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The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1902-06-17

Mrs. Church-Has your husband done
anything to save his eyes? Mrs. Gotham
oh, yes he has always refrained from
calling men names.
The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1902-06-17

Eddie-Say, have you seen that new
kid that Doc Jones brought the Jen-
kinses? It's turrible small; jest like a
midget. Arthur-Well, what do they
expect when they hire homeopathic
doctor?
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If you are going to buy Hack, Buggy
or Wagon don't forget the old reliable
Fish Bros. make. Coffin Bros, agents
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Chronic bronchial troubles and sum-
mer coughs can be quickly relieved and
cured by Foley's Honey and Tar, North
Yakima Drug Store, A. d. Sloan, pro-
prietor.
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One-half of the world can't for the
life of it see how the other half manages
to have such style on its income.
The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1902-06-17

ball as well as raise big spuds. Everett
made the game notable by its errors.
In the 9th and Sth innings the errors
made by the visitors Melted Yakima
nine runs. The features of the game
was one double play by Everett and a
home run by Mckay OF the same team
and Spidel of Yakima. The score was: :
r. H. f.
Yakima ........,..........-.1 6 % s
. Strikeouts by Derush of Everett, 4;
Klinkhammer OF Yakima, 6. Two base
hits, Spidel and Kohls of Yakima, 2
each. Three base hits, GROCER OF Ever
EFT.
The team left on Thursday mornings
train and played Walla Walla that day.
Before returning home they will play
Athena and Pendleton, Oregon, and
Ellensburg.
The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1902-06-17

Willie lover his natural history
Papa, what species of animals in this
country are rapidly becoming extinct?
Papa uffaloes and naval heroes, my
son
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Grandma-Willie, wot you a-chewin'?
Willie-Tobacker. Grandma-Well, it's
good thing found out fore l basted
ye! was afeerd twas gum,
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Drill-"Delsarte" .................
Harold Liggett, Barbara Steiner,
Dudley Jordan, Rosalia Stro-
bach, Charles Jones, Ruth Les
lie, George Martin, Helen Cameron
Closing Address .Elna Erickson
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couldn't have found the volume very in
teresting as serial story, but 1t was
certainly of use to him in his business.
The particular occasion / started to tell
you about-the time when the spirit of
the dramatic was over all the north wing
of the Capitol-had to do with the debate
on a bill in which both Ingalls, and Noor-
hees of Indiana were much interested In
gals piled up his periods, stated his case
with sledge hammer force. rained blow
after blow into the opposition, and poured
a pitcher and a half of yitriolic personal
ity upon the shaggy head Of Voorhees, The
Tall Sycamore of the Wabash-that was
the way the fireworks" writers Of those
days referred to the gentleman from In
diana-was out Of his seat in minte. He
had chair on the side of the chamber
opposite that on which ingalls, sat. He
was almost speechless with rage. l be-
Iieve the matter under discussion had to
do with pensions. Anyway, the question
of the war entered. Voorhees, rushed into
the debate like bull charging red UNI
brella. Where was the Senator from
Kansas when the fighting was goin on?"
he believed. He was mixed up with
lot of crow-eatlng Jayhawkers. and he
never smelt the powder of battle
ingalls, turned to him. and very swectly
enIuired: Is it not q fact that train
lead of citizens threatened to hang the
Senator from Indiana with the bell cord Of
the caro-
Voorhees,, unable to control himself,
rushed through the aisle to the Demo-
cratic cloak room, dripping invectiYe ard
vituperation at every step ingalls, stayed
OF the floor and smilingiy continJ ed his
speech. The galleries got the worth OF
their presence that afternoon.
The doorkeepers don't do a phenomenal
business these days. There is no In
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minstrel guise which some one fastened
on him. Senator Mason is popular with
the stockholders overlooking the floor.
Were it not strictly against the rules,
they would assuredly give him a hand"
on his entrance.
Senator CLAW of Georgia is regarded
curiously by the audience. He is an odd
looking person. Specifically, he is not
unlike Mr.. Jack Root, of Chicago, o.
S. A. Mr.. Jack Root, it may bo
explained, for the benefit of those who
do aot keep pace with current fistic his
tory, is unbeaten in his class. his class
being that Of prizefighter of some heft.
Senator Clay wears his hair in pug
nacious pompadour. His face is firm and
determined He is big of build and quick
Of step. He doesn't permit hair to grow
on his checks or chin. Nor yet upon
his lips. He is striking looking man.
but he is not United States Senator
looking man.
Senator Burton of Kansas is a dapper-
looking gentleman, who might we'll be
taken for clerk to a committee. He Is
young creased and combed modest in
his bearing. good looking. and what the
esteemed lady writer's would describe as
interesting He takes seat on the
edge of the Republican wing. near this
door of the cloak room.
And then enter Senator Hoar. Senator
Hoar doesn't look much changed from
his appearance OF fourteen or fifteen years
ago. He has just about as much silky
H.. l,,I hon lie
face is still red as a beet and shaved to
the blood. His gold-rimmed spectacles
are just as shiny as of yore-and his
trousers remain about two inches too
short for his legs. He walks around.
smiling benignly on all. and thinking Up
funny stories.
And so here we have the stock SOM
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save to sleep and change cur frocks;
there has once been stately dinner by
our own fireside, and on Sunday a
luncheon OF less formal character, but
every morning we have gone automobile
ing; every afternoon driving and dropping
in at innumerable days" and an occa-
sional crush tea; every evening We have
dned out; nearly every evening We have
danced or attended a musical reception or
some evening party-a Washington spe-
ciality-at an embassy or legation.
and other peoples noses have, there
fore, preoccupied one to an extent that
has made me quite forget my own, how
ever well It may be ''chiseled" The noses
OF Washington are distinctly cosmopoli
tan, or else of the "across-the continent
order. They vary from the Russian re-
troussc to the Japanese pug, from the
British Roman to the French aquiline. and
there are so many of them that / am quite
at a loss how to begin.
Noses of the Smart Set.
Outside of the White House, and even
there on occasions, / am in the habit of
meeting the same noses appertaining to
the smart set" Outsiders who have an
idea that Washington IS behind New York
in the way of smart set" are quite
mistaken, and | have discovered in this
brief but rapid experience that there are
statesmen and politicians and their fam
lilies who are smart. and others equally
conspicuous who are quite the reverse.
OF course, / always feel at home with
my fellow -fashionable3, but, at the same
time, if it is true that 1 did not come to
Washington TO contemplate my nasal or
gan, it is equally certain that l did not
come here in the hope of hearing the
lions roar. l wanted to get more than
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y Washington Letters of New York "Elizabeth"

the Northern spa and imbibing the un-
pleasant waters the dear old lady finds
SO palatable.
And it seems that it was while passing
the summer at the United States in 1888.
think it was-actually nearly twenty
years ago, and. of course, considerably
before / was even thought of-that she
met the first. Mrs. Depew. who was stay
ing there in company with the father and
mother OF the second generation of Van
derbilts and consequently the grandfather
and grandmother of Cornelius, jr., and
Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt and the other
young people of my set. Grandmamma de-
scribes the first Mrs. DeDew as rather
handsome woman, with black hair, waved
along the temples in the fashion of the
day believe they called it ''scallops s.
white teeth, often displayed in smile,
and friendly" manner; everybody liked
her. and she was considered very sympa-
thetic by the circle that used to gather
on the inner piazza after breakfast.
luncheon. and dinner. Grandmamma made
me promise to write to her exactly what
the present Mrs. Depew is like, and l
shall do my best to do it.
To begin with, the Senator's second
wife is prepossessing and gracious; she
is so accustomed to foreign society that
she meets the new acquaintances half
way with a pleasant smile. and does not
dismiss even young girl like me with
anything like formalty. She wore a
round hat on her brown hair; it was
chosen to match her sweet Paris frock
of "a peculiarly delicate shade of electric
blue. | noticed that she had what seemed
to be diamond buttons in her corsage;
every detail was in perfect taste, and the
hostess and she harmonized as they stood
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the thorough housewife and the accom-
plished fashionable" Mamma is al
WAYS saving Look at Miss Paulding;
she can look after the details of n large
establishment. from the linen closet to
the silverware in the morning: re
ceive,' or ride on her spirited horse in the
afternoon; dine out or entertain at din
uer. and dance in the cotillion. and all
equally we'll. Look At Miss Paulding!"
Wen, | have looked Mt her, and l agree
with mamma that she combines old fash
ioned virtues of managing an establish
mcnt with those Of presenting charm
ingly.
AS she stood just within her pretty
drawing room, all abloom with flowers,
and introduced her friends to the bride
of her uncle, the Senator. She could never
have looked better than in her soft, cling
ing grey gown and with a huge corsage
bouquet of purple violets. The little
house-whch is not so little after all,
since il extends across a good-sized hall
into a pleasant dining room beyond a
library and thence into conservatory
like annex-is tastefully furnished, and
that distinguished color. dark green.
makes an effective background for our
American beauties.
Then. again, and perhaps even more. l
wus naturally anxious to meet the second
Mrs. Depew. and all the more SO because
my dear grandmamma, who is reminiscent.
has frequently talked to me about her
predecessor, the Senator's first wife.
whom she met at the United States Hotel
at Saratoga when | was only wee mite
of a baby. Grandmamma has always sworn
by Saratoga, and cannot understand why
mamma should go to Newport for ''the
season" instead of betaking ourselves to
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side by side in the grey and the blue.
Mrs. Depew looks enough like Mrs. Bar
ney. the celebrated Washington artist and
woman of fashion. to be younger sister.
The Happy Bridegroom.
The third reason why I wished to be
present was because / longed to gaze
upon Senator Depew in the new charac-
ter of happy bridegroom; as everybody
knows already some urgent business de-
tanned him in New York and he nobly sac
rificed pleasure to duty, but his appear
ance side by side with his sympathetic
young wife is only a pleasure deferred
This ''tes' was rather more representa-
tive than those l have already attended,
or to put it plainly, it was composed of
all the smart" people, l understand, that
one is in the habit of seeing assembled
in the evening rather than in the after
noon Stranger that l am, realized that
it was as diplomatic" as the White
House reception, Bachelors ball."
Warder musicale. or a soiree at the Brit
ish Embassy or the Austro- Hungarian le
CATION. for there were several Anbassa-
doris. who. l am assured. never go out
in the afternoon" and in fact. the entire
Corps Diplomatique and notably all the
beauties and bellies who in their yelvets
and satins and furs and very large hats
were perfect pictures.
Madame de Margerie. in a trailing
pearl-grey satin. picture" hat with
black plumes. and superb furs. made the
prettiest picture imaginable, especially
when she and the laughing Countess Mar
guerite Cassinl formed little group. and
Madame Hengelmuller and Mrs. Crackan-
thorpe were quite as smart as when in
evening dress. The uniforms OF dark
cloth and velvet and furs without much
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Washington. ID. c.,
January IS, 1902.

January IS, 1902.
Ny Dear Fellow-Americans:
HERE are (Washingtcn) weeks in
which even a New Yark girl like
me lives years, and this is one Of
them.
is every week in your season like
this?" asked my cousin Clara, patheti-
cally, only this morning over the tea cups.
adding that, If such were the case, l
should enter some Philadelphia sani-
;arium on my way back home and under
go treatment for q severe attack of ner-
vous prostration. But. after all, Clara
reminded me l did not come down here
to ''look at my nose" greatly as that
feature Of my countenance seems to be
openly admired b. the courtly foreigners
who are always paying one compliments
in a way that mamma informs me was
quite the fashion in New York when she
was a girl, but has since become extinct
there.
Here, however, the fowery compliment
fourishes to perfection, and even our own
men occasionally compete with the at
taches ard secretaries from the little
warm countries one OF which effusive
gentlemen | saw rolling his eyes at a
pretty girl from Albany. and heard fairly
vociferatIng: "oh, you shall not tear
yourself away; you muzz not 80 tomor-
row"
In the Dizzy Whirl.
no; my nose may be deeply interesting
to myself when / am spending a week or
SO with grandmamma at her place up the
Hudson. but ! certainly did not come to
Washington to Inspect 1t at the height
of 1.-The most brilliant season IN record"
Therefore, We are almost never at home,
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THE MINSTREL CIRCLE,

gals in the Senate. And no Voorhees,.
However, there are other legislative ac
tors who come in for recognition by the
occupants OF the comfortable seats in the
galleries. Senator Hanna is well known.
So is Senator Mason. Hanna hobbies in
on his stick His rheumatism gives him
trouble, and he can't cavort around in
real life as he is pictured as doing in the
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color. bring out all the women's com.
plexions and Mesdames Townsend, De
Koven, and Padelford profit by the con-
bellies of the season. and on this occasion
honors were shared between Mrs. Van
Rensselaer, Cruger on the one hand, and
Miss Alice Roosevelt on the other.
Mrs. Cruger, who has always been held
up to me by mamma as the synonym for
metropolitan beauty and elegance. cer-
tainly has the grande air and understands
the art OF dress. She was looking won-
derfully slight and distinguished in
beautiful pearl-grey brocaded satin with
raised stripe and a sweeping train. the
whole frock constructed on the principle
of straight lines. l must have one OF
my New York dressmakers reproduce it
if l ever get back to town" and wear
it on state occasions like this.
Miss Roosevelt. in deep shade of GRIM
son cloth. with dark furs and a becoming
black hat. was equally well dressed and
unaffected. She never seems self-con-
scious and is as breezy as an out t-of-door
girl ought to be. The daughter of a
President about to christen an imperial
yacht might give herself airs-if she were
not a Roosevelt. ''Noblesse oblige" and
the good old Dutch-American blood will
tell-and has told.
Ten Mt the White House.
After talking five minutes with this
nice, fresh, Straightforward young girl
l feel as though we had gone to the samo
he
out the same season. instead of my being
her senior by twelyemonth. and just
nineteen. Uncle G says l am wonder
fully precocious for my age, and that
!. L \
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Also, there is the wake effect. bowed.
slow moving, stern old man enters from
the Democratic side. He walks with diff
Guilty. A cane aids him in the effort. His
eyes are on the figures in the carpet. He
does not see the little pages who open
the door for him. or if he does see them,
he makes no sign. His hair is whitened
by the powders of many winters. He
casts off his great, Tapping army coat, as
if the weight of it were more than he
could bear He sinks weariiy into a chair
and speaks with no one. He looks like a
man whose race is run and who knows it
is run. Senator Bate" says someone,
softly.
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Another figure. shrunken, pallid, almost
ghost-like in its frailty. appears. Here.
too. is the cane of old age and general
breakup. Only. the cane is not sufficient,
of itself, to support its owner. An at
tendant is by the side Of the maan, guild
ing his steps, supporting his frail weight
Senator Vest drops into rear chair, be-
cause it is nearer the cloak room door,
and he is saving of his steps. And there
he sits, a crouched- bundle of burned
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pany in the little. Mason for the comedy,
Clay for the leading heavy, Burton for the
juvenile. Hoar for the old father part, and
Hanna for the rich uncle. 1t is when these
gentlemen come along together that the
Senate takes on the appearance OF stage,
with the reading clerks playing the parts
of the orchestra. the pages figuring as
the supernumeraries, the Presiding OFF,
Ger as the prompter, and the galleries as
the audience.
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|" of the United States Senate
i L strikes me as the matinee ring
UP of a theatrical stock company
The other half of the time ii strikes mr
as wake.
OF course, the Senate never allows it
self to be lively. So that it may not
be considered as home for the politer
forms OF vaudeville. But, then, we have
our serious stock companies. and ona need
not have an exceptional Imagination: to
trace in many meetings Of the upper body
a resemblance to this form al entertain
ment. The Senate is at no time home Of
leyity. 1t is ever a funereally grave ar
rangement in sombres. 1t enacts no
screaming farces, but it substitutes there
for many drama Of many kind.
The present session has yet 70 unfold
its dramatic scenes. The past sessions
have set rapid pace. III all the sensa
tions sprung on the boards nf this green
carpeted, high-walled old theatre, one
stands out before me as clearly as though
its enactment had been hIt yesterday.
This was in the days whan John J. Ingalls,
was presiding officer, and The sixteen lit
tie pages had to conform to military
discipline or cease from. drawing their SO
monthly. You wouldn't ;hinl; Il man who
was at the head Of the :,reItr5t ic;ISnra-
tive body in America-how well / remem-
Der that dear old, rnoth-c;itra phrase
would have time to stand sixteen little
boys in line and read the riot act to theDo.
would you? But this is just what hap
pened. We had our daily hint from In
gals, and possibly it did US good. At all
events. 1t gave us-some of us, AT least
something to laugh over in later years.
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a peep into the menagerie, and before
| 20 away | intend TO have at least
bowing acquaintance with all the animals
in what my Glppant cousin calls the Sen
atoriai Zoo.
1t was perhaps for that reason that fer
at least forty-eight hours | was quite
looking forward to the opportunity Of
meeting Senator and Mrs. pepew at the
afternoon reception arranged Tor them By
that immensely clever girl, Miss Pau!d-
ing, at the lovely little house she is oc.
cupying just across the way from the
grounds of the British Embassy. | care
fully considered what | was TO wear for
the occasion and decided on my very
best nut brown velvet, which goes so well
with my very largest black hat and the
fullest furs immaginable; in short in
spite of having been up half the night
before at the Charity Ball at the New
was agreeably conscious of looking my
best. Like winter rose,' remarked
the sentimental German whom Clara al
ways is giving a lift" in the victoria.
lin case anything should happen" as she
puts it. ! am sure / don't know what
she means, unless it is that the devoted
Bostonian to whom she is engaged may
forget her in the rush of specializing in
Copper.
Charming Miss PnuIding.
There were three reasons why | looked
forward so eagerly to the Paulding-De-
pew reception: in the first place l wished
to see Miss Paulding as the hostess Of
her own dear little establishment. This
thoroughly efficient young lady has for
several years past been held up to me by
mamma as a model of all that a young
lady ought to be. and combination of