The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-07-30

i woman in the gallery fATeiy Ae tisues herself by listening to the clat- ter of bills up bills tabled. bills amended .bills substituted or the long speeches thereon, but she does note other things-queer things-when she goes to sit above the fans and watch the wheels go round.
 A most astonishing thing to her is that q man can bring himself to such . point of enthusiasm as to make long. earnest. stirring speeches to empty air and vacant seats. It must be done to build record for future purposes. and surely they light as hard for it as in real battle they would fight for war record" to be used in future political engagements.
 The scene from the gallery is a pitt full one when a man with an idea, grievance. or an axe to grind rises as if to say: Now, the time has come! am to speak," and begins in his tntm- itable manner to tell his fellow mem- bers all about 1t. These fellow mem- bers, not exactly with vulgar haste but with something akin to 1t. bethink themselves of duties neglected and one by one, each with a look of I'll be back in a moment" they sneak away The orator. nothing daunted. continues his ire. He waves his arms, bends his knees, clinches his fist, rolls his r's as he speaks of "cr-r-rushing out an evil"-all to empty air and vacant seats, Why doesn't he know. as does the wise woman in the gallery. that the votes for which he is pleading were cut and dried before being placed in charge of the free American citizens who only have the privilege of cast ing them and the glory thereto at- tached? This is all strange to wo- man because when she makes speech she demands of her audience that they suffer the penalty of listening.
 A diverting pastime to the women in the gallery is found in the counting the pegs in the soles of the shoes of the gathering of Honorables. It is good way to read character though not an infalftbie one. for some of the gentle men, in view of the trip to the city. have cast aside shoes that have be- come shapen to their characters as well as their feet and have donned new bright yellow-soleG footgear. Hence the pride in the exhibition thereof. l felt quite sorry on one special morn- ing for a conspicuous member who was forced to forego the sole-display when by some unavoidable mistake" he was moved to disclose the scarcity on the inside of his head through the safety valve of his vocal cords He couldn't keep up both attractions at the same time. But he did manage rapid transit, presto change performance with a wonderful agility. It was a regular moving picture show of soles up, head down; head up. soles down.
 Now some of these soles were half soles, showing both premeditated pow erty and frugality. Some of the heels were run down, moulded to the charac- ter of the politician who wore them; some soles and heels were worn evenly as if the man above had stood square ly and firmly on the foundation of his convictions In one sole there was a hole right in the center as if the own CT was a man of one idea. apt to ham mer too long in one place to the bore dom of others.
 Continuing the view of the fore ground of the scene below, the shoe strings became a fascinating study. There were those of the man in hur- ", who skipped every other hole and those of the careful man who threaded every eyelet and tied the bowknots with loops of exact evenness. Then there was the hosiery display: It was gorgeous in some instances though in others not just as it would be found in a haberdashers window. One raemoer' on this special day in the House was an object of profound admiration for his perfect boise born of self -satisfac- ton. His shoes, strings and striped hose were immaculate, however all perfectly new and therefore no charac- ter barometer. He with very manly, If not sentleman1y deliberation, placed one carefully toiletted pedal extremity on the highest point of the desk in front, then with equal deliberate ele- gance of manner. lifted the other be- side it. He reached over, adjusted his trousers, accentuating with little squeeze the crease therein; he gazed at the picture with a long. lingering liuuid look of approval, then turned his eyes with a benehcent glance to the gallery.
 Somehow this lifting of the head dis located the scratch that covered the place where de wool oughter grow" The edges of the scratch arose bit a little like the performance of come dian in a dime show when he is play ing scared" But the member was in blissful ignorance when his turn came to speak he did beautifully with the assistance of three mill men lobbyists who prompted him from time to time. His measures went through, the meas ures he fought did not go through and the substitutes he favored slided with the alacrity of greased lightning. woman in the gallery >aid of this man that the scarcity of hair beneath the scratch was due to the fact that 1t had been used to make brain, and tnht the trouble with the brain is that the hair was not gray. I did not see the Joke until next day. but when I did l pro- nounced it good and laughed.
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