The Washington herald., 1911-02-05
HUMAN NATURE IN WASHINGTON
By FRED C. KELLY.

The Washington sobby season ap-
proachcs apace. And it's going to be the
sobbiest sobby season Washington has
know for years. Step into the big
Union Station along about March 4 and
you'll see more gulpiness. more lachry-
| mostly, more young women dabbing at
| reddened eyelids with little wads of
| handkerchiefs than you would at a matt
nee performance of THE Music Master .
Thcn's when the Congressman who
| did not succeed last fall in annexing an
other term will so away from here with
their families, mebby to return no more.
They must go back to the law Office or
the livery stable or to whatever line of
endeavor they were in before coming to
Congress.
All what a sad blow ii was to the
daughters who had been enjoying life
here when they heard the appalling elec-
ton returns. But it's the final breaking
away from Washington that really. starts
all the weepiness up full blast-the going
away from this place forevah. as the
girl says in the show when she leaves
the old farm that's to be sold to pay of
the mortgage held by some wicked and
grasping man with a heart as black as
his mustache.
When dad was tossed into the discard
by his constituency there was nothing
for him to do but so back to Furway,
Ohio, or Omega, Iowa, or wherever 1t is
that he halls from. His wife and the
girls must go back with him. and-herc
comes the poignant realization-they will
probably remain there indefinitely. The
girls were thoroughly enjoying life In
Washington, too.
Pennsylvania avenue may not be as
lively as Broadway, but there is heap
more to see and do here than there is
back in Omega or Furway. Oh. to think
that dad had to go and get defeated for
that next termL Oh, adversely! Oh. ca
Iamity. Possibly you have never lived in
Furway or one of its equivalents. II
you had. you might wonder less at the
daughters tears. If. after spending all
your life in Furway. you had lived for q
couple of seasons in Washington and
then were going back to Furway. with
not much ahead but still more OF Fur
way and
Wait a minute. Let US take up the
situation in detail and look it over. Con-
slider for a minute the Hopkins family.
of Furvay, Ohio The two girls have
finished high school and are just fiddling
around the house, week In and week out,
helping mother with the dishes, the mis-
sionary societies, and the verbenas. for
lack of things more exhilarating to do.
About the only excitement Furway ever
t. Due Cornwall mr. 20
Swiss bellringers come to town on the
Star lecture course, under the auspices of
the Y. NJ. c. A.. or some unknown man
gets killed by a train and everybody IN
town goes over to Jeffries' undertaking
shop, one or two at time. to have q
look at the body.
A few young men who wear black sack
coats. white vests. striped trousers. and
brown derby hats when they're dressed
for an occasion, and carry little coin
purses, come around now and then to
make q call and one Of them entertains
the girls by telling what An attractive
facial massage the new barber down at
the shop next to the billiard and pool
room gave him that morning. The young
men talk mysteriously and exchange sig
nidcant glances about . trip they made
to the city one Sunday the previous sum-
mer, when they missed the last train
home. and the girls retaliatc by getting
together over BY the piano and whisper
ing.
Every no often there p subscription
dance in the X. Of p. hall. arranged for
by . blond young man who WORKS In the
Emporium. Each spring the Pres6yte.
irian church gives IN eld-fashicnea csr-.
nival Of nations in the ola 1rmory To-
raise money for repairs On the parson-
aee, and the Hopkins giriq take Art
!. a1in, the social actfvitjs6 - ethsr. ~.
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