Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1901-12-05
WASHINGTON LETTER.
Chatty Gossip About Mrs. Roosevelt's
Social Innovation; A Diplomatic
Deadshot.
From our regular Correspondent

the land" can do no wrong, socially
speaking. Therefore Mrs. Roosevelt's
innovation of sending out cards for
informal receptions only "a hours in
advance of the time for holding them
has been accepted as a matter of
course, but had the thing been start
ed by some hostess in private life
there would have been kicks in plenty.
Mrs. Roosevelt's object is to meet all
men and women of prominence before
the formal opening of the social sea-
son. She has no regular day for those
receptions, but manages to hold one
each week, limiting the invitations to.
200, Just. one-tenth of the number is
sued for the official White House re-
ceptions.
Few persons, even in Washington,
know that there is man in the diplo-
matte corps who is dead shot with
pistol or rifle. The man is Senior de
Assis-Brasil, minister from Brazil
He learned to shoot on his fathers
ranch, one of the most extensive in
Brazil, and at an early age was able
to beat any vaquero or hunter in the
vicinity. He never shoots in public,
but there is private shooting-gallery
in the Brazilian legation building in
which he gives some wonderful exhi-
billions for the amusement of his
friends, such as shooting silver quar-
tiers from his wife's hand, and the
ashes off the cigars smoked by sever
al of his friends His favorite weap-
ons are small pair of pistols and a
gallery rifle, made after his own de-
signs. His friends tell him that if he
should lose all of his money and his
diplomatic job, he could easily and
quickly make fortune giving public
exhibitions of his marvellous shoot
ing, but as he anticipates neither
there is no prospect of his taking
the road as professional.
Senator Joe Bailey's metamorpho-
sis is causing much gossip among his
numerous Washington friends. Dur
ing the many years he was member
of the House he was welded to turn
Town collars and SLOUGH hats; the
kind that have been popular with
Southern and western men for long,
long time, and on several occasions he
declined invitations to dine with
Presidents because he wodld not wear
a full dress coat, and didn't care to
made himself conspicuous by appear
ing without one. All that was when
he was Representative Bailey. Now
he is Senator Bailey. and his ideas on
the subject of dress have undergone
change. He wears silk hat, stand
ing collar, and patent leather shoes,
and it is whispered that his>wardrobe
contains full dress suit of the very
latest style. He is still whiskerless,
but no one would be surprised now to
Bailey has long been considered one
of the handsomest men in Congress,
and now that he is also to be one of
the most stylishly dressed he will
NAVE mOiO lduJ uuLuliClo phdA OfCA,
and he has never lacked them.
Among the college men who will
make their debut in public life in the
new Congress is Hon. Dudley Wooten
of Texas, who is graduate of Prince
ton and of the University of Virginia,
and the author of a history of Texas
that is regarded as authority as well
as high class literature. Mr.. Wooten
also brings with him the reputation
of an orator that his friends predict
will soon make him marked man in
the House. In appearance Mr.. Woot-
en- is tall and commanding, with the
face of a student and thinker. The
college men in public life are now
both numerous and prominent, and
Mr.. Roosevelt is taking especial pains
to make them all feel at home in the
White House which is more than
than some Presidents who might be
named did.
Attorney General Kno X would pay
well for trustworthy information as
TO the originator OF the newspaper
story that his pair of trotters-the
finest in Washington-which have a
record of 2:1O4, driven by Mr.. Knox,
were named respectively ''Highball''
and '.Siphon." The horses are named
Vert and B. c., and the names were
not chosen by Mr.. Knox, but were
bought along with their pedigrees.
Mr.. Knox won't say what he paid for
them, but it is generally understood
that it was $4,000 He has a third
I otter named DR.. Leek that is equal
ly as fast as the others. Mr.. Knox
and his family are now settled in the
house built by Mrs. Geo. w. Childs,
which he bought last spring. and Mrs.
Knox and their only daughter. Miss
n, 4 IL.