Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-06-25
MARBLE BATHS THAT A .
MILLIONAIRE NIGHT ENVX

rickey in the cloakroom is gone he an.
nounced proudly. One never sees =
member drinking anything in the Capitol
these DAYS"
1T isn't there for him to drink the
caller inquired sceptically.
Mr.. Flood was panied
a man could keep IL in his lockers of
over here in his office. But during nv
five terms in Congress haze been
amazed at the small quantity OF LIQUOR
used. Even on the hottest aud most
trying DAYS il is unusual To find con
gresham whose breath suggests that No
has been imbibing. Taking the bar out
of the Capitol did much toward this. for
a man isn't going To walk all the way
over here 10 get a drink. though he might
If he had only TO step down To the res
iaurant. But the real reason is that We
of this generation have discovered the
fallacy of trying To get cool by drinking
what will send the temperature up.
When we get thirsty we drink lem, made.
He was reminded of his penchant for
wearing white clot he's.
II Law in enough white serge and crash
clothes To always have clean change.
and | find them much cooler and more
comfortable than the thinnest cloth VA
rieties. OF course. l wear white shoes
These are essential to Washington streets
If one would have foot comfort. And 1
try TO keep my collar unwrinkled and my
mind easy. L don't do any very sensa-
tional stunts in the sunshine or walk
home from the office. The front seat Of
getting uptown. And l don't take un-
necessary risks in the heat"
Then with beautiful display of what
in woman would have been termed in
consistency. but in congressman must
pass for absent mindedness. Mr. Flood
started for the Capitol. Via the cool SUBJ
way? Not bit of IT, but straight across
the blazing, sunlit square from the office
building, through the sparsely shaded
grounds and up the flight of hundred
steps leading to the floor of the House.
Over on the Senate side many of tho
portly heat-tormented solons WELD tho
palm leaf fans placed at their disposal by
a special fund. Senator Hepburn, who
can say something on any subject no mat
ter how hot the day. is an ardent disciple
of the fan. Leaning back in his chair he
creates such a rattle of sound and Juror
of breeze by his manipulations of the
generous fan allotted him that adjoining
senator's Just sit and grin and enjoy the
result of his labors.
Senator Robert Owen Of Oklahoma. the
Indian senator. moves about with the
gliding grace of his people. calm, IN
scruta BILE AID superior TO any such tri1e
as "a hunIred in the shade. He wears
most sunmery attire and always looks
picturesque in IL.
Atlee Pomerene of Ohio looks as though
a. drop of perspiration would not dare
tricke down the marble whiteness of his
brow. He has so far made no outward
concessions to summer. but continues To
wear the same snug-looling garments in
which he made his senatorial debut.
Senator Bailey of Texas big and bluh
and the picture of virlity. Is wearing
dark blue serge. with soft. white plated
shirts, a rundown linen collar and black
or white bow tie. He looks really cool
and says he feels so.
Never let yourself get worried. or
Hurried, or hurried he quoted. II be-
lieve the influence OF mind over matter Is
greater in summer than at any tisle
Look at cake of ice and you feel COM
Portable: at q hot, dusty road and you
are conscious OF sense of physical dis
comfort. Have cool surroundings and
don't tell any hot weather stories"'
Calm in the distinction of having been
elected to the United States Senate with
out previously running for any political
office, Senator Luke Lea of Tennessee in
sisted that he does not find Washington
any hotter than the weather down
home"
What do you do 20 keep cool?"
go to the base ball. he laughed. boy
ishly. visions OF many thousand yell
Ing perspiring humans. packed sardine-
wise into a grandstand isn't very COOL
ing 1 admit But somehow forget the
sun and the heat and everything but the
game"