Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1896-02-20
OVER THE COFFEE CUPS.
breakfast Table Talk with just a Hint of
SpIce In It,

One evening Tom Reed was dining at
swell Washington restaurant. newspa-
per correspondent desiring to see him on
important business peored into the dining
room. but did not recognize him. The
landlord went in and brought Mr.. Reed
out, whereupon the scribe said II saw
you in there but mistook you for Preai-
dent Cleveland" Reed, solemn as an owl,
replied, For heavens sake, never let
Cleveland know that. for he is too vain of
his beauty now."St. Louis Republic.
An interesting feature of the dinner re-
Gently given to President and Mrs. Cleve-
land by Secretary and Mrs. Carlisle was
the entire absence of wines and liquors
from the table says the New York Sun
despatch. There were two glasses at zach
plate, one for Potomac water and the 9TH
or for Apolinarls. Mrs. Cleveland Mrs.
Lamont, Mrs. Carlisle, Miss Morton and
Mrs Wilson of the cabinet ladies' are tee
totalers and never touch wine on any occa-
sion. Colonel Lamont says that he has
never tasted whiskey in his life, and 1t Is
well known that he never drinks wine at
dinners. Secretary Carlisle has not touch
ed a glass of anything intoxicating since
he entered the cabinet Mrs. Cleveland
and all the ladies of the cabinet, with the
exception of Mrs. Carlisle, serve wine at
dinners and luncheons for the benefit of
their guests, but Mrs. Carlisle says that
no wine or liquor of any kind has crossed
the threshold Of her home since the in
Iauguration of President Cleveland. Secre-
tary Olney has given up his Sunday even
ing dinners, and now invites guests 1or
Saturday night instead.
Governor Culberson of Texas thus OK
planned to a Washington Star reporter
how he entered politics, and obtained his
first office, that of attorney general.
II had been practicing law" he said,
land thought | had made about enough
reputa ton to Justify branching out. | did
not be expected to be nominated, but l
thought it would be coed instruction to
start with race for t'hc attorney general
ship. George Clark, one of the ablest law
'yers In the country. was my opponent. He
| was placed in nomination by a brilliant
! speech, while my friend, who proposed my
name, neglected to mention my attain
ments. 1t locked dark for me when d mao
/ from the Panhandle arose and said:
" Mr.. Speaker, they say Clark's a great
lawyer. l come with proxies from my end
of the State all in my pocket, an was noti-
/ fled to vote for Clark. But | know no one
had any idea he was a lawyer. This State
has been hogswaddled by the lawyers till
she's so pore you can't sell enough cotton
to pay for the cattle the cactus kills, all
/ on account of tho lawyers and the rail-
roads that keeps en- up. | hope we won't
q pun III any leN - f'ii' ~ AOi C'ipei oOi
Nobody's ever accused him of being a law
YER
THAT speech resulted in my nomina-
ton"
Says Yvette Guilbert: AS soon as
get back 10 Paris I'm going TO have some
body write me a song which | have al
ready planned. The refrain of every vers
Is to he CASH! and in the first stanza
will explain now in the American shop
the girls all Cash. In the second verse Il
will be a little girl that cries CASH an,
so on until when she becomes older and Il
no longer good shop girl she continues t.
call Cash."