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Show MEAN TRICK PLAYED DY FATE Chances Are That Statesman Had a Hard Time Explaining Matters Mat-ters to His Wife. The story is that it happened about like this: A representative from Indiana came on to Washington when congress started up, and engaged comfortable living quarters before his wife arrived. ar-rived. She reached there some time later on a Saturday night. The next morning she said: "Now, Ralph, we'll go to church, of course. Which church have you been attending?" "Wh-er-uh, which one, you say?" repeated re-peated the congressman. "Why, there's a mighty nice little church down here just a couple of blocks. It's such an easy walk that I've been going go-ing there rather than to some of the more fashionable churches." "All right, if you feel at home there,' that's where we'll go," said the congressman's con-gressman's wife. "We haven't much time, anyhow." So they put on their things and went to the little church down the street. When they got inside they made a startling discovery. They were the only white people In the church. Philadelphia Ledger. |