Evening star., 1908-01-26


Dixon last night. and l don't forget faces
SAYS she.
And that's why I'm standing round here
envying this NEUROLOGICAL chap and his heel
and toe attachment of speedy exit.
Women do look so different IN low neck
frocks," offered consollngiy' but the great
man shook his head
It's not that l just was not cut out for
a social success Now, my friend the enemy,
Joe Cannon, goes trippingy down rose strewn
road The women think everything he does is
cute. The other night we were both having
dinner in the family of certain Senator whose
wife is vegetarian of the kind that thinks
beef extract is worse than rum. Well, we'd
sawed through about fifty courses of peanut
croquettes and oatmeal outlets when in comes
what appears to be a genuine turkey bird.
That Joe Cannon puts his hands folded tor
PRAYER before him and sings out, Praise the
Lordl' and everybody just laughed as If there
wasn't another chance coming to EN- this side
of second childhood.
But in the meantime a lady next to me
had been explaining how that turkey bird was
only something equally as good effort at
modelling in shredded figs and wheat juice, and
l was so Jared that my fried chicken and ham
less being cried out The deuce take it, and
all the ladies present looked awfully SYM
pathetic toward Mrs. Calhoun, and the vege-
tartan hostess won't speak to me
The look he shot from under his bushy eye
brows was pitiful but before could turn the
optimistic side of the shield and show the
Speakers tribute to him as the most scholarly
man in the House, the curtains OF the Kentucky
room bulged and cracked with some shifting
of the properties within, and really, Eta, l
thought the leader of the minority had bor-
rowed the winged equipment of the little god
on the pedestal. | heard gratifying welcome
as he passed through those portleres.
For sometime l did not meet anyone who ap-
peared to have found life anything but joke.
A Supreme Court Justice said he didn't see
how they were going to make ruling on blend
whisky when the samples sent up to the bench
were so small Then the bachelor member of
the Cabinet came in and told me how the
newspapers had heralded his coming to Wash
inpton bv descriptions of his wifes costumes
and tabloid eulogles on her former helPfulness
in his career until he really felt he'd missed
lot in never having met the prodigy.
But charming wife Is really small en-
cumbrance to have thrust upon one compared
to the large family of warning sentiments the
political correspondents here fake as foundllngs
from YOUR doorstep" he continued, linking his
arms with tall man just passing and bringing
him right about face into our conversation.
The new man blinked absent mindedly: but
he seemed to have heard. The trouble is, you
Government deposit vaults are too confidential
with the newspaper boys nowadays" he
answered This reform school system of
putting us on our honor takes all the spirit out
of the game Time was when we could br1be
buffers and lie under tables at small and select
official powwows. when we could waylay these
chiefs at inopportune moments and puncture
them with sudden interrogation point. But
now all is changed. The newspaper men are
invited into the dens: all IS told; and our
manful chests expand with the Importance of
knowledge. Then as we get in single file hoping
to clear the doorway from our load OF official
secrets. Mr. Secretary smiles. OF course. boys,
none of this is for publication, he says and
we put down our sealed sacks of wind and go
out to paddle along in imaginative streams as
best we may"
II The Mr. Secretary" present chuckled.
I'm leave to you the consolation of this most
honorable, if regretful, individual, Mrs. Rural.
You can safely tell him all your husbands
secrets So are they all honorable men!'" he
laughed: but he grasped the other mans hand
like brother
/ hoped l could hold the newspaper mans
attention until Amos came There hasn't been
anything about Amoss political views in the
newspapers here yet. So l angled for his
autobiography You can take my word, Eta,
that's the surest way to entertain man.
Il suppose you've seen a great many
changes in methods and ways here!" l cast
into his chosen channel.
He rose to it. well, l should think SO!
Newspaper Row was jolly Bohemia when l
came here twenty years ago, and now it's a
constellation of snobs.-some of the papers
owners joining the ranks just to get into the
Washington whirl and all that. And the
wivesl Why, there used to be just two classes
of newspaper wives The little woman earn
estly and totally occupied in raising a big
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