The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1899-11-10
WASHINGTON LETTER.
Her One Better--The $. ID. r.. Ma
tionaI Museum Exhibit.
Especial Correspondence

tionaI Museum Exhibit.
Especial Correspondence
Married government clerks are mani
Testing considerable uneasiness on ac-
count of the rumors in circulation of a
general shaking up in the departments,
and where husband and wife are EN-
| ployed by the government one or the
other will be dismissed. 1t has been the
| policy of the heads of a number of the
departments to ask for the resignation
of their women employees when they
entered the matrimonial state
This custom is generally recognized
| by the women, who usually offer
their resignation just before the mar
riage ceremony is performed. A num-
| Der of them have concealed the fact,
| however, that they have taken partners
and continue to draw their salaries,
| signing their maiden names upon the
| vouchers.
| The officials claim this is an injustice
| to single persons, and is a serious OBJ
stacle in securing the employment of
unmarried persons. The rule is rigidly
enforced in the government printing of
| flee, and frequently clerks who have
| concealed the fact of their marriage
are dismissed.
Recently couple were married
| quietly and said nothing about it. Both
continued to draw their pay, but when
it came to the ears of the public printer
| he sent for both persons and told them
one or the other would have to resign.
| AS the wife earned larger salary than
| the husband she decided to retain her
position, and the masculine member of
| the firm resigned.
Going Her One Better.
| There Is story going about town
| just now concerning a famous man of
| letters who visited Washington recent
ly and was fairly deluged with invita-
lions to breakfasts and luncheons and
| dinners and suppers and goodness only
knows what else during his stay. He
accepted almost none of them and ap-
peared at but one dinner party. There
he sat next to the young daughter of
noted naval officer. Her vocabulary is
of kind peculiar to very young girls,
| but she ratified away at the famous
man without a moments respite. He
| for his part wanted to talk to his
hostess on the other side of him, but
| the talkative girl didn't give him a
chance. She asked him all sorts of
| questions. 1t was during pause in
| the general conversation that she said
| to him:
I'm awfully struck on Shakespeare
Don't you think he's terribly interest.
ing?"
Everybody listened to hear the great
mans brilliant reply, for, as Shakes.
pearean scholar, he has few peers.
"Yes," he said solemnly, 81 do think
he is interesting. l think he is more
than that think Shakespeare is just
simply too cute for anything"
The S. d. H. Museum Exhibit.
The Society of the Daughters of the
Revolution has recently made some
substantial additions to it's exhibit in
the National museum, which has
grown constantly since the society OBJ
tanned the privilege of placing it there,
in 1896, and is one of the most inter
| eSIlu2
treasures are portrait of General Is
rael Putnam, presented to the society
by his great-granddaught Emily L..
Baker; four samples of script which
were carried in the pocket of General
| Washington, the gift of Elizabeth
! Bryant Johnston; a partial set of china,
some % pieces in all, which belonged
| ~ In of
Morris who was prisoner on the pris
on ship Jersey, where so many patriots
| died of disease and neglect big leath
| er pocketbook once owned by Ebenezer
| Frye, who was wounded at the battle
of Bunker Hill, and $40 BILL issued
| by the American congress at Phila-
delphia ON Sept. 26, 1776.
Miss PauncefOte's BetrothaI.
More than ordinary interest is mani
tested in the announcement of the en-
gagement of Miss Lillian Pauncefote
and Robert Bromley, which came by
| the way of London. Miss Pauncefote
and Mr.. Bromley are great fayorites
here. Mr.. Bromley has been in Wash
ington as member of the official fam
=
is the son of Sir Henry Bromley, is 20
years of age and of distinguished ap-
pearance. Miss Lillian Pauncefote is
the third daughter of Lord and Lady
Pauncefote. She possesses many charm
ing qualities and is exceedingly pretty,
with brown hair and eyes and brill
liant complexion She is gifted with
unusual musical talent. Her voice is
one of great sweetness and is often
heard in the home circle to the accom-
paniment of her father in the selec-
lions he himself composes for his
daughter.
Cost of Feeding the Army.
| Congress will be asked to appropriate
something like $17,000,000 for feeding
the army next year, which will be the
largest appropriation made for the
commissary department since the civil
war; The appropriation for last year
was $9,000000 and was based on the
understanding that the army would
consist of 10000 men. With the in
craa 60 tn 100 O0O mon fhis total will he