Show OVER TilE THE WALNUTS i I AND WINE I Good Stories of the Great and I Ithe the I II I I wonder r If I any nn of the tho senators will have a flat fist fight In the capitol this session A remarked the tho vivacious at tho head of tho ho table In a Washington hostelry I do o hope trope they llIe will It is so exciting excitIng exciting ing she aho went on I J remember at atthe tho the time of the scrap I was boarding at the tho same house with Mcl s secretary Pret Pretty Pretty Pretty ty near every overy one ono in the house was wasl for l r Tillman and as It grow brew closer and an closer to the time for dinner that day some Home of us were getting nervous lest the Ule young should bo made mado uncomfortable by b the he remarks romark which were cre certain to bo ho passed at tho table ta hIe Fortunately Fortum toly It if so happened that a childs chance chanco remark saved tho the day Prince Henry Henr was vas visiting Washington at that time Limo and when this bright little girl heard that tho the had hadnot hadnot hadnot not vet yot seen the prince alto sho Inquired of him liln sympathetically they let you see Prince Henry because you are secretary The roar roar of laughter following this naive remark broke the loe ice and put in every evory cor ono one at ease Many Jan a gruesome bit of or wisdom Is gleaned by h settlement workers The Theother I Iother other olber day a woman of philanthropic tendencies trudged d miles looking for roms rows for an unfortunate family that had to move After she he had made a selection that would ill ft their scanty moans the mother of the family went around to seo see the rooms before moving movIn lug ing In In InOh InOh inOh Oh exclaimed the wise wi so tenement dweller wed be worse off ocr here than where we 0 are arc This place Is too unhealthy un unhealthy healthy health the settlement s worker It strikes the worker It f strikes me mo as being hotter holter than moat most houses of Its ILs class The woman pointed to the bannis which ran rem up through five OC flights of stairs to the tho roof in a n ragged broken lino Collins Coffins she said grimly what that means Coffina Is terribly hard on There Th rc arc too many man deaths here to suit null m mAnd mAnd me And when whon the settlement worker learned that many man tenement dwellers really do Judge of oC the healthfulness of ofa a house by the tile condition of the tho banis banisters banisters banisters sho she concluded that tho the place mutt mIlt her either A trust magnate from Now New York and his amiable but not accomplished wife who came to Washington five 00 years ago and arc aro just now entering Tully fully full Into Inlo tho ho Inner circles by aid of ofa ofa ofa a high priced social secretary a young mati matron on born In tho the set Ret she now adorns but possessed of no fortune and the wife of or au an officer absent on duty dilL The Tho arrangement Is an ideal one ono tho the younger woman giving two hours a aday adar aday day dar and the experience of a lifetime In society In return for a substantial retainer in cash the use of her clients several motors a seat in her opera box bot and the tho privilege of entertaining all the younger womans friends at atthe atthe the tho of at the tho ambitious hut but not discerning hostess He ahead with hope when ho bo bogot got 12 1 a week Some day he thought I 1 will draw Then I will have havo 1 a week moro more to spend for my mr own pleasure My If wife will have hae the other I with which to do as ns she sho pleases and we will save avo That will be b a year 1311 not counting tho the Interest When ho he got jot 26 a week ho he thought I 1 will make mako myself BO so useful hero that they ther will pay me twice as ns much sonic time limo as a they thoy are aro paying mo me menow now We will then save savo Hi 15 5 a week and T I Twill will arrays always have at t least 5 in I my m pocket When hon he succeeded In inducing I them to pay him 50 a week weel he often thought t tOh Oh if I could have an Income of or I a 11 year car Thon Then It would bo pos poa po possible I I sible for mo me to lo save at least east C a 1 I i week for myself and we could perhaps save a n thousand annually When the hair on his temples was white be he had become to valuable to his hlo employers that they tho paid him a year rear and he often said to himself If I had a year ear I believe hell eve we could manage to save savo avo a n little now and then and perhaps I could sometimes smuggle a dollar or two out to spend for tor my m own pleasure But alas poor man Ho lie never reached that happy happ state He man managed managed aged however to leave l ae enough In the way war of Insurance to enable his wife to live 1110 in the style atle to which she had boon been accustomed accustom ll Which was no small mall triumph for a man on a salary and a wife whose whole ambition was to keep a little ahead of her neighbors Chicago go Re |