The Washington bee., 1911-09-02
Public Men And ThinDs
(By the Sage OF the Potomac)

(By the Sage of the Potomac.)
Atlantic City Aug. r.
Dear Bee Readers:
| just couldn't tear myseslf away
from this vicinity this week, but, on
looking into my purse | find | must
get back to Washington by the end
OF this week, and then I'll begin with
my hot stuff once again | discov-I
cred a mighty economical way of
sporting here. | hike out to ocean
City, where life IS not near so furious,
every few days, and then back to At
iantlc City, where | permit myself
10 De entertained by people who love
10 daily with a fellow who has a
tongue that works free Say, when
Ut. Chllds and DR. Cabiness rolled
in this berg with their touring cars.
don you know the denizens here sat
up and took notice. And Creed
ChIlds knows how TO impress peo-|
pie you hear me. Why they think
ne millionaire over here. and Doc
never SAID nor did a thing 10 change
their notion. And DR.. Cabiness. with
that modest, retiring air of his. made
them think that he was in on everv
deal that J. Pierpont Morgan is in
They say Doc. Cabiness met a few
WashlngtOnians over here who owed
him physicians bill, and he wasn't
here more than an hour before he was
trying to collect. The ruling passion
lis strong even in death. with Ca
bIness Walter Pinchback has been
here, doing the berg. Just as easv as
a PinChbaCk can do. The town Is
chucked full of Washingtonians. Fv-
Ferywhere you turn you meet up with
them Two or three have tried to
touch me, but | told them to work
the other side of the street, for I was
working one side | certainly have
made my little wallet stretch over
here. Talk about elastic currency.
mine has more rubber in it than the
average street male promenader has
IN his neck. FitZgerald's Just blaz-
ing with animation. | never get down
there but | meet some one who takes
delight IN treating me, and | accept
all such attention with an ease and
grace, and resignation that would do
justice to the Hon John c. Dancy. A
rumOr reached here last week that
there might be a few changes in the
schools, and | guess | had better get
back to the scene, because a fellow
can never tell when he may be CO.
quoting with fate The latest news
to reach here, through the medium of
Washington immigrants to Atlantic
City, is that Roscoe Bruce has
never left Washington, but is work
! ing every day right close to the new
superintendent This looks like some
thing is brewing. One thing sure,
| If liquid Tightening, in the shape of
a dismissal strikes any of us teachers
who have been blowing our money
down here in the surf, it sure will
strike some dead broke individuals
of swarthy complexions. You ought
| to see some of the bathing suits
| some of the "culIud" ladies are
wearing down here, Abbreviated? |?
Well, yes. Some of them look like
a decollete waist with everything
sherred off but the decollete And
how they do like to stroll on the
beach, displaying limbs that deterio-
rate from a beautiful bit of sizable
symmetry to a reminiscence of a
broomstick. I've simply got tired of
looking at them. AS Bob Douglass
used to say, some of them are wide
awake nightmares" And old Bob
knows how to express himself
Heard it on the Boardwalk last
Thursday that DIR. Board has lassoed
a beautiful package done up in fine
/ lingerie from down on the "Swanee
River" and that he might, some time
during the coming spring, fill a pre-
sCription for two If Doc. keep peg
ging away, they'll snag him yet.
wish you could see these Washing
tonians here. My, but they all do
swim. The women all remind you of
the Vanderbilt girls hunting for roy
atty, and the men-mOst of them
ballroom boys"-remind you of the
Gcelett boys making a raid on Tiff
fany's, and yet, if you would search
them, you wouldn't find more than
the price of a plain crab salad in the
bunch. THE SAGE.