Show old woman in gallery helped to curb acerbities Acerbi ties T han united states senate a few days dass ago tried to transact baines bul nesi while hile an old lady ad in ili the gallery knitted bool socks and cast a eye eo on the doings and savings Ings of the solons assembled on the floor the senate made little headway it N nas as self conscious perhaps it had bad ah V U I 1 1 A A memories perhaps it had a feeling that it yas undergoing der gir a criticism 11 much kil keener r tha than th that at of the press gallery 1 the old lady sat ind and knitted va biet hei the debate kaied warm she laid by her yarn varn and needles aud abd hs bened when things quie quieted te d dow down n she took up her task after the s senators discovered what that sort of an eye ee the were ere working under the became more circumspect and more temperate in their words and action most senators eria tors are yet old enough to recall the aunt or the grandmother that knitted and knitted without any lessening ot of mental those thosa ft aho ho are that old or that fortunate inov the ultimate e of criticism and calm judgment arid and detective thrifty the play of 0 the knitting needle seems to sive give its manipulator a supernatural it seems to give the small bo T ho faces it a physical and central qualm so did truth use to come forth and fall all to the ground and evasions go up in ili the air and pretense and die we would that the senate in ili the exercise of its constitutional right as a a belf elt governing body might in a of virtue elect some dear old lade extraordinary to sit and knit and look and will the die flash of her needles and the calm sophistication of her eye ee soothe the heated brow of rhet one ciric and bring back the normil normal temperatures of health and of truth |