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Show Old JvojCi aTU Washington, D. C, Some of the young bloods of Washington, who aro not blooded enough to maintain an exhaustless cellar, havo been experimenting experi-menting with substitutes. A popular brand pf lavondar toilet water is said to havo produced good results. It is 7-1 per cent alcohol and Is not denatured. dena-tured. By some mistake a. 6S per cent hair tonlo with a quinine filler was substituted at a recent party and the results woro notable. Not only was a good time had by nil present, but thc police court blotter told thc next morning of a joyous automobile affair which could not .have been matched with Mexican mecal as inspiration. Thc J,Insldc dope" on President VV'il-aon VV'il-aon is thac he has not been so well for the last few weeks. A new trouble, not serious, doveloped, and ho had to cut out his auto rides. The chief trouble is Mr. Wilson's unwillingness to see people. It was with tho grcat-ost grcat-ost reluctance that he consented to thc I recent cabinet meeting; and he still refuses to give official audience to thc foreign ambassadors who have been waiting for weeks to present their credentials. cre-dentials. These formalities would necessarily nec-essarily be briof since It is an' unwritten un-written law of diplomacy that such audiences au-diences can last only eight minutes. In Mr. Wilson's condition they could bo reduced to two minutes. Bainbridge Colby has found tho State Department one large conspiracy to keep him from knowing what fs happening, or doing what ho "wants to do. It has been running so long with no particular head, and no policy, that oach bureau chief has set himself up as an Independent satrap. The other day when news that John Ttecd had been arrested In Finland and hight be shot one of those department satraps told Reed's wlfo that thc department de-partment would not interest Itself in Reed. The fact that he was an American Ameri-can citizen did not interest the department. depart-ment. His Ideas were not in accord with the department's Ideas and he might be shot one of these department Later this satrap found that Reed la a cousin of ex-Ambassador Gerard, and that Bainbridge Colby did. not feel the same way about letting American citizens citi-zens be shot or permitting them to rot In foreign jails; Colby says an Am. lean Is entitled to his rights wherever he Is, and that one reason the country keeps up an army and navy is to see that he gets them. Incldently there Is to be a house-cleaning house-cleaning In thc state department. The Bryan Democracy in thc District Dis-trict of Columbia has started a campaign cam-paign to elect delegates . to the San Francisco" , convention who will support sup-port tho following program: Federal and slate legislation to reduce tho cost of lving; recognition of labor's right to collective bargaining; government gov-ernment ownership and democratic control of public utilities; restoration of pre-war liberties, and enforcement of thc prohibition amendment. This program is probably about what William J. Bryan will support at the San Francisco convention. |