The Washington times., 1902-01-05

ing the overcoat of Benjamin Harrison.
1t was cruel day, if you remember. AL
so, it was cruel day, whether you re-
member or not. The wind was doing its
best to blow the Capitol off the face Of
the earth, and the rain was coming down
with all the enthusiasm of the original
Great Flood. ---.-.-. --
The President. walked out from the ro-
tunda onto the east steps, and as he
passed he said to the boy: ''Will you
hold my overcoat. SOM" And Son held
the overcoat. and was happy 1t was just
as if the President had said: "Will you
accept the post of Ambassador to the
Court of st. James, and permit me to
double the salary now connected with
the berthe" AS for General Harrison,
the boy was TO him only one Of sixteen
pages. having about as much identity as
pillar on the portico. Bit the boy
didn' know this, and was blissf9l. SS9ss
Speaking OF little boys-we are getting
bit eff the subject of 1902-anpther lit
tie boy wanders over to the grand centre
chandelier and looks inquiringly at the
vine display overhead. Later he is heard
to ask the sedate policeman where the
mistletoe is. sNz'
The Fussy Woman is here in the East
Room before the big show starts. Some
how the Fussy Woman is everywhere we
go, and we wish she wasn't. Anyway,
she was. here on Wednesday all right, and
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window where the sun came through with
a little more force than she thought war
aranted by the solemrhy of the occasion
she Immediately declared that this
wouldn't do at all. There was too much
glare in the room. She reached out into
the window recess and laid her hand on
the curtain for the purpose Of pulling it
down. The sedate policeman, gliding
noiselessiy over the inch-thlck carpet,
was just in time 10 prevent an inter.
ference with the housekeeping arrange
ments 0fzAfs, Theodore Roosevelt, He
didn't say very much. and he didn't use
a loud tone, but what he said must have
been sufficient. fer the Frssy Woman gaze
over her ende2yors at Improvement and
sighed deeply5eh The density of. some pco-
pie. T.
speaking Of the floor covering, girl
who ehews gun, and wears high -heeled
shoes is heard5to ask the very bald and
very bland young man, her escort, i, he
doesn't think the Brussels carpet is too
beautiful. Whcreupcn The bald young man
responds that the carpet is indeed beauti-
ful. and that, in addition. il sported brus
sels an ineh high. He is an-awfully mad
wag, this kouhs man.
- The room is safy cold but Iatar. when
it begins te-hJla the uniforms and ere
ations. ii wonid BE ,1Jrc comfortable were
TIE windows opcncd
Now the hear of reception approaches.
A very tail, blonde young man, loaded
down. with the harness CT ra TX, steps
lervcusly from somewhere and is, for
brief minute, the centre CT The stage In
the East Room. ~Oh, colonel" cries some
one, arl dashes toward the tall young
mar. whcsc long steps are carrying him
away in the direction of the holy OF
hoIies. That's Colonel Bingham" whis-
rcrs s5mc one awesomely. hes going to
make the presentations" The colonel es-
capes. The man who has captured him
for a few seconds conversation drifts tri- /
back TO his group. as who !
should say: -'Behold the thing that have /
done," |
Uniformed musicians are seen down the |
long hall looking from the Eas; Room
Ore band takosSseat a Inc lower end.
The other MARCHES proudly up the corri-
dor and sinks into a recess. The crowd in
the East Room makes 4 sudden dash for
the corridor. Polite policemen guard the