Bedroom Farce

A strange interlude of a fat Senator in a summer hotel was headlined last fortnight as follows: HEFLIN SCENTS PLOT AS BED CRASHES. Last week the Senator and the hotel management, in Asbury Park, N. J., explained. The Senator's story was that two men came to his bedroom door late one evening and said they had come to mend his bed. There were two beds in the room. The Senator asked which they would mend. How did they know in which bed he would sleep? To these astute questions the men could not reply. They could find nothing wrong with the beds. They withdrew. The Senator concluded his story: "It was evident . . . that I was both indignant and watchful." The hotel men's story was that a maid had reported some slats to be missing from a bed in the Senator's room. The house carpenter did not get around to the job until late. The Senator, who received his callers in an oldtime full-length nightshirt (Ku Klux Klan uniform), acted most strangely. Handy upon his bureau, the men noticed, was a pistol.