The Washington times., 1936-08-24
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Summer Notes
At RehObOth
SLEEPY TOWN
BY HELEN ESSARY

Ills ISL y, pIOpelly SPSdAAAAS'
column. It is an accumulation Of
the idle thoughts of vacationist
A very lazy vacationist, grazing
during August at Rehoboth Beach
Rehoboth isn't really summer
resort. It's a bit of the Eastern
Sho' that happened to grow UP
by the sea.
In the summer it tries to put on
citified airs. But it remains
Delaware village.
Even the mob of strangers who
rush down from Wilmington and
across the Chesapeake Bay from
Washington during July and Au.
gust, who put on scraps of rubber,
lastex or wool and pad. pad''
twice day in bare feet down the
sand to the ocean, do not change
Rehoboth'S simple country ways.
Rehoboth is neighborly. 1t looks
after it's own and knows all that
Is going on in it's midst.
When Judge Peyton Gordon
came back from Saranac Lake
he'd gone up for breath of
Adirondack air after a sudden at
tack of pleurisy-all the Beach
Umbrellas knew that he was met
at Wilmington at 10:45 a. m. by
his nephew, Harry Bibby, of Baiti-
more, and driven down the Du-
pont Highway to the Gordon cot
tage. the little white house on
Columbia Avenue.
John Lewis Smith decided to
form a little colony of friends at
Indian Beach, on the Bethany
Beach road.
The Beach Umbrellas knew i'm
mediately who would build" in
the new settlement. That Robert
Fleming, president of the Ameri-
can Association of Bankers; Mr..
James o. Roberts, Mr.. Ross An
drews and Mr.. John F. Parker
were going to have cottages there.
Each with view of the Atlantic
Ocean and the Henlopen Bay.
The cottage of Mr.. and Mrs.
Roberts is going up as fast as II
the genii of Aladdin's lamp were
creating it. Twenty-six carpenters
are now at work. Dragging logs.
Hammering and painting. In a
week or so Mr.. and Mrs. Roberts
and their sons, Dick and Jimmy,
will move in.
The Beach Umbrellas also knew
exactly when Mrs. John j. JACK
son and Chiquita went back to
washington. Captain Jackson
used to amaze the beach with his
skill as a swimmer. Every day his
daily workout was two times and
back between the jettiesO chi
uuita, a prize Mexican Chihuahua,
returned in Mrs. Jackson'S knit
ting bag.
Mrs, Jackson, looking very lovely
in white linen and big red hat
brought Chiquita to call on us.
samson, our big yellow cat, stared
at the tiny dog. Arched his PACK
as high as a sand dune. And spat
fiercelv, So we rushed Samson
off and locked him in the garage
On the John Lewis Smiths
porch at Curlew Lodge, on sun
day, so the Beach Umbrellas re-
oorted. were 10 unexpected callers:
They had stopped to say "hello
and have a drink. Clarlbelle
smith had. been saying around
in her usual hospitable way
"Come on over any time. were
always in"
Grace Roper Bonn was week
ending about the place recently.
She and her husband, Frank
Rohn. were visiting Admiral ana
Mrs. Riggs. When I saw the
Bohns they we're about to move
their bathing suits, sun goggles,
etc across the road to stay with
Mr. n. o, Chalkley of the British
embassy and Mrs. Charley. FRANK
Rohn swims as well as he lee
lures.
REGARDLESS of such distinctions
"a have Just mentioned, the
Reach Umbrellas agree that OF
the summer colony, Mr.. and Mrs.
Parke Galleher are most to be
envied. -
Mr. and Mrs. Galleher have in
their kitchen Anna Mae. Anna
Mae. who after the dinner dishes
are put away and the towels hung
I1n to dry, hurries down to the
night club and trucks" for pay.
Trucking" had thought in my
aged way, had to do with raising
vegetables. I had imagined that
the farmers who stop at my cot
tage door with trailers hitched to
cars, very good cars this year. and
send their young in to ask ANY
corn. lima beans, peaches, toma'
toes today?" were expert truck
ers."
was wrong. A good trucker,
1886 model, is he or she who can
'jes' shuttle along" in a slow
Charleston. And the Gallehers
have the Rehoboth Champion.