The Washington times., 1936-06-02


Suggestion for a campaign song
1or Governor Landon:
Fl am a little prairie flower
Growing stronger every hour"
Lucius @. C. Lamar, Representa-
tive Zioncheck'S lawyer, who fishes
him out of jail every now and then
and who once was hit on the head
by the badly aimed cocktail glass
Of his client, is a descendant of a
nous MiSsisSippian - Lucius
QuintuS CincinnatuS Lamar.
The ancestral Lamar was q
member Of the House Of Repre-
sentativeS, a Senator, Confeder-
ate general, the diplomatic repre-
sentative Of the Confederacy in
France, Russia, and England, and
the Secretary of the Interior under
President Cleveland. He finished
off his career as an associate JUS
tice of the United States Supreme
Court.
Our favorite among the visiting
6,742 Country Women Of the
World: That strong-willed Ken
tuckian who won't cut off her
hair.
Hanging in a braid as thick as
your arm, it reaches below her
waist.
Young moderns among the
country women want to get the
shears into it. They advise:
'You have to wind it twice
around your head and then do
it into big bun. And it makes
your hat sit up high. Cut it
off, you'll look more stylish"
Said the lady:
81 can't cut it off. I prom.
iSed my husband wouldn't.
Even when / got to Washington
to see Mrs. Roosevelt"
Although the Country Women
as an organization say they are
here to learn how other country
women live and so improve their
own standards, six of them in a
row told me without coercion:
"What we really came here
for was to see Mrs. Roosevelt"
Lines in a COlumnists Notebook.
The British Ambassador, Sir
Ronald Lindsay, plays a longer
and harder game of tennis than
any Of his Sprightly young Secre-
tarieS.
Mrs. Burton K. Wheeler, wife
Of the Senator from Montana,
does her morning housework in
shorts.
When the young Vandenbergs
want to start on before-dawn
, motor trips. Mrs. Arthur Vanden-
berg gets up at 5 o'clock and pre-
pareS the breakfast. The cook
doesn't like to come so early.
There's no point in worrying
over a garden of your own when
kind friends like the George W.
CombseS are eager to cut you arm
3ulS Of peonieS and roses.
Seven hundred newspaper people
viii be seated in the press sections
at the Democratic and Republican
conventions.
When Rhode Islands textile
millionaire Senator, Jesse Metcalf,
is asked by colleague ito yield"
he answers, instead of the usual
polite II yield to the Senator
from" the simple monosyllable,
"Yup!" Perhaps some day the
CheSterfieldian, Jim Ham Lewis,
will engage the laconic Metcalf
in debate.
Among the millions spent on the
production of Under Two Flags"
$2.50 should have been squandered
for the information that machine
guns were not used in the year
1900.
The German ambassador, DR..
Hans Luther, has just recently
celebrated his fiftieth birthday.
We are getting more reconciled
TO the locustS, but we still don't
like to hear them scratching in
the chimneys or falling into the
pans Of jellied soup put on the
back porch to cool.
One Of my favorite publications
Is the Thornapple Street News,
published every Saturday by young
Chevy Case (MdO journalists. I
like its editorials, such as:
PEOPLE SHOULD BE KIND
''Be careful of your dogs. Lots
Of things can happen. The Crup-
perS' dog, Indy, had hot water
thrown on him and he was in
the hospital q week."
OTHERS GARDENS
''Will the parents of children
that 90 to school please see that
their children leave the flowers
In peoples gardens alone? The
children have been very deStruc-
tive lately" requested by a
Re2der.)