Number Twos

Mrs. Edward Everett (Dolly) Gann, Second Lady of the Land, last week set-at rest the misgivings of temperate Christian women. Mrs. Ludie D. Pickett, president of the Kentucky W. C. T. U., having heard that Mrs. Gann dined last month at the British Embassy, wrote and asked: "Is the honor and dignity of your country as dear to you as your own status in the social life of Washington? Did you for the honor and dignity of your country decline liquor at Sir Esme Howard's dinner?"

Replied Mrs. Gann: "I did decline. . . . Out of consideration for my own country and my brother I feel that the proper thing for me to do at all times is to decline."

Mrs. Gann's brother, Vice President Charles Curtis, continued last week to "rest up" between sessions of Congress. Once a jockey, he will go down in history as the Vice President (or as the President, if anything should happen to President Hoover) who liked to go to horse races, just as Grover Cleveland liked duckshooting, Calvin Coolidge fishing, Herbert Hoover building toy dams. In the minds of many a temperate Christian woman, horse-racing is almost as iniquitous as liquor but so far no prying soul has disturbed the Vice President's innocent pleasure. During the Spring he went frequently to the Maryland tracks, Bowie, Pimlico, Havre de Grace. He could not get away for the Kentucky Derby, but was on hand to see Blue Larkspur win the American Classic last fortnight at Arlington Park, near Chicago.

Last week he visited Albert Davis Lasker, onetime chairman of the U. S. Shipping Board, at his Chicago home. He walked around the private Lasker golf links but swung no club. Newsmen asked him why he did not play. "I don't like golf," replied the Vice President who likes to watch horse-racing.