Show HOUNDED BY BEGGARS n alie aay of senators and thero is oni expense which I 1 have never been able to protect myself from mrs rema ked recently that of the district chan ies ie s every senator is expected to sin interest in the charities of hia orn in that way h ahas mory than a TO ember who altor hi own year mr signed checks for four teen churches and th amount was from 5 to as he felt ame that is in a sense proper and we lilo to do what we can among our own people but to bo called upon to aid th charities of the district which are helped to a great extent by congress s 00 oo much As an instance in point 1 recall an instance which happened some time ao there was a letter came to me two tickets for a charity ball and an unsigned request for 10 1 do not always stop to think so I 1 sat down at once and wrote fo the manager of the affair saying sly dear mrs some one has had the impudence to send mo the tickets just then a caller came in and when she left I 1 had cooled down somewhat I 1 went into ray room and wrote my dear mrs some ono has taken it upon herself to send me two tickets just then there was another interruption and I 1 came down another notch my third effort went and it was my dear mrs I 1 85 and one ticket as I 1 do not feel able to keap both liter I 1 found out that every Congress mans wife on the block had boon treated the same way and there were five unused tickets to that charity ball for none afi us cared to go 1 tried to sell mine as there was a poor girl whom I 1 felt especially anxious to help and to whom I 1 meant to give the money but it was an impossibility that is only one instance but it shows somewhat where goes each year washington cor philadel phia press |