Show ONE ON MR BOWEN lack of ate ra merit ment put him in pa naul posit on A western senator brought to the capitol yesterday a good story about minister bowen which the minister himself recently told at a dinner I 1 was asked some days after I 1 ar rived here in washington said mr bowen why I 1 had stuck so closely to my rooms at the hotel and had not showed myself around town the reply was a rather painful one but nevertheless fully truthful it was because I 1 t the clothes thereupon mr bowen told how he had been commissioned to hasten north suddenly and without opportune opp ity to provide himself with the beav ler wearing apparel necessary for residence in a cold climate As soon as I 1 e reached town he put a local tailor to worl i pon an outfit the hardship of the situation was that mr air bowen had ordered some ral rat ment from london and this was corn com ing across the atlant atlante in a british bottom which was one of the very first ships to be hel I 1 up by the blochl ading abing fleet of the allies there was no help for it and mr air bowen s lon don clothes uch ouch as are necessary for proper appearance in polite soci boci ety are still somewhere in south america he had reason therefore for being personally grateful when the blockade was raised and his clothes had an opportunity to go for ward to caracas washington post |