Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1903-01-06
FROM [. A. PRADT.
WASHINGTON Jan. L IaI

oioubO duu only tue coal man Is vie.
1t IS the day, in Washington, when the
members of the diplomatic corps put
on their stars and carriers and crosses
and ribbons and the officers of the army
and navy their full dress uniforms
and the civilians their long coats and
high hats and all in due order call at
the White House. 1t has been restored
during the summer and is now much
more comfortable and convenient resi-
dence = the executive offices being
removed to the end of one of the re-
stored terraces into a low white building
which has every suggestion of being
the executive laundry 1t is altogether
likely that the number of callers today
was materially increased by reason of
the fact that the President has caused
to be re-hung in the White House the
picture Love and Life which modest
q had almost said sly Grover caused
to be removed to the Cocoran Art Gal
lery. La that elevating atmosphere it
| failed to arouse comment, but now that
1t has come to its own again, and divers
| excellent ladies throughout the land
who have never seen it-haye de-
nounced it as Immoral and announced
their intention to wait on the Presi-
dent and point out to him its improper
character-all sorts of people are begin
ming to prick up their ears and wipe
up there eyeglasses. Let me warn you,
however not to hasten away to Wash
ington just to see that picture-you will
be disappointed
After the White House reception
there is an opportunity to call at the
houses Of the cabinet officers and of the
chief justice and to partake of salads
| and sandwiches and punch and egg nog
and comfits and confectionery, until
the fascinating ministrations of the
charming ladies who preside at these
lay outs can not tempt you further
| You also have a chance to lose your hat
and go home with battered and rusty
tile that some experienced caller has
left IN lieu of it, And so the day draws
to a close-the day whose beginning
was telegraphed last night from Wash
ington simultaneously all over the
United States, aud there is chance. in
the twilight, to think of the long event
full year that has passed and to make
high resolutions for the year that has
begun. | don't think it is considered
| ruita n rood form, r,,,xad.re - - ,,.ol
to be to bore impatient readers with
musings of this sort, but | do feel just
flied in telling story which heard last
year, yesterday, at a meeting of the
Scientists Of the .. S who are gathered
together here in annual session, held
at Heinrich's brewery. They we're in
vited there to inspect the brewery and
learn how pure is its product, fact
which they certified unanimously
after the inspection-and to begin
the inspection with a genuine Ger
man lunch of rye bread and wurst.
katoffel salad and saurkraut, ganz
brust aud beer, and went as guest,
not to say expert. Every body ate with
hearty unscientific relish, after which
the president of the association, a noted
professor of Johns Hopkins University,
rendered thanks to the host, and he
told this story:
Lawrence Hutton and friend were
once lodged together in Venice and
while there made it point to hunt up
a cafe where they could get, as the Ger
mans say, good beer. Here they met
svery evening and We're happy. After
some weeks the friend went to Verona
from whence he presently wrote that,
after much search, he had found place
in Verona also where was good beer.
La reply, Hutton wrote that it was just
as we'll to be cautious about the matter
of beer in Verona, for tradition has it
that it was there that Romeo and Juliet
were both laid out on one bier.
TO go a little further back into the old
year, took stroll down town on
Christmas eve and found the streets full
of people, many were belated Christ
mas shoppers, but more were out to
give expression to their Christmas feel
ings by singing, blowing horns and
ringing bells all in the true southern
way; whites, blacks and half breeds
were alike, jolly and good natured.
The only exception to the prevailing
geniality " ere the police who unfeel-
ingly arrested those who changed big
COW bells.
Not long since, | saw Oliver Wendell
Holmes, Jr, as he took the impressive
oath of Justice of the Supreme Court
of the United States-an oath to "do
justice to the poor and the rich He
seemed worthy sou of his father and
a fitting representative of what his
father called the "Brahmin caste in
New England | speak of him more
particularly because he is my neighbor,
that is his house is next to my office.
As proof that be is the gentleman
thought him, on the day he took his
place upon the Supreme Bench, he
called at my office recently to know
whether l would object to his cutting
off the limbs of peach tree in my back
yard which overhung his back yard
and caused his servants annoyance.
As he had the limbs and the law also
on his side | willingly consented, but /
thought of how differently some men
in his place would have approached the
subject
1t happened that | rode mp TO the
capitol on the same street car with
Thomas B Reed on his way to his last
sisit to the Supreme Court. He was
one of the few famous men who seemed
to measure up to ones expectations at
sight of him You felt as certain of his
greatness in his presence as you do of
the loftiuess of the Washington monu-
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