Show TALES OF THE DAY I Mrs Hobart and the Attorney General Washington Letter The VicePresident and Mrs Hobart are back again and Mrs Hobart was at home informally as usual on Wednesday Mrs Hobart is one of the brightest and most attractive women wom-en of the new administration Her ease of manner and sparkling conversation have already rendered her popular as a hostess On WednesdayUhe attorney gen I I ara I who nag r > rio of hk a11or took a seat near her In one of the puffy chairs I that give one the sensation of having sat upon the family cat This seemad to have been the impression of the attorney attor-ney general for he arose suddenly and asked askedothing explained the hostess That Is one of those chairs that are more inflated than you suppose until you sit down upon them Is the chair inflated because it is in the house of the vjccpresident asked Mr McKenna No it is inflated because tho attorney general is sitting In it was Mrs Ho barts reply Another MotlierinLaw Joke Answers For a week the guilty wretch had possessed his secret in silence starting at every sound and catching his I breath at every shadow Yet he told himself that he was quite safe that no one lnew of his guilt but himself They might guess but they could prove noth ing He would do it again if he had the chance It was natures first law to protect oneself He had thought it all out how he would act and what he would say Yet when the first breath of supiclon was directed toward him he started and turned pale and all the de fense which he had so elaborately constructed con-structed fell to the ground when big wife turned her questioning eyes upon him and said John did you post that letter to mother moth-er I gave you last week Yes Are you sure Yes She never received it YesI mean Dash it I John dont swear YeserI mean I wont my dear It is very strange Yes er perhaps it was lost in the I post postYes I Yes that must be it mused his wife I I wrote mother to postpone her visit for a few months and I have just received a letter saying that we might expect her today I Once alone the wretched man prayed that a ninestory house might fall upon him and crush him I |