The Member and the Soap

Belinda

A MEMBER of the Kansas Legislature meeting a Cake of Soap was

    passing it by without recognition, but the Cake of Soap insisted on

    stopping and shaking hands.  Thinking it might possibly be in the

    enjoyment of the elective franchise, he gave it a cordial and

    earnest grasp.  On letting it go he observed that a portion of it

    adhered to his fingers, and running to a brook in great alarm he

    proceeded to wash it off.  In doing so he necessarily got some on

    the other hand, and when he had finished washing, both were so

    white that he went to bed and sent for a physician.