The Washington times., 1936-09-25

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woman, whom
most of Europe
Mrs. Simpson envies, likewise
has several first cousins who help
make the Washington social whirl
60 round.
Among them are Mrs. Newbold
Noyes, her sister, Mrs. Anne Cor
don Suydam, and Miss Frances
Powell Hill, who lives in Alex.
andria, and conducts a real estate
business in washington.
There's a family resemblance
among all the cousins. They've
the same look about their large,
beautiful eyes. And all of them
do their hair the same way
parted in the middle. Drawn
simply back and worn long. And
al Of them have rather wide,
flexible mouths.
Extremely feminine types are
the cousins. Not too tall, with
good figures and definitely at
tractive. And all of them, Mrs.
Noyes, Mrs. Suydam and Miss Hill
have the same soft, deep speak.
ing voice that, in Mrs. Simpson,
20 delights Londoners.
Miss Hill looks astonishingly
like her cousin, Mrs. Simpson.
BaltimoreanS are busy now re.
membering Mrs. Simpson when, as
Wallis Warfield, she lived in
modest house with her mother,
Mrs. I. Freeman Rasin.
I myself am eligible for the II
Knew Her When"
Wallis Warfield wasn't con-
ventionally pretty girl. Not even
when she made her debut at the
Bachelors Cotillion. But she had
personality. She was witty.
Talked amusingly and posi-.
lively. Knew what she wanted
and got it. And was great fun as
q companion.
She lived not far from me in
Baltimore. I remember her par.
ticularly as a girl about Is.
Dressed in a MILDLY blouse and
pleated skirt with a big bow of
black taffeta fastened to her hair
ct the nape of her neck.
And jumping excitedly through
many games of hop scotch on the
pavement in front of her mothers
house.
Some of Mrs. Simpsons Wash.
tngton relatives are making de-
lightful remarks about her. They
wonder if considering wallis royal
Importance, people shouldn't greet
her then with curtseys.
The Harvard Tercentenary has
produced a gem of an absent
minded professor story, so my
friends among the intellegentsia
tell me.
A pluperfect intellectual writing
on the Cambridge station plat.
form was so obviously troubled
that people nearby turned to
stare. He paced up and down
the platform peering about as If
he had lost something.
The train that was to take him
back to his Arkansas campus was
shortly due, when he began toss
ing his baggage around. He or
dered his Redcap to open one
bag and look under another.
81 can't seem to recall" he
said, distractedly, "but there's
something-sOmething 1 feel I
ought to remember"
Then he groaned and all but
sank to the ground:
"Great Aurora BOrealiS! It's
nv wife. I've-I've overlooked
her"
And now I hear that Mrs.
Theodore j. Pickett, Miss Sally"
who was an adored washington
society editor for so many years,
is doing her memoirs of Capital
life.
Politics moves merrily onward.
Charles w. Burkett, head of the
q. o. P. drive to corral New Eng
land farmer votes, was once, so
his biographical sketch in Who's
who says, editor of True Strange
Stories Magazine.
Seventy-five thousand Donkey
Coin Banks were opened yester'
day by groups of Democratic
women in A States It was Ma
tional Roundup Day. The Donkey
Bank idea was initiated a year
ago by the Democratic women's
division. Yesterday was the sec
ond bank opening or roundup.
The average amount OF 81 in
each bank will be pooled. A nice
sum for campaign work!
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