Evening star., 1934-12-02

pulleQ! yes, II proper care ID Idhch
OF the teeth they should last life
time. I have many families whose
teeth I take care Of the year round.
They come to me every three months
and look them over and rectify any
thing that is going wrong"
I am sitting in the press gallery Of
the House. The Representatives in
their various degrees of disorder are
carrying on their usual antics in the
great pit known as the House cham
ber lust below me. I jot down as I
look on such items Of gossip as strike
my fancy.
The funny men of Congress are Sam
Cox. Tom Reed. Tom Ochiltree and
Roswell T. Horr. Cox Is the only real
humorist among them, and he is the
champion of the House. Get him on
the floor and he effervesces like the
best of Mumm's extra dry. putting
the House into good humor and
giving it something worth while at
the same time. His wit is of re-
fined quality. There is no vulgarity
about it, and it flows as naturally as
his own generous blood. Horr's wit is
coarser than that of Cox. He is a
big man with round, red face and
short silvery-gray hair. He has two
ounces of fat to one of nerves, while
Cox is all nerves and no fat whatever.
When Horr laughs it reminds you OF
a bowl of jelly in violent convulsions.
Cox also laughs heartily. but his flesh
does not shake as he does so.
Tom Reed has no finer senSibilities
than Horr. He is also big, fat and
gross. His humor, however, is of
cruel, poisonous kind which rankleS
and burns in the hearts of some of
his fellow members. He strikes only
in sarcasm and his tongue cuts to the
quick. Tom Ochiltree is not wit as
far as the sessions are concerned. He
seldom speaks, devoting his time in
Congress to writing and chatting. He
is a short, fat, red-headed man, and
his face is the facsimile of steak of
the same cognomen as his big middle
name, which is PorterhouSe Ochil-
tree has a bold face inclined to the
braZen. His every step is in advance
and his cheek is proverbial. His hu-
NOR lies in this and in the prepos-
ferrous character of his stories, which
quite equal those Of Baron Mum
chausen.
Lupe P Poland is the only relic of
the old statesman of the days of Clay,
Calhoun and Webster. He still clings
to the swallow-tail coat. with the
bright gold buttons which were used
by all of the fashionable men of that
time. 1t is cleaner and prettier than
the Prince Albert or the cutaway of
the present. In fact the dress of men
has been growing simpler during the
past century. Washington, who died
in 1899, wore ruff1es on his sleeves
and half of the men who signed the
Declaration of Independence, wore
powdered wigs. Jefferson sported
knee breeches, and Madison was
proud of his originality in having
worn a suit of clothes of American
make at his Inauguration.
Daniel Webster usually wore suit
of snuff-broWn color with a large
soft necktie. Martin Van Buren was
fastidious about his clothes, and al
ways appeared during the Summer
in the whitest of white duck linen
His suits we're cut in the latest styles;
he wore very high stock neckties, out
of which peeped his standing collar
Andrew Jackson also dressed well,
though he did not make his clothes
great matter. Henry Clay wore
swalloW-tail, and standing collar ex-
travagantly high, while James Bu-
chanan was precise in his clothes
always appearing in full dress.
Today half of our public men go
about in suits as business-like as
those of the bank cashier. William
Walter Phelps, with all his millions,
wears clothes which cost about S25
suit, and he likes a red necktie. Tom
Reed dresses in dark tweed business
clothes. Lyman Of Massachusetts,
wears green scarf: Orlando Pot
ter's gray clothes would not sell for
IS to secondhand clothes man,
and the black ones of Col. Woolford
of Kentucky are shiny with age
Charley Neal of Philadelphia is natty
in his dress, his red neckties are al
ways new and his collars clean; Jim
Belford, on the other hand, some
times wears clothes that are posi-
lively dirty and they hang on his
square, angular form like the old
ones of farmer who has framed
them on cross to scare the crows.
Both Carlisle and Randall wear
little inch-wide black neckties and
both are generally dressed in black.
Both Stoop a little and neither is very
careful as to his appearance. Judge
Reagan of Texas appears in black
diagonal Prince Albert coat and a
turnover collar, and Perry Belmont's s
little frame, every ounce of which
can be nourished with it's income of
many thousands year. is clothed in
closely buttoned black broadcloth.
Gov. Long, who Is to read the ad-
dress at the dedication of the Wash
ington Monument, has good tailor,
his wide blue seersucker pants of last
year making him the envied of all
the Washington dudes. Bluff Oscar
Turner of Kentucky often comes into
the House without vest, and holds
up his pantaloons with a belt strap
Dorsheimer clothes his six-foot form
and his 300 pounds in black diagonal.
San Cox always appears on the floor
in black, and Horr OF Michigan has
on suit of business cut and of a
pepper and-salt material. Calamity
Weller's clothes are as rough and
crazy as his brain. His Guiteau-like
face looks as though it needed a razor
and his hair always stands on end.
Phil Thompson, the little fellow
with the pleasant face and the mild
air. dresses very neatly, and his
clothes fit him. Phil Thompson has
a twin brother who dresses just like
him, and who is his image in face and
form. The doorkeepers cannot tell
them apart and Phil's brother, who
is not member of Congress and has
no right to the floor, can move in and
out of the House at will, the officers
of the House taking him for Con-
gresham Phil. At one time it is
said that when Phil was a prosecuting
attorney in Kentucky and not feeling
well one day, he asked his brother to
go and try the case for him. He did
so and the court did not know the
difference.