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Show What He Wanted. A little Washington hoy was dining nt n friend's house with bis mother not so very long ago when charlotte russes In paper collars were one of the features of the dessert. The fluffy delicacies tasted very much like "more" to the hungry little chap. Is there anything else you'll have, dear?" asked the hostess, solicitously. "Yes, ma'am," eagerly assented tlie child. "I want another of them pretty little Charlie Rosses." One of the noveau rlche women with which Washington abounds said nt a tea the other afternoon, with a consequential conse-quential air, that really her neuritis was getting so bad she was at her wits' end ; she'd tried everything except ex-cept a chiropatrick ! Did any of us have any faith in the ministrations of chlrnpatrlcks? It is not at all Infrequent to hear the Hotel Raleigh in Washington spoken spok-en of seriously as the "Hotel Rail-edge," Rail-edge," or Hurler's candy place as "Hulyer's." An innocent local dame boasts of the bed of scarlet "saliva" that bloomed in her garden all through tl if autumn. AVashington Star. |