Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1898-03-19
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erer to a Star reporter, very mucn larger
than any one supposes. In old-fashion ed
times the ash-carters took their loads to
the public dumps, and as far as they were
concerned, ended their connection with the
matter. But this has all been changed in
the past couple of years. Instead of cart
ing to the dumps. they now take their
loads to their own places in the suburbs Of
the city and riddle them for their own ben
efit. The ashes they afterward take to the
dumps, but the cinders are sold at the-rate
of twenty-five cents Fer barrel. Ordinarily
the purchasers of cinders are colored peo-
pie, washerwomen, and the like, though
others besides these are among the buyers
OF cinders. / have half dozen customers
who are fairly well-to-do people. who buy
one and two barrels per week. They find
that they can get more fire from i barrel
or clnderS than they can from twenty-five
cents worth of coal or wood, and hence
they buy. 1t is small business in its way,
but in the total it counts up"
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MANY readers of magazines have noticed
similarity in the advertisements, as far
as printing. type and presswork is con-
cerned." remarked a gentleman who is
connected with one of the leading maya
zines to a Star reporter. This is ex-
planned by the fact that all the advertise
ments Of the magazines are now set up and
printed by one concern, who do this kind of
work much cheaper and better than any
one magazine could do on its own account.
There is enormous amount of job type,
cuts, plates, &c, necessary to turn out the
many attractive pages of advertising that
are, of course. the paying part of the mag
azines, and the publishers of than find it is
much cheaper for them to have their adj
VertlSementS done, as 1t were, outside. In
many of the magazines the advertisements
are to great extent the same thing. and
the concern which furnishes the pages con
tanning them does it much less than
each separate magazine could, for 1t
orly has one composition bill to pay.
Strange enough, the advertising pages of
many of the magazines are eagerly read
as any other pages of than, for the sind of
literary talent that prepares them is OF the
highest order"
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bicycles interfere with the shoe bust
Eess in more ways than one explained a
well-known rider of the silent steed to
Star reporter. 1T is proved beyond all
doubt that riding wheel will in one sea-
son cause the foot to grow one to one and
a kalf inches laIger. Hundreds of bicycle
riders have ascertalned this. With men it
does not make any difference; for, except
IN very rare cases, men do not care as
much for the size of their feet as they do
for comfort. With the ladies. however, it
IS quite another thing. They wear bicycle
shoes for riding, but find to their sorrow
that IN season or they cannot wear
the size shoe that they wore before they
developed their feet. Cycling not only tends
to iengtnen the foot, out also to widen it.
Inc shoe manufacturers. as result, turn
out many shoes for ladies of larger sizes
Than formerly. 1t IS the old story coming
true in another way; those who dance must
pay the fiddler. l don't know that it does
G-ln ri ri
lengthen her boot a little, but they think
1t does. Still, there is no getting away
from 1t, and they have to grin and stand
me consequences, or at least stand on the
consequences.
country places are in much demand this
season.. said d real estate agent to a Star
reporter, but the supply is less than ever
indeed, there are fewer offered than any
spring In my experience The various cleo
tric lines of travel and other means of
rIpid communication put the average So
called country place within such easy dis
farce that people nowadays not only live
III them during the summer but during the
winter. as we'll The amount they pay in
car fare going and coming TO them is more
tnan offset by the difference In rent as
compared with city residences. In one case
there are acres in control while in the city
residences there is only a small back ward
though now and then there is a terrace in
'front.' Suburban residents are increas sing
an the time, Tor once man gets settled in
a country place there are big chances if
the conditions are at all favorable, that he
VIII remain so. Another advantage is that
IL he goes out to Maryland or Virginia ho
gets mixed up in politics and becomes a
voter This he could not do if he Remained
IN the city. The lines of rapid commuui-
cation do the rest"
Ihe model of the Maine Wi. hale
masted flag. which speaks volumes, is the
Dig attraction of the upper part of the
city, said one of the public guides to a.
star reporter, land ii seems to me visit
OTIS get more satisfaction out of it than
anything else We can show them. Photo
graphs or warships are well enough in their
way. but as they all look alike there is not
moch satisfaction in looking at them With
the models of the warships it is entirely
cinerent- The people can then actually
see them From the morning that the news
cane that the Maine was sunk the Inquiries
for the model have been constant don't
Know how IL is. but somehow visitors take
yen times as much interest in the naval ex-
hInlts as do residents. While many of our
own people know that the model of the
Maine is on exhibition in the corridors OF
the Navy Department. they never take
interest enough Ia ii to hunt it up. With
visitors. especially from seacoast cities
the model of the Maine is oftener asked for
than nearly all things else combined"
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The popular idea impression is that
when persons dream much during a night
to that extent their sleep is interfered
WITH" remarked 4 well-known physician
To Star reporter, land it is a frequent
thing to hear persons say that they dream
ed so much during the night that they
did not sleep or rest well. Now, the fact
Is. dreaming is as much rest or mental
recreation as actual sleep in some respects
although it may not appear so on first
Thought 1t is hard to prove this by &C.
tuai experiment. because the conditions
are so difficult to produce. There is a
certain amount of evidence which can be
used. however, to prove the proposition
Time and time again when persons have
been walked up by others they have ex-
planned as a reason that they did not re-
spond quicker taat they were SO engaged
in dreaming that they did not hear the
call 1t is as clearly proven as anything
can be that persons who are in a dreamy
condition are much harder to wake than
those who are sleeping, as they suppose,
soundly- Take n parent, for instance a
mother. when she Is sleeping soundiy, as
SIZE thinks. she can hear her child when
IL turns over or moves in its crib. Now the