Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-03-07
HIS TERRIBLE SECRET
When Missouri Congressman Cleaned
UP After Meal He Was Assisted
by Three Hound Dogs
BY WILLIAM ATHERTON DU PUY

A LMOST all Of us have something in our
"A past Of which we are ashamed. Way
back 'yonder somewhere there is mean trick
chalked up against us and once in a while
when We nre cockiest we think of it and
are duly humbled.
There is Harry II. Halves, for instance,
who is a Representative in Congress from
Missouri. lie is so good looking and has
wife to match that they are often pointed
out in Washington throngs as the handsome
couple" But Mr.. IIawes has his secret.
which affects him as do the ugly feet Of the
strutting peacock. seeing which, its feathers
invariably fall.
1t goes back to his youth down in Ken
tucky and an occasion when all the men
folks went away on hunting trip and he
was left ut home with his invalid mother
and something happened and the Negro SER
wants all bolted. "a e.
So Harry had to prepare food for himself
and his mother, whom he loved dearly, and
he had to wash the dishes. The latter to
him was the most despicable. task, and great
was the surprise afterward when he was
commended upon the workmanly manner in
which he had performed it.
Anu Cne secret CnHC Stltl rises ike Duh.
QUO s ghost to haunt him is the fact that this
dishwashing was done on the back steps by
three hound dogs that brought their own
dishrags with them
CHARLES r. CRANE. of Chicago, form.
~ erly Minister to China. has just returned
from an extended journeying within Russia.
He tells n story to illustrate the habits of
indirection that have grown up in that part
Of the world.
methods for trading in Russia met at
border town.
Where are you golng:' asked one.
To Cracow,' was the reply.
Now for why protested the first
trader, 'dO you tell me you are going to Cra-
COW? You do it because YOU think what you
say will lead me to believe for sure that you
are gotng somewhere else. Since l know
how you think, conclude YOU are actually
going to Cracow."
COME years ago Representative James v.
- McClintic, of Oklahoma, in which State
the biggest craft that sails is boys toy
boat in n bathtub, made so bold as to become
one of a congressional junket to Hawaii.
Just as the ship stuck her nose through
the Golden Gate nal de mer attacked him
and shook him as terrier might rat
Then the demon sat on the edge Of his berth
oil the way across the Pacific Ocean, which.
gresham to be quite q pond.
II was the fourth day out and everybody
thought of him and went below decks to buck
him up, to get him on his feet.
"Dress up all dapper," they told him,
"and come out into the sun. You will
to do is to shave yourself"
'.Aw.,' said the Congressman, Let the
undertaken do it"
uENRY FLETCHER, lately Under Sec.
IL retary of State and now Ambassador to
Belgium, was a Rough Rider back in the
Spanish American War
He and Norman l.. Orme, now collector
of customs at Puerto Plata, Santo Do
mingo, were being mustered out the same
day Orme had the distinction of being the
worst wounded man of that dinkey little
war to survive. So the husky Fletcher was
| sort of looking after him.
They had gone over one hurdle after an
other and finally approached the point where
! their discharges would be handed them as
| the line moved slowly forward. The i'm
| patient Fletcher got out his envelope. tore
| it open. had his papers all ready. Orme fol :.
lowed suit.
What's the idear. opening the envel
opes:" demanded the sarge. you 60 back
and get them papers right and sealed"
| 1t only took three days to 60 over the
l soAic SioNHu uSuiH
WHAT do you think this man Waldemar
| w Theodore Schaller told me about
! diamonds, he being the gem expert of the
| Government, all hidden away in Il labora
tory?
Diamonds aren't rare" he SAYS. There
are tons and tons of them. wagonlOads and
| wagonloads Of them right here in the United
States. Nearly everybody has diamond
| of some sort. MANY Dnon1e haya fro,n thra.
to half a dozen. There are probably hun
dred million of them in the country Figure
| that out for yourself in carloads.
Soft, gummy graphite, which is used as
a lubricant, and diamonds are both pure
carbon. and chemically just alike.
The hardness of the diamond is one OF
the most remarkable facts in nature. 1t is
! million times as hard as the toughest
steel.
"Since diamond is SO hard man once
sought to determine whether a specimen
were glass Or the real thing by putting
it on an anvil and hitting it with hammer
| 1t flew into many fragments, yet it was
diamond. These stones are hard but brit
"A man came IN one day and wanted
some diamonds weighed. lie poured out d
cupful of the beautiful cut stones. Blazina
there in the light they We're the prettiesi
sight I ever saw. Intrinsically the diamond
is thing of incompatible beauty.
! "Yet in the Office of London COMPANY
which handles the South African OUTPUT
was asked if ! would like to see some dla
monds. man came in with a waterbucket
full in each hand and poured them out or
the table. They looked like the rough grave
where they are mixing building material. ;
drop III and could be induced to give voic,
| TO his private and personal opinion of Gam.