The Washington times., 1936-03-18
NOW
HOW Mr.. Roper
Got That 'C
DISCOVERIES
By HELEN ESSARY

q day-you see printed the
names-"Daniel c. Roper" and
''MrS. Daniel C. Roper"
And if by chance you write for
Q newspaper and leave out the
&C" your copy reader will briSkly
say:
what about that middle
lnitiaI?"
AS a matter of fact the &c"
doesn't actually belong to the
Secretary of Commerce. He put
It there himself one. desperate
time. There was another Dan
Roper in his town with whom he
too often got confused.
That isn't all. The &C" doesn't
stand for anything. Neither
Charles, nor Christopher, nor
Columbus, nor Claude.
It is merely the letter in the
alphabet that the Secretary of
Commerce once thought would
sound best between Dan and
Roper.
It may be, of course, that the
&C" Mr.. Roper picked up was the
one Mr.. Calvin Coolidge lost.
When the thirtieth President Of
the United States was a boy in
Vermont he was Calvin C.. Cool.
idge on the Sunday school rec
ord. Later he dropped the middle
initial because he thought plain
Calvin Coolidge had a distin-
guished air.
This reminds me of a perfectly
absurd discovery a friend Of ours
once made about Mr.. Coolidge.
She went to a dairy to pay her
milk bill and found the manager
suffering over a line in his &C.
count book.
The dairy, it seemed. had &C
quired a new order clerk. A SIM
pie young thing with her way yet
to make.
Going over her bookkeeping
that morning, the manager had
discovered jotted down-in pencil
the statement:
&C. Coolidge, 1900 Pennsyl-
vania Avenue, 16 quarts daily"
Architecture Has It's Moods.
The new Archives Building is the
most Secretive looking of the hand
some collection of Government
buildings the Republicans started
Just in time to turn over to the
Democrats. In IL en- or m u S
vaults, where no single ray of
Gods sunshine will ever intrude,
Is the story Of this nation and this
Government.
The story is not complete in all
details because until recently We
took no adequate care of our rec
ords. During the AZ years ending
in 1915, there we're $50 fires on
Government property in Washing
ton.
Naturally not all records escaped
unscathed. Also, stamp collectors.
autograph hunters and plain un-
titled thieves got in some deadly
work among the records!
Discoveries:
Fortunate people who stop in at
the Albert w. Atwoods' during
their Sunday afternoons" covet
an old fruit painting, hanging
over a Colonial sideboard and
glowing in the light Of tall white
candelabra.
John Adams once owned the
painting and hung it in the White
House. Later it was found in the
Octagon House where it stayed for
many years until it was rescued
by Charles Francis Adams Mrs.
William G. Gwynne has nine ra'
dioS in her Georgetown house,
plus one on her sons sleeping
porch. Yet she looks serene and
lovely. She says that if you let
your family follow its own inclina-
tions, it is too occupied and happy
to cause parent any disturbance.
Norwegian delicacies!
Perhaps you will meet them
some day when the Minister and
Madame Morgenstierne give a
party.
FirSt-lifSe- which comes in
round sheets and is perfectly de-
licious with gytost (goat cheese) .
Lifse is now so popular in Wash
ington that a local store is i'm
porting it. Gifse is a flat po-
tato bread and is made from
mashed potato and baked on top
of a flat SurfaceO
KrumkakeS are scroll-like-rich
and bad for the figure.
Fattigman bakles, poor mans
cake, is the Norwegian doughnut.
It is made of flat cakes, cut razor
thin and fried in very hot deep
fat. The cakes curl in all sorts
Of fascinating shapes.
From an English correspondent
comes this observation:
A. P. Herbert, formerly Of
"Punch," the first professional
tumorist to enter the English Par.
lament and an assiduous reader
of the Congressional Record, pro,
poses that no divorces be granted
in England until a couple have
lived together for five years.
T,,cA 1ryIoapo fhA institution of