Evening star., 1896-02-29

'There is only one suggestion can make
for the improvement of the Capitol and the
public buildings generally" said the wife
of the proprietor of one of the leading
hotels in New York land that is that there
should be a housekeeper employed in each
one Of them, a real housekeeper, such as
Is employed in all of the large hotels.
notice very frequently when passing
through the Capitol and when in the pub
lie buildings that there are grease spots,
thumb marks, etc. on the doors and other
painted work: that much Of the glass In
the windows has smoky appearance, and
in some cases Is downright dirty. / would
not make the place a fancy one, that Is,
political ole, but would provide that the
appointments should be made by merit.
just as is the case in the large hotels.
There are plenty of good women obtainable,
and i am sure the innovation would be an
acceptable one.
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"A few weeks ago." the conductor re-
marked, people were all talking about
whether the cars should stop on the near
or the far side of streets. That is over
cow. for the cars stop on the near side
and the herdics ON both sides. What both
ers the people now is how to get on the
cars They got SO used to having the car
stop on the far side that they still keep
up the habit of going to that side. and
they make all kinds of complaints because
we don't STOP"
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That flying machine there" said the po-
lice officer in the National Museum, ''is just
now the star of the museum. 1t draws
more eyes than anything else in the place,
and nine out Of every ten of the visitors
think it is a model of the aeroplane that
Prof. Langley Is working on. The fact Is
machine q
plete- Still. there are hundreds who speak
of it as the car of the future"
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What makes me mad" observed the at
tendant at the lion cage at the Zoo last
Sunday. lis to see the hundreds of women
who come here stand around the snake
cases and admire the crawling occupants.
Time and time again 1 have heard them
say. How I would like to touch them
Now, it il different with the boys. They
say. as they look at the lions. How 1 would
like to have them hitched Up TO a wagon.
or something like that, indicating boldness
or courage. Not one man out of twenty
ever looks at the snakes, and there is not
one woman out of twenty who does not.
The baby lion is growing wonderfully WELL
but Is not in 1t with the snakes as far as
the women are concerned"
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1t looks as il the charcoal man would
soon become a thing of the past" said an
old charcoal dealer to Star reporter
few days since Somehow" he continued,
people have forgotten the uses and ad-
vautaSes of charcoal Customers who for
merly used a barrel or 50 in a week now
90 not get that much in q couple Of months
and the great majority have given up using
II altogether. At hotels where three and
four barrels a week were needed they
now manage to along put
lew OF the modern ranges are provided
with charcoal furnace, while in past
tunes no hrst-class range was complete
without a separate place in which to burn
charcoal The modern cooking school
teachers do not seem to know that charcoal
ever played part in the kitchen. AS far
as can see now. the only cooks who use
charcoal are those who learned of it's ad-
vantages in days of their apprenticeship
years ago. and who are so old-fashioned in
their ways that they will not consent to
cnange There was once a time when
none of the best eaters would think of eat
ing steak that was not broiled over char
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There was once time" said Mr. Glenn
ents. the efficient chief clerk of Mr.. Edward
Clark. the architect of the Capitol, to a
Star writer recently, when the basement
rooms of the Capitol were the most sought
for in the building They had attractions
that the other rooms did not have. and
coul1 not secure. Indeed, there were yis-
1tors to these basement rooms that would
not take the trouble TO even look into the
others. / refer to the time, during the
early part of the war, when this room Che
was seated in the office of the architec) and
the three rooms adjoining were transform
ed into big bakery. There were ovens in
each room. which had a capacity of many
hundreds nf l<ax
and they were for a while run to their
fullest extent, night as well as day. 1t
was only temporary thing, however for
as soon as the government saw that it had
a real war on its hands other and better
arrangements were made, and the ovens
were taken away from here. The bread
made here was fine, as skilled men were
employed. the ovens were well arranged
and the dour the best that could be had
Not only were the soldiers who were camp
ed in the Capitol supplied, but many 9th
ers, and particularly the soldiers who were
hourly arriving at the big barrack at the
depot, known as the Soldiers Rest Fre-
quently as many as a thousand soldiers ar
rived there in a DAY, and for time all the
bread they ate was baked in these rooms,
Inc !oaVes, 1 remember, were nearly dou-
Die the size OF the loaf of today. Sixteen
OF them were baked together-an in one
loa1. as it were. Where the statue of Mar
snail now stands was the place where the
bakers pine was corded and the kindling
NhoPPcu up. tNOSe Gays wagons could
De backed right up to the walls of the
building
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The success Of the weather map" said
leading physician, shows conclusiyeIy
TO my mind that the proposed health map
was not such wild scheme after ALL Both
schemes were pressed upon Congress about
the same time. The originator of the
health map idea proposed by to show as
frequently as occasion should require the
exact health condition of the country. He
desired that the weather map should not
only show the meteorological conditions,
but also where diseases prevailed and to
what extent He claimed that epidemics
lrafeied with even more regularity than Is
the case with storms. and that physicians
with the information the map would give
could be better prepared to combat and
treat epidemicS.. But 1t would not go, and
the originator Of the health map idea, one
or the most prominent physicians of this
city, during his day, worried over it so that
not only himself but his principal associ-
ates In the scheme ended their days in the
government insane asylum
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Il am one Of the Shoppers The Star
spoke of last week." responded we'll
known alley garbage searcher. There are
two sides to this question. In the first
place the stopper Is forced to be queer in
bis actions. Let me tell you the story.
Some time ago I found In the garbage of