Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 37, Number 102, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 August 1905 — Little Love Taps. [ARTICLE]

Little Love Taps.

At one of the recent White House receptions there was a little case of rapier thrusting between two ladies, says Lipplncott s, and it was delightfully entertaining to those who saw and heard. There is a famous man in Washington, one who came from the plain people and who continues as one of them. He has a beautiful daughter of aristocratic tendencies, who has dug up a family tree, somehow or other, and who affects superiority which she does not possess in any sense. The wife of a Congressman from a Western State.jv.as introduced to the young lady and pleasantly said: “I have met with your distinguished father. Miss ” “I dare say,” replied the young lady languidly. “Papa in liis position meets all sorts of people.” The Western lady flushed and flashed back instantly: “I should suppose so. Especially when he is at home.”