fine. :: {.
When Mrs. June Fickel, the
Democratic organizer, starts from
Washington tomorrow on lee
turing tour of the Farm Belt, she
win take little Danny Fickel, 2
months old, under her arm.
When Mrs. Fickel's grandparents
travelled West they carried their
children in a covered wagon.
Senator Hugo Black Of Ala
bama, the Senate'S most excit.
able investigator. has the lowest
telephone branch number OF the
il. Senate. Senator Denis Chavez OF
New Mexico, who delivered gro
ceries to help pay for his youth
full education, has the highest.
Madame Peter, wife Of the
Swiss Minister, is pretty and
witty and one of the very incest
people in Washington Ma
dame SEE, wife of the Chinese Am.
bassador, always wears the dress
Of her own country at formal &C.
casions in the Embassy and as
guest of honor in other places.
The 6ogwood at Battery Terrill,
the home Mr.. and Mrs. Charles H.
TompkinS built about the Civil
War fort, is almost the finest
nearby and will be at its best for
its annual party tomorrow. Mrs.
Henry Couzens, wife of the Sen
ator from Michigan, is one OF the
most popular of the senatorial
wives. She has rare wisdom and
kindness.
All that I hear about the coming
simple and intelligent gathering
Of the Associated Country Women
Of the World endears me to us
good delegates.
TO Washington will travel on
June / a thousand of these women
from all over the world on tner
Butter and Egg Money.
Some Of them will come in cross
country buses and day coaches.
Some in suites on ocean liners.
And some in tourist third.
Arrived here, many will live IN
tents in tourist camps. Others In
big hotels.
But, however they come, Wash
ington considers their meeting one
of the most important in the
spring deluge Of conventions.
The farm women aren't coming,
you see, to praise the patriotism
Of their ancestors or to crate on
fantastic themes.
They are coming-in their Sun
day clothes-from as far away as
South Africa, Australia, New Zea-
land and India and as close by as
the Rockville Pike, just to talk
things over.
They want to find out in a sort
Of q neighborly way what otner
farm women of the world are up
to. They represent good pioneer
stock, whatever language they
speak.
So sympathetic to this type Of
women are the Big Folks in Wash
ington that organizations OF DIS
tinguished Citizens. who some
times work contrariwise to each
other, are rushing to help in the
entertainment.
Mrs. Roosevelt, Mrs. Henry Nor
genthau, jr., Mrs. Henry A. wal
lace, representatives Of all foreign
embassies, Mrs. Wilbur j. Carr.
wife Of the Assistant Secretary OF
state and banquet chairman, the
General Federation Of Women's
Clubs, the Young Women's Chris
tan Association, the League OF
Women Voters, peace societies,
national defense organizations, Re
publican and Democratic organlza-
tons, and church people are go
ing to unite in beautiful amity and
hospitality to the Country Women.
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At the Fellowship Banquet at
the Willard on June 6, the Farm
Women have been asked to wear
not evening dresses which might
. possibly tax their finances, but
simply summary clothes, the sort
they wear to church sociables back
home.
= Washington women will receive
many of the strangers in their
homes as guests, so that they may
learn how Americans live.
Pleasant AfterthOught
I shall long remember the we'd
ding Of the lovely Mariana Ar
mour Dunn and Count Guy de
BailletLatour-the solemn and
beautiful nuptial mass at st. Mat.
thew's Church, the charming
house Of Mr.. and Mrs. James
Clement Dunn, the garden bright
with flowers, gypsy music and
VienneSe waltzeS drifting over
lilac bushes and all the amusing
and best dressed people in town
happy in the atmosphere of TO
nance and perfect hospitality.
Attention, Beautiful Ladies!
Those figured and lowered
dresses look spring-timey and gay
but they kill individuality. Only q
vivid personality can emerge un
dimmed from their spots and
freckleS.
Sometimes a hat and bag, &C
centing the sharpest color of the
print, will save the costume. But