The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-04-11
NOW
Rare Loyalty to
A Queen
WORM SIGNALS
By HELEN ESSARY

By HELEN ESSARY
The American Ambassador tt
the Court Of st. James and Mrs
Robert Worth Bingham have pre-
Sented to Stratford, the Lee man
sion in Virginia, a portrait OF
Queen Caroline, wife Of George II
Of England, done by Charles Jer'
vas, an English painter.
The painting, sent recently from
London, has just been hung in
Stratford Hall. Visitors to the fine
old mansion in WeStmoreland
county at the time of the annual
meeting of the Robert E. Lee
Memorial Foundation on May y
will have a chance to see the
canvas and discuss the reasons
for its presentation to Stratford.
There's a romantic story OF 10y
atty to q queen in the beginnings
of Stratford. Thomas Lee, who
built the mansion, was so faithful
to the cause of Queen Caroline
that he enraged certain Vlr-
ginians. These indignant Colonlsts
burned down Mount Pleasant
Thomas Lees first American home.
Queen Caroline, distressed at
this incident, sent Thomas Lee
E20O ''for his services to the crown. =
It is supposed that this sum was
used to buy a grant for Stratford.
Thomas Lees six sons fought
in the Revolutionary War, quite
obviously against George III, the
son of the queen to whom their
father had been so extensively
loyal.
Traffic confusion.
Traffic signals for earth worms
are contrary to traffic signals for
the two-legged worms who infest
highways. An earthWorm, says
the Department of Agriculture,
will emerge from his burrow If a
red light is trained on his eyes.
A blue light will cause him to turn
and crawl backwards in the gen.
eral direction of China.
This information is nice to know
for the fishing and gardening
season is upon us.
Mrs. Roosevelt came into a
press conference the other day
with her petticoat showing. And
she, one of the IL best dressed
women in the United States!
It wasn't the kind of a petticoat
the spring models wear-rusthng
ruffled taffeta. Just a simple old
fashioned slip-like yours and
mine.
It was a Observation-Disclosures
likewise a comforting sight. Sort
Of a Presidents Lady and Judy
O'Grady are sisters under the
skin motif. s@r''
The Supreme Court will be
crowded Monday morning with
people awaiting decisions on i'm
portant laws. Why, I wonder, will
the crowds be there.
Will it be to watch the court
doing valse macabre about the
body Of the Administration? To
have their prejudices soothed? Or
their hopes realized? To see his
tory in the making?
Or, in a pickering world, to
revel in the comfort Of knowing
that there still exists one body Of
men to whom one can't talk back
or talk down?
Attention-SocietieS for the Elk
tension of Virtue and Puritanism!
There's bill before Congress
now to provide pension for the
man who abolished polygamy and
slavery in the Philippines. Gov
ernor Carpenter, who started as
an enlisted man and who was the
last and only civilian governor Of
the island region which now con-
Stitutes five free provinces, is the
man for whom the pension is being
asked.
Governor Carpenter persuaded
the Sultan of Sulu Ia mythical
comic opera figure to mel to give
up all claims to temporal SOW
ereignty in the Philippines" In
exchange the Sultan was made
the ecclesiastical head of the Mo-
hammedanS in the Philippines
providing that the Mohamme-
dams obeyed the same religious
laws as other United States Or
Plantations" This last phrase
was the joker in the treaty. It
barred both polygamy and slavery.
It was just about this time of
the year when the rush of official
entertaining is mostly over that
Chief Justice of the Supreme Court
Hughes used to say when he was
Secretary of State:
''ThiS is the time of year when
I cease dining for my country"
A guiding thought of a blind
Senator, Thomas P. Gore, is this
remark of his fathers:
"A handicapped horse always
puts everything he has got into
his run-he knows he has to-"
A visitor from West Virginia