The Washington times., 1936-02-15
NOW
Eating Way Out
OfDepressiOn
THOSE LADIES
BY HELEN EssARY

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Even the most determinedly
Nghthearted conversation is ruined
nowadays by remarks on politics.
Thus facing the inevitable cheer
fully-and practically-we have
decided on our own political plat
form and thus announce it ahead
Of dilatory organizations.
Our platform-dinners will save
the countryl
Recently We have had the Jack
son Day Dinners, hundreds of
them), The Liberty League Din
H1er and two days before yesterday
the Lincoln Dinner at which Sena-
tor Vanderberg spoke in New York
to three thousand similar dinners
throughout this broad land of
ours.
Think for q minute Of the vast
amount Of food consumed by these
hungry enthusiasts. How the
farmer and the grocer and the
canned goods manufacturer are
thereby aided. Think of the
mounds Of table cloths and table
napkins sent the morning after,
to the laundries, thus aiding I'm
employed washer ladies and truck
drivers. OF the lights that burn
before and during the oratory.
Thus enriching the utilities. And
Of the corn plaster sold to tired
and tortured walters.
Let us eat our way out Of the
depression. And let the lettuce
leaves fall where they may.
Frustration purSues US. Now
the Counselor of the Soviet En-
baSSy and Madame Skvirsky are
going to AfghaniStan. Just when
we had learned to pronounce their
names. Say it-Squearvsky. It
may be the way.
Saw Dorothy Thompson at a
cocktail party at the Raymond
Gram Swings. Miss Thompson,
who Is Mrs. Sinclair Lewis when
she is home, is looking awfully
well. Simmer than when she was
here last. She is tremendously
fascinating and was surrounded
by adoring slaves.
Also met Doris Stevens, the
feminist, at the Gram Swings.
Doris, who is Mrs. Jonathan
Mitchell when she is home, has
done q magnificent job helping
women along to o bigger and
broader existence.
She told me privately she'd an
idea she had been wasting her
time because women much pre-
Serred staying where they were.
DR.. Mary Beard, the historian,
came in to see Dorothy Thomp-
son. DR.. Beard complained the
other day of the lack Of attention
paid to women of history.
On this theme we've an idea.
A hangover from our romantic
high school days. It is that aside
from the large number Of women
who occupy places in the written
text-Queen Elizabeth and Cath
crime Of Russia, for example
there are many more, unrecorded
and unSung, who have influ-
enced the course Of civilization.
Women, generally, are far too
wise to erSort to the vulgar maScu-
line methods Of shouting aloud
upon the platform or the hust-
ingS.
They know full well that the
masculine legend of intellectual
superiority must be maintained
In theory.
And finally that power may be
gained by the simple method Of
suggesting ideas and courses Of
action to men in such a way
that the allpoWerful male is
shortly convinced that the ideas
and the courses of action origi-
mated in his superior mind.
Inasmuch as normally there are
no witnesses to these proceedings,
there is no history to write of
such women, but none the less, it
is they who make history.
Mrs. Bennett Clark who married
that Senator from Missouri, de-
cided she must learn the legend Of
her adopted state.
So. she read 1.-THE Life and Death
Of Jesse James"
Hoping for the worst, as one nat
urally would in such literature,
Mrs. Clark was frightfully disap-
pointed.
Compared with the villains one
meets in the movies and mystery
stories and even about the place,
sometimes at dinner, the James
brothers, Mrs. Clark says, are pal
lid Boy Scouts.
WINTER SCENES
Alice Roosevelt Longworth
wears knee boots in the snow. E.
The foreign travel class Of the
King Smith School, now settled
at the old Saddle Club in Rock
Greek Park, which is the present
play House, was awfully glad
during one Of our last 81 snow
storms that their special teacher,
Miss Elliott, had spent last winter
at st. Moritz. When a telephone
call to a department store for
ski suits was answered with
"Sorry, can't deliver through the
snow drifts so far down in the
park one of the girls borrowed
Miss Elliott's Switzerland woolenS
and volunteered to break through
the ice. Miss Elliott told her how
"a climb maintains and to skid