The Washington bee., 1911-09-09
Public Men ndThinps
lBy the Sage of the Potomac }

/ CeEeQ EaTtS, after MS maTCn OaCk over
} the bleak, frozen hills and plains from
! Moscow, and on catching sight of
! dear old Paris, he turned TO Marshals
| Murat and Ney, who were riding on
either side of him, and said: You
! bet your plum pudding Paris GER
| talnly looks good TO your uncle Nap.
When | blew into Washington last
week, and traversed the RialtO, and
| Piccadllly Lane-them's You and
Fourteenth Streets remarked, just
as Napoleon did, Washington Ger
tainly looks good TO me" My friends
nave been busy telling me all the
news, but they don't know that we
Washngtonlans who were initiating
millIonalres at Atlantic City have
been informed as TO every move on
the checkerboard. Why. We know all
about the murder yell followed by
cornet solo in dear old Quality
| Row. and we know all about the as
lsemblage of the police at a certain
fiat, and we had a constant line on
Everything doing in dear old Gossip
Vile When 1t comes TO gossip.
Washington has nothing on Atlantic
City. Over there it's gossip, bluff and
spend. Over here it's gossip, side
step and spend Just substitute
middle word, that's all When |
| landed in the Union Station | had
street car ticket, a postage stamp and
an appetite. The postage stamp | used
to write back TO the surf city advis-
ing my landlady | would remit that
! balance as soon as school took in
The street car ticket | used to take
la Washington Electric Company taxi
to my six room palace, and the appe-
| tite | appeased on tick But | wasn't
the only one who got back from At
lantic City in this predicament. My
condition was the rule All of you
who have played Vanderbilt at Allan
tic City know full we'll how they
work you over there Really, At
lantic City in July and August is a
great big cascaret-just naturally
works you to a fnish-cleans you out
| OF all your savings and ten per cent
/ borrowed capital
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Next year, if | live, I'm going to
| take my vacation at Arundel-On-the
Bay. The name sounds more exclu-
sive and aristocratic than Atlantic
City, and the costivity amt near so
approachable to a retired army Off
| Ger on full pay. If DR., Francis and
| his family can stand Arundel for all
these years, and he's got a full din
ner pail, I guess l can stand it for
couple of weeks. My honeybunch
will Just have to pipe" her dreams
inext year, and bathe with her dearie-
that's meat Arundel. Now, speak
| ing about Dr. Francis, We who have
known him for many years always
speak of him as Johnnie" Francis,
don't you know there is one more
wise man. He was the first man re-
| lated to Mr. Negro who began praCtlC-
| ing in Washington, and while he has
| not carried an electric sign around
with him to let people know who
and where he is at, he has been get
/ ting there just the same. When it
| comes to having the mazumma, Doc
| Francis sure has got his, and he will
always have it, clear up TO the time
that Gabriel phones down TO him to
get ready TO register his name or the
| Eternity Hotel blotter. And if old
tSt. Peter doesn't be right smack on
Ito his job attending the gate, john
ME will get by him with few beau
tiful earthly dollars. AS physician,
Doc. Francis never blew his horn, he
never carried a grind organ around,
nor never was caught with mega
phone, but he's always been recOg-
nized as a down to the minute physl-
clan He never was spendthrItt,
and the result is when he gets into
that automobile of his he can ride by
a few houses thai he can regard as
| his own, personal selfs property.
Some say that he is one of those 'ex-
clusives,' a "highbrow," a "off-to-
myself" sort of a man Well Doc. is
lexclusive in that he hasn't got much
time TO give to fy-blown individuals.
| Now hyblown individuals are the
lust happened set, who are always
litching to get into society, live four
! blocks above their means, and talk
big-regular fve-dOllar- -a-htty-
cent-head class of Darwin proofs.
| All I've got in this world is an ex-
pensive taste and a borrowing habit,
and yet Doc has always treated me
| like a gentleman. One thing about
Johnnie Francis, he's always classy.
| He was the first colored physician to
get dH dutOiHODlISt aliu iC" my O.
as thick as the ambrosial dew. Did
you ever go into Doc Francis office :
No? Well, then go, and you will see
one up-to-date physicians office. Or
cOurseDoc. sort of feels he's got the
stuff. sort of feels he's one of the
elect. but that's a mighty good feel
ling. He attends strictly to his own
business, and that's one reason why
he's got so much business to look
after. Never worry about DR.. John
r. Francis, the day will never come
when he will have to lay awake of
nights figuring on the price of bun.
He's got it-got ability and money,
and both a plenty.
|
There's an awful lot of school ru-
mors going around the town these
days, and they amt Horner rumors,
either. I've been trying to chase
some Of them down, and see whether
or not I'm connected with any of
them by direct connection. I got in
touch with Roscoe Bruce by proxy
| the other evening, but couldn't get
thing. You know Roscoe IS the
grand high priest in the Society of
Unsatisfactory Information. You can
work the stomach pump on him till