The National tribune., 1910-01-06

ferview with the President, and seeing
the other Senators. grabbed up hi:
overcoat and said: See me put on my
overcoat as l did when 1 was kid
Now, Senator Nelson does not weigh
much under 200, and is pretty gooG
speciment of manhood in every way
but no longer young. Just the same
he gave that overcoat turn or two
around his head, and the first thing
you knew his shot into the sleeves
and the overcoat was on, and he was
outdoors before the other Senator:
could catch their breath. But he came
back. Yep, he came right back in {
hurry. 1t was Senator Depew's coat he
had whirled himself into.
Dennis Flynn, formerly a Delegate
from Oklahoma of the House, was in
the city last week shaking hands with
his many friends here 1t is an open
secret that Dennis hopes to give his
name another meaning and come as the
first Republican Senator from the State
OF Oklahoma.
a determined effort is to be made at
this session of Congress to preserve the
homes of the Cliffdwellers. 1t is said
that prompt action is NEEDED if these
remarkable cliff houses shall be saved
from annihilation. They are the relics
OF prehistoric race in Colorado, and
no one has yet been able to place with
any sort of accuracy the time at which
any one of them was built.
President Taft tackled problem that
stumped former President Roosevelt
and that has been discussed almost as
much as the tariff. President Taft
does not drink at all. AT the same
time he was not a bit afraid to tackle
the question of when is whisky whisky
and he spent most of Christmas pom
dering over the question. His opinion
as boiled down knocks the foundation
from under straight whisky men, and
gives joy to those who know how to
make whisky out of almost any old
thing that has a little juice or some
sort of cereal in it. The President con-
cludes as follows:
After an examination of all the evil
dehce 1t seems to me overwhelmingly
established that for 100 years the term
whisky in the trade and among the
customers has included all potable
liquor distilled from grain; that the
straight whisky is, as compared with
the whisky made by rectification or re-
distillation and favoring and coloring
matter, subsequent Improvement and
that, therefore, it is a perversian of the
pure-food act to attempt now to limit
the meaning of the term whisky to that
which modern manufacture and taste
have made the most desirable variety"
The Italian cruiser Etruria, which
has been lying in the harbor here for
nearly month, was decked out most
beautifully for Christmas with Christ
mas greens and holly, and all day long
good cheer was furnished to all. Flags
OF all Nations were in evidence, and
the Italian sailors had a mighty good
time of it.
President and Mrs. Taft, regardless
OF the snowy carpet which enveloped
all Of Washington and vicinity the day
1oiowing Christmas, took a long walk
all by themselves. The President wore
great fur overcoat and Mrs. Taft wore
dark tailor-made gown and beautiful
dark furs. About half a block behind
them two Secret Service men in plain
clothes followed along, but President
and Mrs. Taft were practically alone.
ana chatted and laughed as tho they
We're having real good time as they
piodded thru the snow drifts which
they occasionally met. Christmas at
the White House was very quiet af-
1air. Only the family was at home
Col. James Gordon. of Okalona,
Miss Hiss. has been appointed to the U. S.
senate to succeed Senator A J. Nc
Laurin, who died suddenly last week.
DIR. Josie Helen Dobson, a Washing
ton young woman, who is now Medical
, examiner OF the WOman's Department
OF the University of Wisconsin, seems
10 be woman with a head on her
shoulders and brains in that head. She
says that the present mode of wearing
the hair over heavy pads or rats at the
back of the head tends to DESTROY the
natural fine balance and the intellec-
tual appearance of the womans head
She objects to all these puffs and rats
saving that fhaV haa fha
cannot help but be destructive 10 the
halr to say nothing of the hurt of the
weight and the pulling at the roots of
the hair, which must cause more or less
nervous disturbances, and she also at
tacks the manner of walking of the
average woman, which she describes as
standing on the hind legs" This posi-
tion of standing with the weight on the
heels often results IN cramping arising
from fatigue of the muscles which are
supposed to retain the erect position.
she says that this is one of the reasons
that women are poor walkers, and ii
also tends TO give them false position,
30 as to make their steps short and
nnfncing and altogether ungraceful.
1t has been definitely decided by the
virginia Commission that the statue of
Gen Robert E. Lee in Confederate uni
form, recently put in position in the
Han of Horrors in the Capitol. will re-
main there without formal exercises of
acceptance by Congress, at least for
The present. After the figures were set
up by the workmen and the matter of
formal ceremonies in connection there
with became an acute question Senator
Daniel, of Virginia, took the subject up
with the relatives of Gen. Lee, and IL
was agreed by them that the formal
acceptance of the statue was of little
concern, and they would be content to
leave it in the hall without further
ceremony. The idea was that the statues
VIII be left there for an indefinite pc
riod, and when the talk about the Con-
federate uniform upon Gen. Lee has
died down the Virginia Commission will
suddenly take up the matter of accept
ance of the statues by Congress, and
they will be accepted without further
preliminaries. 1t is believed that there
would be no trouble at all with the
question of acceptance in the L. S Sem
ate, but the protests TO members of the
House have been so vigorous that il is
very unlikely that the Northern mem
bers at least would dare to vote for
acceptance. Neither will these North
ern members dare to dodge the vote,
thus letting the statues come in by de-
fault. All their votes have to be re-
corded against the statues. or there Will
be new members representing their dis
tricts in Congress.
Recently Mr. o. G. T. Sonneci Chief
OF the Division OF Music of the Library
of Congress, issued a very pretty little
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