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News ? Weird and
Wonderful Garments
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lawmakers?A Vigorous
Independence ot
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government and you will search in vain
for the effect of clothes upon national
legislation. Doubtless they have the!:
subtle influence, but it is not recorded ;n
the labors of the day. No government
publication reveals their part in the workings
of the nation: no song or stor> tei a
waiting world of their effulgent glor..
Their chief value now lies as part of t)<>
decorating scheme of things, mainly i'.v
the edification, the delight and the amusement
of tourists who flock to Washington.
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For these there must be something
awe-inspiring in this panorama of clothes.
The parade of congressmen around th .
Capitol is worthy of immortality in the
postcards which their constituents s?nd
home by the armful?. Probably only one
other gathering in Washington could
compare with it for real art. That
rix*al is the congressional Hall of Fame,
cluttered up as it is with alleged
statutes of "famous" men to whom one
senator referred to as "the temporarily
notorious and the illustrious obscure."
That these evidences of twentieth
century civilization might not be entirely
lost to future generations, photographic
views have be**n carefully made
of some of the great national leaders in
action, and in clothes. For only the
camera can do full justice to these
items of sartorial news, important
though they are to the world of politics,
commerce, finance, industry, and. above
all. art. They will be most sacredly
preserved, and in due time they doubtless
will be enshrined among the
ethnographic exhibits of the National
Museum. For the present, they must
rest content with newspaper reproductions.
What weird and wonderful conceits
there are in this gathering of the garments
of statesmen, what care-free architecture,
what flaunting of baggy trousers
and wrinkling coats, what display of
antediluvian headgear and prehistoric
habiliments!
Here is a combination of cloth built as
though it might do service for a tent fly
or a flour sack: look closer and you will
discover it a most effective disguise for
one of our eminent senators, yes. perhaps.
a cabinet member?and who knows,
a possible candidate for a future presidency.
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There is a specimen of apparel that
migat have made Lew Fields famous:
here one that might have shed imperishable
luster upon the name and wardrobe
of Beau Brummel. It is hard to account
for tastes and we shall not try to do s??
The burden of proof is not on the wearer
of these clothes. As far as the rules "f
Congress and the statutes of the T'nited
States are concerned, a man may wear a
yellow cravat with a pink shirt, if he
pleases, or full dress suits in the daytime?as
one member of Congress insisted
upon doing for many, many years.
From the standpoint of an ideal de
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rns which were a landmark in American
colonial history. The inscription on
the rock gives no assurance that it
stands on the site of the tavern, but that
:s the inference which the traveler is apt
to draw, and it sems a reasonable inference.
On the fa^e of the boulder toward
th? main road a bronze plate has been
inset. and on this plate or tablet is the
following inscription:
To rommcmor?i<>
Tb? Encampment is^^Iarj land ?
Maj. <Ien. Edward Hradd<?k
And His Men
A* Owen's ordinary, Now Rookvsllc.
April 2*?. 17.-iK
This Stone is I'laeed by u.<Janer
Montgomery Owipter.
Daughters of tin- American Revolution.
Mrs. Morris I. ?Y?.iall. Regent.
July ! . 1913.
On the first day aft-r leaving Alexandria,
Brae/Jock's arniy reached Rock
creek. Part of the force came by boats
and part marched over the road?no
doubt the road which led to the ferry,
which was operated near the site of the
Aqueduct bridge There are various
Items in Braddock'y order book, or "orderly
book." and in the diary of bis
aid-de-camp. Capt. Robert Orme. to
show that at least a part of Braddock's
force landed at Rock creek, but there is
nothing in those records to show 011
which side of the creek the landing was
made. There has been a great deal of
historical conjecture that the landing
was maae at a Dig roc.K near tne Naval
Observatory, which is mentioned in very
early chronicles as "The Key of Keys."
and which for a number of generations
has been called Braddock's Rock, a
fragment of which remains and may be
seen in the bottom of a bricked-up pit in
the grounds of the New Haven Hospital,
just off the north side of the Potoma<
Park drive, which follows the course of
the old canal?the line of B street north
projected to the Georgetown channel.
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In the spring of 1800 Marcus Benjamin
read a paper before the National Society
of Colonial Dames in the District of Columbia.
from which the following paragraph
is extracted:
A moo? the many fttrikio? incident* of our olonial
history the story of ihe unfortunate expedition.
led by Braddocli asrninst ;!?<? French in 17." ">
it one thsr appeals to n* who lave on hotnea
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in this vigorous independence of
the tyranny df dress. A student of modern-day
politics will find much to repay
his researches into this blissful defiance
of the decrees of style. There are few
slaves of fashion here and they constitute
a most modest minority.
Of course, the fashion notes of the
Congressional Record might he made most
interesting if that prosy and veracious
chronicle could present to an eager world
a daily record of the tailormade achievements
of sorrc- of the heroes of politics
whom the suffrage of a style-blind district
has sent to the councils of the great
at Washington. But only pictures could
tell the story, and the Congressional
Record is not an illustrated periodical.
What a field for a new Thomas Carlvle
to write another "Sartor Resartus," what
an opportunity for a new philosophy of
clothes! It would he a philosophy concretely
human, even though cynical observers
would claim to And in it remarkable
proof of the real "uescent of Man."
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But it would add a lot of knowledge
to the political economy of the day. It
would shed great light on some of the
most abstruse and most difficult problems
of these progressive and complicated
days.
For what are the relations?hidden and
inscrutable?between jibtopsail trousers
and a vote on the Panama tolls exemp
tion. or what devious connection may
there not be between a joyously clam
orous waistcoat and a denunciation of
the trusts? It were difficult indeed to
put into more language the delicate metaphysical
bonds that unite a decorously retired
seersucker vestment with a rainpant.
rabid and resultless denunciation of
our foreign policy. And yet. hidden beneath
strange combinations of sartorial
devices tha* would make a fortune for
a museum exhibit, what noble hearts
may not beat high in the struggle for
their country's applause?
Of course, it may all be different
when the suffragettes have established
their regime. Worth and Patjuin may
then rome really into their own in the
national councils of state. For the moment.
the prevailing architecture in
Washington political ? ircles is decidedly
of the Paleolithic period rather than
of the Neo-I >andiacal. Bur it is gravely
to be feared that no historian will
ever do full justice to the pride ot
Those even:.* which have to do with the long
struggle between the Fren-h and English for
supremacy In the i:ew world and with h terminated
early in the aiitniiin ?.f IT.V.t. when on the
plains of Abraham tin- brave .Montcalm lowered
the lilies of France To the victorious Wolfe,
. lily on- . so far as I am await-, in which t
forces oi ei; h?-r nation <-anie within the territory
of tin* Federal District i- t'a' the memory of
which we nice; to perpetualIt is therefore
most tiuing thai your ><?clety. which has among
it- ohje. :In* preservation ?.f traditions of co'.o
idal history. should lend its aid toward saving
from d?*?ccraTion the only existing memorial of
tint event
This paper was called forth by the
action of i iie Colonial Dames in preservi:is*
what was left of the so-called
Braddock Rock.
Afn-r the surrender of Fort Necessity,
Sir Edward Braddock was commissioned
commander ui me Kind's xorces in
America 11? sailed with an army from
Kngland in th'- fall of 1754. and reached
the Chesapeake in February, 1755. The
transports anchored off Alexandria and
the troops after debarking made camp
on the heights west of the town, those
heights on which one sees today remains
of the civil war defenses of Washington.
Braddoek remained for some time at
Hampton roads, hut came up to Alexandria
in MAreh.
When arrangements for the campaign
against the French had been completed?
and various authors, including Francis
Parkman. comment on the apathy of
the colonials in lending assistance to the
Knglisii commander- some of the troops
and tield equipment came up the river
from Alexandria in the boats of the ships
Sea Horse and Nightingale. These troops
were part of the regiment of Sir Peter
Halket. and there is no doubt that they
landed at Rock creek. April 11. or It
mal have been April I'J. 1755. and it is
ais?> certain that thev nitched their
ramp n?-ar v. here they landed.
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B> reference to Braddock's orderly
book one may trace the outline of the
march toward the west, for in that book
it is written as follows:
From I:.h k r.-*-k to Owen's ordinary rtfft**en
nil!.- t., iNjud.-n's tifteeu miles: '?> Frederick
Oft sen miles. .n the n.ad t<. eeveuit-en
: t<> I 'oo'ipr.'PH eighteen miles; to John
l.\an>" hiite-n mil.- Whine Bariuger's e:g..t
eu miles t.. nine miles; lu HeUiy
Kij.sk - fifteen tidI?? to Mr. Fox's tWe've miles;
' Fon>n ! < :> s:i| 's eiu.,r miles: t?> Wills '-reek
sixteen uii'e^. total 174 mile*.
I'ach of these distances was. of course,
a day's march The march front Rock
reek to Owen's Ordinal'.* carried Braddo.
ks troops from Washington to Rockville,
and it is clear that they traveled
over what was then called the Frederick
road, and the belief t* that the
present road from Georgetown to Roekville
covers ti.e course, perhaps with
certain changes, covered by that old
Frederick road
That part of Maryland, or western
Maryland, now including the counties of
Montgomery. Allegheny. Washington,
Frederick and Carroll prior to the American
revolution and up to the year 177?5
f??: in? i! a single territorial division called
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this hold defiance of the commands of
modern fashion.
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I?espite photographic aid and its tinprejudiced
revelations, it is difficult to
do justice to the habiHtory endeavors
of our modern statesmanship.
For instance, there is William Jennings
Bryan. Secretary of State, and
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Frederick county. The original county
was St. Marys, established in
Montgomery count\ was one of the
results of the famous convention of
1776 The revolution was in progress.
Maryland troops had distinguished
themselves in all th>- battles and campaigns
of the east. For a glimpse at
the progress of events in Maryland and
a side light on the erection of Montgomery
county you migiit turn to AleSherry's
chapter on The N?*w Constitution
and State Government. ' wherein
he writes that "In the meanwhile in
compliance with the requisitions of the
late convention, flections were held
throughout the state on the first day of
of August. 1776, for delegates to a newconvention
to adopt a constitution and
form of state government. The number
of delegates, their qualifications and
the qualifications of the voters, the
judges of the election and the mode of
proceeding were fixed bv the resolutions
which directed the holding of the
elections. On the 14th of August this
new body assembled and organized by
unanimously electing Matthew Tilghman
president. After having devoted
several days to the transaction of general
business which had accumulated
since the adjournment of the late convention.
and having completed their
own organization, the convention selected
by ballot the president and
Messrs. ' "arroll, I'aca. Carroll of Carrollton.
Plater. Chase and Goldsborough
to prepare and report a declaration of
rights and form of government.
"While this committee, composed of
the ablest and most distinguished
patriots of Maryland, were busily laboring
at their arduous duty, the convention
was directing the whole energies
of the state to a vigorous prosecution
"f the war. and at the same time conducting
the general legislative and executive
branches of the government.
< ?n the tith of Septembe they divided
Frederick county and erected out of
parts of it two new counties, Washington
and Montgomery, the former named
in compliment to the great commanderin-chief.
and the latter in honor of the
gallant Irishman who eight months before,
under the walls of Quebec, had
laid down his life battling for American
liberty "
For the DUrDOse of effet tine tlu* organi
zation of Montgomery county the following
named men were appointed as
commissioners: Nathan Magruder. John
Murdock. Henry Griffith. Thomas t'ramphin.
jr.. Zadock Magruder, Allen Bowie
and John Willson. They were vested
with authority t?? purchase in fee simple
a piece of land, not exceeding four acres,
at such place as a majority of the voters
should select for the purpose of building
a courthouse and jail for the county.
The organization of the county government
went forward and April 21, 1777. the
following were commissioned aa justices
of th?T -Montgomery county court: Charles
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he does not. When the summer
zephyrs of Washington get down to
real and blistering work he boasts a
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Villiams, Samuel Wade Magruder. James
)ffutt and Kichard Thompson. They
ualitt^d for their office and elected
irooke Beall clerk of the county. They
ought land for the courthouse and jail
lose by the meeting place, and the
iambler believes, but does not know,
hat this land was bought of Leonard
>avis. Some Montgomery county antiuarian.
or a man with a bent for old
ecords. no doubt knows the original
wner of the courthouse land. Thue the
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all the world as though he had pitched
hay in it on his Nebraska farm. Hut
a glimpse of it would make the Platte
river run up hill.
A close second to Secretary Bryan in
this negative consecration to the cause
of clothes is Thomas Riley Marshall,
the Vice President of these United
States. What tailor of Terre Haute
or of Kokomo devised the garments
that remind one so vividly of the piebelt
of Indiana is one of the state
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established. Owen's Ordinary was closed
to that point. The house of I^eonard
Davis was known to fame as Hungerford's
Tavern. It was torn down a couple
or so years ago after the failure of
efforts to preserve it as a colonial and
revolutionary relic, and its site is now
bare. A courthouse was constructed at
that point, no doubt in 1777-78. and the
first court was held early in 1771*. The
place was then called merely Montgomery
County Courthouse.
A large acreage of land around the
court building and the court square
was bought August 3. 1784. by William
Prather Williams, and a town
called 'Williamsburg" was surveyed
and platted there by Col. Archibald
Orme. Being the countyseat a number
of lots were sold and houses and
stores built. There was a difficulty
about the survey and titles to the lots,
Col. Orme'8 survey either not having
been recorded or the record having
been lost.
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The Maryland legislature in 1801
passed an act directing a resurvey of
the place, appointed commissioners to
supervise the survey and created the
"subdivision" into a town to be called
Rockville. because of its proximity to
Rock creek. There was discussion as
to whether the new town should not be
called Wattsville. after Watts branch,
a stream more closely associated with
it than Rock creek. There was other
legislation relating to the new town
and the final resurvey was made in
1803 by the county surveyor, William
Smith.
The new county town began to prosper.
There was no school and children
were sent to instructors in Bladensburg,
Georgetown and Frederick. The
need for a school resulted in the creation
of one. out of which the Rock\ille
Academy grew. The Maryland
legislature passed an act in 1805* and
again in 1806. under the provisions of
which commissioners were appointed
to raise $2,500 by lottery for the purchase
of a lot. erection of a schoolhouse
and purchase of a fire engine for
the town. These commissioners wc re
Upton Beall, Honore Martin. Lewis Beall,
Thomas Llnsted, Thomas P. Wilson.
Richard Anderson and Solomon Holland.
The Rambler believes that the building
erected under the authority of the commissioners
named stood until some time in
the late eighties.
flno nf the feature* in Prtrkvillp is the
Confederate monument. It is becoming
difficult to find a county town in the
south without its Confederate monument.
The bronze figure of a soldier stands on 1
a granite pedestal w hich is inscribel:
To Our Heroes of Montgomery County. Md.
That Ht* through life may n??t target to love the .
Thin Gray Liue.
Erected A.D. 1913.
Near the base of the pedestal are the i
late C. S. A. and the dates 1861-1865. i
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[he. classic lxample, or
lest inspifcancyns ot
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secrets of the democratic party. And
where his hats come from is a graver
mystery, although his display ?.f a silk
hat that must have figured in ,
Buchanan's administration almost precipitated
a revival of that vintage last
winter.
Then there is that delicate and frail son
of Kentucky. Senator Ollie James. He
tucks his 30?~? pounds into a suit with a
grace he only can master. What mat- '
ter if his trousers seem wider at the bottom
than at the top?that lends an air of
distinction. And what care he that his
collars flare out from under his cars?
that adds comfort. For fear that his
clothes .might look as though artailor had 1
actually something to do with their creation,
he likes to jam a couple of newspapers
into the pockets of his coat in j
effective protest against its symmetry.
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We bow in mute and humble acquiescence
before the traditions that require j
the inclusion in any article on states manly
habiliments of that classic example of i
all that stands for beauty and truth and '
symmetry and international justice in |
the realm of clothes. We refer, of course, j
to that immaculate presentation of the
highest achievements of a Clilcago tailor's
art and handicraft. James Hamilton
Lewis. What poise and dignity is there,
what charm of color, symmetry and tone,
what grace of line and form, what subtle
symphonies of shadings, what perfection
of finish, what wealth of pleasing combinations
of all that is noble and inspiring
and uplifting in the realm of clothescraft
and statesmanship!
No wonder the verdant praires of Illinois
pay him jubilant homage. Probably
no other senator, for instance, would dare
to wear gloves on a blistering July day
with a Panama hat and white trousers.
No sunset ever painted could compote
with the glories of this Solomon. He has
made his mark in the legislative achievements
of both houses of Congress and
has helped to shape political destinies of
his state .and of his party, yet these 1
achievements are too easily forgotten
ulipn the snlAmlnr nf his ner?r??i
above the horizon to challenge the golden
beauties of a summer day.
It was with a strange sense of the
eternal fitness of things that the same
Illinois legislature, on the same day and
in the same hour that it bequeathed SenMore
Roses.
THE notes on Washington roses which
the Rambler made in the course of
a short walk were, of course, incomplete
and many tine ros. displays of the capital
were overlooked and untentionaHy
slighted. There is a wonderful hedge of
running and blooming roses on Wisconsin
avenue just this side of the powerhouse
or car barn well out toward the 1 dstrict
line. Two big, broad-fronted houses stand
back from the street, and private roads
turn southerly and westerly pom the
main way to reach then. A long fence
dividing these properties is o-. . grown
with roses and a mass of pink bloom
covered the hedge when the Rambler
passed that way.
As you travel west along Wisconsin
avenue there turns off to the right, just
before you reach the rose display mentioned.
a shaded lane or old roadway
which leads up to a comfortable-looking
house. It is at some of the trees which
shade this lane that you should look.
Of course, this has nothing to do with i
roses, but while you are at this pOint
you might as well take a look at the
trees. One side the lane is bordered with
venerable maples about which there is
nothing extraordinary, but opposite these
maples?that is. on the other side of the
lane?grow a large number of majestic
specimens of the catalpa. blossoming 1
when the Rambler walked that way and 1
appearing imc giain. uuuquns ui green
and white. The bloom of these trees
seemed to be especially luxuriant. The
roses across the way are fine and these,
taken in connection with the line of old
catalpas, make a picture worth traveling
far to see.
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On Wisconsin avenue near Holy Hood
cemetery and en that avenue just beyond
the ? ose of the Cathedral of St.
Peter arid St. Paul, you will sec a number
of porches deeply and sweetly covered
with climbing roses.
There have been many May and June
rose shows in the southeastern part of
the city. At the corner of K and tith
streets southeast, climbing over a brick
house, one of the tine rose vines of 1
the town, and on 7th street one door t
south of K street southeast, on the west v
side of the street, is another brilliant
vine. You will also see many roses g
blooming: on the eart side of iUh street s
south of E street. frame house on a
the south side of E street near 11th e
street southeast and another house on t
the south side of E near 12th have fine T
displays. s
At the northwest corner of lltli and I it
streets southeast are an old garden and w
an old house which the Rambler has h
often noticed. It is a garden that is over- C
grown with shrubbery. The fences seem f<
to bulge with green foliage and flowers, e:
many of them perennials of the varieties r<
usually now called "old-fasironed." The p
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For if ?! . ;s anything in the realm
f l-olui onierrnents of which Senator
Sherman knows nothinp. and c?rea
less, it s , lothe? It 1?j a matter of ooM
record that ; ? the time of his arrival
in Was-ingt- he never had worn a
dress s.;.t H :na\ not have one now.
for all w know His clothes may fit.
but tli.it is tine of tne accidents of des:
:n> w ?io not w orrv him. Their delit
ate s: -.:ies ma; fit without a clash in.
Hie i. ir r. .i. of a Washington landscape.
1 i; i ,i does not know it if the '
do. Th< r? js a perennial frown on h s
face, hist :nat has no relation to his sa>
torial surroundings
It has always been one of the ur.aolvai>lc
mysteries of Washington juat how
>enator Fran -is NewlamiH of Nevada
works out i > combinations of h s
lothcs S-nator New lands is the chairman
of the Senate committee on Interstate
commerce, which guides the uestinies
business legislation through the
. ' per house, and is rich enough to hira
all the tailors in the District of Columbia
lo lie awake nights thinking up new
si v ies. When the camera caught him he
displayed an abbreviated Prince Albert
rrf?Ti. w iiii'n possessed. however, the
saving grace of not making him resemble
some perennial and professional pallbearer.
And as he is tnighty busy pilot .ng
President Wilsons trust program
hrough the Senat*. no one has a real
tight to obje. t to any clothes the
.Vvadu senator's caprue may induce
him t?t wear.
Speaking of Prince Albert coats, it
a as tlie epidenu. of this style of garb
the nation's capital that caused the
National Tailors' Association at Its
Washington convention last winter to
resolve sol em 1 v and unanimously against
making more of them t"ongreas roue
en masse against *his infringement of
its inalienable rights, and the fatal
resolution was rescinded So that the
prevailing style in togas, especially for
oratorical ami campaign uses, is still t
the somber Prince Albert. Hut it makes
small men look big and foolish men
look wise, so why should we complain?
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There ;?re plenty of other members
of the Senate a pictorial record of
whose clothes would add to the gayety
i?f the solemnity of nations. Nor are
these interesting exhibitions confined
to the Senate. When it comes to competition
in clothes the House of Representatives
ran canter away from the
Senate in one lap. For there are t3"?
members of the House against only
senators, and the former can display a
versatility not at all out of proportion
to their numbers A compendium of
tlie vagaries of congressional dress as
revealed in the House would add several
volumes to the world's heat library
of humor.
There is. for instance. Representative
John J. Fitzgerald of New York. Mr.
Fitzgerald is the chairman of the
House committee on appropriations.
He is the watchdog of the nation's
Treasury and has a finger In the spending
of something like a trifle of fl,n00.000.fl00
a year. A photographic record
of his sartorial achievements Is a
notable addition to any collection of
illustrated statesmanship. A word picture
of his garments, however, is a far
more difficult enterprise.
But the real prize for beauty at that
end of the Capitol goes to Representative
William H. Murray of Oklahoma, better
known as "Alfalfa Bill." Where his remarkable
collection of garments found
the inspiration of their genesis no Washington
critic dare say. It would not be
fair, without more competent evidence, to
lay this indictment at the door of the
tailors of Oklahoma. For. who knows
"Alfalfa Bill" may be the architecture of
his own investiture.
Nor must we forget Representative William
C. Adamsnn of Georgia, chairman
of the committee on interstate commerce,
the committee which handles more Important
bills each year than any other
two committees of Congress. Only the
camera can do justice to the garments
that adorn him. No thesaurus could
supply the language it would take to put
into prose or poetry a trdue appreciation
o ftheir wonders.
The <"apitol guides point him out an
the "representative who wears boot*"
He doubtless refers to the tubular objects
that hang over them as "pants."
But why cavil, when there are so many
more better dressed and lower salaried
men unknown to fame throughout the
nation?
fast front of the house. ?hen the Rambler
last walked that way, was smothered
under roses. ?
At the height of the rose season vou
could have seen a great number of rose
shows in AnacoHtia. especially In that
beautiful section of the old suburb called
Maple View Farther to the soiflh. where
Nichols avenue begins to reach out toward
the country, many porches were
iressed in roses, and in Congress Heights,
both along Nichols avenue and Alabama
avenue, the cultivators of tine roses have
been busy and successful
The Rambler noted an abundant growth
jf roses over a bouse at the corner of
>outh Carolina avenue and 4th street
southeast, and coming hack to the northwest
part of the city you could have
seen, a few days ago. and it may be that
he flowers have not yet perished, rare
xhlbits of climbing roses at the southeast
corner of loth and N streets and at
he northeast and northwest corners of
Oth and S streets. When you cross K
street, as ypu pass along 10th street, you
an look either way along the east and
ivest and see roses by the ton. There is
i conspicuous rose house at the soutbvest
corner of 10th and T streets.
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Oven Bird's Nest. ,
Tl'ST a little house by the side of the
J road, so sheltered and protected that
t took a curious observer a good half
hour to locate it. Following: a shady
footpath bordering: Rock creek, where the
ittle glades and dells are all damp and
nossy, a golden crowned thrush, or oven
>5rd. was surprised on her homeward
ourney carrying breakfast to the. babies,
ler startled call from the leafy branches
md excited chattering gave warning that
ler province was being invadedBeing
a novice in bird lore and never
laving seen the nest of this bird, this
vas an opportunity not to be missed by
he Rambler's friend. From a seat on a.
noss-covered log the movements of the
lids, the father having come at the
liother's first call of distress, were
vatched for a short time. Then began a
our of exploration. The ground in the
icinity was gone over carefully, for this
ittle bird builds directly on the ground,
t was like playing hide and seek?nearing
he location of the nest the birds chatered
frantically?moving away thejr
iculd show less excitement.
R .. - L- 1
round was searched. When almost depairing
or finding the nest and ready to
bandon the quest, attention was attract*
d by a tiny mound of dry leaves and
wigs within a few feet of the path,
'here was a small elliptical opening, and
tooping down, with nose almost touchig
the ground, and peering in. there
ere seen two tiny birds with wide open,
ungry mouths waiting the delayed meal,
'uriosity satisfied, the spot was marked
L>r capture of the nest when the presnt
occupants move out. and walk
esumcd and the little family left to
eace and breakfast.