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The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1902-09-26
Social,

The Y. P. G. U. of carlton will
serve ice cream and oysters on the
night of Sept. 81, at Alleman's hall.
Music will he furnished by members
of the society. Come one and all and
enjoy yourselves. For benefit of the
U.B. church.-By order of committee.
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RAISED FROM THE DEAD.

C. w. Lands, "Porter" for the
Oriental Hotel, Chanute. Kans., says:
~ know what 1t was to suffer with
neuralgia, deed 1 did. and got a
bottle of Billiards. Snow Liniment
and I was raised from the dead
tried to get some more, but before l
had 'deposed' of my bottle, was
cured entirely. 1 am tellin de truth
too" IS, soc aud s1.00 at Geo. P.
Wilder's.
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Republican County Ticket.
Republican Caucus.

The Republicans Of Tioga town.
ship will meet at the township house
on Saturday, Sept. q, at 4 p. m. for
the purpose of nominating town
ship ticket, G. 5. NATION,
Committeeman.
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SPRING MILLINERY.

have the latest styles in spring
millinery. Stock fresh, bright and
clean. Prices to suit the trade.
MRS J. w. LOWRY,
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Poor baking has caused many a di-
vorce Many a woman has reached
her husbands heart through his
stomach. Cream of the wheat always
makes good bread and pastry.
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THE WASHINGTON LETTERS OF A NEW YORK ELZABETH--L

to go up to the Capitol the very next day
and address personal memorial to the
Serate-perhaps visit the White House
and fling myself at oar Theodore's feet,
demanding-whateveF the Cubans ask for,
At the end of this extraordinarily elo-
quent harangue which made one wonder
how the new man" had ever strayed into
the sapless smart set, he turned toward
me, looked straight into my eyes-a way
men have in Washington, and abruptly re-
marked Are you engaged?"
For the Bachelors cotillion? Yes-un-
fortunately.
Don't fool with me-" said the remark
able new man, '.are you engaged to be
! married to any one?'
l made a mental reservation as to
Dicks chances as 1 shook my head.
Then / mean to do my best to get
you to have me some day. said the new
man as he drew back my chair and ws
rose from the table.
All about Cuba and almost-a- proposal
at a Washington dinner from q perfect
stranger.
What quickness," as that droll little
Rogers brother would say. I noticed
that even most worldly men 1T the table
must have been using something OF the
same celebrity if not the same political
exposition, for ''eyes looked love to eyes
that spoke again." 5emi-detached wives.
emanCipaItu WlIoNS ana independent
spinsters indulged in drawing room tete-
a-tetes. not with the men on their right
who had taken them in, but with the men
on their left. who had been shrewdly
placed there by the charming and calcu-
lating hostess to be taken and done for
Mrs. Gardenia has since informed me
that she always brings out at least one
new man. preferably Congressional. every
winter, and that they usually propose to
the woman next to them before dinner is
over. She seemed rather curious to know
If the exponent Of the Cuban question
had offered himself to me, and, when
said perhaps" smiled subtly and hoped
/ wasn't offended with him.
OF course not. When IN Washington,
do as the adopted Washingtonians do,
Who knows what my answer might not
have been to this enterprising new man.
il it hadn't been for the thought of a dear
confiding boy in New York, who writes
and telegraphs, and sends me more vio-
lets than he can afford every day I'm
away.
And so in spite of the sentimental Sem
ator and the hustling Cuban Congress-
man Of my dinner experiences, here's te
Dick. bless his brown eyes!
ELIZABETH NJ H
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/ Congressman. Life is not designed to
minister to mans vanity" Assuredly
not The new Congressman knows this
as he grows into an old Congressman.
| In fact he begins to know it very, very
soon after he strikes Pennsylvania Ave
! nue-long before he has come to call it
The" Avenue. He is made unpleasant
ly conscious of the lack of consideration,
the want of appreciation, of the stroller
on the highway. No hats are lifted at
his approach. No respectful salutations
are accorded his presence. The passers-
by do not indulge in significant nudgings.
Nor do they whisper awedly, There goes
Congressman Backwater."
This is strange to him. 1t is not the
thing he has expected. At home he has
been a Somebody. Please let the big
S stand, Mr.. Compositor) His advice
has been sought. His approval has been
courted- He has opened meetings. He
has headed petitions. He has been con-
suited by the wise men of the country
lage green whenever two or three have
gathered together. He has had babies
named after him. He has had the men
and their wives call on him. He has been
entrusted with the shepardage Of an ad-
miring flock. And here he is no more
than a tick of the clock. 1t is discourag-
iug
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Then, on again. The eSemplifcatfon Of
the -the-brow theory. And, al
nightfall, weariness, weariness. With
however. the consoIing suggestion that
Saturday night is less far away by 4
whole day and that Saturday night means
dance at the pavilion of the good
neighbor over the way. All, this is, in
deed, something to lcok forward to.
Saturday night sees you arrayeG like
one of these. Your overalls are cast
aside. You appear in a suit of store
clothes. Possibly the trousers are a
trifie too short Or it may be that your
legs are trifie too long. No matter
There is no great harm. The estrange-
ment of trousers and feet serves to show
that you are wearing, not the field-day
boots OF bondage, but rather heavy new
able at the combination postofilce- dry
goods-store- and barber-shop at The Cor
ners.
Your shirt is white. n departure from
ordinary observance. To be sure, it is
not open at the front and at the back,
nor are the cuffs attached. As you do
not know of the existence of shirts of
The described pattern, what difference
does it make TO you? None. None
whatsoever. Also, you wear a ready
made necktie, magniGcently streaked
with red and white bars. quite like
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, post as secretary at one of our Embassies
/ abroad? Dick is nothing if not diplo-
| matte. | don't think / mentioned Dick in
my previous communications; the fact is
! he cant get away from New York before
February but he writes to me daily. teie-
! graphs whenever the spirit moves hin
and. Judging by the quantity of viClets l
! am receiving, must be on excellent term:
| with his florists. | have absolutely for
| bidden him to send me gardenias or
| Orchids-the flowers of the millionaire or
the opulent Senator.
| By way of contrast to the stately ban
| quet | have touched upon came a small
and rather jolly dinner on the night OF
! the bachelors dance. Mrs. Gardenia, who
| is extremely smart, WAS our hostess, and
enter tains on precisely the same lines as
our women do in Newport, New York
| London, Paris. Deanville, and the great
summer and winter capitals. Cousin
Clara, who was dining somewhere else
| explained MIS-. Gard ania s theory as to
dinner giving to me as We bowled along
| Massachusetts Avenue in the brougham
| both in our very best frocks in honor OF
| the Bachelors " contillicn later on.
1t seems that Mrs. Gardeuia divines
| mems souls. and understands that every
| man in society is secretly devoted to some
woman. and she to him. Her dinners are
therefore known as the Jacks and Jills,"
and are never known to fail. Having heard
these views l WAS curious to learn who,
of all the half dozen men ALREADY assem-
bled in the drawing rOom-fOr l was Il lit
tile late-would offer his arm to take me
into dinner.
1t proved TO be the lingering sweetness
long drawn out of foreign secretary
whom | had SO fancied in his immaculate
white imperial body guard uniform at the
White House diplomatic reception, and
whom l have been meeting constantly
since. He is musical" l am fond of
music, and hence probably our hostess
assumption that our duet would prove
sympathetic. AS We seated ourselves at
table | glanced at my Geighbor on my
right who had been rapidly presented to
me by my hostess who whispered as she
passed that he was the new man" Then
/ took a general look and by process
of almost unconscious calculation noted
that there was not a husband present
and that the few wives were semi-de-
tached, the rest widows in ordinary.
Clara had warned me that this would be
a grass widowed feast and so it proved;
there were absolutely no Senators or AM
bassadors, and the masculine balance was
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When the "Chooe Of the Peepu1'' Comes to Town.
He Finds That He Is After All Only Licensed
Obsourity, and That the Dome of the Capitol
Continues to Set Straight Without Any Support
From the Budding Statesman. II It

TINE new Congressman in Washing,
ton is like the country boy at
L the city dance. He is distinctly
out OF it.
You know that country boy.
Maybe you are or have been country
boy. You know the Saturday night
diversions OF the country. For the pur-
poses of argument let US say that you
are. in person. that country boy. Six
days do you labor. You work from the
rising of the sun-sometimes a good while
before that daily hint from the East-long
after the going down of the same. You
are busted about the farm. You have
your chores 10 do. First, the COWS to be
cared for. Boxes of salt to be prepared
for the tickling OF their big rough
place. Pals to be arranged for the re-
ception OF the milk. And then the actual
labor of the Understanding operation.
After that the horses. Piles OF hsr-
ness TO be taken down from the pegs in
the stables. The beasts to be brought
out from their stalls. The hitching up
to the horse-drawn vehicles of the farm,
the mower. the reaper. The days work
in the field. The noontime rest. The
.yictuals" eaten under the shade Of a
hay-staek Straws and seedlings in the
coffee brought over from the farm house
in the basket of the young daughter of
the place. brief respite from the grind.
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death-I was very much disappointed with
Senator from whom l had expected
something much more substantial than
frivoIity. We women-and we girls-were
all grouped in the drawingroom. slipping
coffee and declining liqueurs, when the
Senator emerged from the diningroom
and, ignoring the invitation to the quad
riHe d'honneur from the dowagers,
waltzed directly up to poor modest Bessie
in her green and white latest and sat
down on the same somewhat contracted
sofa.
Here was one Of the chances of my life
and the Washington season. Now for
Cuba, said | to myself, and proceeded to
gently but firmly cross-examine the dis
tinsuishod orator. l must say l was
rather surprised when, instead of answer
ing me inteIligently. he transfixed me
with his eagle orbs precisely as Dick
does at home when he wishes to have "a
heart to- heart talk" and suddenly re-
marked:
rs there anything l can do for YOU
or yours"
why. no, thanks
Have you no friend, no relation, no
one whose interests l might advance if
only"
IF only
IF only to prove my sincerity"
Al this moment, that doughty dame his
Mrs. Senator tapped Kim rather sharply
on his shoulder with her fan and when
she rose every body seemed to get up, too,
for she--and the hapless one--were the
most distinguished persons present. So
great is the force of example that even |
got up. though in New York no man living
would have caused me 20 stir, except, of
course. the President or Bishop Potter
or NV dear old Rev. Henry" Bishop Sat
terlee. orwell, no matter.
Senator" the lady said, sharply, glanc
ing reprovingly at the vioiets in my white
and green frock, Senator, if we don't
hurry we shall be late for the music at
the Wardens " Then. bidding me rather
an acidulated good night, she bore her
eminent partner away. The Senator
turned as he departed. assumed most
caressing manner, and remarked with
paternal air no girl could object to: Re
If there's anything l can do for
you or yours
After all. why shouldn't l get Dick
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case of stately banquet. removed from
the Senator himself or an Ambassador,
and sandwiched between a bachelor diplo-
mat and a Representative i'll Congress as
sembIed. or some ambitious young Ameri-
can who is engaged in studying the art OF
diplomacy; but after dinner, when the
men stroll into the drawing room to re
lieye the pressure of the Adamless Eden.
it is a remarkable fact that the Senators
and Ambassadors single me out to a man
and cold shoulder the distinguished ma
triarchs in way that would earn me more
than one bad five minutes in the ladies'
| dressing room
1t is then that, having practiced on the
| budding diplomatists with the smallest OF
small talk throughout the entire dinner.
try 20 discuss Cuba and the tariff with the
Senators and various international ques-
tions with the Ambassadors and am aston
ished to find them-almost invariably
disposed TO lighter themes by way of relax
alton. / talk like an editorial writer in
the New York Blunderbuss;" they listen
with their eyes, which wander from the
wave of my hair to the toe of my slipper
and then remark irrelevantly: Il see you
are wearing orchids'-or violets. or gar
denias, as the case may be. 1T is my ia
vorite flower. Won't you spare me one ,"
None of the Ambassadors. save Lord
Pauncefote, who is ill and confined to his
room, poor man, and whom I've not even
seen, and the distinguished Mexican.
whom l have yet to meet, is married
France" and Italy are residing here
en- garcon, though Italia is bound hither
armed with an English dictionary; Ger
many" is a bachelor and Russia" dwells
alone. but they are each and all courtll-
ness personified and so deeply interesting
that if there is ever room for another
ambassadress ! should be very ,nuch in
clined to recommend Cousin Clara. who
has adopted for her motto, while there
Is a Diplomatic Corps there is Hope"
At my last formal dinner, which was as
stiff in some ways as any have attend
ed ut Newport-over-ripe matrons in
pearls and brocades, distinguished men on
their very best behavior. bored almost to
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My Dear Fellow Americans:
-HE New York girl who, like myself.
is going through her very first
Washington season, speedily dis
covers radical difference in the
point OF view between society in the
Capital and the great metropolis.
When l first came down here-was it,
after all, only fortnight ago?-I had
imagined that it was quite enough for a
girl to look her best and to be smartly
dressed and to confine her observations
10 pIatitudes Of a personal character. But
hadn't been staying in and about Dupont
Circle for two days when l discovered
that from the Washington point of view
that is not nearly enough; any girl how
ever nice looking and no matter how veil
dressed, must be prepared to what
mamma used to call Sustain a conyeTsa-
tion,' and in order TO talk she must think
first, and in order 10 think she must OBJ
serve and, altogether, the dear old New
York pose Of getting into good gown
and looking unuttcrable things. which CT
course, remain unsaid, won't do down here
a bit-no. not 4 little bit.
@sOh, al IlJII.t / iisfE d4hdFS Ii!fE iiifu
that it was time enough to talk once one
was married, but in Washington the fa2t
IS that IN order to even hope to get mar
ried a girl must talk. HAS she anything
To say for herself?" IS the first question
Washington men ask Of one another,
when new girl comes to Town, accord
ing to the gospel Of Uncle G., who reports
TO us regularly what is being said at the
club.
As female orator. sort Of an up
to-date Madame de Stael, / am told by
Cousin Clara, ] am already achieving
reputation, for one OF the men she knows
said to another. "a good -looker, isn't
she?" "oh. yes" ssiG the other, but,
Ny-no matter. How that girl can talk:"
And yet l have always let men do all
the talking before. even at Hcmburg and
Newport. Il must be case of-Tell,
maternal instinct.
Washington. socially considered, is di-
yided into ladies' luncheons every day,
and the Adam and Eve luncheon on Sun
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day; teas" teas, teas every after
noon; dances. dances, dances, every even
! ing. occasional evening receptions that
resemble the London party dear to dow
ayers; bridge whist matinees and bridge
whist soirees, and dinners, dinners, din
ners, dinneTs-and the greatest of all
| these is the dinner. Having dwclt upon
| the teas" from the White House to the
| graceful welcome TO America" OF dear
| little Mrs. Chauncey Mitchell Depew,
must skip those OF the past week in favor
than those of Newport, and. so far as
have got, considerably more interesting.
When a talking girl like myself dimes out
every night OF her life, which Is exactly
my case during this extraordinary season.
she is apt TO touch upon various and di
verse circles and all sorts and conditions
OF men and women.
AS n guest at nay cousins, have adopt
cd the sensible course OF allowing Clara
to accept o. decline my dinner invitations.
When she says yes l am delighted"
when sho says no. I greatly regret"
This is no snobbishness either on her part
or mine, but sound sense; neither she, as
4 Washingtonian. nor !, strange to say
IS a New Yor6e-, in the least care
whether people are richer or poorer,
smart or non-smart-the great question
is, arc they bores or are they not bores?
II they are bores Clara knows it by the
sad experience OF resident; if they are
not bores Clara says "go!" and Bessie
Roeth.
Therefore, every evening at half after
geven i have my maid do my hair and
put mc into either dinner gown or a
ball dress. as the case may be. and every
evening, in n.' best or very best, l am
taken in Uncle G.'s neat little brougham
TO eon.e house where Senator and Mrs.
Coupon or plain unofficial Sir. and Mrs.
Bullion are assembling their guests in the
flower decorated and softly lighted draw
ing room, or it may be that my hostess
is one of the widows of this widowvlle
of Wasfington-a lady whom ! will call
Mrs. Gardenia.
As an unmarried maidan l am. in the
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cupied, the new, Congressman rises to re-.
mark. He has found legitimate oppor
tunity. The clerk has read the report Of
the doings of the day before. The new
Congressman hears, with horror. that he
is credited with having voted on GER
tain measure. He had not been in his
seat at the time The mistake is awful.
He is on his feet. and bawling. "Mr.
Speaker" The Speaker recognizes him
after five minutes. Says the new Con-
gressmar. tremulously: Mr.. Speaker.
am incorrectly reported as having voted
on the bill for the enlargement of Ditch
water Creek. l did not vote. Should /
have been in my seat would have voted"
He sits down. Some one on the floor asks
some one else: who is that chap who
looks like he combed his hair with a
sponge and says, Should 1 have been?'"
And some one else does not know. No
body knows. The new Congressman is
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no more than fly on the wall. It is very
discouraging.

no more than fly on the wall IT is very
discouraging. -
There comes day when the new Con-
gressman rises to speak on a pending
measure. 1t is proud day for him. He
says he has a few words to say on the
subject of irrigation. The House is not
interested. Half of it is inattentiye. The
other half is absent. The inattentive part
is talking, laughing, thwaeking it's desk
to point its story telling. Now and then,
the voice CT the new Congressman may be
heard above the din. He is saying some
thing about broad acres Next he is
telling of the large population of the
laboring classes" Now the rest CT the
House browns his voice. But he talks
on.
The Speaker raps vigorously. There is
a lull in the general noise. You get from
the new Congressman something about
children yet unborn. whose heritage we
may not squander." Then the rest Of the
House gets in its work. 1t hates to be in
terrupted by new Congressman making
a speech. More rappings by the Speaker.
Then is heard again the voice of the new
Congressman He has started on the sub
ject of irrigation. Now he is around to
the Philippine question. He winds up on
the Schley-Sampson controversy. No one
pays any attention to him He is an
in the alphabet. 1t is very discouraging.
After time, he will get over being a
new Congressman. And then he will be
able to read the message Robert Louis
Stevenson brings, when he says:
Life is not designed to minister to
mans vanity" THE EX-PAGE.
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On the street car. he may pay his fare.
He may ride to the Capitol, if ne give
his nickel. Or he may have his six
tickets for twenty-five cents. The col
nickel, or she may ride on a car ticket.
Also. she need not get out before the
Capitol grounds are reached. Her fare
entities her to ride to the end of the
line. The new Congressman is no more
than q button On the conductors coat.
1t is very discouraging
He is in the Capitol. He notes that
the dome is still on. Further, that it is
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I well preserved by three Americans be-
| ing opposed to the same number or dap
Per minor diplomats. OF the quar-
tette of women, leaving my hostess and
myself out of the reckoning, couple were
| detached wives, a third was an unmarried
/ maiden to keep me in countenance, and
the fourth was a vIvacious widow.
My diplomatic escort began the attack,
and, although l am yersed in continental
languages, l have yet to follow him in his
airy fight between our yernacular and his
mother tongue. l console myself by re-
| marking his exceptional pulchritude-
forget-me- not eyes cast sidelong glances,
a sweet smile curves ample red lips
shaded by a downy mustache and dis
closing white teeth, and altogether, the
gentle giant looks his music if he doesn't t
succeed in making himself intellig bic!
Sing on, speak on, my attache! Some
day-perhaps Above shall be able
to understand what you are talking about.
Doubtless my replies are vague and mala-
propos for the misunderstood young gen.
tleman turns his attention to the widowed
lady on his right who is obviously eager
TO talk to him. They at least seem to
come to an immediate understanding and
/ have, therefore. no compunctions In
hearkerinS unto my left-handed neighbor
who addresses me in a deep-chested voice
and the accents of some far Western ter
ritory.
rs this your first visit to Washington.
Miss-?" The new man pauses. Miss
NJ. H. 90
l remark. yes. and yours probably
since you are the new man"
I'm right glad to meet the new wo-
man." retOrted this child of nature in his
full baritone. ''if you are specimen of the
article. Whisky and soda? No. thank
you" (This to the butler) Il guess
champagne is good enough for meas we
say where l came from before l struck
Congress"
"Oh, then, you're in Congress? The
new man! | see! And now | may be able
to hear something about the Cuban ques-
ton
well, l should remark. That's where
l live!"
"A Cuban?'
81 mean-that's my speciality"
"Oh"
Entree followed fish, game the roast
and ever Cuba-interrupted with person
al illusions and comparisons of the most
f1attering character. Before the ices had
been served I was under the impression
that 1 was the incarnation of the Cod
dess of Liberty and that it was my duty