The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1921-02-22
EVEN CONGRESS CAN
BE AND is VAMPED
THERE ARE, HOWEVER, LIN
ITS TO WHICH SOLONS CAN
BE WHEEDLED BY FAIR SEX.

WASHINGTON, D. C.-Congress
is an aggregation Of men. Which is to
say it's made to order for ''vamps.
Congressman are presumed to have
reached the age of discretion and to
have cut some wisdom teeth en- route.
But any woman will tell you that any
man puts reverse English on such
business, and gets less discreet as he
grows older-at least, so far as pretty
women are concerned.
Well, anyway, the unwritten rec
ord holds many story OF how the
siren lure of women was eXerted on
members of congress for the purpose
OF influencing legislation.
There was the Purple Woman, for
instance. She was so called because
purple and lavender always dominated
the color scheme of her clothes Any
body who sat through the long treaty
debates will remember the Purple Wo-
man. She was what is known in the
vernacular as "a pippin." Young
enough to be able to make herself
look ten years younger, old enough
to make the wisest serpent look like
born imbecie, charming to her I'm
ger tips, and possessed of a wardrobe
that put her in the bar graces of all
the women about the. senate, the Pur-
pie Woman made a mighty stir. She
ought to have been barred under the
rule against disturbances III the SEN
ate galleries. She was no mere dis
turbance, however; she was seismic
upheaval When she entered the gal
lery, as she did every day at half al
TO ~
ators lost all interest i'll the fate of ma
tons, and concentrated for the rest OF
the day on catching the tiny, impera
tive signal that meant Come to me. y
Lobbied For the Treaty.
The Purple Woman got $500 a
week and unlimited expense money
from a Coterie OF men who for rea-
sons OF their own wanted the treaty
ratified. Married senator's were her
speciaty-her particular dish as the
vugarians have it, Any woman will
tell you that a married man-but let
that pass The Purple Woman was
admittedly skilful but she made a
Never mind what 1t had to
do with a party-a dinner, she called
tin her apartment. OF course she
would have failed anyway, because
you can vamp a senator just 50 far,
and not a bit further, when articleX
is concerned.
Perhaps, if the treaty comes again
to the senate we shall see once more
the Purple Woman in all her glory.
There was Minnehaha, so called be
cause of her laughter. Gosh, that Wo-
man could laugh! Ripples and trills
and everything, and Just at the right
time Her laughter -echoes OF it are
there yet, because Miss Laughing
Waters was deeply interested in bill
recently disposed of by the senate,
and not yet acted on by the house.
Minnehaha had clothes, too. They
to all OF fashions DEGREES as
to highness and 1owness, and her
were silk and cobwebby, and
expensive. Over her curly bobbed hair
she wore a big red hat, so that some
called her the girl in the Red Hat.
But it was as Minnehaha she was
known best.
She was called in after host of
male lobbyists had failed to stem the
tide of approval for the bill. She work
ed fast She was an encyclopedia Of
economic facts, and she distributed
LleUl ldNlSHlyr puilCludlGu Will laughs
But she too made a mistake.
Trouble with Minnehaha was, she
talked too much. Senators had to stop
and listen when they just wanted to
look. So she's gone away-whereyer
vamps go.
Both these vamps failed. No com
ment as to the obvious virtue OF SEN
ators is needed.
There was a singularly fragrant case
OF ''vamping" in the house not long
ago, but it reversed the usual condi-
tions. Lot OF he-vamps used to loiter
and shipper and cavort and strut
around the desk of the Lady from
Montana, the first woman member OF
the house Miss Rankin got much sym
pathy on account of having to bear
with that trial, in addition to the other
troubles of member OF congress. The
gay Lotharios, most OF whom are
grand dads, aren't perking up much
over the coming of Miss Alice Robert
son, the Lady from Oklahoma. From
things she's said some OF them have
the idea she's like as not bash them
over the head with a bill book if thew