Show THE ONUS OF OFFICE OFFICE HOLDING Judge Leander Stilwell of Erie re recently recently appointed first assistant com corn commissioner commissioner missioner of pensions in Washington writes to a friend In Chanute Tile The boys all tell me that I shall shat 1 have to buy bu a dress suit that the sam earns e Is absolutely ong In order to t o obtain the to any Important function here In Washington should I appear at a a Presidential or n nother r other reception clad in my present style my appearance would create as a much consternation as If It I r had stains d in with nothing on but a So 5 far however I have l st stout stout t tout out and a dress suit slut Is Js not Included In Inthe Inthe x the list f t my possessions You a been in and around aroun Topeka considerably consider considerably ably in tn recent years and I assume that tha t you have hae seen eon a dress s snit out I ne nee er e r did until I came to Washington W last las l November To my mind the thing thin g makes the ordinary fellow look like a across across ga ga cross between a pouter pigeon and a bullfrog It may mo be that I shall have hav e to hire one sometime in order or to pass pas es s the pearly gates of ot some of ot the powers power a that thai be but hut I know when I put the tb e on I shall feel like seventeen different kinds of ot a fool with wl h Shiloh Shilo h and Lincoln townships to hear from Kansas City Star |