Rensselaer Republican, Volume 22, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 June 1890 — Should Remove His Mask. [ARTICLE]

Should Remove His Mask.

Indianapolis News. Mr. J. Y. McNeal knows a “heap” of good stories. One of them relates to Paymaster Van Vleet, a conspicuous figure in Washington society, who has been a famous bachelor in his day. He is blessed with an abnormally large, bulbous and highly colored nose. His hair is white, his figure is good and his social manners elegant. He always captured the prettiest girl at the balls.. On one occasion at a mask ball, a swell affair, he had on his arm a beautiful young lady of the highest social standing. She had removed her mask and shone forth in all her charms. . . x—- ‘ ‘Now, really, Colonel, it ia not fair for you to wear your mask after I have removed mine,” she said to the gallant Paymaster, guessing him to be a mili*tary man. “Indeed I would not be guilty of so great an impropriety,” he replied. “Then remove your mask.” “But I wear no mask.” • ‘Oh, that is absurd. God Almighty neve r made such a nose as that. ” Nobody enjoyed the remark more than the Paymaster himself. Ho tells the story to his friends with great gusto.

The American minister to Austria and Mrs. Grant recently gave a reoeptlon to a score of Indians who had just arrived at Vienna to join a “Wild West” show. Among the company invited to meet these peaceable savages were Prince Reuss, the German embassador, 'and Princess Reuss; Sadoullah Pacha, tho Turkish embassador; M. Mazel, the Dutch minister, and Prince Henry Lichtenstein. The Indians squatted on the floor of the diningroom to eat ioes, then droned some of their native melodies, danced, and finally smoked the calumet, or pipe of peace, of whioh Princess Reuss goodnaturedly took a puff. None of the Indians spoke a word of English, and they remained a stolid oomnan v throughout.