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Show I The test ride was not, it appears, by any means an original idea of the president's says Frank Ward O'Mal-ley, O'Mal-ley, in Harpoi's Weekly. It was V young "Professor" Mike Sweeney, f whose job it is to box alternate . ' rounds with a Certain Party in the I ! White House each day, who suggost- i ' od the brilliant sc'nome. It seems that Mike and this Certain Party wore having a bit of a brush with the mitts one evening while waiting for the roast to be served, when Mike observed ob-served as follows: "And I am walkin past the Army and Navy club early this afternoon, and I am pipin' off a plnk-gilled army gent sittin' face to face with a brandy and soda at a window. win-dow. Now this person is sure the fattest, fat-test, widest, beefiest, biggest party over I seen on the continent of North America. An' sittin' with him is another an-other one twice as big. And loomin' above that one was " The Certain Party frowned thoughtfully. "I'm for those two or three to load off with," ' he murmured, presently, as if he were ; . thinking aloud. "I'll show this rocking chair platoon that it'll have to bo able to canter as well as decanter." |