Show a Nii ROM A iL Congress Pages Need Supervision J1TASH1NOTON Ilotng much larger VV than tho senate with many more members to look out for and moro ground to cover tho house Is allowed 14 page boys and In age they aro the seniors of the senate pages while their pay Is just tho same Houso I pages must bo between tho ages of fourteen and 18 years They go on duty at nine oclock each day and stay until tho house adjourns They place tho copies of tho Record on the desks of members keep tho desks In order and are at the beck and cull of members whenever wanted They are under the Immediate supervision of a chief page on each side of tho house Some of them are assigned to duty as telegraph pages and others as telephone tele-phone pages but most of them are on duty on the floor Tho house peg + s are appointed on the recommendation of members by tho head doorkeeper who has general supervision of tho boys Generally the member who has secured the boys appointment will look after his physical and moral welfare while ho Is here and It has happened that a member has sent homo n boy who fell Into bad ways and could not bo brought under discipline There la not such n largo proportion of tho district dis-trict boys In the house as In the senate sen-ate They come from many states but some of the moro distant states aro not represented It Is doubtless n fact that tho boys In both houses of congress aro under closer supervision than was tho case at one tlmo A fow examples opened the eyes of the authorities to what dangers might confront boys far from homo without the refining Influences that aro Inseparable from a mothers love and care While tho restraint Is not Irksome It is designed to bo at least wholesome and for tho entire good of tho youths who may very likely grow up to bo themselves makers mak-ers of laws and rulers of tho land Without doubt It has been a great trial to most of the youngsters to be deprived of their vacations for such I a long tlmo Tho call of the woods and fields Is strangely Insistent to youth Every normal healthy manly man-ly boy yearns to get out In tho open to swim ride shoot sail or disport himself In tho water To bo confined within even marble walls cannot compensate com-pensate for tho freedom of the fields 1 and so tho pago boys are happy at lust In the prospect of unlimited enjoyment I en-joyment for a tlmo and a rest from I the cares which sit but ill nt best on young shoulders |