Evening star., 1937-05-31
Washington
Wayside
Tales
Random Observations
of Interesting Events
and Things.
SHANGRI-LA,

item To-Day. At any rate
= there is 4 woman out Chevy
Chase way who is being rewarded
every warm day now for a decade O.
calm waiting while nature took it!
course.
Ten years ago she moved into a new
home out there. 1t was to be q per.
manent home, she figured, and JUS
the place to plant two trees that som.
day would grow up and make granc
anchors for a hammock.
Today she knows she Is right. Sh<
planted the trees, elms. They grew
just the right distance apart and pro.
viding a kafy canopy against tn.
midday sun. the 4:3O sun and al
others.
Now every day she lies in the ham.
mock and reads and pauses in he,
reading only to think how kind ma.
ture is to those who don't try to goad
her.
X
RESTRAINT.
Lieut.. Thomas Macdonald of the
Army Air Corps and friend of his
from Washington are regarding
themselves as pretty extraordinary
tellous these days.
Lieut.. Macdonald, no1D stationed
at Dayton. and the friend met in
New York the other night after
years and years OF not meeting
each other dnywhere-in Clepe-
land. Washington, Montgomery,
Ala.; Shreveport or West Point.
The thing that made the meet
ing seem extraordinary Uds that
neither OF them commented on
the snlallnsss OF Uorld that en-
abled them to meet on a busy
street in its largest city.
II X x
TIMES CHANGE.
CTACCATO journalism, the kind
- that saves time by resortins tt
a words between dots technique, ha.
spoiled one Of the favorite literary
criticisms Of q man who called uI
the other day.
The criticism in question was one
uttered by Edwin Muir, who said thai
every dot in the technique of A. NJ. S
Hutchison, the British novelist, re.
minded him Of dog pausing to was
its tall after having done = smart
trick.
That kind Of writing seems justi.
fed in this day Of haste, our inform.
ant said. 1t ought TO be good new.
to sports, night club, drama and othel
department scribes.
COCKER.
r EsEARCH which an operative O.
the Wayside calls exhaustive,
presumably from habit and not be-
cause it was exhaustive, has discloset
that there are no Dachshunds at tn.
German Embassy.
Representing the new Germany i
a Cocker spaniel 1t belongs to Fral
Thomson.
Becoming interested in embassy
dogs, our operative pursued the
subject further pia that bureau in
the District Building Where they
license bo1D-Uous. At the Peruvian
Embassy there is dog named
Toby. A. L. P. Mark Wardlon,
British 1saudl attache, has wire
tor terrier, Philip Broad, sec7e-
tary at the same place, has q Cairn
terrier called AndreU. His eI-
cellency. Ambassador Lindsay, de-
potes himself at odd intervals to
an English cocker answering to
the name of Jumbo.
The Polish Ambassador has seu-
eral peridoreed specimens, Mr.. J.
K. UyS of the Union OF South
Africa calls his utre hair tor ter
rier Scraps. E. H. Dimttriu, fnan-
cial counselor OF the Rumanian
Legation, and Juan Cheualier.
Charge dAtaues from Panama..
hate hkeWise purchased licenses.
CONDITIONED.
z w. LATTIMORE, an inspector
for the Health Department, i
one man in 10000. He enjoys amoni
his friends q reputation as man whit
chews, but never expectorates. To
bacco, we mean If you don't thinl
that is hard, try 1t some time.
Even the snuf1 (beg your pardon
snoose addicts, who had their da!
in this column, cannot do that Whel