Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-09-04
Representative Dies Is Going
Back, DisiIIusionized.
HONEYMOON Is A FAILURE
Finds That Mount Rainier Is Not q
Nice. Quiet Place."
BLAMEs LAW AND REPORTERS
Scion Who Changed Name and
Welded Stenographer Places
Chickens and Dog on Sale.

Representative in Congress Martin Dies
of Texas. who thought until recently that
ne had discovered at Mount Rainier
Md, the lodge in some vast wilderness
for which he yearned. is a disiilusioncd
man He and his bride of few mont his
are packing up and will soon leave for
u sparsely settled corner of the Lone
Star state. where despite the prevalence
of the boz, Heevil, the cattle tick and
other pests they expect to have a much
happie ana Guieter time.
Mr.. Dies says the curiosity of his neigh
bors at Mount Rainier and the over
zealousness of Justice of the Peace Joyce
are responsible for his sudden determine
ton to get away from this part OF the
| country.
Il thought. in going to Mount Rainier,
says Mr.. Dies. plaintively. that ! had
picked out nice. quiet place in which
to spend my honeymoon. But was mis-
taken. The people in the village knew
much more about my movements than
do myself ! went away for three days
and wired from Atlantic City for my wife
to join me. We stayed there for a cou-
pie of days and when | came home l
found that a justice of the peace had
broken into my house. People say that
Texas every time in preference to Mount
Rainier. AS soon as we can pack up we
going down there
Chickens and Dog on Sale.
SO the Dies honeymoon bungalow at
Mount Rainier is to be closed and the
flock of aristocratic white chickens that
the Texan and his bride took such pas
toral delight in feeding, at morn and
dewy eve, are to be sold So are the
pigeons that cooed under the caves and
the small yellow dog that scratched him
self languidly on the front steps. Fo.
Mr.. Dies is never coming back
Mr.. Dies has occupied good deal of
space in the local papers since his mys-
FERROUS disappearance from the House
Of Representatives and from Washing
ton early last spring. He was gone two
months before even his intimate friends
knew what had happened to him. Then
ii was learned that Immediately after be-
ing divorced from his first wife he had
married his stenographer. purchased a
bungalow at Mount Rainier and was living
there in pastoral seclusion. with the white
chickens, the cooling pigeons and the
languid dog. Also he had changed his
name from Martin Dies to Marion Davis,
and didn't want to be pestercd with the
burdens of statehood. the intricacies of
the tariff or the troubles of his Texan
constituency.
On that memorable occasion when, two
months after his voluntary and tenn
porary evaporation from public life. Mr.
and Mrs. Dies were first discovered at
Mount Rainier by hackload of report
ers. They didn't want to talk al
first, but finally. when urged, lapsed
into prose poetry anent the de-
lights of a rose-embowered lodge in
Maryland's fragrant wild. All this was
before Justice of the Peace Joyce had
heard the call of duty.
Justice Joyce thinks he did nothing
out of the way in breaking into the
Dies bungalow. The neighbors, he
said. had noticed that Mr.. Dies was
absent and that the white chickens
were making fearful racket. They
suspected that the chickens had not
been fed for several days.
But no explanations have served to
placate the Texas member.
Does anybody want to buy some Sc
1ect white chickens, few dozen
pigeons. guaranteed to coo, and a lam
guild yellow dog? They're all for sale,
and the price will be made to suit.