Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-11-12


into the habit of sending her all sorts of
ridiculous excuses for not keeping his en-
gagements with her. Finally the mistress
advised the maid to dismiss the sutton and
not to stand any more of his somewhat cava- |
| Her treatment.
One evening the maid rushed to the mis-
tress and exhibited signs OF great anger.
| "Nissus,' she burst out, you know what
dat wuthless Teller done fome me?"
The woman thought it was one OF the old
stories, a broken ankle or some other i'm
probability. She asked, What, Nannie??"
"He done say" exploded the maid, "he
can come see me cause he done pawn his
pants.'
John JOY EDISON, one of the best known
~ bank presidents in Washington, narrowly |
escaped spending his life as a Government |
clerk at a salary OF not more than fifteen |
hundred dollars a year. He escaped because |
his wife refused to marry him until he had
left the Government service.
I'm his last trip to the Pacific Coast, |
- Charles Nagel, Secretary of Commerce
and Labor struck a small town that had
only one hotel He went to this hostelry, |
which had negro bellboys After he had
gone to his room, he rang for boy and asked:
as there a haberdasher in this town.
"Yas, Sub, replied the boy. BOSS, is dat |
a whisky or cigarette!
IKE LEA. the Senates @baby,' tells
- this on himself
a have seen it printed in several news |
papers that | was great football player |
when was at college. As matter of fact, |
l never played but one game of football in
my life. That was a terrific but bloOdleSS |
encounter between my boarding house team
and another aggregation at the University OF
the South. In the first part of the game | |
got hold of the ball and started as fast as |
could go toward my goal, not realizing that |
the point was to take it across the opposite |
sides goal line. The thing that saved the
day was that the quarterback on my team
overlook me, tackled me, threw me down, |
is my football record, and I'm not very |
proud of it.
A REPUBLICAN Senator, who had been
subjected to eXcoriation in a magazine |
article, was seated in the cloakroom dis |
cussing the abuse he had suffered. an my |
opinion" he said holly, "a muckraker is |
nothing but political hookworm.'
an which case, chimed in Borah of Idaho,
at seems that now and then he throws in his
hooks
JOSEPH McKENNA, Associate Justice of
> the United States Supreme Court, was at
one time member of Congress; but he was
glad to give up politics for position on the
circuit bench.
tom WILLARD, writer on affairs in the
Far East, was showing party of Ameri-
cans, including diplomat and several Mem
bers of Congress- through town in China.
He took them into a hut and pointed to a
young woman who was preparing meal and
an old woman lying on bench in the back
part of the one room.
"See.' exclaimed Willard in an oratorical
tone. 4Note how the Chinese look after
their ancestors! The aged do not have to
work. They recline in ease and comfort
while the younger generation tolls
He got off good deal of talk in this vein,
and then asked the girl about the old woman.
"My grandmother, she explained stolidly.
"She going to die. She's got yellow fever.
After that the tourists hired a real guide. |
A ANATOMICAL OBSERVATION: In
\ proportion to the rest of his face, Gov
ernor Woodrow Wilson of New Jersey is the
longest-chinned man who ever came to
Washington, and Representative Cullop of
| Indiana has the longest nose.