Of Washington

Cast of Characters. Senator Clarence C. Dill of the great State of Washington, 42, genial, round-faced, onetime country school-teacher and newspaper reporter, famed as co-author of the scheme which controls radio throughout the land (TIME, Feb. 21), a sort of busybodied Herbert Hoover among Democrats.

"General" Rosalie Gardiner Jones, a few years younger than Senator Dill, more charming than the usual caricature of a suffragette, one of the leaders of the feminist invasion of Washington through the mud of 1913; once a Chevrolet mechanic who was rewarded with the famed "yellow suffrage car" in which she toured New York State; a chicken farmer; a collector of book plates; a licensed attorney; the manager of the $5,000,000 estate left to her and her two brothers.

Act I. Scene: Senator Dill's office in 1924.* Miss Jones enters, tries to interest the Senator in world peace. He answers her evasively. She chides him, exits in a pretty huff.

Act II. Having been stimulated, having sent his secretary scurrying through Washington for two weeks to find the "lady in pink," Senator Dill meets Miss Jones socially. The militant lady, who undoubtedly had many a proposal of marriage theretofore, and the methodical Senator become friends.

Act III. Last week, Miss Jones calls a reporter, announces her engagement to Senator Dill.

Act IV. One day later, Miss Jones tells the world that she is a "Lucy Stoner," that she intends to keep her maiden name. Says she: "I refuse to become an echo to my husband. . . . The basis of marriage is not love but congeniality and interest and respect. These alone will bring love."

Act V. Marriage at St. John's Episcopal Church, Cold Spring Harbor, Long Island, N. Y. They will maintain residences in Washington, D. C., New York, Spokane.

* He was then the "baby" of the Senate. This was in the days before such youngsters as Senator LaFollette of Wisconsin, 32, and Nye of North Dakota, 34, were elected.