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Show MADE A GOOD GUIDE fx-:-? Representative J. Hampton Moore who succeeded John Dalzell on the ways and means committee, while hailing from Philadelphia, knows hii Washington like a native. During the visit of a party of home friends tc the capital, Mr. Moore was showing them the sights of the city and, whilt coming from the northeast entranci of the White House grounds their at tentlon was attracted by the group oi heroic figures that make up the Lafayette La-fayette statue at the southeast corner of Lafayette square. This presents, with other things, a woman with a garment about her loins which she is frantically grasping grasp-ing holding up a naked sword tc Lafayette, who is standing above. Her attitude is one of eager, nay, anxious and Insistent supplication. As the party approached the statuary stat-uary group, Representative Moore struck the posture of a guide, and, In the nrnfpssinnnl r-waTur nf tho r-rflr't ci droned out in sing-song: "And now, ladies and gentlemen, we come to the tj , far-famed statue of the great soldier and statesman, Marquis de Lafayette. Below him is a woman in suppliant attitude, holding a sword. Apparently : she is speaking earnestly to him and " , C "But, Mr. Moore," interrupted one of the ladles of the party, "what Is the woman saying to Lafayette?" "That's very plain, If you observe the condition of her attire, madam," ,j he replied. "She's begging him: 'Here, general, take this, quick, while I catch my clothes!'" And therfter ITio lady's interrogations were wholly impersonal! I. |