The Washington times., 1911-03-26

a. - dS second CLASS natter.
So far. at least, the Don't Kiss Me"
signs for babies are not notIceabIy
popular on + street.
Tonight the Washington aerie will fit
IinEly mourn the struck eagle.
stretched upon the plain"
The runaway Of Or Daniel 3.
Stuart's horse, frightened at steam
roller. is not the first bolt a steam
roller has caused.
Piney Branch is throwing a great deal
of enthusiasm into it's garden move
ment. 1t wants to plant the twenty
nine Treasury columns out there.
The fuctuating ownership OF a local
GainsborOugh furnishes further evidence
that the great artists work. like the
vagrant poker chip. has no home.
The peacock at the zoo spreads his
gorgeous fan tail as proudly as If he
thought he was responsible for the style
of the new spring hats he sees around
him.
In raising salaries Of its clerks and
messengers. the Chamber of Commerce
evidences practice of its preachments
for salary boosts to employees of
Uncle Sam.
The Maine Monument Association, Or
Eanized to commemorate in bronze or
marble the victims of the Havana har-
bor explosion. has itself become de-
funCt. II died too poor to provide even
a slab for itself
President Taft will he one of the pa
irons Of the National Horse Show to he
held here in May. Could he he induced
10 exhibit the celebrated war horse,
whose reck lis clothed with thunder"
We have read so much about?
A number of our aristocratiC army
horses are to go TO London TO compete
for the great international prizes at the
Olympia. Thus. as usual, the patient
army mule is ignored and despised until
called upon to bear the burdens of wa.
Tom Brahany, once private secretary
10 a Senator, later a newspaper man, and
now employed by the Tariff Commits
sion, is accounted one of the best anna
teur Irish monolOgists in Washington.
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young.
Since Major Archibald w. Butt. U.
s A.. the Presidents aide. has pur-
chased the large house at 1000 q
street. the A. A Wilson house, every
mother of marriageahle daughters in
Washington society is at least won
dering. if not hoping
The Violet, from the deck Of which
President Cleveland sought recreation
and reCuperstion by hunting and fish,
ing. is offered for sale by its Baltimore
owner. The most memorable thing
about those old-time trips is that the
President paid all the expenses out of
his own pocket.
The War Department has officially
ruled on one of the most curious ques-
tions ever brought up in the matter of
the burial of officers in Arlington Gene
terry. The request of the friends of a
deceased officer that they be allowed
to display the family crest on the monu-
ment marking his burial place has been
denied
Those WashingtonIans who have en-
toyed the delightfur social attentions of
Mrs. Claude A. Swanson, the youn~
wife of the Senator from Virginia, n
he surprised TO know that she is an
enthusiastic and practical farmer, and
that the crop of tobacco for which she
is annually responsible results in a very
considerable income to her.
Mrs. Marie Robinson Wright, of New
Rochelle, who is spending a few days
with friends in Washington. has had an
interesting career as an author and
traveller AS one of the commissioners
to the Paris Exposition in 1889, she was
the first woman to enjoy such a dis
tinction. She has made an intimate
study of Mexico and all the South
American republics. Her books on those
countries are regarded as standard
authorities.
Cultured Washington has a rare treat
in store in the coming of Miss Josephine
Preston Peabody, who will read from
her dainty drama, THE Piper" at the
New willard on Thursday evening, un-
der the auspices of a number of ladies
prominent in the social and literary life
of the Capital. This is the play which,
II will be remembered. won the prize
for presentation at the Shakespeare
Memorial Theater at StrRtf0rd q short