The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-10-03

ton to Ottawa
And then hide ID
In shame under Mrss Key
their great-aunt's davenport.
Mr.. Key, who has been assistant
director of current information
in the State Department, was re-
Gently assigned to a new post as
second secretary to the American
Embassy and consul at Ottawa.
Mrs. Key thereupon determined
to begin the family life in Can
ada at 8 o'clock last Monday.
She selected by long distance
phone their new house. Ordered
it cleaned and opened by 7 o'clock
Monday morning. Ordered the
gas and electricity and water
turned on at 1880 Monday.
At 8 o'clock exactly, as the
trucks containing the household
goods of the Keys drew up in
front of their new residence Git
was in Mrs. Keys contract that
they should, Mr.. and Mrs. Key
and their three children arrived
on the front door step, having
breakfasted on the overnight
train.
The new cook and housemaid
welcomed them smiling. At $50
the children started for the school
selected in advance by Mrs. Key.
At 9 Mr.. Key departed for his
new office.
While the cook was doing the
marketing, Mrs. Key and the
housemaid supervised the unpack-
ing of the furniture. BY noon
everything was in it's place. A
household had been set up and
was already running smoothly in
a strange country. And it was
three days ahead of october first,
the great American moving day!
Mrs. Key is young and lovely,
as well as so efficient. But she in
herited her talent for moving
from a life in the Army. Her
father is Gen. William Wright
and lives in Georgetown. Mr..
Key, likewise, has had an unset
tied past.
Born in Tokyo, where his
father was stationed as admiral
of the American fleet, he came
home to study at Groton and
Harvard. Then to Cambridge
University in England. Soon
thereafter he entered the Marine
Corps. Later the Foreign Service
and was stationed at Berlin, Ant
werp and London before he came
to washington.
The new Polish ambassador,
Count jerry Potocki, is back from
Baltimore, where he opened an
exhibition of Polish art and
handicraft at the Baltimore Mu-
scum of Art.
more was obviously
charmed to greet the ambassador
on his first public appearance in
this country. A large audience
listened to him in English, then
in Polish.
The mayor of Baltimore, it
seems, wore dinner clothes in a
gesture of hospitality. There we're
bands and flowing banners, SOL
diers in gold braid, ETC., motor
cycle escorts. A large part Of
Baltimore, sympathetically Polish,
was delighted with the celebra-
ton.
Good Heavens. here it is time
for the fall celebration of STRAIT
ford Hall! On Monday afternoon,
october IL, many patriots will
drive down to the Lee Mansion
in Virginia and take part in the
Sixty-sixth anniversary of the
death of Gen. Robert E. Lee.
The directors of the Lee Memo
rial Foundation will already be at
the old place. They will emerge
from their delightful cabins, built
like the old slave quarters and
welcome visitors.
Dictators and Presidents may
come and go, as indeed they do.
But George Washington had more
real gumption than any other
man in the history books.
It was in his contract with his
head gardener, so Bruce Aitchison
tells me, that the gardener was to
be allowed six days out of the year
in which to get drunk, but no more
under penalty of being fired.
Mr.. and Mrs. Bruce Kremer who
bought Mulberry Grove in Charles
county, Md. where John Hanson
used to live, are going to use cop
per under wood when they REBUILD
the mansion. Twice Mulberry
Grove has been destroyed by fire
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