The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1884-12-06
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Wdsh;ngfOn Republican.

| Hush'"yoH 1tep"oHco".
A servant said the President would
be down as soon as she finished trying
on her dress. The Attorney General
took out her knitting and said: "Well,
| might as well be working. No tell
ing how long we'll have to wait. ;"
Eager attention on the part of the cabi-
net interruption by the servants an
nouncement:
"Her excellency, the President of
the United States.'
"Good morning, ladies'"
"Good morning, Mrs. President.
[All in chorus] "Oh what love-
Iy dress
eyes," said the President, "1 thought
would just wear it down and let you
all see it. 1t is pretty, isn't it2 Just
look at the hang of the train.''
"It's perfectly magnificent" said the
Secretary of War. "Those fac pleat-
ings of crepe de chine give it such
lovely finish. But isn't it just little
short in front7"
"Why, of course" said the President
with some asperity. 81 have them all
made that way so as not to have to
change when l ride the tricycle." 4"
81 hope it's all,'' said the Attorney
General, sticking her knitting needle
through her back hair, while she rub
bed a piece of the dress between her
thumb and finger. "Did you save me
n Diece frr NV crazv Odilt 9''
"Oh, yes" answered the President.
afably. "And now let's get to bus-
ness ladies. l haven't much time this
morning. l have to sit for my picture
at o'clock"
"The most important business l know
Of" said the Secretary of State, sis to
decide on a Minister to the Court of
St. James, You know Lowell has ask
ed to be recalled.
"Oh, yes; l forgot about that, said
the President. "Whom shall We
send ?"
"Ifit had only been earlier" said the
Assistant Secretary of the Navy, reflec-
lively, 81 would have gone myself, but
the season is over by this time, and
then l get so horribly seasick "
''It will be hard to get anyone to
co." observed the Secretary of War, 81
am told the climate is SO damp that
your hair never stays in curl at all. 3"
SIS that so ?" asked the President ap
prehensively. "Well, we must SEND
some one. And them the President
went on, "there's Germany to provide
for"
"Oh, what's the use of sending any
one TO Germany, Mrs. President1" ask
ed the Secretary OF War.
ooh, don't you know" said the Sec
retary of State, "there's Herr Most
and pork and Lasker and Bismarck and
all those things to talk about ?"
81 know there was color called
Bismarck some years ago." said the
Secretary Of the Treasury, meditatively,
as she sorted her crewels, "but i: was
hideously unbecoming."
s.But there's a new red brown this
fall," said the Postmaster-General,
eagerly, "that's just perfectly lovely for
a dark complexion, though l think my
self nothing wears as well as the old
seal brown"
.'Speaking of seal brown" said the
Assistant Secreta OF ane Navy, "how
about the commissioner who was sent
to Alaska to provide us all with seal
skin dolmans? It's getting pretty cool !;
the frost touched my tuberoses last
night"
lust then the strains of a brass hand
broke upon the ears of the Cabinet,
and the President cried:
"Oh, there goes the parade of the
Women's Civil Service Reform Asso
citation! Let's go see what they've got
on" and then the whole party ad
journed to the White House veranda
to criticise and sneer at the procession.