Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1916-11-08


Vice President Marshall is tue most
popular diner-out in Washington.
This is partly because every hostess
feels that II sets off a dinner party to
have Il vice president in its midst. but
more because Marshall is good COM
pany and never TAILS to keep the guests
amused with his merry quips and cute
iittie snappy bits of Indiana phil
rms. Marshall was rccoverins from
IN illness when congIcss convened last
December. and the vice president
Gcdsoi q GOOD many social a
nlenls. 0tt.erWi Use he ould have had
eitAe! a speaking date or 4 dinner date
every single night from the first OF
December until along in March. when
Lent sets in. Imagine never haVinE
u night 10 yourself for three months
ut . stretch-neVer a nance to stay
in and do nothing bur just mooch
around the house,
There are man days when Marshall
has much less privacy than the aver
age window trimmer.
Sometimes the vice president once
told me, I'm half tempted to rut on
my evening clothes as soon as | get
up in the morning and just slip on a
nice sci of blue o~ycralls to work in
There is one important difference
between inviting the vice president to
dinner and inviting the president. lit
Is not 2DCu ellQueI To ask lnG DreSl-
dent to dinner unless the invitation is
accompanied by the list of guests who
are to be present. The theory is that
when YOU can NJ as good a Job as
thai of president of the United States
you are entitled not to have your wee
ming spoiled by being at dinner with
somebody who might try to button
hole you and discuss something of in
dividual rather than general interest.
A mere vice president. however. is
obliged to take his chances.
George Holden Tinkham is a new
bachelor congressman from Boston.
nOted-or at least he ought tt b.
noted. and doubtless soon will be-for
having the most horrible signature in
congress-.
When he signs his name it
the signature of a careless hen flashed
off hastily in a radish bed. Only once
in his life has Tinkham ever written
his name in "a way that made it even
half legihle. Tha was when he pre-
pared a sample signature for the pur-
pose of having a facsimile made to go
on his official envelopes. Tinkham
worked for more than an hour on that.
And when he got through it was no
more Nk his regular handwriting than
it he had hired a tranger to do it for
him.
When Tinkham first came to Wash
tngton he inadvertently caused all the
other Massachusetts congressman to
answer more telephone. calls thai they
ever had before. The reason was this:
Various government departments kept
receiving letters from some Massachu-
sets whose name they were
unable to dec!rsler. and they were
obliged to call other members to learn
who it was that signed his name with
his foot.
Today Tinkham's secretary wisely
typewrites the congressman's name
right beneath the signature. In that
way anybody who receives a letter
from Tinkham can easily tell who has
| sent it.
Aside from his chirography, Tinkham
seems to be all right. There are per-
sons who claim to be able to read char
acter from handwriting. Such a person
would put Tinkham down for q dissi-
pated yeggman. But he would do the
man a grave injustice. The reason
1inkham writes the way he does is be-
cause he is eager to get at something
else. He is a brisk chap; always in a
hurry. Nothing distresses him so much
as a slow train, or in fact, any slow
means of transportation. Every morn
ing he becomes almost apoplectie in his
annoyance at the easy pace taken by
the street car which conveys him from
his home to Capitol Hill. 1t happens
that Tinkham is IN the District of
Columbia committee and he declares
that the committee could perform no
greater work h to speed up the
street cars in Washington.
Tinkham's habit of doing things at
high speed includes getting dressed in
the morning. He dresses in such haste
that he never knows just what he has
on until hours later. AS a rule, though
his sartorial layout includes a red
necktie. He will wear a red necktie
every day for two or three months and
then suddenly he will appear in one
that is bright green--simply because
he found the green one first.
Nearly every day Tinkham spends an
hour or so in a gymnasium. Ginning
himself. boxing, and such things. This
keeps him in such excellent physical
trim that he teens with energy, and
that is why he hastens at such a great
rate from one spot to another, like a
huge cricket.
Always Tinkham conveys the impress
sion that he is on his way to notify the
authorities that The White House is on
fire.
Dorsey w. Shackleford, member of
congress from Missouri, and chairman
of the House committee on public
roads. looks as calm and tranquil and
composed as the ordinary hoptoad. But
it is only by the greatest effort of will
power that old Shack sits still for
five minutes at a stretch. Whenever
he grows interested In any legislative
matter in the House his impulse is to
pace about and wear out a lot Of car
pet. If obliged to, he IAN remain in
his seat, but only by means of the
sedative effect of tearing up paper as
ne sits. He k a sheet of paper,
tears 1t into strips, tears the strips in
to little squares, and the squares into
smaller squares, and the close of the
debate on h gOOd roads bill a short