Evening star., 1937-07-02
Washington
Wayside
Tales
Random Observations
Of Interesting Events
and Things.
MUST DRESS.

MUo1 DRESS.
10 THE Montagues and the Capu.
~ lets couldn't get together after
all. At least that's the opinion
you'd have if you get youl
journalism pictorially and don't reac
the news stories accompanying thu
art" Take this photograph appear.
ing in yesterdays papers, taken after
the wedding of Farnklln D. Roosevelt
jr., and Ethel du Pont.
Looks very much as though thu
boys couldn't get together in the mat.
ter Of dress. There's the President
clad in what certainly appears to b
business suit. Then Franklin, jr.
stands there swathed in the glory
OF cutaway And off on the right
Eugene du Pont poses with the group
white -cloaked in q Summer dinner
jacket. The story mentions Mr.. dl
Points appearance at the wedding witt
"a gardenia in the lapel Of his cuta.
way" so he must have changed earl.
in the evening, but it still looks a.
though he's Haunting capitalism, o.
something.
Heck Mr.. du Pont, we've got &
white dinner jacket, so it can't be {
symbol Of capitalism.
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SWANK.
That cutaWav OF Franklin, Jr.'s,
has indirectly brought local ne'rs
lad in line for a lot OF kidding, in
cidentdlly. All because reekly
ne,us picture magazine displayed
shots OF the Presidents son being
fitted TOR the weddino frery, cap
toned the picture Nth some mem
ton OF "a senli-spank tailor"
Local lad has some OF his clothes
done BY the same tailor. No,D his
friends practically leer ouer the
semi in "sen1i-smank."
DISCOVERY.
NErHUsELAH did not drown II
Ava in the flood.
The fate of the gent is reported tt
have had a lot of learned folks b,
the ears for couple Of milleniums-
at least for a long time. But come
now a distinguished Hebraic scholar
who has made great discovery"
Il have discovered" he announced
proudly when tracked to his lair be
meath a pile of Hebrew books in j.;
local library, that Methuselah die.
before the flood"
Now don't take this too lightly. l
the patriarch had persisted in tn
inundation 1t would have been tn
very devil of mess. 1t would speal
i'll for the character of Noah to hav
left his grandpappy behind to drowl
when he set out in his one-way ferr,
boat. And Noah-as we gather from
Green Pastures and other sources
was fine fellow. Do you want t.
believe he left Methuselah to be swal
lowed up by the waves?
VINDICATION.
the scholar announced, slappin
closed one OF the Hebraic vol
umes, have vindicated Methuselal
and Noah"
Here's how it works:
Genesis says: Methuselah lived l8
years and begat Lamech. A few verse
further on 1t says: And LAmech live
1872 years and begat Noah.
Remember, says the scholar, "tha
Methuselah was 3se years old whel
his first grandchlld was born"
Now Noah, as the Bible says, wa
500 years old at the start OF the flood
This would leave Methuselah 969, tn
age at which he died.
Easy to jump carelessly to the con
clusion that Noah left him behind t.
drown. But the scholar points out
clear statement chapter further on
which seems to have been missed b.
all the boys. This says the foo
started. not in Noah's 6O0th. but hi
60lst year. that is. between his 6O0tl
and 60lst birthdays.
Furthermore, 1t started on tn
seventeenth day Of the secont
month" giving Methselah a Who'll,
month and half IN which to die be
fore the inundation.
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ON SECOND THOUGHT.
Naturally ne Uerc oil popped up
oper being the first to announce
these tidinas. but nert day the
scholar himself came round to the
office.
Il hape thought it oper," he said,
"and I fear ,oul be subjected to
ridicule il my name is associated
NTH the discovery"
Doesn't seem fair that ne can't
haze good authoritative name to
back up the report that Methuseldh
'Dds not one OF the sinners LETT to
die In the ,Ddter and that Noah ,nds
not an nnoratetul grandson. Doesn't
seem fair.
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MYSTERY.
pANDEMON1UM reigned, As thu
saying goes, and If you don'1
mind cliche now and again. Any.
how, it reigned. Horns barket
raucously. A delivery motorcycle
parked double, blocked tratic on IN.
downtown street and had things ir
no end OF a mess. The driver couldn't
be located
Then a cab drew up on the othe,
side Of the street, q young colored lac
alighted. walked across, boarder the
motorcycle, started just like that anc
was of. Passersby stared. They're
still trying to figure where the guy
had been and why he left his motor.
cycle in the middle of the street tt
go for ride in taxi.
Probably was just a plot to keer
the onlookers awake a night or twt
trying to dope it all out
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