Senator Holcomb of Missouri told Mrs. Spangler at an afternoon tea confidentially that he was going to vote against the ship subsidy bill.

I must hurry away, as I have an appointment with my daughters and Mrs. Spangler before going before ways and means.

So reasoned Cora Spangler for the hundredth time during the last two years as she sat in her boudoir at her home.

Always a lavish spender of money, this was explained as possible because of a fortune left her by her late husband, Congressman Spangler of Pennsylvania.