Evening star., 1896-10-31

Nv" Wv
''Some people," observed a conductor on
q cable car. have peculiar ideas about
riding on cars. In the first place, some
ladies insist on riding on the grip car, and
on the front seat. They give all kinds of
reasons for this. but my experience is that
their principal reason, though they conceal
1t. is that they want to be seen. 1t may be
all ight for pleasant summer weather. but
it is not exactly safe these cool evenings,
as many of them have found to their cost.
Neither is it conducive to health for per-
sons to ride in an open car with their back
to the wind. The Arabs have a saying,
and it is true, that he who rides with his
back to the wind rides with his face to the
grave meaning that there is danger con-
nected with it. 1t is hard enough for a
gripman to stand it during cold weather,
with his face to the wind. and I do not
think that one man in twenty could stand
riding all day with his back to the wind
1t is better TO face the music and the
wind, | assure you. The Arabs are right,
and the advice in their saying should be
needed"
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Il am sorry to have to say it." remarked
a sleeping car conductor, but somehow
and have no explanation for it, men trav-
cling are not as courteous and accommo-
dating to lady travellers as they should
be. The same men who ask for all kinds
OF accommodations, when they have their
wives sisters or female relatives travelling
with them. and they never fail to then
claim everything In sight, are in many
cases the men who decline to give SIM
liar favors to other lady passengers AS
matter of fact the upper berths in a Sleep
ing car are the best, the best ventilated,
anc! l think experience has shown the
safest in cases of wreck.
Still. the demand is nearly always for
the lower berths, because 1T is easier to
get into them. This is particularly so
with lady travellers. In my last half dozen
trips from and back to this city l have
had more than the usual percentage of lady
passengers, and / have not succeeded in
one case to get any of the men travellers, 1
can scarcely call them gentlemen. to sur
render a lower for an upper berth. The
men, being more experienced, secured the
lowers and refused to give them up"
Il had an experience in the matter of
curing chills recently volunteered a we'll
known lady. land l would like to give 1t
as much publicity as possible for the bene-
fit of all concerned During the early fall
one OF my children contracted a first-class
case OF chills. and though Cur physician
dosed the child very freely with the stand
by of the medical profession. quinine, the
chills came with regularity that was
painful and distressing. It was of
these cases where quinine failed to check
them, and it was suggested that we put the
child through course of arsenic, which
sometimes cures when Guinine fails to do
Our physician suggested that there were
those who believed that bag of camphor
worn next 10 the skin would cure the chills
and Conse nted that We should try it. 1t
acted Ike a charm. as il has acted in sew
eral other cases since. AS this is the sea-
son for chills in this section, 1 am sure it
is worthy of a trial. n piece of camphor
as large as peanut is sufficient in size,
though it should be renewed in a couple of
days, as it evaporates rapidly"
while up near the Point of Rocks. Fred
erick county. Md. some days ago." said
prominent geologist, Il visited the quarry
from which the stone that constitute the
famous pillows in the old hall of the House
of Repre- otherwise known as the
national statuary hall. was quarried. The
stone is known to biologists as breccia
though the common name Is pudding
stone. from It's peculiar formation. 1t is a
limestone conglomefate. though nearly Il
true marble. 1t is a handsome as we'll as
remarkas oily interesting formation to geolo-
g.sts as well as to others. Strange to say,
however. there is no demand for it, though
it is easily sawed into slabs for table COW
ers. etc.
THE iay I was there saw great quar-
tides of IL broken up and thrown into
kflns and burned into lime. 1t makes u
very desirable lime, and particularly for a
fertilizer. What made me feel sad was
that this wonder of the world, for it IS
found nowhere else in the world in such
perfection. cannot be turned into other
uses 1t seems a pity to have to burn 1t
Tito lir1e. when There are any quantity of
Hmestones that will DO so well for such
uses. though there is but such fro
of breccia in this wide world"
The dentists have the best Of US in the
use of gold leaf" said a sign painter, land
Strangely enough. they get three times as
much money for gold leaf as We do. The
gold leaf tnat a sign painter has to use 10
put on good gold letters on plate glass
store windows. doors, transoms, etc, has
necessarily to be the best, for 1t has to
be seen On the other hand, the dentist
can use up odds ard ends that we cannot
touch, for he can pack them down into the
cavity CT an old or young TOOTH where
they are never seen. The best price / ever
got for gold leaf lettering was S1.JO per
foot.
THE same amount of gold leaf rammed
into tooth by the ordinary dentist would
bring in for him over ten times as much
for the gold leaf used by US on a foot of
lettering would fill dozen tooth cavities as
they run l had an experience with d den
tist week ago. l got from him $3.50 for q
hall sign. and he charged s16 for filling
three CT four teeth for me. l used on .he
sign i lettered for him. and of the better
quality, exactly four times as much gold
leaf as he did in my teeth. 1t took ME
longer, too. to do the work than 1t did
him 1t took me- too, six years to learn my
trade, while he graduated as a dentist in
two years The dentist is my brother, and
I know what 1 am talking about"
1.-THE story SO pleasantly told in The Star
Q few weeks since of the lady who was
anxious that Bryan would be elected Pres
ident. because there would be two Vice
PRESIDENTS, Sewall and Watson, reminds me
of another instance of political knowledge
on the part of the female SEX" remarked
an official OF the State Department.
Though it occurred some years ago, 1t
loses nothing by being a trifle stale, for
do not think it has ever appeared in print.
Among the callers to the State Depar rtment
one day was a lady who was showing her
nteces and nephews the sights. The lady
herself has been wonderfully successful in