Los Angeles herald., 1908-03-22
Personal Anecdotes

Representative Broadhead of Penn
sylvania, one of the new Democratic
members, called with his secretary at
the White House to pay his respects to
the president.
Are you not Dutch?" asked the pres
ident, who pronounced his name sew
eral times.
"Yes." replied Broadhead, 1 am of
Dutch and French descent"
Bully! SO am IT, exclaimed Mr.
Roosevelt.
my mother" volunteered Broad
head, was from Mississippi"
"Well, 1 declared" said the president,
becoming very much interested. my
mother was also from the south-from
Georgia. What a Similarity"
"And you, sir" he said, turning to
the secretary, "of what descent are
you?"
Irish, Mr.. President"
"Strange, indeed! l, too, have Irish in
me-" declared the president.
"If l had said l was descended from
a Chinaman l wonder If he would have
claimed that one his ancestors was
a. laundryman" said the secretary as
they walked from the executive offices
toward the avenue.
The queen, with one of the princesses
and q lady-in waiting. received me in
a small room. She stood with her
back to the window, wearing long
white veil which, against the light,
made an aureole around her. Address
ing a few kind words to me, to which
In my embarrassment | made some In
audible answer, she proceeded to pin
the order (the Order of the Crown OF
India) on my left shoulder. / remem-
Der that my black velvet dress was
thlckly embroidered with jet, so much
so that the pin could find no hold and
unwittingly the queen stuck it straight
into me Although like the Spartan
boy | tried to hide what L felt, l sup
pose [ gave a start, and the queen real
izing what she had done was much
concerned Eventually the pin was put
right and l curtsed myself out of the
royal presence. AS / reached the door
her majesty stepped forward. saying
with a smile: "Oh, you have forgotten
the case" holding 1t out to me at the
same time. This little touch of nature
relieved an otherwise somewhat formal
ceremony Remarking afterward to the
lady i'm waiting that / was afraid l
had been awkward and nervous you
need not be troubled" she answered.
"I know the queen felt more shy than
you"
Quite a colony of congressional folk
congregates about THE Terrace in
Massachusetts avenue in the season.
Consequently, as the opening of the
house draws near the adjacent park,
Scott circle, becomes populous with
boys and girls from all parts of the
Union. Some weighty arguments anent
the superiority of the east to the west
and the north to the south are waged,
and some interesting bits of informa-
tion await the keen cared wayfarer.
Kansas and Georgia were hard at it
the other day
Anyway, down in Geo 'giah the trees
have nice long moss on them all the
time an 49,
"Oh, bah! Who wants moss on trees,
anyway? Out'n Kansas where trees
get moss on 'em they're rotten" broke
In the small Kansan.
"But in Geo'giah," again interposed
the little woman from that state, 1--WE
have magnolia trees and roses in ou'ah
ga dens all the time and you-all have
only cabbages and BEANS"
"Cabbages and beansi" scornfully re-
turned the girl from the golden west
"Why. out'n Kansas we have-he have
-caulifowers and they grow as high
as that tree and they have red and yell
low flowers on, too--out'n Kansasl"