The Washington times., 1936-09-24

'' les is u e d Slmul
taneously in London and New
York.
Mrs. Keyes says she adored con,
vent life, and never had happier
summer.
Mrs. Keyes' recent experience is
one should enjoy greatly. In a
convent there is peace and repose
For a woman who has a flare as a
religieuSe, being a nun must be
the answer to everything.
Man-and woman is ingen-
iouS in finding worthy excuses for
leaving home.
Several distinguished washing
ton gentlemen are now on the
high seas, bound for-of all things
"a convention of Statisticians!
This one, an international meet
ing, will take place in Athens and
will be terribly erudite. Every
delegate has Ph.D. after his
name.
Seen discussing figures and
wandering between times among
Grecian ruins will be D. Dana
Durand, of the U. S. Tariff Com
mission, and three numerologists
from the Department of Com
merce'S Bureau of the Census
William M. Steuart, former direc.
tor; Joseph A. Hill, chief statiS-
tician, Bureau of Statistical Re
search, and DR.. (both medical and
philosophicaD Halbert L. Dunn,
chief statistician, division of Vital
Statistics.
Miss Eugenia Pope, secretary to
the delegation, will keep proper
records of the American delegates.
The u. S. Ambassador to Greece,
Lincoln MacVeagh, will invite the
statisticianst to this country in 1888.
In regard to the present weather
In Washington-Why couldn't we
be sensible about September? Re-
gard it is the part of the summer
it is, and not the beginning Of fall.
Albert Hammond, whose brother,
John Martin Hammond, the Wash
ington inventor, wrote that most
delightful of all books about old
houses, Colonial Mansions of
Maryland and Delaware" has just
completed an article about Amerl-
can politics for the English Quar-
terly Review.
That staid and solemn publica-
ton, almost as old as the Tower of
London, wrote to Mr.. Hammond
(Albert) and said his piece was
excellent. But it was imperative
that he change one word which no
Englishman could understand. The
word was -"crap-shooter."
The entire Hammond family
struggled to find synonym for
the vulgar Americanism. They de-
cided mournfully on "dice-thrower"
which doesn't mean at all the same
thing.
The G, A. r. parade of yester-
day was dramatic and pathetic to
most people. But Elizabeth Shirley
Enochs took her mother, an ardent
Southerner, down to Charlottes-
vile to see the Confederate Vet
erans march and hear a good old
Rebel yell.
One veteran of the G. A. p
the average age of the delegates
is 92-wears both sunflower and
donkey buttons. He said:
"They just pin anything on
us. They know how we like
medals"
While eating oysters on a bal
cony (also the half shelD over
looking the Potomac last night I
honestly heard all these bits OF
conversation at closely tables:
"Why do you always cry when
you leave Honolulu"
'Tn Canada we feel lots closer
TO the United States than to
ENGLAND. Our interests are more
bound up with yours. Our con-
nectiOn with England is mostly
sentimental. We've got English
ancestors just as you have"
whatever became of that
little widow"
I'm at an age where both
sex and brains interest me in
a woman. I'm too old for sex
without brains and too young
for brains only"
Louise Miller, who has been
running the New Theater with
dash and ability, just phoned
and said:
"COme on down to cocktail
party this afternoon. We're
going to celebrate our latest
madness-the reOpening of the
old RialtO on Saturday night"
Louise's husband, Raymond
Clendenin Miller, for many years
in the diplomatic service, has
gone into the manufacturing busi.
ness. He's making little printing
presses in big way.