The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-05-13

ne would make some inquiries on
the subject. With both effort and
anguish he struggled through q
big encyclopedia and thus re-
ported to the voice on the phone:
"The word you want, 1 think,
Is spelt 'paOlO' and 1t means an
ancient Italian COIN"
The delighted answer came:
ooh, thank you. You are such
Q help. Now I can finish my
crossword puzzle"
Since the spring betting season
is on, I should like to take wagers
Tor the title Of the kindest man
In Washington.
I have my own entry for the
race and expect to win hands
down.
My candidate is any one of the
IL angelic gentlemen who eff
GENTLY and miraculoSuly take
down the remarks of Senators
and Congressman and translate
such oratory into understandable
language.
Often I have listened to the ex-
traordinary sentences emerging
from law-making Threats in the
heat Of a debate.
Mem day in the Congressional
Record, the heSitating, involved
phrases have become smooth and
polite.
Undoubtedly, the IL gentlemen,
Official Reporters of the House
and Senate, are the kindest men
In the town.
This reminds me that a news.
paper man who has interviewed
most of the great in Washington
during the past 20 years, says
that any reporter, were his soul
so mean, could ruin any public
official, merely by quoting him
verbatim.
Excess Of Climate in California:
Representative and Mrs. George
Burnham say they are not going
to run for Congressman ever
again. They haven't the strength
to cope with the 1894 California
cults Of politics, religion, art, mu-
sic, ETC., etc.
AS Harry Hopkins, Federal Re
lief Administrator, passed by, the
newspaper man said to the Am
bilious Young Visitor:
There goes q most unfOrtu-
nate fellow. There's q man who
has seen better days. Once he
had four billion dollars. Now
he's lost most of it. No need
to introduce you, my dear"
Signs of the Times:
The wiSteria in washington Is
more beautiful than it has been
In years. The luxuriant vine,
growing over dead tree at the
home Of former Secretary of
State and Mrs. Stimson, and the
gorgeous lavender blossoms that
cover the walls Of the Luttrell
garden at Connecticut Avenue
and Columbia Road are inspira-
ton for Springtime poet.
And the thousand dogwood
trees on Parks Hill, the beautiful
estate Of Mr.. and Mrs. Merle
Thorpe, on the Rockville Pike,
would thrill even a Wordsworth. .
Nellie Tayloe Ross, former COVER
nor of Wyoming and present Di-
rector Of the Mint, when she goes
shopping wonders why the dress
designers use up their best mate
rails in pajamas and negligeeS
and save dull fabrics for dresses
and suits.
About wives of distinguished cit
lzenS:
Mrs. Frederick Steiwer, whose
husband is that big handsome Re.
publican keynoter from Oregon,
Is small and dark and very pretty.
Mrs. Hamilton Fish, jr., whose
husband is that big, handsome Re
publican" presidential possibility,
has superb diamonds. And wears
them well.
Here's a revealing story about
Representative FiSh'S famous aunt
who not long ago ruled New York
society. When Mrs. Stuyvesant
Fish first came to New York, rela-
lively unknown, she determined
that some day she would get to
the top Of the social grade.
Years afterward when she had
made and unmade New York
celebrities, she said to an intimate
friend, guest on her private
car:
1--WE done everything with
New York society that / vowed
I would do. Now that I've sue
ceeded, / wonder why I both
ered."
That queer. greeniSh light that
creeps at night out of the win.
dows of the Bureau of Engraving
and Printing, where money is
made by a simple turn Of a lever,
Is, so the Republicans say, the
glow from a soothSayer's furnace,
and add that only the powers of
evil could provide the money that
the New Deal is devouring.
MONEY FOR