The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1943-10-13
Washington
Report
BY HELEN EsSApy

WAsHINGToN.-You know - =.
postwar planner is without boro'
in his own home town.
Nor is any man a hero TO III,
chiropodist.
But do you know that a fo,,,
star general and commando i,
chief of the Allied Forces is No.
camouflaged to his cook?
And the proof?-a hopeful ~.
tron in Chevy Chase was ;r+ ',a'
viewing a possible servant ~,
servant said she had worked fn s
plenty of Army families. '0'
Good" exclaimed the bonet,
matron. Army families ai pv'n
have swell food and plassassss
homes. By the way, did You svoa
work for General Eisenhower,
II sure did. l worked for 1ix
when he was nothin' but = cola 4
incl" '''
Really! Do tell me about him u
There's nothin' much 10 tau
Lots of ladies ask me that Thar
think l must of fed him some kins
OF fancy food to help get hn'
where he is. He eats lust Tta
everybody else. Only more Of ~
And he wasn't fussy when he gnt
home. Mrs. Eisenhower. she w Wv
different. She was always wantn,
everything nice. For q fact sb.
was the contrariest lady | eyo.
worked for"
Despite the maxim Of nv p,
believing friend, H. L. Mencken
there sometimes can be two min,
donnas in one family. Two snan.
ish prima donnas at that.
Consider Ceferino and Isobel D.,
lencia, recently arrived from Mav
leo City, where they went as M,
litical refugees from the Franco
government. Senior Palencia i
having an exhibition of his raint'
ings at the National museum Tba
Mexican ambassador has invited
some friends for the gala opeDino
Senior Palencia is one Of tbs
most famous living artists. His
wife ,Isobel, is one Of the most
famous women in Europe, Before
Franco, she Represented Spain in
Sweden for year and half and
was a brilliant success as her
country's minister. For several
lyears she was SPANS labor rep.
resentative in Geneva, where she
was a well-knoWn international fig.
ure.
While Nine. Palencia was in
V Stockholm, Senior Palencia was
representing Spain just across the
Spanish border as minister to Lith.
+ uania. Madame Isobel is not only
1 a diplomat, she is scholar and
e a itterateur. She has written sew.
i eral enchanting children's books.
, Lately she did daring biogra.
: ply, Il Must Have Liberty"
Read Il Must Have Liberty
You will be thrilled by Isobel Pa
e lencia's spirit. Madame Palencia
e is also handsome and gay,
: One of the miseries of Washing
e ton life for the moment is the
J, waiting around you have to do in
n shops and restaurants until your
: number is called. If you want to
g buy a dead chicken or new hal
y or eat last months lamb chop
e in some places, you have to cope
e with this new kind of number rack
e ct.
i Clerks are few. Customers are
l many. Not only in butcher and
e bakery shops do you have to draw
S your number on little card from
e out a counter box but things have
:. come to even a worse shopping
pass. In some smart clothing ana
hat shops a manager gives you
number and writes it down III
book. Then you NOPE about OF
stand on one foot like crane III
a swamp, until your turn coNles
to squander the money you ought
8 to be saving for taxes.
J. Here is a true story OF the new
1 number racket and a good VINE
3 and mother who arrived home id'e
v the other afternoon. She was wear
j. ing new shoes, new hat, a ne"
d suit and an extremely cross e&'
e preston. She threw large pau
Q age into the lap Of her husband
= who had already arrived nome.
u Take your old devils loo'
cake" she said in family Vo' :,
Pm a wreck. l was number J.,
at the meat counter. l was II ii
=, the hat department. 10 IN Su.'s'
:: 43 in the shoe department Alu,
= SO help me, I was "a at the Cant
:, counter" ,.dy
a At this point the good sos az,
y swooned and revived only ~nes
told that the new maid, delaysu
at being 1913 at the uniform co Jun,
ter had just arrived to get Inc OD''
n ner.