Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-06-23
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cit is well known. indeed. it is one OF the
legends of the Senate, that GRAFT Is .he
proper name for all Senate pages. especially
If their real name Is not known OF does no.
come to the mind instantly. explained an
old official of the Senate to Star reporter
recently though the origin of the name Is
known by very few. 1t came about IN thls
way One of the first pages ever appointed
ny the Senate was Grafton ID. Hanson he
served several years. preceding In the ser
vice the late Capt. Isaac Bassett by nearly
ten years. For a while Grafton was the
only page in the Senate chamber. ana the
calls for Graft as he was called were
very numerous and at times urgent. As
new pages came into the Senate from time
to tim. the name Graft was given them ana
used until their names were so well KNOWN
that they could be remembered. me name
Graft has therefore hung on. few know
how or why; and though Of late years II Is
not heard as often. there are some senator's
especially the older ones, who use 1t when
they cannot remember the name of the page
rs they call him. Capt. BaSSett often tolu
that the day after Daniel webster mac
him app&t. ted a page he called him Graft.
and that for his first three or four years as
Il page he was oftener addressed as Graft
than Isaac or Ike 1t may be of interest to
adj that Grafton d. Hanson. though over
eighty years If age. is still living. active and
very much in evidence as many VINO nave
business with the paymaster generals office
in tn. War Department will testify. He
left the Senate in 1915. having been APP
pointed a lieutenant in the army-Sth United
States Infantry. After serving through the
Florida he resigned. MIR. Hanson has
held the position of chief clerk of the pay
n4ster generals office for many years. and
has served there a clerk III the different
grades for nearly a half century. Though
he is of the oldest officials connected
with the War Department. he never seems
to forget the Impressions made him by
the political giants of his boyhood days,
during his service in the Senate
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"A year ago made some observations in
The Star in regard to the connection be-
tween Strawberries and rheuma tism" OBJ
served well-known physician to Star
reporter. and l have been hearing of them
ever since for the observations found their
way into many medical journals through
this country and Europe. l asked a
number Of physicians to observe in their
PRACTICE ii they could trace any rheuma-
tism to Strawberries this season and to
keep me Informed, that 1 could change
my opinion the subject if the facts did
not warrant that which l had formed
the result Of my own observations. With
this Information and that secured from
other sources 1 am still further convinced
that the acid in Strawberries IS an active
agent in developing rheumatism. Mind
You. l do not say think that the ordi-
nary eating of strawberries will produce
any rheumatic troubles with the ordinary
person. for l have thoroughly demon
strated to my own satisfaction that it does
not but that there are conditions and
systems in which Strawberries accelerate
Rheumatic attacks l am more fully con-
WINGED than ever. l think. l before
stated. that nearly all the troubles pro-
duced by strawberries are cured by eating
cherries. for the acid in cherries seems
be ASIyhclaI.S effective in ALA wing rheuma-
tism in any of its various forms. Some
physicians whom | have interested in this
investigation have arrived at conclusions
entirely different from mine. and holding
to the old theory that rheumatism is in the
muscles and flesh. instead Of In the blood.
think that if there has been any unusual
amount of rheuma tism In the past three
or four weeks it is not in consequence of
eating Strawberries. but of the long-con-
t,nued rains which have developed many
other physical troubles we'll. Without
going into the question as to what rheuma-
tism Is or is caused by l maintain that
Strawberries develop 1T IN some cases and
that cherries better and easier than any
other fruit that / know Of Will neutralize
the effect of Strawberries even If the con-
sumption of them does cure the rheu-
matiSm-
Department clerks have discussed the
question for many years. but have never
settled the matter as TO whether a clerk
may properly. during the summer months
or any other month"; for that matter work
IN his shirt sleeves said an old land office
Clerk to Star reporter. Il admit that 1t
IS convenient and pleasant to do So but
think that nine-tenths of the clerks, men
and women. in the various departments
think as l DO. that a man should never
work in r,'ibNc office in his shirt sleeves
I know that some do but the exceptions
are very few, 1 am willing TO go further
and say that q man should not work in
Lis vest. thar is. without a coat. II mat
tors not how trifliny the coat is and
admit that some office coats often more
an excuse Than anything else but if it is a
coat il fills thu Hill and stops discussion and
criticism The land office clerks are prob
ably well dressed a 10; OF clerks Is
there ar in any department. though they
may not be handsome. l; was settled
with Us zen or more years ago t.lat a man