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Show No Evening Clothes for Him. A sturdy Kansan was sightseeing in Washington and called on his congressman, con-gressman, saying he wished to attend the president's reception to the judiciary. judi-ciary. "Have you your evening clothes here?" said the congressman. "You don't mean my night shirt?" "No, no; your dress clothes swallowtail, swallow-tail, and so on." "Well, I should say not. Out where I live my mornin' clothes is my afternoon clothes and my afternoon clothes is my evenin' clothes, and that's all I've got. Besides, Be-sides, I don't approve of no president who makes anybody put on that outlandish out-landish rig to shake hands with him. I guess I don't want to go to your old reception anyhow." Washington Post. |