The Sunday herald and weekly national intelligencer., 1890-10-05
TALK OF THE WEEK.

She was fine figure of woman Her dark
dress fitted admirably her tall and shapely form.
She carried herself like queen on dress
parade. Her rich chestnut hair was caught UP
in splendid coils beneath her bonnet, and there
was an expression of gracious self-content on
her beautifully chiseled features that betokened
she appraised herself at her true value. All the
eyes that fell on her as she moved with stately
grace down the Avenue fingered in admiration
on the beautiful and superbly poised head, on
the square shoulders and the handsome bust
The eyes that looked lower down at once as
sumed startled expression. The look of un-
mixed admiration changed to a smile of amuse-
ment. \ dozen times in the course of block
this occurred. The lady at first did not notice
the amused smiles. Perhaps she was totally
unaware of the attention she was attracting
though this is not probable. She was too much
of woman for that. Perhaps she thought
there was an unusual number of firtatiously
inclined men on the Avenue that afternoon
But at last the smiles OF amusement that chased
away the look of admiration on the faces of
those who saw her began to tell The suspicion
of an expression of dsquiet fitted across her
lace, chaslng away momentarily the easy look
OF gracious self-content. Then she in
cltned her head bit forward and
tried to glance swiftly down the front
of her costume. The alarming thought
something might be wrong with her dress But
she could discover nothing amiss. AS she
passed along, however, the annoying smiles con-
tinued. The lady grew more and more uneasy
Ihe color spread from her cheeks to her fore
head. 1t surged about her ears and flowed down
her throat till it was lost to sight At last her
uneasness became unbearable. She must find
mirror. drug store was near by and she fled
/ III. nnl into tla1
Vealed to her the cause of those ANNOYING smiles
and caused bewildering display of scurrying
bushes to chase each other about her cheeks
Nesting in the folds of her skirt just below the
! waist line, caught somehow in the angle of two
| creases, was tiny powder puff exposed to the
full gaze of every one else, but concealed by the
| swelling corsage from herself 1t did not take
the lady long to get that miserable puff out of
! sight
"Buck" Kilgore, the big man from Texas who
! kicked the door against Representative Ding
ley's nose, is dignified and statesmanlike enough
in appearance, but he is as good natured and
ready for any kind of joke as school-boy.
In the closing hours of the session on Wednes-
! day Mr.. kilgore frightened his colleagues bv
raising the point ''No quorum" and for some
time refusing to withdraw it, although PRAYER
fully urged to do so by men on both sides OF
the chamber. Various stories have been told as
to the arguments which finally prevailed on Mr..
kilgore to induce him to withdraw his point.
but the true one has not yet been printed.
There is in Washington club of newspaper
| correspondents known as the South Mountain
| FISHING Club. The members of this club are as
devoted lot of disciples as Isaac Walton ever
had, and every spare afternoon they have from
their duties they spend up the Potomac in pur-
suit of the gamey bass. For some time the
members Of the club have been preparing for n
grand two weeks fishing trip in North Caro-.
INA, TO be begun Immediately after the ad-
| JOurnment OF Congress- They made all their
preparations on the general understanding that
congress would adjourn on Wednesday last
ana We're even more anxious to get away than
most of the members of the House. One of the
| newspaper men who compose the club is en-
ployed on the floor of the House, and when he
saw the persistence with which Mr.. Kilgore ad-
hered to his point of no quorum he was filled
with alarm lest the North Carolina fishing trip
should be broken up by the failure of Congress-
to adjourn. The newspaper man is on friendly
| terms with Mr. Kigore, and at last went to
! him and begged him in the name of the South
/ Mountain Fishing Club to withdraw his point
! OF no quorum and let the House adjourn on
time. The newspaper man pleaded so hard and
! presented his case with such fervid elouuence
that the big AMI good-natured statesman at last
bad his heart melted and consented to with
draw his obstructive point for the sake Of the
| South Mountain Fishing Club. In return the
newspaper men have sworn allegiance to Kill
J gore, and have offered to go down to Texas and
stump his district for him after their return
from their fishing trip. Mr.. Kilgore, however,
Will not require this service from them as he
has perfectly safe district and can come back
TO Congress just as long as he wants to, and all
the boys hope he'll want to just as long as he
can come back.
One Of the members who has grown percepti-
bly, during the session of Congress that closed
on Wednesday is Representative "Billy'' Mason,
Of Chicago, Mr.. Mason is unquestionaby one
of the characters of the House, a great lover of
! joke or good story, at the same time a very
hard worker, keen debater, and determined
and expert fighter in parliamentary battles.
His leadership in opposition to the passage of
the Compound Lard bill was mastery, and gave
the House an entirely new insight into his char
acter. he demonstrated the practicabilty of the
methods of obstruction which the Democrats
! atterward used successfully in their long fight
/ against the seating of LangstOn. Mason has
/ come to be recognized as one of the most alert
men at repartee on the floor of the House, and
his fellow-members are growing very wary of
attacking him, as his replies almost Invariably
make them wish that they hadn't said word
! While Mason does an immense amount of work
III committee and for his constituents in the
/ Departments he also finds time to entertain his
/ large family Of children, whom he never seems
to forget, no matter how busy he may be with
his legislative duties. On Wednesday as the
President took up his pen to sign the Tariff bill
he asked Maj, Mckinley, who was standing be-
side him,t he wanted the pen with which the ex-
ecutlye signature was fixed to that famous meas
AInN AtIF Fs1s !