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Show By HARRY B. HUNT M E A Service Writer. WASHINGTON, . Aug. 10. Already Al-ready Washington Is figurine the effect of President Harding's death on the coming season's social calendar. cal-endar. What had been looked forward for-ward to aa a winter of unusual brilliance bril-liance and activity now seeme certain cer-tain to be quiet and aubdued. x To begin with, custom decrees a six-month period of offlclel mourning, mourn-ing, following ths death of a president, presi-dent, during which time all official social functlona are beneath ths ban. j ' e e e President Arthur permitted an entire year to elapse following ths aasaaatnatlon of President Garfield before he moved Into the exeoutlve mansion. It wss sight months aft-sr aft-sr President Lincoln waa killed before be-fore Andrew Johnson took posses-1 slon of ths official residence. The Roosevelts moved In within a few weeks following President McKln-ley's McKln-ley's death, Isrgely due to the fact that Mrs. McKlnley, an Invalid, already al-ready had returned to Canton to live and bad left but fsw personal ppesosslosM la the White House. Politics end poetry sol mod run teach hla lesson. Hs publishes a paper In the center of a great coal mining territory. Ita name la "The Pick and Bhorel." e e e There's at leaat one United Btatee senator, born In the United State, free and past II, who Is totally dtsqusllfled as a candidate for the presidency by reason of his plsce of birth. He Is Henry P. Ashurst, Democratie senator from Nevada over six feet tall, etraight, slender, aquiline features, black haired and handsome. It happened that Ashurst was born while his parents were on their way from California to Arisona. No log house, no adobe hut, not even a tent atake or sardine can marks ths spot- And a candidate for tbs presidency, though humble birth bs an aasst, must at least be able to point with pride to the lowly home where be first saw day. All Aah-urat Aah-urat can do la to point to tha Oreat American desert. Pollticlana can't see It. e e e Wllllsm Tylsr Psge, clerk of the house of representatives. Is seeking i I someone to teach him a Scandinavian Scandin-avian accent before next Congress hand in hand, but J. Alfred Taylor, congreesman-slect from Fayette-vllle, Fayette-vllle, W. Vs., demonstrates they are not an Impossible combination. Ths broad swsep of Taylor poetic Inspirations In-spirations Is Indicated by tha following fol-lowing lines: "I've rut a paw-paw fishing nols; I've dug a can of bait: I've a hook ane line and the day Is fine I won't be home till late." Taylor undsrstsnds how to catch ths publlo Intsreat with popular catrh-llne phrasea Once he has his hearers hooked, then he proceeds to convenes, iecemDer e. ecqulres It hs will be unable to pronounce properly the name of the new member from Minnesota, who succeeds Andrew J. Volstead A. J. Kvale. Mangiis Johnson solved the problem prob-lem for George Sanderson, secretary of ths senste. by defeating Governor Gover-nor Preue, pronounced "Price." But ths only wsy out for Page seems to be to learn how to say Kvale and you don't say It like it looks. Ths nearest be has gotten to It Is "Kwalley." but those who. have heard him, say he atlll lacks several degrees of giving It the distinctive Minnesota-Scandinavian flavor. |