The National tribune., 1911-02-23

THE NATIONAL TRIBUNE:
Victor Murdoch, one of the Kids Of
the National House of Representatives
as we'll as one of it's broadcast shout
dered and biggest men, mentally and
physically, is having a gerce story
told about him, as though he We're
telling 1t himself. The story goes that
Murdoch on his first visit to New York
took it in on his first term in Con-
gress, and that isn't true, for Murdoch
had been in New York before that
He had been pretty much all over the
United States as a newspaper corre-
spondent. But I will let Representa-
tive Murdoch tell the story as the cor
respondent puts 1t in his. mouth:
Il had been given the usual ovation
as I left the station at Wichita, and
I determined to pass the most brilliant
| windows on Broadway, and never to
give pause before the highest electric
sign in order that 1 might be mistaken
for a native.
Nobody seemed to detect me until I
went into hotel for dinner. This
hotel had been often talked of in
Kansas as the last word of luxury. /
| ordered a good dinner, and was only
slightly patroniZed by the waiter.
Finger bowls did not perturb me, but
L was unmaSkeQ Wnen the CneCK cdlIle
No sooner had the waiter placed
it on my table than I picked 1t UP and
carried it to the cashiers desk in the
dining room, after the most approved
lunchroom manner in Kansas. The
cashier was polite about it and said
nothing offensive, but the waiter
thought I was trying to avoid a tip.
and / had to unbend generously to ef-
face his terrible GOODNESS
You are always wondering just what
the things ere that attract people at
the White House and Capitol, and then
you are always being surprised when
you find OUT. For instance noted
society. leader has had as her guest
or honor for several weeks past one
of the dear old black "mammies" of
the South who had grown gray in the
service of the society woman's father
and of herself, the old black nanny
having mothered the weanling when
her fair young mother lay down in
quiet dreams. The society woman had
been wanting to have her old man.
my" come up and see some of the
sights of Washington, where she her
self is one of the most brilliant attrac-
tons. She laid herself out to show
| NANNY" around, and she took her in
her automobile to the Capitol, to the
Library, to the Botanical Gardens and
the Monument, in fact she showed her
all the sights of the city exactly as
she would a titled guest, and finally
took her to the White House. After
everything had been seen and the old
colored woman had had chance to
adjust her ideas q little, the society
woman said: Now. Nanny. what is
it that has impressed you most of cv-
erything that you have seen since you
have been visiting me-" The old
,frt1t nI nv,
with her face wrearhed in smiles re-
piled: Laws bless your soul, honey
| chile, I just amt been able to think
of nothing else but them gold spittoons
in the White House. Amt them just
| beautiful?'
| Funny things happen at the White
House as well as any place else. Some
how or other there managed to get In
with the other guests at the reception
the other night a man in a Jim Swinger
coat. Now. Jim Swinger coat is all
right when 1t Is clean, and this one
was-in fact. 1t fitted its owner very
nicely, indeed-but somehow his Prince
Albert and Jim Swinger did not seem
to be related to his other gear; his linen
was Immaculate, his face well-shaven,
and his hair combed: but when the
head usher caught sight of the gentle
mans Jim Swinger. he also caught
sight of regulation moving-picture
style boots and a pair Of delicately-
striped gray trousers. The gentleman
with the Jim Swinger really looked
like moving picture of a cowboy, sure
enough AS the unwritten law of the
White House is for evening dress only
at receptions, the gentleman was in
vited to seek the outer atmosphere,
which he did without protest.
Mr.. Justice Harlan has received a
present which he probably will enjoy
tremendously. 1t comes from George
T. Brown, President of a tobacco COM
pany in Winston-Salem. N. c.. and is a
box containing two pounds of the best
tobacco in the country. 1t is chewing
tobacco, and is said to be an amiable
reminder to Mr.. Justice Harlan that he
just had not hunted in the proper place
when he remarked in the trial of the
alleged tobacco trust that it was impos-
sible to get any good chewing tobacco.
A real nice little story comes to
Washington about the wads of puffs and
curls and rats and things that women
I are so priding themselves on wearing.
I 1t Is said that the hair of the plague
victims in Europe and the queues re-
moved from the heads OF the Chinese
under the new condition of things there
are being worked up into the ruck OF
stuff that the present-day woman is dis
| figuring her head with.
The matter of eating and not eating
| is one of individual choice, evidently,
and of individual taste For instance.
there are two United States Senators
whose ideas of eating seem to be dia-
metrically opposed, Senator Burton.
| of Ohio, for instance, who probably
puts in longer hours at work than any
other Senator. eats luncheon Of crack
ers and milk-probably a dozen crack
ers and half pint of milk and cream,
| half and half. Senator Burton's bones
are pretty well covered with flesh, al
tho he could not be called stout, but
he looks a healthy, well-kept man, and
he says that he owes his good health
and capacity for work to the simplicity
of his fare. At the same time that
Senator Burton was eating his simple
luncheon another United States Sena-
tor, and one Of the hard workers, took
a seat at the same table. 1t was Sen
ator Warren. of Wyoming. and he or
dered his custoramy MONDAY lunch. II
was a thin but plenty big slice of juicy
roast beef, potatoes and other substan-
tials, because Senator Warren's appe-
lite ranks as one of the heartiest in
the Senate. Senator Burton eyed the