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Show AIT WASHINGTON. Sept 23. The 1920 census figures ?how that Iowa had fewer federal employes, aud her poo pie have made fewer applications for government Jobs, than any other state in the union Incidentally federal of ficlals have remarked that it is harder to fill a government job in Iowa than in any other state, and sometimes residents resi-dents from other Btates have to take federal Jobs in Iowa. On the other hand the people of Virginia hold the most government jobs, and thousands of applications are pending from that state. Back In the da of Ann Lee the Shakers of Lebanon, N. V, advertised that they would hold a "shnker dance'' at the corner of Eleventh street and Pennsylvania avenue here. Thai was about a half century ago. The notice of this affair is et ill a matter of record rec-ord among the old showbills in a case at the congressional library, In the gay city of Washington, the center of culture, within a block of the White House, many distinguished j persons take their meals in a stable a place that formerly housed race horses. It is the National Woman's party! tea loom It Is on the alley in the rear of the party's home, 14 Jacksonj place Even members of the tariff commission Edward P. Costigan and! wife, for instance go down this alley i and in at the same door where manyj a fleet footed steed has passed, to eat. This tea rom is probably one of th most popular in the national capital. The walls have been painted and the borsefeed room is used as a kitchen. The stall partitions were remoed Mrs. Ruth Quick former picket, is In i charge and has made, a big success ofj it financially, and as a social center, ko much so that recently it has been I necessary to put eating tables In one end of the militants' ball room to accommodate ac-commodate the overflow. oo |