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AN AUTOGRAPH PETTICOAT.
The Morning 's Washington correspondent
telegraphs on August 8:—Mrs. Abner Taylor,
the beautiful wife of the millionaire Chicago
Congressman, has initiated a startingly unique
fad. It has been customary for a long time
here in Washington for ladies to secure the
autographs of senators, representatives, and.
high public dignitaries in Jtlhnrp^. hlxa.
Taylor's ambition has outgrown the album
stage. There is now passing through the
House of Representatives one of Mrs. Taylor's
petticoats. A neat little note bom Mis.
Taylor is appended, addressed to the represen
tatives, requesting each one of them to write
his autograph upon the garment. She ?Tpl«jn?
in the- note that it is her purpose to embroider
the names in silk, with a view to possessing,
when the ornament is completed, an autograph
petticoat of the present Congress. A flask of
marking ink and a pen is enclosed in tbe lady's
parcel, and she intimates that the linen has
been prepared to take writing without running.
The passage of this linen affair from desk to
desk through the House has created no end of
amusement among the Congressmen.
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