Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-01-12
BY JAMES HAY. JR.

recreations as we'll as his business. Outside
of putting horse over five barred gate, he
achieves the height of bliss in working out
an intricate problem. Contrary to the rule
before he took office, he has never exceeded
the money set aside for his department by
Congress, and he can tell sixteen months
ahead exactly how many dollars and cents
will be needed to run his branch of the Gov
eminent. The accounting system he has in
stalled has been adopted by some of the
biggest corporations in the country.
But there is one sad note in this p9an of
praise. This Mercury of merchandise, this
Euclid of aCcoutermentS, has one beSettlng
sin. This is his modesty. He persists in
hiding his light under bushel. And it
takes lot of investigation to learn the fam
ing and fragrant facts about the career of
the officer who, while he is racing horse a
quarter of mile, can estimate how many
leaps of the animal it would require to carry
him from Washington to the Polynesian
Islands, if the sea dried up and a trail could
be laid across the valleys and hills that are
now buried under the ocean.
As fgurer, he is a Chrysanthemum
Leucanthemum.
NELSON w. ALDRICH, who used to De
- the boss of the United States Senate,
has been famous always for his indifference
to what newspapers and magazines printed
about him. The most vitriolic abuse or the
most Parnassian praise had not the slight
est effect upon him. Only recently maya
zine writer turned out an article about him
and wanted to know what the great man
had thought of it. He asked Jackson S.
Elliott, chief of the Washington bureau of
h. +nI &c Is L.
Aldrich's closest friends, to report.
Elliott did not want to ask Aldrich him
self about the roasting" article; but he did
ask Arthur Shelton, the former Senator'S
secretary. Elliott expected Shelton to say
that Aldrich had not even seen the article.
"Oh yes, said Shelton. "AIr Aldrich
saw that stuff, and it disguised him
"Whv did he object?' said Elliott
ooh, he didn't read the article, explained
Shelton; "but he saw the frontspiece of the
magazine They had a picture of the Sen.
ator wearing bright green vest. 1t was the
vest, not the vitriol, that made him sore
ROIES PENROSE, United States Senator
- from Pennsylvania, owns one of the fast
est yachts and one of the slowest driving
horses known to modern times. One morn
ing Senators Murray Crane and Reed Smoot
were III nOlel elevator WIFI fe1IOSe, dIlC
the three were bound for the Capitol
go up there with me-, invited Penrose
cordially. "I1l take you up
How" asked the monosyllabic Crane
an my carriage explained Penrose.
"Look here!' said Smoot. "You don't get
us behind that old nag! We want to get up
there today
MRS. CHAMP CLARK is very proud
IVA of the Missouri ham she serves at some
of her dinners.
Nor long ago Miss Genevieve Clark, the
Speakers daughter, received this complaint
from girl friend
Its strange thing, Genevieve, that
despite the many times | have been at your
mothers teas have never tasted any of that
Missouri ham,
well YOU are luckier than l., Miss Clark
replied quickly. "Mother has ham at her
Wednesday dinners, and then it takes the rest
of the family whole week to eat it up.
THIS is the story as it is told by Miss
l Lucy Hoke Smith, the daughter of Sen
ator Hoke Smith of Georgia:
There was hot election in the Congress
sional Club, and every woman was besieged
by friends of candidates for their votes
The daughter of a congressional matrOn es-