Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-02-16

if pin had gone through his skin. l thought
why later; but then | was too excited over
the situation to have noticed even a broad
sword severing of tact on Mrs. Secretary's part
Mad, frantic thoughts of striking Amos at
a way station and recalling him in time to
put on his dress suit in the Secretary's vesti,
display this social scalp to the Rainey ladies
before the prestige of my White House musicale
triumph had grown dim.
Unfortunately Congressman Rural has
been called from the Capital on business"
heard my stout reScuer explaining.
Then you. Mr.. Bishop" pressed our hostess
eagerly, you and Mrs. Rural will make the
seating come out all right
"Oh, dol | urged.
"Appreciating the dsinterested desire of
you ladies for my presence, and having as
bachelor Congressman taken extended
course in First Aid to the Socially Embar
raised. am at your service he assented.
But this parodied grandiloquence of
Secretary, with the worries of Martha upon
her I'm so relieved for the table is all
set!" she exclaimed.
I'm afraid you didn't want to CO." said
critically as Mr. Bishop helped me into my
herdic.
"Oh. it's not half so bad as being obliged
dent" he chuckled. lone day when l had
called at the White House in high hat regalia
he insisted upon my taking a stroll, and it
and tramped more muddy roads than Caesar
found to write about in Cisalpine Gaul cam
paign. and coming home through the Zoo"
But the driver started up unceremoniously.
and l could only look sympathetically at the
shiny head bowling good night through the
glass side of my cab. These herdics are whit
tied down omnibuses, Eta, and you feel like
a ton of coal when they back up to the side
reasonable, and after time you don't even
feel conspicuous. being joggled about in this
sort of showcase way. There are SO many
ways of doing things in Washington. Why,
the wife of one of the Supreme Court JUS
tices makes all her calls in hired hanson!
You know that is a sort of Leading lady"
transportation, and it does look so funny to
see her stern features and uncompromisingly
gray hair framed in this sporty looking vehicle.
put to come back to Beulah Rural her
- full history and remnant conscience. AS
l hurried through the hotel doorway to get
to my room and dress. young man who does
clerical work for Amos and several other
They had come to Amos at the Capitol in
the late mail. = The spirit of thousand devils,
Eta, must have prompted me to notice that
one of the envelops was pink and small
In the room l threw them on the dressing
table and turned to fix my hair: but that
pink envelop with its fine writing and corner
personal" sprang to the top and leered at
me l picked up hatpln and approached
the small letter with foul design but my
pride and the chambermaid for whose aid on
back hooks and eyes l had been ringing. got
busy just then, and l contented myself with
using the hatpin to adjust great bunch of
violets Mr.. Teale had sent sort of bereft
Congressman's wife compensation act
You looks turribe sweet and temptations,
you does. Miss Rural" commented the good
Eliza, as l was ready to go.
And, Eta, was so unstrung did not dare
to laugh at Beulah Rural as temptations.
for fear it would lead to the place where tears
lie in wait. But of all calming influences,
strange to say nothing could have been better
than that presidential dinner. Of course, it
was rather strained while the Secretary and
his plump little wife stood up like the bride
and groom figures wedding cake. waiting
for the great guest of honor to arrive; but the
President has known the Shumway household
for years. and he dispelled the formality as a
cyclone, reducing hastily put up structure
into the component parts of good timber and
foundation.
AS soon as we were seated at the table the
President looked the guests over and chuckled
like boy, as he expressed his satisfaction
that. there being neither Congressman nor
Senators present (when Congressman Bishop
coughed, he said, ooh, 1 drowned you once
in Rock Creek; you're nothing but three
hundred pound spook now" he could chat on
legislative matters without fear of having his
remarks put back into his mouth as a curb
bit later on And how he did arraign certain
movements and mem 1t seemed as if he was