National Affairs: Joe's Blow

Representative Joseph Clark Baldwin is a blueblood, a clubman, a bon ivant, friend of kings and minor potentates. He can write and draw with both hands and both feet simultaneously (after first re moving his shoes) and has occasionally done so in legislative assemblies. As a graduate of St. Paul's and Harvard, and a man with a natural flair for festive living, he enjoys association with First Families, likes good clothes, fine horses, fine wines. Son of a rich family which lost its fortune, he is often almost broke, lives in genteel and...