The Hon. Doc Brown's Courtship

1902

The "Hon. Doc" Brown, of Morgansfield, Kentucky, who represents his district in the State Legislature, is one of Kentucky's unique characters. To illustrate a point in a recent speech, he gave the following account of his courtship:

"Take my advice and never give a woman anything she can't eat, and never make love to her out of an ink bottle. Why, when I courted my wife, I just grabbed hold of her and said, 'Sally, you are the sweetest thing on earth, and your beauty baffles the skill of man and subdues his ferocious nature,' and I got her." - New Orleans Times-Democrat.

The Speaker of the House

1903

"A few years ago," said Representative "Charlie" Curtis to a Washington Post reporter, "a man of my acquaintance was sent to the Kansas legislature by a rural constituency. He had promised that great things should be accomplished when he reached the state capital, and his constituents kept their ears close to the ground, listening for the rumble of thunders. He get lost the shuffle at Topeka, however, and was never heard from. When he returned home, after adjournment, a neighbor accosted him.

" 'John,' he said, 'I thought you were going to do great things down to Topeka. Why, you didn't even make a speech.'

" 'Well, you see, it was this way,' John explained, 'we decided it would take too much valuable time for us all to talk, so we selected Mr. Smith speaker of the house.'

"John's neighbors accepted this as wholly satisfactory explanation."

—Davenport Daily Republican, Davenport, Iowa, March 4, 1903, page 5.