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Show I 1 fid AxjrfC tTfk xm ' i WASHINGTON. D. C, May 14. On a bright May morning colored men and colored ladies and while ditto may bo seen on the beautiful bright green lawns In the vicinity of, tho White House and Potomac park, picking yellow yel-low dandelion blossoms. It didn't use to be the custom, but it has been learned that the cheery dandelion londs Itself to the making of a good substitute for what the country used to have before the eighteenth amendment wask adopted; and somebody some-body must gathertlnTcrop of dande lions. , r The historical places of Washington arc rapidly falling Into tho hands of the Philistines. Certainly sentiment is not very strong. The old house on the corner of H street and Connecticut avenue, which was bought by public subscriptions and presented to Daniel Webster and occupied by him, and which of lato years has been known as the Corcoran house, Is soon 'to be torn down to afford a site for a new chamber cham-ber of commerce building. The so-called Dewey house, bought by the pennies of school children and presented to Admiral Dewey after his victory in Manila bay, has been sold and Is to be turned into a dressmaking dressmak-ing establishment. At the present rate. It will not be long before the east wing of the White House will be rented for a piggy-wig-gly shop, while the present office buildings where Joe Tumulty presides will be turned Into a downtown garage. gar-age. If we "go in to clean up Mexico,"' as some well meaning people think we ought to, good old conscription conies Into operation again. Under section 69 of H. R. 12775. know as the Wads-worth Wads-worth bill, it Is arranged that whenever when-ever "war is declared," or a "national emergency exists, conscription begins to operate.' and every able-bodied male between 18 and 45 comes unaer the authority of the army's general staff. Parents with young sons would do well to do something to the gents on Capitol hill who are so alert to Prus3ianize the United States of America. Amer-ica. Richard Henry Little Is a great war correspondent. He was In the Japan-Russian Japan-Russian war and all tho wars since. He has Just come back from Russia, JbE.P filM-I L II IWOllll.LUai II. Ill .J.J ii '-i J.JLJ where he got a double fracture of tho log In trying to escape Leninc's army. Ho fell into a German hospital and thinks the Germans rather nice people. peo-ple. But after all i3 said and done, Little Is an Incorrigible humorist. Ho Just won't take serious things seriously seri-ously even an expense account. For instance, when he was In Paris, the' editor of the Chicago Tribune cabled him: "Why is it that your expense i account is larger than that of any other American correspondent?"- - To which the editor got this reply: "I'll bo the goat. Why?" 1 nn B |