The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1913-04-18

! Maurice Connolly of Dubuque, is the
most highly and variously educated per-
| son in the new House OF Congress. And
he represents an agricultural district in
the Iowa corn belt.
4 The man was trained by Georgetown
! University Cornell, the New York Law
4 School. oxford, and Heidelberg. in the
order given. He knows practically all the
polite arts. and has had a glimpse at
nearly everything one can learn in the
| schools and colleges from Chaucer to vet
| Urinary surgery.
| Connolly also is the greatest human ex-
emplifcation of anti-cIimax. From early
! boyhood he has prepared painstakingly
| for the diplomatic service.
Just imagine setting your head and
heart on high place in the Diplomatic
| Corps, a position of honor, income, ease.
suede gloves, wood violet, white spats,
| and things, and then ending up at Wash
/ ington in a check suit. felt hat, string
| tie, and holeproof socks to represent the
! monkey wrench" district in the corn
| belt of Iowa! 1t is almost like having
set ones boyish ambition on being a
railroad engineer and then being forced
into a bank in young manhood.
Besides having to do a term in Con-
gress, Connolly is president of the Du-
| bueaue Country and Golf Club. and he is
a bachelor. All these things. however,
cause him little distress. The thing that
annoys Connolly the most is the way
people pronounce his first name. Many
insist on making it Maw-russ. as in the
works of Montague Glass. and others
| have it Maw-reece. as with Maeterlinck.
In reality, it is just plain Maurice, as in
Morris chair. A good way to get along
amicably with Connolly is to avoid any
nomenclatural variations.
The phase that will make Connolly
most noticed here, though, is gift or
oratory that approaches genius. Those
who go in for metaphor of the Edmund
Burke school are destined to gasp when
Maurice Connolly gets up in the House,
rests his chin on his chest, thrusts his
right hand into. his heaving bosom, ad-
justs his legs, and begins to show sam
pies e.
Connolly shines, too, as an atter-din-
ner wit. He is mostly Irish, though the
Maurice in his name serves to create
confusion. 1t is like asking stranger
to guess the nationality OF persons with
names like otto Ryan, Patrick Cohen.
Ivan Perkins, or Ole O'Shay.
Senator Vardaman of Mississippi was
riding along peaceably on the train when
MIN. The stranger was one of those
laxative ones and he began to talk about |
things tout where he came FROM" until
Vardaman, out of politeness, felt Obliged |
to ask him where he lived. He was from |
Oklahoma. That led to him asking Varda- |
man where he was from. Then the talk |
took in Gov Haskell of Oklahoma, who |
was figuring in the papers just then.
What sort of a man is Haskell?" asked |
Vnrdaman.
Well" replied the Oklanoman, I dent |
know that he's any worse than that fell |
low down in your State--vardaman."
A moment later another passenger came !
down the aisle and called Vardaman by !
name.
: Then Vardaman's seatmate gave him 7
frightened look and walked into another |
car.
Senator Hoke Smith of Georgia had not |
taken a holiday in great many years !
until a short time age. Then he broke |
ever and set out to have a day free from |
the cares of statecraft. and enjoy himself. |
by his wife, he went down |
to Fredericksburg to see the place where |
a relative was killed in battle.
Postmaster General Burleson sits and l
says scarcely word in Cabinet meet
ings. He says it is the only chance ne
has to rest his voice. Since he entered /
the Cabinet he has been seeing more )
than 200 callers day, and he figures I
that his talk to them will average not |
less than zoo words each. If this is true.
he has talked 10000 words a day, or an
equivalent to reading aloud some forty I
columns in newspaper. No wonder the