Governesses

A dreary, rainy inauguration day augured ill for the widowed Governess. She had not been long in office before cocaine-dusted political rivals tampered records, made her son illegitimate. Soon, by further dirty work, the same son stood white-faced in a prisoner's dock to receive a murderer's death sentence. The Governess arose, screamed, "And I shall pardon him! It is my right!" Shouts from outside penetrated the wrecked, nerve-shaken courtroom. "Extra! Extra! Governess Fenway impeached!" . . . Her Honor, the Governor, released last week, is a good cinema.

A real woman has fared none too well in politics lately. A red-polled, 32-year-old Baptist last week headed Governess Miriam A. ("Ma") Ferguson of Texas back toward the cows and chickens whence she emerged two years ago to "vindicate" her impeached husband Jim. Attorney-General Dan Moody won the Democratic primary with well over 50% of the votes cast, thus precluding a "run-off" primary unless Mrs. Ferguson's husband-manager could establish his loud charges of poll frauds. In Texas, Democratic nomination equals virtual election. Under the terms of a wager* Governess Ferguson was honor-bound to resign her executive position immediately. The lone-star state, state of the Alamo, of San Jacinto, of hard boiled sandslappers/- and silken-tongued two-gun men, will now be governed by a onetime Sunday School teacher.

*"Ma" and Dan openly wagered their public offices on the outcome of the election, she to resign as Governess if she failed to beat him by a single vote--he to relinquish his Attorney-Generalship if she beat him by 25,000.

/- Residents of the Panhandle region in Texas are known as " sandslappers" because of the frequent gesture necessary to brush sand from their eyes.