Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-02-24


% evade them Louise assured me that
there was no plot al all because they all
1elt very suSe that 1 would go with them
and all they had to do was to ask me- And
In that way l learned that 1 was to chap
erone that giddy gang againI Where to-
now" l demanded as | skewered my bon
net to my back hair and hunted I'D my
gloves. 1 am not one to waste time specu-
latins on my duty. 1 simply do it when 1
nave done that. however, blindly. 1 always
believe that heaven Will show me why
1 knew those girls were bent on a lark as
they term 1t. and could see but one thing
to do-help them through as respectfully
as possible
We are going up to the House to listen
TO Mr. Boutelle get even with the Speaker.
His eloqueace has been bottled I'D so long
however, that I'm afraid it will explode
like bomb. We thought to learn a lot
OF profane history today. I'm thinking,
We are to call for Miss Dare, she has never
been inside of the Capitol yet"
/ give You my word for it, 1 nearly faint
ed L caught at one straw, however and
suggested the possible objection of six
mothers. to which Elaine responded that
collectively ana individually they had given
their consent TO the girls going wherever
would take them And l told the girls
you'd take US wherever we wanted to CO."
added Dorothy, calmly, adjusting her veil
30 that il wouldn't look as though IL had
been pasted TO her nose. 1 told them 1
was sure they would find it very dull, that
they knew very little about the Hawaiian
question and that it was not a subject that
would interest them anyway, but they out
voted me seven to one and Dorothy clinch-
ed it by springins Addison on me just as
slr. Crisp sprung the constitutional quorum
business on Mr.. Reed, and quite as much
TO my discontinue. You know you read
TO me the other day when L was tuning
because the lily of the valley L was en-
broidering would look like larkspur and
wanted to throw the hateful thing away,
that our delight in any particular art or
science rises and improves in proportion TO
the application which We bestow upon it,
and what was first an exercise becomes
at length an entertainment. 1 couldn't
make the theory work with the lily but
mean il shall with LiIiuOkalani, so come
along" And that is why the Speaker of
the House had such hard time with the
galleries that day and had to inform the
people in them that under the rules, only
members Of the House We're permitted to
be disorderly." We had hardly got our
places on the very front seat when Miss
Dare-before the day was over L came to
the conclusion that that girl ought 10 have
over the marble railing and swept the
House with her Iorgnette
such N DisorderIy Place.
Good gracious, what a disorderly set"
she began, Just lock at the condition of
that floor. Enough paper on it to run
paper mill for a week, 10 say nothing of
orange peel, apple cores, lemon rinds. cigar
stumps and nut shells. Who is in the chair?
The Speaker. Well, why doesn't he round
his herd up and quiet them down? They
look as though they would stampede with
half a chance. I'd like to be Speaker Just
half hour. ia make every man of EN-
get on his knees and pick up the trash and
then I'd crack their knuckles with the
gavel every time they threw any more
down. That's the way Professor Booker
did when L was in school. My isn't the
air UP here horrid?" And then she began
to fan herself with a newspaper. The
cracking made the Speaker look up, so
she laid it down on the marble, and Jennie
thouShueSsly laid her opera glasses on top
of H. That brought the doorkeeper hust-
ling down. Please don't do that, if you
please, miss he expOstIlated, they might
drop on some members mead, If you please"
Il reckon IL would surprise the gentleman
from Mississippi if l should let them
carcm on his uncovered DOME she laugh
ed, as she watched the Private saunter
lar guidly away from that vicinity. That
Is il he ever rouses up enough to get sur
prised."
HOW 90 Iney Nentllate This steam box
asked Miss Dare, as she threw off her seal
Ekin and pushed up her bangs. 1 laDorious-
~ explained tire process, which failed Of its
purpose.
ress the places where fresh air comes IMP
she queried incre1ulOusly. Why, l thought
they were new-fangled congressional Gus
pi3Crs-a kind of a sewer conduit from the
way those men stun things into them L
saw no fewer than four members poke
cigar stumps down there. and two or three
have taken guilds Of tobacco from their
mouths and dropped them through, and
all the tobacco chewers spit in them. IGN.
what hOrrtd habit Americans have of
splitting! There, look ct that mantle one
with the tiny heart-shaped bald spot on
his head. One of those kids brought him a
little note just now, and the minute he
read it he tore it into half-inch bits and
dropped them into the ventilatinS sewer.
! could have read Il with my Iorgnette
Wouldn't it have been fun?'
Suddenly Mary found her new tan gloves
were swiped with greasy dust from the
marble in front Of them, and on glaring
around the girls found that the gilt and
gray holdings around the hall were black
and sticky with the same kind of dust and
grease. Miss Columbia is an awful dirty
hOuSekeeper. seems to me. 1t isn't much
wonder that Thomas jefferson needs a
bath when he has to live in a pig pen like
this. l could write my name in the dusa
on that flag above the Speakers head 1t
isn't national flag, is it, continued Miss
Dare, after an OminOuS silence. Il think
hASEG only IOTlS stars on II. DID some
one object to the extravaganza of a new
one? What is that barber pole for?" spy
Ing the mace. Before l could supply the
facts for which she was thirsting Jennie
had divulged the astounding information
that when the Speaker can't yell loud
enough to be heard and the Eavel breaks
he shouts to the Sergeant-at-arms TO take
the mace among them. and it always quiets
them. because it's loaded with bombs and
things. and If he should hit them with it
Il might explode"
An Economy i'm Dust Cloths.
I'm afraid somebody has been stufIing
you" was the laconic reply. as Miss Dare
resumed her Investigations. Somebody
ought to take soap and water and wash
Georges face; Lafayettes is just as grimy,"
she went on irreverenty. Are they econo-
MIXING in dust cloths that they can't clean
the frames? l thought they were not per-
mitted to smoke on the fioO-?" she said, as
she caught sight of half a dozen newly
lighted cigars in a group about the fire
place on the democratic side
We'll. as the Irishman would saw, they
can't, but they do" explained Dorothy
They have a rule against it. I've heard
It read on an average Of three times a day
for three sessions. but il seems only TO
prove that its poor rule that won't work
both ways. II says they must not smoke;
they must not wear their hats in the hall;
they must not stand by the Speakers desk
during a roll call. and they must NOT ma sc