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The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-05-31

D. Brooking, who. on account OF bust
ness, Is compelled 10 move into the city
has decided to sell his home. situated
at the above number, containing seven
rooms In splendid condition. with two
lots fronting together on the south side
OF Lawson Street GO feet Large out
buildings. beautiful flowers. shrubbery
and grapes. M
TERMS: one-fourth cash. balance in
8, 6, 9, ~. 15. Is, 81 and "a months for
notes secured by deed Of trust. or all
cash, at the option of tine purchaser
You are invited to inspect this prop
erty at any time before the SALE and
should not fail to attend the sale II YOU
are looking for an Ideal home.
j. E. NORVELL Auctioneer
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-05-31
AUCTION SAIL

AUCTION SALE
OF
a VERY DESIRABLE SUBURBAN
HOME. NO. $40 LAWSON STREET.
SwANSBOROs VA. ON WEDNESDAY,
MAY 81. 1911. AT $50 O'CLOCK P.
NJ, on THE PREMISES.
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Art Collection of Owner of "The Mfr

and all the usurious east. single paint
err like Carrot is carried through all his
interpretations of aerial tone. silvery.
gray, pearly and green. Millet had his
broader and narrower Incidental side,
neither highly popular both most ad-
mirably chosen.
Daubigny runs through his mural de-
light in the green hillsides and the calm
stretch OF the Disc he loved and knew.
The rest of this great group are all pres
ent Their names are familiar. one
could name great paintings in this coun-
try, but where else better related ex-
amples? AS for Monet, there is no.
where else, not in the Louvre. finer
proof of his power than this dead Tore
ador,'' one of the great paintings Monet
and Bissaro each with the final develop
ment of that impulse given seventy years
before by Constable and Gavin in a land
scape which tells of the balanced calm at
the close of a great period.
Undoubtedly Mr.. Wideners collection of
lea and one of the finest and most valu-
able private collections in the world.
What this magnificent gallery has cost
its owner in mere money is known TO
himself. Its commercial value has been
estimated at between S:.o00.O0 and 81
0OO,O The pictures would possibly sell
for something between these figures
under the hammer.
Mr.. Widener does not estimate them
by the measure OF dollars. They are his
most intimate friends, a part of his life.
When not engaged in the turmoil or
money getting or meeting the demands
OF his hospitality. he lives with his pic-
lures as bibiliOphile in his library.
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All Against 1t.

xTHE harem skirt, or jupe-culotte.
won't go i'm this country. The
arguments against 1t are insuperable."
The speaker was Miss Elsie De Wolfe.
the best-dressed woman in New York The
scene was a tea at the Colony Club.
Miss De Wolfe resumed
Yes. the arguments against the Jupe-
culotte are as all-embracing as those
against the poor mans credit.
"A poor man, you know. once asked
banker for credit. The banker an.
swered:
There are two reasons, my friend.
why poor men can't get credit The frse
is because they are not known. The
second is because they are
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-04-30
PEERNG Into House To SEE
IF MEMBER Is lM HIS SEAT,

day, from noon to adjournment in the
sitting little room on the House side.
which is merely columned niche to the
left of statuary hall. From it an IN
cline6 rallied walk, not unlike a gang
plank, leads up to short hall directly
opposite the central door of the House.
When a member who has been sent for
agrees to come out the woman making
slopng bridge-and waits. One Repre-
sentative has dubbed 1t walking the
plank AS the member descends card
in hand, he endeavors to obtain com
pre hs,s view s. Of the room room, before
there's a reason. too. If he espies
seasoned lobbyist or two standing
around in the background the chances
are he will have developed such momen
tum in his descent as to find himself
clear beyond the room and into the mid
die of statuary hall before he can come
to a stop.
And 1t is hundred-to-o one shot he will
suddenly recollect some urgent business
that will carry him all the way through
to the Senate side Of the Capitol. But
and here's the rub-representatives real
ly do have to work and the woman in
waiting Of this type does not; so she'll
still be waiting there when the trapped
member attempts to return.
If the two pages detailed for duty in
this room do not grow up to be great
actors it will not be because they lack
daily instruction in the art of assimilating
emotions. The start of surprise with
which some members greet their callers
would have satisfied even Mansfield. The
novice Is either encouraged by the smile
of welcome or plunged into despair by
the frown of annoyance. But the "regu-
lar" to borrow a word from the vocabu-
larry Of the page. never even turns a hair
at the manner Of her reception. She just
states her case placidly-maybe she is re-
calling 1t to ears already grown weary
and takes 1t all as matter of course.
Sometimes the woman in waiting
wants charity, not for herself, but for an
institution or a crusade in the interest of
reform or good health. Sometimes she
asks promotion in the government service
or political prefernent for the man folks
at home. Very often she seeks a vote on
a certain bill, over which she has been
shaving for years.
Then there is the elderly woman who
admits she is just passing the time"
One of her sort filled a generous section
of the little room the day the writer
helped swell the list of congressional
callers. She wanted to see the member
from her home State-and he happened
to be Mr.. Bennett until this session of
House. She desired cards for the reserved
gallery. Mr.. Bennett graciousy assented.
Then she insisted upon chatting about
various and sundry happenings in Gotham.
Mr.. Bennett chatted and stood first on
one foot, then on the other-the while the
nations business waited. or at least that
part Of it under his direction. Several
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The Worldly View.

wv LILLIAN LOEB. jr., was discussing at
" dinner in New York the customs
laws.
Il suppose" said Mr.. Loeb. that in
the past a good many people looked on
strict observance of the customs laws
from a selfish and worldly point of view.
They were like Aunt Mary Persimmons.
Aunt Mary called one day on the viii
lage lawyer.
do for your
said Aunt Mary.
Divorce old Uncle Bill?' cried the
lawyer. Good gracious. why?'
'"Bekase he's done got religion, OATS
why. said Aunt Mary: an we amt had
q chicken on de table TO six weeks"
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<I"HE MILL" Rembrandt's great
masterpiece, is coming to Amer

<<THE MILL" Rembrandt's grea'
masterpiece, is coming to Amer
lea. Only a few days ago an
nouncement was made that P. A. T..
Widener, the traction magnate of Phila-
delphia, had succeeded in obtaining the
Dutch painters greatest picture for $780,
600 after the British National Gallery had
allowed an option they held on the paint
ing to lapse. The picture was owned by
Lord Lansdowne of England.
Mr. Widener was asked whether he re-
garded his acquisition of the painting as
a triumph Indicative of Americas APP
probation of art.
Il am certainly glad that we are able
to bring it to our Shores" he replied.
What will be the insurance on the
painting"
1T will be insured at its full value by
Lioyds, but L do not know the amount of
the premium Mr.. Widener said.
Mr.. Widener further added that the pic
ture would be brought over as quickly
as possible and hung in his gallery at his
magnificent home near Ogontz, Pa.
The remarkable quality of Mr.. Wide
ner'S collection is first that it has been
gathered with an extraordinary and sue
cessful synthetic skill. There is at every
point apparent, not only the result of
trained aQVlCe, Dut a capacity TO FORM a
general plan and judiciously to follow
advice, a quality among the rarest in all
great collectors, the walls of whose gal
leries almost invariably show some trivial
idiosyncracy which, has married the gen
eral symmetry Of the completed display.
There is instead in this collection
proof that there has been advantage
taken of manifold opportunity, not merely
to fill gallery with notable pictures by
notable men, but to create a collection, of
which almost every canvas adds to the
value of every other, so that the gallery
itself is in some sense both d history of
the painters art and record of inteli-
gent acquisition.
The significant character of Mr.. Wide
ner'S collection is, therefore. the notab BILE
aspect which must strike any one familiar
with such collections. Here in the earlier
period which it covers is Valesquez in
two extraordinary examples, both of which
are studies of great paintings, whose
acquisition by a private gallery might
easily have been deemed impossible. The
Raj hael those who are best familiar with
its twin in the National Gallery in Lon
don will be inclined to feel is the earlier
and more loving study The Titan, less
notable than this, still represents that
note of mingled color and sumptuous out
line which marks the artist. The REM
brandts. apart from The Mill just pur-
chased. carry us through all the phases
OF an artist, who, equally skilled in light
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Our Customs Officers.

SIR FRANK NEwNEs. the English
- publisher. was asked at a dinner
in New York. what he thought of the
customs ordeal at the New York port.
Oh he said, 1.-The officers were very
polite"
But didn't they bother you with
questions?"
mo, they didn't bother me. They
were too polite for that. But they did,
undoubtedly, ask a lot of questions.
They made me think of the Devon
farmer.
My curiosity Is running away with
me- said the Devon farmer. as his two
headed ram dragged him all over the
barnyard."
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BALI" she said to me. isn't that what
they are playing-ball? We haven't got
to the wrong place, have we? You could
tell the difference between ball game
Notwithstanding else. couldn't your?
Then all of sudden, when the home
team made three runs in bunch. the
whole roofing mob stood up and Gladys
doll eyes took fire. and She
Oh. 1 know what you think is coming,
audience. You're waiting for me to I'M
spool the stuff where Gladys knew all
about the game all the time. and how
she was kidding me from hagfall. and
how she began to root like De Wolf Hop
per at the opening game. and how she
showed all of the inside knowledge thing
in her roofing, and how she staked me to
the merry hoot-ha, and how
But nothing like that happened. Gladys
was different, and Gladys didn't know.
exit. without a mitt, and the audience
Sad)
We hope this one will suit. We've beat
en- all of the rugs in the house while un-
limbering this, and IL 1t doesn't read just
as feebly and fiabby and inconsequent
and flfvvery as the average monologue,
we are going to refuse to accept a cent.
CLARENCE L. CULLEN.
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and ask her If she knows anything about
the game.
"oh. nunno. nunno. but you'll tell me.
won't you?". she always says. II think
1t must be perfectly dear and ducky.
It's something like prisoners base. isn't
it?"
Then I know that I'm in for one OF
those regular afternoons.
The last afternoon l had like that was
with girl from Chicago She was visit
Ing some Of her folks in the east and one
day at lunch, when 1 happened to be
there-nobody has anything on me on
happening to be there at lunch time
Gladys from Chicago clapped her cute
little hands all of a sudden and glanced
around at the four male hard-luckers at
the table and said:
Dear me, there's a ball game today!
How l would love to see it!'
We all glanced at each other gloomily
the male ones. l mean.
Not that Gladys wasn't as dear a little
thing as ever came out of Chicago, and
lot of dear things come out Of Chica CO.
like homeless calves liver at 40 cents a
pound copy.
No. it wasn't that Gladys wasn't dolli-
: kin right. But we'd all had some Gladys
or other at ball games before.
Know anything about the game?" We
all asked Gladys at once.
mo. but I'd just love to know all
about IT, she said.
Then we all tried to beat each other to
it, telling about the important business
engagements we had for that afternoon
But Gladys was one Of those dear,
clinging little things that can dance on a
bass drum without making a sound, and
that always get what they want if they
have to use a poisoned hatpin when
you re not looking.
So we could see, all right, that one of
us was going to take Gladys to the ball
game that afternoon.
But we all stalled until we had q
chance to leave the dining room for a
smoke.
Then we drew straw.s to see. which of us
was going to have to take Gladys to the
ball game.
I drew the short straw, OF course.
If whisk brooms were nineteen feet
long. I'd draw a straw every time that !
wouldn't feel IL 1t got wedged in corner
Of my eye.
When we got to the grounds. before the
game began, and while the players were
warming up, began to unravel the game
for Gladys.
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\ THE MARBLE Room
Or. The ;SENATE

other women who had been sitting COM
placently in the background ostentatious
ly lowered nearer, for they, too, wished
to talk with the man from the Empire
state, and considered this a favorable
opportunity.
AT a large table in the center Of the
room sits young woman. All day long
she takes the cards Of the callers and
gives the pages directions about carrying
them in. She also sees that no woman
is given preference over her sisters in
waiting in the length of time one has
to wait for return messages. She Is a
she has a keen, discerning gray eye-two
Of them in fact. And. whether 1t be
part Of her official obligations or self
imposed task, she invariably comes to
the rescue of member about to be plac-
ed in dilemma.
Nodding to page, she manages to give
the unobservant gentleman notice Of the
foot ball rush in which he is about to
figure. So. with a hasty "come-again-so-
lad-to-have-seen-you' smile, he is able
to make a quick exit backward up the
inclined plank and thus escape the
clutches of the lowering ones who had
hoped to profit by the other lady's card.
Some of these women who wait are so
patrcian in look and manner that tns
Stinctively the pages know they have q
congressional right to be there. They
are often the wives. relatives or persona;
friends of the members. who have beer
invited up for luncheon or called to take
their liege lords for a drive. And. as ar
attache up there boyishly explained,
They always seem to arrive Just when
a fellow is deep in conversation with
some good-looking woman. Usually he is
saying, Really. madam, 1 will do every
thing possible about your lame husband
or Il assure you, ma am, that / have al
ready stirred the State Department up in
reference to your brother But he can't
we'll make his voice carry across and
over the general pandemonium, and to
the just-arrived relative it looks like a
pleasant little f1irtation.' AS a matter
of fact, no woman in her right senses
would ever select that oppressive spot
for any other than business reasons.
Speaker Clark believes that Congress
should provide a more agreeable place
with the representatives.
**
Some people seem to think the main
idea is to make things so uncomfortable
for these women that they won't bother
members by coming here at ALL" he said.
But they have a perfect right to do so.
Not all OF them, l admit, yet the fact
that a number come up here just through
curiouslty or in hopes Of graft does not
good natured enough to come out, or Of
the callers who have legitimate business
here. During the last session, somehow.
/ always seemed to be sent for when the
room was the most crowded. and there 1
had to stand, first on one foot and then
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A Base Ball Mono1ogue According to Cullen

WYE have received large number Of
w letters from friends who usually
are quite indulgent. telling US, in
essence, that the vaudeville monologue
which We printed recently was not suf-
hciently imbecile to be accepted as a
sure-enough article OF its kind.
This, needless to say. chagrins US eY-
ceedingly, not only because we hate to
be chided, but because we consider that
our friends are wrong. For in that mono
logue printed last Sunday wasn't the final
word in vacuumousness. We
However, there is no use arguing about
II. The only thing to do, We take it. is
to try the monologue thing again. and
see IL we can't be enough foolisher to get
by this time. Anyhow, this kind of stuff
can oe uncoiled whilst one is writing with
one nlitt and beating carpets with the
other. For our monologue subject this
time we have chosen base ball. Shoot
cried out the company (exeunt, Hmping),
and so here goes for that little frivol to
be called a base ball monologue.
Scene: A dauby drop, representing a
long street on which not single soul or
sole is walking; like a street might look
after an Asiatic cholera scare.
Monologist. pretending to be blithe
whilst fishing for laughs, but secretly
hating the audience and the world.
Seize:
Am | bug?
Well, I'm waiting for them to start a
before breakfast league.
Then we all could see a game every
morning before going 10 work.
When a before-breakfast game went
eighteen or twenty innings We wouldn't
have TO go to work at all.
That's why l believe that a before
breakfast league would be a good thing.
My idea is that II base ball interferes
with work then jump the Job.
did that once for q whole base ball
season.
1 was never more than four jumps
ahead Of the rent collector during that
season.
But learned lot OF inside ball.
Inside ball. you know, is the kind the
home team plays when II cops q game.
e played boneheaded ball.
Every bug knows that.
We wait till the game is over. and then
II the home team has grabbed II by a
lucky clout-the ball bounding into the
bleachers or something like that-why, we
say that we connected because we played
inside ball.
II the home team loses because three of
Its pitchers were knocked out OF the box
and all hands had dropped their batting
eyes in the -bua=op the way to the
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a v-shaped bias set in the middle panel.
I got red and famed my face with my
hat, while telling her about 1t, and a
bunch of bugs sitting near me began TO
hand me the OUTFIT chirp.
They asked me why l didn't go hire
rink and mention it to Hogan?
And all the time I was telling Gladys
all about it she had her doll eyes glued
on woman In one OF the boxes yes, .,.
When l pulled up to take breath sne
looked at me sort O. vaguely and asked
me:
''Isn't that girl in the box with the buy
moose turban with the lilac aigrette In 1t
isn't she Ethel Barrymore? And ism
Ethel the dear! Wouldn't L love to meet
herr
mo" I told her; that's May Irwin. y
and she looked at me kind of queer. /
guess she thinks yet that l had a mask IN
one of the rear pockets.
Did one of EN- ever ask you to pick out
a doll wearing a burnoose turban with
lilac aigrette?
And could you have done it?
Then the umpire busted on the plate
and they began to play.
who is that bow-legged man with the
stick. and what is he going to dor she
asked me
Hes going to take three healthy
swings at the pill and then go get drink
OF water" I started to say. Then re-
membered that it was Gladys at my side:
X
I knew that she'd get the sun in her
eyes and mufr that one.
So I told her that the man with the
stick was the first batter up. and that
Just then a wild-eyed fan sitting near
us got peeved because the catcher had
let hot one slip through his mitts.
How'd that suffragette get in?" he
howled. meaning the catcher. He
couldn't catch a stationary owl lunch
wagon on Chestnut street in Philadelphia
in the middle of the night!'
DO the poor things get their meals at
the owl lunch wagons" Gladys asked me.
l told her yes and the game went on.
bunch Of rooters behind US howled:
.Oh. you Red Kid! Kill it! Poison it,
Gladys looked scared.
Mercy sakes alive, what are they go
ing to kill?" she asked me.
1 told her that that was just a little
badinage.
Really" said she. looking me over
What nice French you speak. 1 didn't
know you were lnguist.'
Neither did t. says /, and then the
batsman put one over the fence. and
explained to Gladys that he'd made a
home run.
She asked me If we all had to go home
so soon. 1 told her that only the man
who had made the home run was en-
titled to leave the grounds for home, and
she asked me then why all of them didn't
make home runs so that they could go
home, too, the poor things.
The game slackened up a little while
the pitcher was trying to nall a runner
at first, and the bunch began to yowl:
law, play BALI
This surprised Gladys a good deal
why, l thought they were playing
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what he is sent there to do. But that
he also consumes goodly portion OF his
working day in receiving or avoiding wom-
en- will be. perhaps a more or less sur
pr!sing statement to the average voter.
And yet-don't censure the congress
man for doing So Nine out of ten times
he's more eager to dodge his feminine
callers than to see them. This business
OF hasking in feminine smiles and being
sought after by Milady Fair may be all
right In story books. but it doesn't so in
Congress. If he could do so the average
member would turn over the job OF re-
ceiving Phyllis and Cousin Mary-From-
the-Country and Mrs. Home Slater to
any one who wants jt-in a jiffy. And
that does not mean he is necessarily
woman hater. either. But rather that
always. day In and day out, a veritable
army Of women is besieging him for
favors OF various sorts. and he really
hasn't the time to listen to the pleas
and still accomplish what he promised
his constituents.
They can be found either in the re-
ception room of the House of Representa-
lives or in the marble room of
the Senate, chiefly, however. on the
House side. From the opening day of
. session until its close they-these
women IN waiting, OS one congressman
facetiousy calls them-are to be seen.
Some Of them are there for short
while only or maybe a single visit, but
the majority are as firmly intrenched as
the Rock of Gibraltar. A few are SO
new and diffident that the pages who
take in their cards to the congressman
have to tell them what to write and
where to wait. They come for a million
reasons. real and imaginary, and every
shading Of human pathos and comedy Is
exhibited In their self-imposed, though
none the less arduous, task Of waiting.
There are young girls, slender and fair,
who come in groups. properly chaperoned.
from boarding schools just to say good
day to the member from their home
state. They are frankly curious and
vastly excited over the novel experience.
They would just love to have passes
to the reserved gallery. and they wax
positively riotous over a pencil or a
writing pad as a souvenir from the sta
tionery room. They have no axes to
grind. however. for which the congress
man Is duly thankful. If he is too busy
to see them, his excuse becomes a mat
ter Of personal pique and not a soul-stir-
ring tragedy.
There are women with the battle-scar-
red faces Of the unhappy aged. Some of
them aTein rusty black and make no at
tempt TO conceal the poverty that drives
them to this last hope Of winning the
sympathy of a man who can get them a
government position or aid the passage of
q certain bill. They are ION duty each
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HAT a member Of
Congress spends
his days in work
ing for or against
such momentOuS
projects as tariff re-
duction, Canadian
reciprocity. appro-
priations for this
or that and other
kindred subjects Is,
to the popular
m IN q precisely
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Large Supply.

Caller-I am collecting for the poets
hospital. Will you contribute somethingf
Editor-with pleasure. Call around to-
night with an ambulance and I'll have
some poets ready.