The Washington bee., 1911-10-21
Public Men And ThinDs
(By the Sage of the Potomac.) }

never QlQ Diane d WOIldl IOT SlIdlS 1T
ening her hair. Who wants to prom
enade down the Avenue de Mig with
S45 worth of willow plumes on a
| head whose hair covering looks like
minnie balls assembled for cOnsulta-
ton? The fact that hair can be
Strengthened proves it was never or
dalned to stick close to the scalp III
| strands One-Sixteenth of an inch long
| speaking about hair straightener, I'll
/ bet Almond SCOTS automobile
| against any other noise, that Rev.
CoTrothers, some time in the early pc
ROD OF his existence, used d few
pounds of bovine fat reduced to a
Yaseline constituency, on his locks.
Dld you ever gaze on the Doctor )
| hair: Well, fly could no more light
and stick on his hair than a mule
could climb Mount Blanc from the
| gorge side. But hair doesn't make
the man. If it did Judge Terrell
would be mollusk back in the glacial
period, and Roscoe Bruce would be
la nameless waif resting in the cata-
combs. But getting back to DR.. Cor
rothers, before l lose the thread of
my discourse, he's got the appearance
/ get to the point where / can have A
lot of hOd carriers and washerwomen
"ah wurkin' fer me-" providing me
| with prince albert coats, Square-top
hats, porterhouse steaks, and Holsters
in exchange for my getting them
ready to fall in line when old Gabriel
toots his horn on resurrection morn,
| won't give California fig for any
zody. But let me adcise you, serious
| ly, DR.. Corrothers gives his congrega-
! ton a pretty fair exchange for the
robbery. The Doctor is fine pulpit
orator, looks we'll after his flock, and
hands them some pretty sound advice
on Sunday. He's obsessed with the
idea that he's got to play in the game
of politics, be an independent, and
/ oppose Republicans. Whenever
! hear Doctor talking independence, |
always geStiCulate to whose
| IlOOney nOw| But since that Boston
meeting the Rev. DR.. Corrothers, D.
D., amt so independent as ne use to
was. There were some things that
his co-laborer Waldron didn't explain
about the Jackpot with a succinct-
Iness to suit him. | only use Jack
IpOt" hguratively. I've "hearn II
sayed" that after that Boston meet
ling DR. COrrothers sat down in his
study one day and rehectively asked
himself the question, if two and two
really makes four The two Doctors
are differently alike, so different that
when they come to the point where
both will be a case of dust to dust,
lit will be impossible for both to rest
lin Harmony Cemetery at the same
time Now if anybody expects tC
wake up and find COrTOthers foo
I'll miss my guess if that somebody
amt already adjudged insane. Nc
matter if you differ with him, you
have to respect him, and you cam
help liking him because he's fair. He
never Toasts you just because yOu
can't use the same glasses he uses
land he doesn't fall out with you i
iyou don't want to take the road he
takes Galbraith Church got rea
lprize when it got him for a pastor
and this community has had nothing
IsubtraCted from its achievements be
ICause of his presence in it. There are
la lot of men far less able than DR.
Corrothers, but there amt no Who'll,
township full of abler men than he
| If you give every dog his dues
lyOu'vc got to give DR.. COrrother
his, and l don't mean to put him il
the canine class either He's Ions
ways from being a hamfatto, even i
he does live easy. But if | were him
and | say this sub-rosa-just 1out
enough for you to read it-I woult
slip down to the hatters some day ant
ask him if he wouldn't please send ou
+. to my house, and charge it to Gal
braith's congregation, a hat in ex
change for that sugar-lOaf affair h
wears. And | would let out my sus
Ipenders about an inch. Did you eve
Inotice that Dr. Corrothers alway!
Iwears his trousers "gallused up
labout two inches from his instep Il
lshow his neat foot? All these A. NJ
E Zion preachers are dead stuck OF
; their feet Why that's the only par
of John c. Dancy's anatomy that ht
will keep dressed up. But crawling
back to Corrothers, take my wore
for it, he's some pumpkins, a darr
sight more than a nightmare
! saw Napoleon Marshall here las
Thursday night, October the 18th
Imet him on the Boulevard Theatre
| Nap. looks well. but rather tired. Il
sho' IS a pity the way that boy ha:
had to work since he got out Of Har
ward University. It's wonder to N,
lhow the poor fellow with an athletic
heart could ever fatten up as he is
land work as strenuOusly as he does
! | remember when ali us fellows here
lpredicted a brilliant careW for Nap
so soon as he skunk away from Har
ward, and we haven't been disappoint
led Look how he camped on tn,
trail of the Brownsville soldiers
without money, and without price, ex
tcept what they and Senator Forake
could hand him. Look how he ha!
sacrificed happiness and future just Il
snuff out the candle of that Tuske
gean wonder, and note how nervous
hdgety he is because the Tuskegean'!
candle has become an electric light
He has whispered to his friends, louC
jenough to be heard by Sam Lacey
and a few other Night-bloOming Sc
ries, that he's going to get Rosco'
Bruce's scalp. Next TO Booker
Washington, Roscoe Bruce is the one
wart that Nap. loses sleep over. One
of Maps particular friends said tc
another particular friend, that II MAJ
-. stayed here long enough he was going
Ito take him out to the Zoo, dowr
lhab;rd ora of the hear cages. anC