The morning times., 1896-02-24
HOSPITALITY IT s. Each
Revolution Solis lined Daugh-
tiers at So Much a Plate.
ONLY OFFICERS WENT FREE
How Blue-BloOded Men of Colonial
= Sires Sustained Their Ancestors
Reputation for Hospitality-Got Up
n Banquet and Charged Their Guests
Cold Plebeian Money for the Feed.

| of savage orders that TO ask representatives
of other tribes that they take salt with
them, the one who hints or intimates that
a recompense be asked of the visitors shah
suffer banshment, a-Cfisgrace among them
! worse than public execution.
This rule has had its parallel in higher
civilization almost without exception until
last Saturday night, when a representative
social organization, composed OF those who
claim the only American patent to nobility,
set a precedent. But it is a precedent
not likely to find emulation, either in po
| lite or impolite society.
This all occurred at the National Cap
ital What's done in Washington is sup
| posed TO be the American way. AS
matter OF justlfiable fact, In this instance
that idea is deusive.
The reading people OF the country know
that last Saturday night the two societies
of revolutionary male descendants feasted
| their sisters to 81 worth OF Arlington
gastromcal specialties. But they don't
know the whole story, because the half
has never been told
There are Sons OF the Revolution. There
are Sons of the American Revolution. 1t
| is distinction without difference, but
| sufficient to be of use for the formation
of two societies, and they are distinct
| and separate. The members are rich and
| blue-blooded. If they should be tapped the
streets would flow with liquid sub
| stance resembling thrice skinned milk.
DECIDED ON "A DINNER,
But that is nei ther here nor there.
| These sons OF colonial sireS Jointly de-
OF the American Revolution would be in
Washington in national congress assembled
on February %, it would be fitting ard
proper to receive them With the fonnali-
ties OF open arms and full Iarder. No
objections were raised Just then. This
was arranged by a select few.
The time of the national congress of the
buff aud blue sisters came on apace. The
brothers saw that they came =in great
numbers They becathc ghast and alarmed
To feed so MANY Would mean a deficit
of perhaps $3.50.
The situation was appalling, to the few,
remember. who had the doing OF the thing.
Tt. this little crowd of select Sons it be-
tcsme aeterrible question how TO either
come down the tree with good grace, or
to face the deficit. and that would mean-A
4 oh ihorrors, d. additional cost OF at least
80 .ceuts Son.
Now the Sons, tre double set of them.
are intrenched., TOO deeply in the pit of
ineAtriCa ble dignity fto utter the remotest
or mildest protest. against what its highly
exalted committee ofarrangements-e chooses
to do. To object would be such a pre-
cipitous violation OF their ethics that it
couldn't, not for An instant, be thought OF.
| SO when this @coniihittee, the general
1 Pooh Bah of which, seems to have been
John B. Wight, or some such person, gently
announced that, the Daughters in their
entirety could not be entertained without
the greater number of the sister guests
yielding up two big andA genuine
simolcous of the coin of the realm, nobody
said nay, although many of them thought
it and would have just loved to have said
it. But dignity, as well as pocketbooks,
must be preserved
- TO A SELECT FEW.
The Daughters came. The city was
theirs, Some Que gave it out that on
washingtons Birthday the Sons We're going
to give a perfectly beau-u-u tiful recep-
tion in their honor, and they were tickled
almost TO death, indeed they were.
About Thursday some of the delegate
to themselves that the Sons invitations
must have been held up en route. No
wonder they got fidgety and uneasy.
In the meantime the national officers nd
the State regents had received very pretty
invitations to the Sons reception at the
Arlington. They at least. were complacent.
The Sons had arranged it that way, SO that
the S15o deficit would not prove bugaboo
and entail sleepless nights, that is, the
officers and regents should come in and
out without being halted at the gates of the
feast chamber, and the others who We're
simply delegates, nothing more, should be
required to put up So, and they were to have
the assurance that the opportunity for ultra
swell comminglng, and the rare products
of the hosteIry's culinary department would
be well worth the price.
1t was all nicely settled by Pooh Bah
Wight and his executive ministry of kindred
spirits.
Time went merrtiy on, as time has
way of doing. The Congress was at its
last evenings session. Nervousness was
rife among the unfortunate delegates who
had not had their names written in the book
of fame by having the distinguishing marks
of receiving officers.
They wanted badly to correct the pro-
era stinating principle of their brothers
which delayed the coveted invitations.
They didn't think of anything else much,
but had TO content themselves with the
transitory reflection that at least the NOR
row would bring the missives which would
| summon them to the festal board.
TT CAME AT LAST.
When they had reached this phtlosophic
| conclusion the Invitation came. It's coming
was unexpected. It's manner was mex-
| pected. t4'is
There were no specimens of the litho-
grapher's art for them. There were no
envelopes mathematically square, and ex
amples of perfect stationery taste for them,
on which their names should be severally
inscribed. There were no realisnls of the
dreams had of those invitations. They came
in the form of one addressed to all, to be
announced from the stage of Congress.
The announcenent was a wound to proud
feelings and disillusion of cherished hopes 1t
was asthatdelegatesn notoffieers could have the
privileges of the reception with the impltca-
tion that they could talk to the brothers just
a little and smelIthe flowers to their hearts
content and eat as much as they could hold
for So each.
The reader may have heard of the
eruptive possibilities of a woman's tongue,
but it was the privilege of but few of the
lords Of creation to hear the volcanic out
burst which greeted this invitation. The
first symptoms were protests of indigna-
tion.
They said many things, such as eWhy the
impudence,'' "Never was such thing
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