The Washington times., 1936-02-18
NOW
Dogs, Not Ducks,
Enjoys Pets
AN OLD CUSTOM
BY HELEN EsSARY

Dy Q neWSpaperman. Heu no
time for nonsense, this news
paper man. He promptly asked
Mr.. Rosso:
''What do you think Of the
New Deal?"
Since no diplomat ever dis
cusses, out loud, the politics Of
any country, Mr.. Rosso murmured
something about being greatly
impressed by the New Deal"
A little discouraged by this
evasion, the newspaperman raj
lied with:
'Tf MussOlini were aSsaSsi-
mated, who do you think would
take his placer"
Ambassador Rosso was almost
stricken silent by this thought.
But he finally said:
81 should not like to cOntenn-
plate such . tragedy"
It dawned on the newspaper.
man that he was getting nowhere
internationally, so he inquired
politely about the ambassadors
hobbies.
The ambassador, it seemed had
only one hobby-his dogs. He
adored his dogs, Toby and
Tobiola and their seven new chill
dren. He let them have the run
Of the house and garden. He took
them calling and they waited in
his car until he returned.
Either the newspaperman
wasn't hearing very well that
morning or Ambassador Rosso
pronounced his dogs" with an
Italian clip, Anyhow, in the next
days Denver paper was a two
column story with a headline
something like this:
'MussOlini's representative in
Washington takes his ducks
everywhere he goes"
A gentleman from Utah sends
IN this clipping:
BRIGHAM CITY-Brigham
Harris Bowen. who left %
grandchildren, died in Mont
peIier May 2, 1907, and later
married Willie Robbins, from
whom he was divorced"
It's probably an old Mormon
custom, this marrying after death.
Fruitful. but obviously not lasting
even in heaven. ~
The machine age in a back.
handed sort Of way encourages
romance,
Even the most inarticulate
beau may now be an impaSsioned
poet for Is cents, so understand.
through the beneficent offices Of
the tender-hearted telegraph COM
panies.
What man could be so duh and
30 craven as to refrain from burst
ing into cavalier lyrics when all
that he has to do is to plank
down a quarter, write the girps
name and address, and at her
bedside in the morning, however
far away she will read the ron.
dele Of Western Union Keats.
For instance:
ITO My Valentine-YOu've put
my heart in such q flutter, /
wire the love my lips would
utter"
why sigh for the old days? why
wish for tall courtierS velvet-clad
and eloquent, when you can euy
q sonnet for so little and have it
dropped in q lady'S lap by q Uni.
formed messenger and send her
another before she RECEIVERS from
the delicious shock Of the first,
Love and the. telegraph COM
panies will find way.
Charles q. Nicholson, who
writes Democratic publicity, and
in many ways is one of the
emartest men in town, has gone
to Florida to recuperate from
bronchitis and gather up enough
ultra violet rays to Sl1rivel the
enemy on the November battle
ground.
Gardner Jackson's discussion
of 1.-THE Problem of the Share
Cropper and of Agricultural
Labor" will be given q special
zest at the meeting at the
Woman's Democratic Club on
Thursday morning by the pres.
ence in the audience Of Mr..
David Cohn Of Mississippi, whose
chapters on Southern share crop
pers in his recent book "God
shakes Creation" aroused such
controversy.
A French woman writer says
that American women are spoiled
on behalf of my fellow women ]
rise to protest and explain.
Look about you, dear madame
at our Government. We have the
Legislative, the Executive and the
Judicial. Nobody knows where one
begins and the other ends.
In the American home mama
is all three and the Supreme
Court in addition, with unanimous
opinions handed down at the
slightest provocation.
This may spoil her but it does
make for that clarity and sim
ulicity which men don't seem tt
achieve in the only thing theS
ruu in this ntry-government
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