The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1902-01-13
THE EVENING TIMES
FRANK JMUNSEY

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Nobody has lately found time 20
discover new disease for King Ed
ward tp have.
II IS stated that although reporters
were three deep ON the wharf, Sena-
tor Depew had enough witticisms to
go around.
Love may be one grand, sweet song,
out the performances i'm the divorce
courts seem to prove that 1t is q rag
time song
When a Chinese gentleman is "ofi-
cially deprived of his head it some
times signife~ merely that he has no
head for business.
China is to have Minister Of Edu-
cation. but it is not thought that
football course viii at once be intro
duced in Celestial colleges
\ house was recently built in seven
minutes in Chicago. This would he
an appropriate habitation for some of
the mushroom aristocracy.
Some of the people svho seem to oh
ject SO much e., the personal vanity
of an actor-managrr forget that that
Is a very necessary part of his stock
in trade.
Mrs. Astor is said to have cut the
New York -Four Hundred down to one
hundred; bur the three hundred peo-
pie who are said TO have been cut out
have not yet heard of it.
Another Chicago professor has
made q discovery. He thinks he has
located the soul in the spinal column:
but what, in that event, becomes Of
the men without any backbone?
Between their dislike of KipIing and
their hereditary aversion to England.
some newspapers, in commenting
upon The Islanders" are forced 10
perch themselves on a picket fence.
A great deal of fuss has been made
about Nero's fddIing while Rome
burned. but really. the most serious
objection 10 il lies i'm the fact that he
was probably not "A very good fiddler.
Champ Clark says that he can
write equally well about religion or n
dog fight. de should be able 10 de
scribe a Congressional debate. for
that IS =7metjmes a combination Of
the two.
The thing for Mr. Devery to do now
is to write Il book. i'm which he can
reform the English language after
his peculiar methods while the other
people reform New York according
10 theirs
From the amount Of squeaIing
which followed the publication Of
"The Islanders" IT would appear that
something in the line of pfg-sticking
has happened at home as well as in
South Africa.
Everything may be peaceful and
serene in the ncighborhood Of the
Empress Dowager of China, but no
foreign devil who comes shopping
around there is likely to have happy
time, for all that.
If fifteen Americans had been killed
and many more wounded in a Black
Iole Of Picking instead of a Rlacl,
Hole of a New York railway. there
would have been international discus
sion Of the incident.
A New York poet apostrophizes the
debutante I'm this fashion:
your cheeks and lips and nose
Are all suggestive Of a rose
OF course, the necessities of rhvme
account for some things. but it is
lucky for the poet that he did not adj
dress any particular debutaute. or her
big brother might have come around
TO the Office 10 find ont about the red
nose allegation.
Enterprise Of the Daughters.
One Of the striking features Of the
more respIendent Washington will be
Continental Hall. The Daughters Of
the American Revolution have said SO.
and the American woman has a way
Of accomplishing what she sets out
TO do. The structure. which is 10 Dee
the headquarters and home Of The
national society. VIII be one of archi-