The Washington bee., 1912-03-09
PUBLIC MEN AND THINGS
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fellow there than | could anywhere
else Tom Beckett and / have fixed
up a deal to make it the next time
there is a vacancy. We are going TO
pool issues. buy off all other aspi-
rants for social distinction, and put 1t
up 10 the club to make good by elect
ing either Tom or l. If Tom gets in
/ am satisfied, cause we can work
together, and once IN, he viii cop out
the next vacancy for me, and they
tell me that if they put through
Shelby DavidsOn's scheme to pur-
chase a club house there will be
plenty of vacancies, because darn few
of the ink will stand for the assess
ment. If Tom and / can get in we
Will finance a club house l heard
that at the last meeting when Shelby
showed across the home plate his
club house scheme, It was just like
handing out four ounces of anesthetiC
to the members, and most Of them
ducked the blow OF course old
Consulting Shelby has. got a house
somewhere, perhaps, on which he can
get a commission. if he sells it. [
don't blame the little hustler from
the Blue Grass State, because if he
can hand the club an inshoot Ike a
house, he will be able to win the
game, and move on into the big
league You know Bob Pelham IS
president now, and Bob and Shelby
are friends from away back Wonder.
Talk about the three Muskateers.
they are two CTOnies who make the
three Muskateers look like jumping
Jacks bringing up the rear Of an in
augural parade. I hope some dav TO
break into the Musies. and if l do,
then I know | am in a real refined,
up-to-date, credited society, and in
position to talk business TO these
climbers who blow into Washington
on a rain check. [ know DanCy will
vote for me, because he affirmed as
mucE Judge Terrell can't 60 back
on me, and Doc. Tignor says he will
blow me for at least one vote. That
Illinois grenadier, Charley Picket,
and his blond beauty from the same
State, Charley Hall, told me a year
ago that they would grease the en-
trance plank fOT me so | could slide
IN, and they will be for me Now if
l can persuade my friends to hook
up Tom Clark and Bruce Evans for
me, | believe at the next meeting,
when there Is likely to be a couple of
vacancies for non-payment Of dues. I
can make it. One thing sure, | will
never feel like | am a real society
man, a headliner, topnotcher, and bell
COW till / aSsimilate the membership
OF the Mu-So-Lits. Gee, but its
great to be crazy.
Well, I took in the Bert Williams
banquet, and as a result when
sneaked into my spOuses home,
along about : A. NJ the next morn
ing, she gave me such a dressing
down that | will never do it again.
However. it did not have much I'M
mediate effect on ME, for | had ex-
pected it. and so stored enough ma
fluid into my system
To make me drop right off to sleep
just as soon as | struck the bed. The
result was that my wife was handing
me out a line of hot stuff, right off
the bat. for ten minutes before she
that / was asleep But
the next morning. me-O-my. how she
did light up the bed room. the 'parIor.
the kitchen and the pantry with un-
arguments Like the his
toricai boy / just took it in, said
nothing. and held my tongue, and in
cidentally held my head, because the
night before had begun to tell Gee,
what a headache, the next morning
these actor banquets furnish at two
dollars a plate Never again for me,
while married to this wife.