The National tribune., 1911-03-23
THE NATIONAL TR1BNE wAsHGo D. THURSDAY MARCH 49, 1911

Government and the people which they
have seen and studied
1t seems pretty harsh judgment,
but is-not altogether unmerited- Sew
eral recent snobbish incidents have
shown this.
Evidently the new Secretary of the
Interior, Mr.. Fisher. has no superstition
about 10. as he was perfectly willing to
be sworn into his high political office
on Monday, March IS.
In Washington the ministers are so
glad TO get women to church that up to
now they have not kicked upon the
tremendous hats that are worn by them.
| OF course in Catholic churches women
are obliged to wear head covering Of
some kind, but it looks to lay mem
| Der as tho women might have sense
! enough not to wear wagon wheels on
their heads when they go into public
audiences. There ought to be a law in
t.a44~churches to keep the pew owners
! from making nuisances of themselves
| TO those who own the pew behind them.
! When women wore hats on the top OF
| their heads it was possible to see under
them, but in this day of millinery that
| has to be supported by their shoulders,
you might as well try to look thru a
stone wall as to try to look above OF
around them.
William Jennings Bryan, formerly
Representative in Congress from Ne
braska, blew into Washington last Tues
day. and was here almost three hours.
He WAS TIE guest of Cotter Bride on
Capitol Hill. 1t was said during the
various campaigns of MIR. Bryan for the
Presidency that if he were elected Cot
ter Bride would be Secretary of the In
terror. The first caller upon Mr.. Bryan
was Senator La Toilette. of Wisconsin.
At the luncheon which was given in Mr..
Bryau's honor he was the only Repub-
lican present. Mr.. bryan could not be
induced to comment on Presidential
candidates, but he waXed warm when
questioned as to the splendid leadership
of Champ Clark. He expressed the
hope thar the Democrats would revise
the tariff generally. Mr.. Bryan said
that he intended to be present when
Champ Clark calls the House to order
on April 4, and he says he thinks he is
entitled to do little clapping himself
for Mr.. Clark. Those who attended the
dinner in his honor besides Senator La
Toilette were Senator Owen, of Okla
homa; Senator Newlands. of Nevada;
Senator Shively, of Indiana; Perry Bel
mont, several members of the House
tIlC SDHit ltSliioCI1tS. MI .
Bryan is decidedly getting fat and bald
headed. He is nothing like as hand
some as he was when he first came as
a member of the House from Nebraska.
Senator Knute Nelson, of Minnesota,
was born in Norway. He served as a
private in the 4th Wis, and was wound
ed and captured at Port Hudson, La.
He is one of the strongest and best men
in the United States Senate to-day.
The friends Of Mrs. Charles c. OAR
win. of Washington, were very much
grievcd to learn of her death last week
Mrs. Darwin was Assistant Probation
Officer of the Juvenile Court, filling that
position successfully for several years
Mrs Darwin was a charter member of
the D. A. R., and had been an ardent
worker along patriotic lines. especially
among children. She served on the
Board of Management as Librarian
General and Treasurer General. and
edited the first three reports to the
Smithsonian Institution, which con-
tanned a great amount of historical in
terest. She filed a great many offices,
and was particularly interested in child
rescue work. Mrs. Darwin was born in
Middlebury, VT, and had been for more
than 40 years a resident of the District
She was graduated from Vassar College
In 1878, and was quite proficient in
painting and drawing, continuing those
studies in Europe. She was teacher of
class of Chinese and Italian boys in
New York City for a number of years,
and she was also for years President
of the Foreign Missionary Society of the
First Congregational Church. Mrs. OAR
win established the library in Aurora,
Va, where she lived for some time.
There is a startling rumor that Col.
W. F. Cody has designs upon the Unit
ed States Senatorship from Arizona
when that Territory is admitted as
State. There have been innumerable
Colonies in Congress. Now, Col. w.
F. Cody" sounds all right, but when
you say Buffalo Bill wants to come
to the Senate, then you make each par
ticular hair upon the heads of the old
regime in that sedate body stand on
end. In these days of innovations, when
men come into the United States SEN
ate, and in place of conforming to the
unwritten law and wearing solemn
black. are given to cut-aways, gray
brown and blue cloth and some of the
Jauntier even wearing tennis flannels,
one wonders just exactly what style of
coat Col Cody would adopt. Would he
wear the Jim Swinger coat of the High
Sheriffs of Arizona, or would he appear
in buckskin shirt, Ieggins and mocas-
sins? And would he cut his hair !?
Would he wear a $50 Spanish SOM
brero, or would he wear the black
slouch hat that goes with the Jim
Swingcr coat? There will be an awful