Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 February 1887 — Slightly Embarrassing. [ARTICLE]

Slightly Embarrassing.

A Bostonian visiting Washington recently went to the Capitol, and thinking it would be comfortable in the gallery appropriated to ladies accompanied by gentlemen appeared at the entrance and was stopped by the doorkeeper. ' “No gentlemen are admitted here except with ladies.” The o’d gentleman (for he was a Bostonian of mature age, as well as blue blood) was equal to the emergency. “But my wife is in here. ” “Very well; go in.” On entrance he discovered, to his dismay, that the only person present was a well-dressed colored woman. On coming out the doorkeeper civilly inquired: “Did you find your wife?”— Bos ton Record.