Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-06-26
The
Rambler
Husbands Are
EosiIy RiIed
By JACK JONAS

invited TO quite q lew OF the
endless Washington cocktail
parties and doesn't mind
throwing one now and then
himself.
But" he says, "it's the
principle Of the thing.
Friend of ours in the
neighborhood owns one of
those next-to-new shops, the
kind where they get in good
clothing that's been worn
only two or three times.
"Once in a while she brings
home something special, if
she thinks the women around
here might like it. So the
other day she brought home a
suit she thought my wife
might like, and, OF course,
my wife did. 1t was SIS, and
that's how it got started.
You're a married man,
too, so you know it didn't
stop there. The next thing
was shoes to go with the dress
-$14.95 plus 80 cents tax. And
a purse, $7,95 plus Is cents
tax. And a hat, naturally.
Then, she decided she had
one new outfit, and shouldn't
stop there. She spotted these
white shoes - they looked
like SoleS with rhinestones at
tached. So she bought those
and said we'd have a cocktail
party so she could wear them.
Nov she's shopping around
for a cocktail dress.
"And l." he said grimly, Jam
shopping around for some
special kind of favor I can do
for her friend at the next
to-new shop"
Swim
And, while we're on the
subject of what the we'll
dressed lady will wear, this
one happened at one of the
hotel swimming pools:
A fashion writer and a
fashion cOnSultant dove in
at opposite ends. They came
up suffering face to face
in the center of the pool,
but not too winded to imme-
diately begin a discussion of
the relative merits of one
anOther's bathing caps.
Rebel
A man Just back from the
hospital says his nurse was
telling him about her mother
in-law, and quoted the
mother in-laW as follows.
There are only three i'm
portant things in this world
to be born in Richmond, to be
an EpiScopalian and to be a
Democrat"
This was by way of intro
ducing her patient to the
story of her mother-in-law's
search for an automobile. The
mother-in-law had her own
special ideas of what she
wanted in a car, and looked
at quite a few in her search.
Finally, a salesman brought
one that seemed to suit her.
This, 1 think, is just what
I've been looking for" she
said happily. Then she began
to climb inside and noticed
the nameplate.
"Lincoln?" she asked, in
horror. Never! Take it
away"
Name
Why do they call it Buzz
Zard Point?
This apparently was a
shifting of the name from
one point to another when
the original Turkey Buzzard
Point got a new name. The
jut of land on which Fort
McNair is located was indi-
Gated as Turkey Buzzard
Point on a map of the early
1700s. The Potomac, on that
map, was shown as Turkey
Buzzard Run.
When Motley Young
owned the land, the name
was changed to YOung's
Point. Later it was Green
leaf Point, for James Green
leaf, who bought many of
the original city lots in that
area. When the arsenal
was there, 1t was known
popularity as Arsenal Point,
: but Greenleaf Point appears
on modern maps.
Just to the east is Buzz
zard Point. But just when,
during all the name chang
ing, the name shifted a few
hundred yards east to an
other point is not known.
The first to call the area
Turkey Buzzard Point also
is not known, but a look in
the skies almost any day will
indicate the source of the
name.