The Washington times., 1937-01-29

me to washington, first as q
Congressman 80 years ago. Then
going out to dinner was great fun
He was very young and very en-
thusiastic. Before he knew it, he
was out every night somewhere
Once, long after midnight
when he trailed home feebly, ne
looked at himself in the glass
There were hollows around his
tired eyes. His mouth Sagged. He
was a wreck.
"See here" he addressed the
haggard creature in the mirror.
'"YOur constituents didn't send
you up here to carry on like
this. You'll have to stop it,
quick"
He did stop it. He's not as re-
lentless a decliner of parties as
that other Texan, Jack Garner
But he isn't exactly the playboy
Of Capitol Hill.
Mr.. Rayburn told me about his
proclamation of social emancipa,
ton at q dinner given by Senator
and Mrs. Millard F. TydingS. 1t
was Mr.. Rayburn'S weekly night
out.
If ever a dinner we're disposed
to make a strong man forget his
resolutions, it was this one. I
have never seen as many pretty
women around one table.
Mrs. TydingS was lovely, SYM
pathetic hostess in black velvet.
(The wife of the Senator from
Maryland, by the way, is strong
believer in the common sense and
ability of her own sex. Wait un-
til they have had the vote 10
years longer, she SaySO
Madame de With, wife OF the
Dutch Minister, in black net with
a skirt that flared gaily at the
knees; Mrs. Sumner Welles,
tanned and rested after the sue
cessful Buenos Aires expedition,
handsome in a black velvet robe
de style, whose soft folds opened
over q gold lame underskirt; Mrs.
Harold Sims, Mrs. Emery Sands,
Mrs, Pearson Rust and Mrs. Ed
ward Finkenstaedt were there, too.
You can see for yourself that
it was an exceptional dinner.
Especially when you add the good
looking host, the Dutch Minister,
the Assistant Secretary Of State,
sumner Welles, Mr.. Sims, Mr.. Ed
ward Kulikowski and DR.. Kemper
Simpson.
A fearful disaster like the Ohio
flood brings a realization of the
helplessness of human beings.
Man, for all his vanity, is as in
effectual as a Sandcrab when ma
ture goes on rampage.
Boast as he will land he does)
Dver his triumphs in science, the
arts and in practical affairs, he
can't stop the rain from falling
BY as much as a single drop.
Nor can he check his own opto-
Enism-his belief that fate will
save him alone from miSfortuneS
that overtake other people. AS
soon as the rivers subside the
people who have lived in the
flooded towns will go back and set
up their household goods again,
at the risk of another disaster.
The Minister of Honduras, Mr..
Julio Lozano, was discussing sucn
human faith yesterday afternoon
ct an informal tea given by Mrs.
Isabel CroSwell for Mrs. Walter
Courtney Brown, of Baltimore.
Mr.. Lozano said that in his
country where earthquakes were
likely to occur at any time people
lived in almost continual danger
and were quite happy.
One Honduran town on the edge
of a crater had been destroyed and
rebuilt, in the same spot the Min.
lister said, three times during the
last 100 years.
A cynic know who mopes con.
siderably about the decay of man
nerS, says that modern women
have replaced the fan and the lace
kerchief of their graceful grand
mothers with the cigarette and the
highball glass.
Women, ladies is a better word
used to coquette with gentlemen
in beguiling tones about nothing
in particular. Now they raise
their voices in a hoarse shout
above the alcoholic din of the
cocktail party.
The cynic asks:
"Did you ever come from the
outdoors upon a drinking party
when it was in full swing? The
roar of the voices of people who
are supposed to be having a
good time sounds like the ad.
vance of q mob in a Roman
tragedy
The cynic, decrepit old gentle
man that he is, wants to go back
to the days of ballads and love
lyrics and pretenSe.
~ENATTW7 HN"