The Washington times., 1924-06-30

Seats at first considered comfort
able at Madison Square Garden have
become inquisition chairs. A lot Of
the boys wore. new shoes and their
pet cor1is are raising old Harry:
Wives and husbands are beginning
to snap at each other.
Innocent children are getting ears
boxed for merely asking pop how
he got those little puffs under his
eyes. Everybody n worn out. Five
women on one floor at the Waldorf
had simultaneous attack Of hys-
terra and their screams brought the
traffic cop from the Fifth avenue
corner.
One wcman's outburst was
touched OFF By seeing five hats like
the one she wore in Peacock Alley
an hoursafter she had purchased an
exclusive Importation from Paris
Ian millinery shop run by ,Fanchon
de We're nee Maggie McSwatt.
Yawn at Speakers Now.
Enough oratory has been wasted
to fill ten thousand books. Now,
when speaker stands up there is
q collective yawn that IL almost as
deafening as the collective hiccough
that greets the New York dawn.
Delegates are beginning to applaud
with their knees.
The convention IL picking at the
counter pane. Only the going home
gong can save 1t. There is no in
terest not even In the nomination
today. Aunt Lib Deever, who is
here from Sugar Creek, Ohio.
to see that your correspondent
changed his flannels for lighter
ones, was seated near the Illinois
delegation.
Suddenly she gave q scream that
so startled veteran OF the Ar
kansas delegation that he swal-
lowed his tobacco.
Aunt Lib realized with a bang
that she had been so excited for
three days she hadn't sent her
post card reminder to Cousin Otis
to take his semi-weekly dose Of
sassafras and molasses.
Cousin Otis got funny with q
plow mule one day. and received
one Of those comic supplement
kicks in the head. Since then he
IL not only silly but absent minded.
He Sees RaIston.
He Is being prominently men.
toned for vice president. I wired
him as follows:
Would you accept the call Of
your country for second place"
He answered Immediately collect:
DO you mean to insinuate my
pants are shiny" which shows that
there is nothing to do with him
but slip him the ether cone.
BY time this reaches print there
may be a nomination and as I see
u Senator Sam Ralston is the most
likely OF all for the post. His FOL.
lowers think have waged their
fight with more dignity than the
others. In the final analysis this,
VIII be a big factor.
Delegates worn to q whisper by a
weeks display of cheap pyro-
technics are going seriously TO con.
slider the man who has remained on
his Indiana farm and titled the
soil.
Aunt Lib. VINO win be seventy.
one In October, completed the final
arrangements today to have her
hair bobbed. She Is going TO have
II done at 6fo'clOclS in the morning,
This evening she ate heartily and
apparently faced the ordeal with
little emotion.
After the bobbing she will motor
to my country place, Cracked Cen.
ings, in West Harlem, to rest until
luncheon time. In the afternoon
she goes shopping for bolo mallets.
Increase Of Police.
One Of the amusing sights In New
York is the sudden roar OF group
OF motorcycles manned by police.
men. They clear a path ana then
comes a motor car driven by a
police chauffeur. The popuIace
stops to cape, imagining 1t to be
some high and mighty person.
When one of the cars drew up at
the Waldorf / recognized the sup.
posedly distinguished guest. He IL
an alternate from a Midwest State,
q hay and seed merchant.
''Why all this fuss about him?"
I'aslsed a traffic policemen.
I'VE are ust giving him a little
thrill" was the reply. when we
have an hour or 90 TO wait we make