The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1902-12-25
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the White House has. for its principal
medallion Texas steers heads, and on two
or three occasions when Mrs. Roosevelt
has given articles for fancy fairs and
charity bazaars they have represented
Western life in some way. Her last
present was to the Rebekah Lodge, L. y.
G. T.. of Oyster Bay. and consisted of
Mexican bride and whip, woven of bril-.
liantly-colored hOrschair, the work OF
Mexican Indians.
The silver service used by the late Lord
Pauncefote was considered the costliest
and handsomest i'll Washington. The
Italian ambassador now sets before his
guests of state an even handsomer ser
vice of massively solid silver. 1t consists
of 100 pieces, and there are plates. bon
bon and fruit dishes, urns, tureens, cam
deiabra and lot of other pieces that
seem to have no use at all except to stand
round on the table and look as pretty as
they can. The real value of the silver
lies in its exquisite repousse work and its
engraving. 1t is medallioned with the
heads of world-famous people, the por-
traits being most perfectly limned:
There is no "marked-downfrom-9 Scents"
look about that silver.
By the way, the flag In which Booth
caught his spur when he leaped from the
box after shooting President Lincoln,
hangs in that house right now. 1t is the
property of Capt. Osborn II. Oldroyd.
who has spent his life and a fortune get
ting together Lincoln relics and memem-
toes. He now lives in the house in which
Lincoln died, and one whole floor is de-
voted to the display OF these relies. Chief
among them is the flag behind n glass
case, showing the rent in its silken folds
made by the assassin. But for the mis-
hap of the ENHANCEMENT Of the banner
with the spur of the assassin, Booth
would probably have gotten away. The
Flag has never yet sheltered or shielded
a traitor.
The President of the Department of the
Potomac who SO successfully carried
through the arrangements of the Wo-
mans Relief Corps for the entertainment
of National Encampment guests is Mrs.
Ida A. Oldroyd, wife of Capt. Oldroyd.
Mourning customs are queer things.
When the head of a royal family dies, it
throws into mourning all the Legations
and Embassies of that country, the world
over, for period of three months at
least. After that the members of the en-
| bassadorial families are privileged to sit
up and begin to take notice." as it We're.
They may not give dinner. o, DEAR no!
Nor may they go to State functions of
any kind where their names will appear
as guests. But little small and earlies,"
don't you know. or quiet card party, or
decorously planned tea, where the rib
bons are purple and the flowers are vio-
let's or purple orchids, at $50 q dozen, and
the hostess can appear in sem;-mourning
in subdued light-that is all quite au
fait. 4s-
Capt. Richardson Clover, U. S. A., has
asked Congress to authorize him to accept
souvenir Coronation medal, presented
! to him by the King of Great Britain.
| Mr.. Wilcox, the dusky native Ha-
waiian, who was left at home, proposes
to have out of Congress all that he can
| get for his people before he packs his grip
and draws his last 5000 for mileage.
He has introduced among other bills one
| to pay the judgments rendered under an
1 act Of: the Legislative Assembly Of the
Territory of Hawaii for property destroy
ed in .suppressing the blbonic plague in
that Territory in 1899 and 1900.
Judge jenkins CWis.) has introduced a
bill which will make all newspapers and
periodicals unavailable which contain pic
lures of suicides or details relating to sui
cides, beyond simple statement of the
fact. If Congress could control that sort
of thing, it might be well to extend the
provisions of the bill SO as to include
many other nauseous doses that so-called
newspapers iniIict on the public under the
misnomer News"
Congress is about to purchase marble
bust of Lafayette which was executed by
David u Angers, the eminent sculptor
The cost VIII be $1,000. Senator Hoai
fathers the bill.
One by one the Mckinley milestones are
being pulled out and new ones put down.
The last to yield is woman, a Postmis-
tress down in North Carolina. Mrs. LIE
Due once taught young ideas how to shoot
up in Ohio. Among the possible Presi-
Dental timber was youth named William
Mckinley. When Postmaster was to be
appointed in Tryon, n. c., by President
Mckinley, Mrs. LIE Due, then living there,
was appointed, despite the earnest protest
Of the politicians, and she has been there
ever since. The political pressure is too
strong, however, and Mrs. LIE Due must
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