The National tribune., 1909-06-24

are getting weary of, the. Early cues
ton. He probably has not 'ieprosy.
No More Night Sessions.
The United States Senate will hold no
more night sessions. JThcFeause why is
really quite funny. Msp who have
served in the Senate for. 10. 20 or more
years have got thru playing to the GAL
leries. 1t is all right 0to shave lot of
handsomely gownedl women sitting up
there to softly clap daintly kid-gloved
hands when the President Of the Senate
is indulgent and permits such unseemly
racket to be heard in the Chamber sn-
cred to weighty problems. but as a
practice no. no. The younger Senators,
however, rather like that sort of thing,
don't you know, and they encourage it.
The ladies like it immensely. They
like to have the morning papers say in
the introduction to the Congressional
news: Mrs. Blue Blood sat in the Vice
Presidents seat in the gallery last night
and heard her husband make his great
speech. Mrs. Blue Blood was much
congratulated on her husbands effort.
Senator Blue Blood often glanced to-
ward his wife as he spoke. She was
richly gowned in," and then some
bloomin' man reporter turns himself
loose on description of "voile gown of
Alice blue" when in all probability the
thing was shimmering chiffon cloth of
a light green, and he tells about her
peach basket hat when 1t is probably
an imported confection far removed
from peach basket and costing fine
sum at that, but she gets into the pa
pers. and that is enough. And then,
perhaps. she gets to sit in the seat of
the Presidents family. oh, joy! You
can gown her in hopsacking if you like:
but just name her as sitting in the seat
with the sister of the President, and
you can have any old thing you want
at her hands.
Night after night these warm days.
when society is fleeing to the woods and
the ocean, the official society which
must needs remain in Washington hikes
to the Senate galleries to show off. The
story comes in here. The older Sena
tors have sat upon the proposition, and
sat so hard as to knock it out. One
Senator. who has more than 20 years
in that body to his credit, said that he
didn't propose to be robbed of COM
Portable evening at home to feed the
vanity of lot of kid Senators. and so
he had his way. He said that all in the
world the young Senators wanted was
to get an audience in the galleries. and
that they did not care whether their
confreres on the floor heard them or
not. And that is the story of why night
sessions are at an end in the United
States Senate for this session.
A Real Romance.
> There are real romances in every
day life If we can just pick them out.
One day last week young woman
stopped a policeman in the Union Sta
tion and asked him a question. She
stated that she was an Indian girl. and
was from the Apache reservation in
on her way back to them from
a visit down South. She said she was
going back home to teach her people
of what she knew. She was
a fine-looking girl, and when she said
she was an Apache it made Policeman
Elhers sit up and take notice. Before
he came on the police force of Wash
ington he was a soldier of the U. S.
Army. and in the Regular service had
fit Indians over most of, the Western
as q member of the 9Th Cav.
Policeman Ehlers told the young wo-
man of some of his adventures while
she was waiting for her train, and
spoke of the fact that some 80 years
ago he had been on roundup Of the
indians. a.
1.-The cavalcade had been on the road
'or several hours" he said. when one
Of the squaws said to me: I feel bad,
and want to stop to rest You go on
catch up later She stopped beside
he trail and tethered her pony and we
passed on, leaving her at rest in the
'hade of big cactus. What was our
surprise about three hours later to see
Ter galloping up with brand-new
)apoose strapped in her blanket at her
back, and both mother and baby as
lively as crickets."
And then the young lady opened her
zig black eyes very wide, indeed.
Il was that baby" she declared. my
mother has often told ME of my birth
,Xactly that way" and then she went
IN to add some of the features that
we're missing, and, sure enough, Police
nan Ehlers says, she was really and
ruly that baby. Tossed up in story
tyle in a 10-cent novel or a dollar and
| half romance. the book would be kept
rom the hands of the young as "too
The young lady said she
lad been at school in Kansas. probably
It Haskell Institute, Lawrence. and
hat her name Is Nochez, in Apache,
md she is San Carlos Apache
A Bastard Flag.
The "suafragets" of Washington flung
heir flag to the breeze the other day.
t is direct insult to the National Flag,
md that is the very best tina, can be
aid of it, 1t copies the Flag as to num-
Der of stripes and blue field, but there
he copy ends, for in the center of the
ield are but four stars, which stand
or the suffraget States. Thus it will
De seen that AZ of the States are ac
counted worth nothing. since they are
not represented upon the suffraget's
lag. Aside from the insult to Old
Glory, this is a distinct slap at the
states which have not granted women
Is this good policy? Leaving
'ut the disloyalty of taking from the |
lag stars which hundreds of thousands |
If men fought to keep there, thousands
If whom sleep in unknown and un-
marked graves to-day, tumbled into |
hallow trenches where they fell in the |
orefront of the fray while carrying the !
Flag-is il good policy to affront the |
states In that manner? Any man who |
1as an ounce of loyal blood in him will |
'igorously resent the removal of his |!
states star from the flag, and while he |
ias ballot to cast will cast it against |
women so narrow minded as to wanton-
y blot from the standard of the coun-
ry four-fifths of its representatives. No |
woman who loves her country and its |
Flag is going to join forces with lot
If crank women who begin their flight |
or freedom" by mGtiIating the Flag. |
That proposition to take some of the |
tars off the Flag cost this country four
ears of bloody war. billions of gold
hundreds of thousands of lives, and |
here wasn't a star displaced on the
flag. % vi
Measly 5000 Lost.
There Is consternaftop,in the Treas