The Washington herald., 1911-02-05

has been reading a modern comic supple
ment
The Hopkins girls father is a lawyer.
He Is not the sort of q lawyer who is
called down to Washington every week
or so to argue a case before the Supreme
Court. Bit when he appears to represent
the plaintiff in a case involving the loca-
ton Of a drainage ditch he can push
forehead and wax wonderfully eloquent.
He combines sort Of simple democracy
with much dignity-that is, he wears a
frock coat, but 1t is shiny along the
seams and tho collar is covered with
dandrun. He wears congress shoes too
vici kids without tips-and his white
shirt front Is always just enough soiled
to insure him against looking stuck up.
So. sooner or later, old man Hopkins per-
colates into Congress. He gets the nomi-
nation in his own party as a dark horse
"A sort Of strawberry roan-and as there
Is factional split in the opposition
party. enough people vote for him to
land him down here in Washington.
When he comes he brings along his
wife and the girls. and they put up at a
first-rate little family hotel The girls
learn how to look bored when they
glance over the menu and to call the
waiter to hand them the salt, even if It's
right in front of them-they who have
always been accustomed to jumping up
from the table and running out to the
kitchen to fill the sugar bowl or get any
thing they'd happen to think of during
the progress Of a meal
Oh, the girls learn a lot Of things, and
they like Washington. They wonder how
they ever put up with the bunch of yaps
back in Furway. 1t isn't any time at all
till they are pronouncing it vode-veel in
stead Of vaudeville and complaining
that there is really no one this side Of
Paris who knows how to fix ones back
hair properly.
Before dad is more than half through
his second term they feel as II they had
always belonged. Furway has become a
sort of upper-birth nightmare.
1t comes time for Congressman Hop
kins to get the nomination for his third
term, but he's either been too honest for
the party leaders or too dishonest for the
rest of the party, or has failed to get a
$4,000 government building for each
county seat in his district numbering
1000 people, and he fails to connect with
another term.
! It's all mighty lugubrious from now on.
II they could only have stayed in Wash
ington just one more term the girls feel
practically certain that they could have
won permanent homes here: they had
been getting acquainted with such a nice.
promising lot Of young SECRETARIES and
attaches.
They are, indeed, a sad, jaundiced-
looking bunch when they come down to
the big Union station for the last time.
girls, for It's been impressed on him
pretty thoroughly what dub he was to
lose out on that reelection thing and let
Il 90 to a man like old Bill Pinkney. And
Nav Hopkins Is supposing that she'll
forget all she's learned about bridge
whist For the last she heard from home
there weren't enough people In town
who knew the bridge language to fill out
q table.
The girls look about them in the long
waiting-room and think of the waiting
room at home. down at one end Of the
bun station. opposite the hog chute and
tue u1uk-cau psotIorsn Iuey can see
crowd Of byStanders made up Of men
who wear felt boots well into the spring
and shave the backs Of their necks All!
their hearts sink when they contemplate
the next winter. No more plays fresh
from New York. no more gilded ball
rooms: Just the Lottie Blair Parker
drayma a the Op'ry House about once =
season. and perhaps In the spring .
charity ball given by the local lodge Of
Elks-tickets on sale at all barber shops.
They must return to the Furway cus-
toms ard the Furway waist line.
Their train pulls In, and the Hopkinses,
With faces as toug a. those OF Aissina1s6
hack berses, start back to PurWay.
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