The Washington times., 1936-07-07
NOW
BrOiLed Bonita
Tasty Dish
SPECIAL HAM
By HELEN ESSARY

I'm a slow thinking woman. Il
has just occurred to me that the
reason some people are so anxious
to get to the White House and tt
stay there after they arrive, il
that it is such an agreeable place
to live.
This brilliant idea came at lunch
time yesterday. l was one OF sew
eral guests invited informally tc
1900 Pennsylvania Ave.
We were seated around small
table on the south portico. Be
low us the lawn stretched green
and sloping to spraying foun
tain.
The air was fragrant with q
faint perfume of roses from the
garden. The setting was serene
beautiful but not oppresslVely
magnificent.
The luncheon food, if one may
talk about what they have to
eat at the White House" had as
it's piece de resistance brollec
bonita, delicious fish, servec
with very thin sliced tomato
ereamed peas and small hot rolls
The bonita is like fresh salmon
This one was sliced from the pig
fish offered Mr.. Roosevelt on his
cruise on the Potomac.
It. is the custom at the Wnite
House nowadays to use personally
much of the food presented to the
President. .;.,or
Mr. Roosevelt is very particular
about what happens to Such pres.
ents, Not long ago somebody gave
him a terrapin. one OF the sort
that helped make Maryland COOK
ing famous. ...
The White House cook thought
It was just another turtle and put
it in the soup pot. This mace Mr.
Roosevelt very cross.
His epicurean imagination had
already pictured the terrapln
stewed by a Chesapeake Bay
recipe.
One of the presents from the
last trip into Virginia was a
Smithfield ham. Mr.. Roosevelt
asked that this ham should not
be touched by anyone in the White
House. 1t is being saved until ne
and 1.-The boys" go on the family
cruise the last of this month off
the Maine coast.
THIS CHANGING WORLD
Sign on secondhand furniture
store on New Jersey Avenue:
"The Re-Deal Furniture Com.
parry"
Listed until recently in tele.
phone book as New Deal Furniture
Company Must have got mad
at jim Farley.
Adv. in Kansas City Star:
mild, mental, elderly cases
RECEIVED. Best Home, Kansas
Highway No. TO-"
Seems the Prairie States CAM
take it.
Conversation, arty and intense,
overheard in the moonlight-ot
all places.
She: "Classic architecture as
it is used en- maSse in Washing
ton / find definitely fatiguing.
In the first place, / do not find
the Doric columns provocative"
He: "YOu are quite right, my
sweet. The Corinthian is far
more aggressive"
Synonym-As polite as a taxi
driver looking for a fare.
Observed on the way to Balti-
more the stuff that automobile
accidents are made Of
Seated on his fathers knee, a
dear, dear little two-year-old baby
guides the steering wheel while
the car wobbles from one side OF
Rhode Island Avenue to the other
and enraged drivers honk horns
and swear.
A sporting character beats the
= railroad train to the crossing
while the alarm bell clangs and
the barrier closes slowly down.
This column feels that it ought
to report on the true political sit
uation in this country as discov.
cred by it's privately conducted and
reliable poll
A Virginia gentleman now in
Washington says that his State
will go entirely for Landon as the
Virginians are completely fed up
with the New Deal.
A Washington gentleman motor
ing through Virginia writes that
never before in it's history has Vir,
ginia been so anti-Republican MI
Roosevelt will carry every county
A worthy friend from Omaha
believes that this Administration
treatment of the farmer has def
nitely lost the Middle West to the
Republicans.
A farmer correspondent in Iowa
says that the Republicans Farm
Program is no good. It has in
creased the Roosevelt strength in
the Middle West by 500 per cent.
A club woman in California feels
that the women of this country
will vote for Roosevelt. They
trust his superb leadership.
The women of the country are
flocking to Landon, declares q
club woman from upper New York
State. They want to be governed
by an average citizen of the Coco
Provider type.
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