Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1893-02-11

next nciChhor on the
left. and had even strGck up sort " friend
ship and had remarked to each other after hay
Ing made calls together down the block on the
senselessness Of that proverb that Beauty una
dorned Is still adorned the most - for here were
these houses exactly alike a. 10 architecture
and papering. which vet by being furnished
differently gave such varied impressions Of
beauty.
But the morning after the water stopped
running In each OF our houses. Well. we chung
together as Go strangers in a strange land. We
made visits of coincidence on one another
when We never thought Of ringing the front
door bells. as had hitherto been our convefs-
lonaI wont. bat went directly 10 the base
mehts and thercfrom penetrated forthwith to
the kitchens, where We stood around the re-
specnve sinks and advanced theories as to the
particular reason and place of waters stoppage.
now THE BRIDE FrLr
We all naturally gravitated at first TO the
brides house, feeling sure that the poor little
thing IN her domestic inexperisnce would be
quite Frustrated by suck catastrophe She
was melancholy certainly. but il took a strange
form. L don't know, indeed. exactly What to
think OF that Young person. I'll tell YOU what
| she SAID, and you can see what you can make
of il.
On. dear, she began. 81 know now exactly
how Pygmalion felt when his Galatea went back
from sweet throbbins life into marble silence.
Tor after had selected this dear little house,
brand new as il was, and finished furnishing IL
qulte TO my mind. then, just before We our
selves were about TO come in and before the
water and gas were turned on 1 stood and
looked at il and thought, 1T is like beautiful
though lfeless entity-lke Galatoa before she
awoke from marble Strangely enough. lust
at that very minute the water man and the gas
md l,fs 81 Az
an eye my Gslatea's stil blood-the Potomac
water-began to circulate and her neryes-the
city gas-to CULVER she lives.' cried. and |
knew at once Pygmalions JOY. but alas, never
thought to know his sorrow, too"
THE PRACTICAL SIDE OF 1T.
You wouldn't have time to grow so seuti-
mental over it, said the elderly matron Of the
| block brusquely. 'if your servant had left YOU
as mine did this morning because the water
wouldn I run. thereby obliging her to bring it
from the spring five blocks away
But you'll always stay with me- won't YOU.
Sarah: inquired the bride. turning with large
eyed pathos TO a dusky damsel who was clean
ing silver
.'Yaasm," responded the dusky damsel
solemnly.
Just the very way. of all others. TO make
her leave, warned the elderly matron sotto
voce, Ito let her think you can't do without
those circumstances.
'Well, what are we TO do?" sighed The inmate
OF the end house with dreamy interrogation.
| Get plumber?'
"A plumber" calculated the pessimist, sco-n-
fully. I've already had 1--WE at the house at
separate times tbs morning, and each one ad-
| vanced different theory as 10 the seat of the
trouble. One said the water main had burst
and that when the water company rectiied that
error and turned the water on again would
be all right. Another averred that the pipes
were frozen out in front of the house. aud that
by sending some men who would tear up the
street and build fire out there"
And aren't those street fires of the plumbers
dear little things. interrupted the bride
real little bontires. love to look at them"
- need no longer be deprived of water
Yes, they are indeed, very dear little things. -
she continued, turning to the bride after hay-
| ing finished her sentence; but |, on the
contrary, am not fond of looking at them be-
cause OF this very dearness.
Another plumber" she went on. "was sure
the trouble was under tine sink and SO il went
They reminded me Of lot OF doctors who. by
disaSreeing, leave one utterly AT a loss what TO
do"
THE BRIDE CHIPS IN AGAIN.
''Yes, Of course" chimed in the bride. de-
ishtedIy, "for, as | just said, since a house
with frozen pipes is like person suffering
from impeded circulation, SO the plumbers
who cured it would very naturally DO Just like
doctors. How nicely everything docs it in
together and she paused in rapt thoughtful
admiration of the pleasing UNITY of things.
The plumber always reminds me of Sarta
Claus, put in the optimist
You must be the wife Of plumber" said l.
'for to his family il Is of course within the
plumbers power TO be a veritable St Nicholas
BY the outside world. though. he is commonly
I..la ahs
penser of earthly possessions
mo, am not a plumbers wife" replied the
optlmist ''but II is has expression of face that
makes me think of Santa Claus-it is SO bepeyo-
lent and CHEEKY. and then he comes too. when
the world is leafess and cold. Just as does his
sanity prototype. Plumbers. indeed. look SO
much alike. she went on, that never think
OF there being mole than one of them any
more than L think of there being more than
one Santa Claus Not even when they work in
peirs is this feeling dispelled, for then L look
upon one as the actual plumber the substance
while the other is his shadow. just as Santa
Claus himself would cast a shadow were he to
stand in the sun.
NO. Plumber is the name of an individual
not the appellatian of a species; an individual
with a kit of tools aud philanthropic look. the
bare beholding OF which ough: TO elevate the
spirits of the most depressed"
THE VALUE OF THE KITCHEN.
swell, the best of u.s. said the elderly ma
iron pointedly, she glanced at the bride, and
the optimist, ''are liable to have it painfully
impressed upon us before we get through with
1t that the kitchen is the engine room Of the
domestic machine. and that, perforce, when
things go wrong there they are going to go
wrong everywhere"
81 should say so,' echoed the pessimist.
"How do You think. now" said she turning TO
the optimist, THAT you will like to get up to-
morrow morning and find no warm water in
your bath roomy"
"Oh, won't mind it, replied the optimist.
Il Was thinking just the other moruing as
made my toilet that really the warm water in
the stationary stand wasn't such an artificial
thing after all, since when all is said and done
it was neither more nor less than q little thread
Of the Potomac slightly diverted from its
course. and which incidentally crossing nv
kitchen was there warmed, whence it emerged
to empty itself in this marble bowl insteaA Of
the Chesapeake bay. That is all tnene wae Of
it. There is too much talk about the perplex-
ing completely and departure from nature of
this age. II is all quite simple when you
analyze it"
"Call it what you like. Z" said the elderly ma
tron, ''but will select every time the present
water supply system whom q choice 10 given me
between II and the poetic but back breaking
old oaken bucket"
''She viii say so, toe" prophesied the pessi-
mist drearily, latter she has been - saying Of
water a. IL abe were cast adrift with one bottle
Of it on q raft in midocesn, which will be the
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