The Washington bee., 1910-12-24
Public Men AndThinDs
(By the Sage of the Potomac.) }


Some Of the colored clerks al the
Census Office are complaining that
there are two or three colOred women
clerks in the Census Office who play
white on them at the Office, but want
to recognize them when among
strictly colored OF course, these par
tiCular women complained OF have the
lily-White complexion. Ny advice to
the other coiored clerks IS not to let
tins worry them. The COiOred man
or woman who plays white on friends
when real white people are around
and then want to play colored in
cases of necessity, are not worth a
worry. Real white people don't Nant
them and COlOred people will sooner
or later tag them out
[ dropped in Ford Dabney's mint
the other night TO see the motion pic
lures and hear the vaudevilIians.
Mitchell certainly does advertise Dr.
Sumner WOrmley. I guess he aims
70 get DR.. Sum. to plug up those two
front teeth of his that are out for
nothing. He is all wrong there.
though, for when DR. Wormlev gets
you in his dental chair you have to
make a noise like real money, or
there's nothing doing. And speak
ing about DR. Sum. Wormley. there's
a likely fellow, one of the most pop
ular on the town plat. In all my
years here | never heard a single per
son say an unkind word OF him. And
the ladies, why everything they say
about him IS put up in Huyler's choc~
Olate drops, 1t is his own fault that
he Is single. | know a dozen ladies'
who would do his cooking for him
If he would only hint at that dues-
ton, "Will you have me?". But marry
hint from this gay young old batch
elor. There Is not real Washingtonian
who deserves more credit than this
same DIR. Sum. Wormley. Some years
ago, when he found himself a derelict
on a rough financial sea, he did not
leave his ship nor ask to be towed in
shore; he just pumped all the water
out of his old derelict, assumed his
place in the pilot house, and steered
the old ship to calmer SEQ and now
look at him. Why, he's making money
faster than they turn it out at the
Bureau of Engraving and Printing.
oh, he's the pure grit, let me tell
YOU ~ - Teddy wJId say, d bully
fellow"
| was down in the ; and 10 cent
store MOnday-there is where I al
ways buy my Christmas presents
and | met couple of ladies who cir
culate in what IS called the upper
one hundred and twenty-five" circle.
Well. sir. they were buving Havaliu
china. LIbby's cut glass and other ex-
penSlve articles at ; and 10 cents a
throw To beat the band And they
bought scent socks, IO-cent pictures
and scent neCkties 10 beat the band
Their husbands or fianCee will never
know when he thrusts his No. los in
a pair Of green socks that they came
from the ) and 10 cent emporium. I
tell you, 1t made me feel good to
see them there. But they looked
aWtully cheap and put out when thev
saw me. And | felt the same wav
when ] saw them looking at me. |
guess they do just as I do, however
remove the price mark before thev put
their presents in 5O-cent plush box.
Il have got to go down to the five
and tenner again to-day, for I prom
iSed one of my lady relatives a pony
coat, and I understand you can get
pony coats there for 10 cents that
look like SIOO Coats-to a blind man.
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Well, I am awfully busy shopping
this week. so can't write much. After
Christmas | am coming back" strong.
| have got some rafting good stuff
locked up in my think-tank that 7 will
unload after Christmas. Until then,
au revoir, but before closing I want
to wish all the readers of The Bee
a Merry Christmas.