The Washington times., 1911-03-29

Hark, hark! The circus is coming to
town.
AvoirdupoisIy speaking. President
Taft is entitled to two secretaries.
The Treasury columns will become
whole pages if this thing isn't settled
pretty soon.
THE lamb and the lion are still run
ming neck and neck, with even money
on the finish
Measured by New York standards,
cur suit case mystery wasn't even a
good imitation.
The Chevy Chase hounds who went
off on wrong scent. may have jump
ed that missing mungoos.
It is authoritatNely denied that
Colonel Lancaster is wearing mourning
during Major Judsons absence.
It's not surprising to find that It re-
Quires a good deal of pressure to install
high power water in the District
is'l AS llDit lildi ltleTP Is no SeQan
ahead Cf them. but the District National
Guards are ready down to the last
gator button"
Secretary Meyer has ruled against
hello" recognition over the telephone
in the Navy Department. He would
probably prefer the word "Ahoy!"
Maybe when Commissioner Judscn
gets back from Panama he'll tell us
what We really ought to do with the
James creek canal.
When the President wants his private
Secretary he can just keep on calling
"Charley" from force of habit without
causing any confusion.
II will be all off with the poor cIerl.
again If Macon of Arkansas discovers
that a s4O-a-month man has been get
ting rich lending money.
1t is not in a merely perfun"tory sense
that the Washington memorial commit
tee of the Chamber of Commerce will
meet and report progress
II the GODS are really anxious to dis
cover who's been turning in these false
alarms they might find 1t worth while
TO examine Richmond Pearson Hobson
AS soon as those human bones were
found, up in the Great Falls ncighbor-
hood, there was quite a rush TO see if
all the skeletons were safe in the family
closets.
The ~ NH hlnrly oI fro fFo
the Avenue yesterday will hardly repeat
will not prove obstructive very long
after the sun gets up.
One Of the aspirants for higher honors
among the Boy Scouts is named Kruger
If the rising generation Can develop a
few Dom Pauls the peace movement
will be solved in advance.
1t would be a neat bit of poetic justice
II the misCreant who has been starting
incendiarv fires and turning in false
alarms should he sentenced to draw one
of the big trucks for thirty days or so.
II the stories of the girls who punch
cards at the Census office are to be
credited, the Department of Commerce
and Labor has made a wise move in
drafting q Census official for its econ
omy bureau.
The purchase of the German residence
by Wilton ]. Lambert keeps the home
in the family, thereby continuing a very
pretty Southern sentiment. Mr. Lam
bert Is a son-in-law of the late Senator
German.
Mrs Alfred Clifford Barney. who gives
so much of the charm of Washington
life to the French capital. says she is
thinking OF art and not of matrimony
Certain connoisseurs maintain, how
ever, that matrimony is among the very
finest of the fine arts.
Lieutenant Commander S. P. Fullin-
wider, Of the navy, has just completed
his quarterly walking test, doing twen-
ty-five miles in two days. He didn't
mind it a DIT, and to show that he was
as fit after, as before the performance
scorns elevators and walks two flights
of stairs to reach his office. Lieutenant
Commander Fullinwider did the walk
ing on paved streets in the city, the
hardest test that could be had close at
hand.
There is much to be said in favor of
the view of the hobble skirt taken by
q contributor to The Times Mail Bag