Show 1 IN TH TITlE THE WHITE W ff HOUSE USE iy iBy this time e everybody who is anybody knows 1 life in the White hite House under the present reis re re- reLF F is characterized by qualified by bJ a aI aier I ier er degree of devotion de to social duties and to toy y and so on Comes a great diva di to Wash Wash- n She may maJ if she will secure invitation in to toI 1 before ng I before our simple republican court If a boy prodigy violinist happen along his chance to appear appear ap ap- ap- ap pear par at t the E Executive Mansion and irritate his hisS S Stradivarius in the presence of the presidential and Cabinet abinet circle is an excellent one And once a week for the public and every ery time there is a party for forthe forthe for forthe the invited Director waves wa his is stick at the Marine Band which howls bowls harmonious or weeps elodious according to his varying but to musicians musi musi- comprehensible calisthenics Also the White House Honse is infested with rats That unpleasant and deplorable fact becoming known own to the Hon Perry Collier ollier once lord mayor of Beverly in the State of Massachusetts he be bethought bethought be be- thought him of a way to show his respect for our bluff and popular Chief Magistrate and at the sameI same rne I time to do that illustrious man and his country countr a J signal service ser Mr Collier COmel ar argued The Th White WhiteHouse i i House Honse family love music and the ladies especially i. i detest rats When hen as daily happens he said to I himself a dele delegation of the intelligent rodents i call at the private sitting room and apply for fed fed- 1 in the ki kitchen chen pantry and st store re I r rOom om dep departments the ladies ladles get upon the tIle chairs nd rid nd tables to receive them properly This must no longer b be I will send a parlor company of artist ls Is who will rid the premises of these unwelcome Ad Jid d hungry office seekers and at the same time ime i l jhn inn n relie relieve e the infant musicians and the Marine farine s Jand at need or 01 otherwise J I So the Hon Perry Collier straightway forI for for- for I warded his renowned aggregation of feline perro performers perform perform- ImI Im I'm- I I 1 ers to the scene of war wars and there the they are now and I jat at it The beautiful and touching operetta of the is being rendered nightly to a i full house wrapped in sleepless admiration It is not bouquets that the bold Rough Bough Rider throws to the performers and he says they beat the band The chief hi f male member of the troupe Signor Signer Tomaso Catti has a tenor voice oice of wonderful range and aUll timbre As to the soprano her bel high C HC can penetrate the highest ceiling while Signora the contralto has an organ of such power that tha it has started a a. leak in the conservatory roof Appropriately to their environment these overfill hel erful ul songsters and are strenuous ere are six of them and they are equal to the The rats are moving mo into the aristo- aristo residences of Lafayette Square and the fed fed- rated union of musicians and the national asso asso- of organ grinders are threatening to bring bling bringe Ie e matter before Congress unless the President all sill cease to employ unfair music or 01 the mern- mern of of the company shall take take- takeout out union cards rth Othea the J 44 u uThe ji T Tie The e l latter e have one advantage antage over organized labor however g which is important No Xo can cn denounce them as rats because they are cats |