Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1898-04-02

ket, some Of which are rather ingenious
and Of more or less value. but none Of
them have. as vet. struck the mark
though they approach 1t. I do not know of
anything that promises such an enormous
return in the way Of a royalty for an idea.
The button shoe is all right, as far as 1t
goes. In thai it does away with the neces-
sity of using shoe laces but 1t lacks some
essential requisites. 1t is well known that
the feet are larger on some days, and even
some part of day, than at other times.
The button shoe furnishes no elasticity.
For thus, If it is buttoned as the buttons
are arranged. 1t cannot help but be I'M
comfortable at times. In cold weather
there Is not much difficulty about it, but
during the spring and summer it Is other
wise. Shoe laces are much preferable dur
ing the warmer times. though they are
rather annoying by coming united. For
summer wear they are much easier than
the button shoe. When it is considered
now many million pair of shoe laces are
worn, 1t Is easy to see what big money
there Is in some more effective appliance
or Fastening. There is no doubt that the
congress CATERS are the easiest kind of
SHOES than can be worn, but even they be-
come Dy the wearing out of the elasticity
OF the rubber, sloppy and i'll shaped in
time"
X X
The public advocates of temperance, +"
observed the most prominent of local tenn
perance speakers to Star reporter, "have
OF late years turned their attention en-
t1rely to the moral attitude of the question
rather than the physical. 1t Is in the men,
DRY OF most persons who have reached their
majority how temperance speakers former
ly discussed the question. Every we'll
equipped advocate of the cause used to arm
himself with a set of dtsgusting-looking
charts, with which he Illustrated the ef-
feet OF alcoholic liquors upon the organs of
the brain and the stomach. It was preach
great N he IF
uIants was that they would destroy brains
and stomachs; that whisky and brandy
contained nux vomica, the button from
which strychnine is manufactured; that
what Is known as the bead or age of liq-
uors was produced by the use Of deadly
oils; that beers and ales contained fish
berries, and that the foam of beer was
produced by soap. soap bark and other
earnestly preached that intoxicating liquors
OF all kinds were deadly poison. After
listening to one Of those addresses persons
were apt On going out into the streets to
look for the dead bodies of those who
drank any kind of liquor. OF course, they
did not see any dead bodies lying around
and before they got to their homes they
were very likely to lose any confidence
they may have had in the statements they
heard. Time showed that this way Of
treating the evil was the wrong one. Com
mon sense would prove that the manufac-
turers OF Intoxicating liquors would not
make them poisonous for If they did, they
would soon kill Off their customers and put
an end to their business. 1t took years to
get the physiological charts out of the
way. but they have gone at last. It is
Proven beyond all doubt that whisky and
beer will not kill, physically. On the con-
trary, they seem to preserve the old soak
ers who use them as nothing else will, for
there are many to be seen on the streets
every day who have drank steadily for
from twenty to sixty years, and are a long
way from being dead yet. Intemperance
is now fought from the moral and eco
nomical standpoint, and much more pro-
eress is being made. Liquor kills the NOR
al in mankind not the physical always
though 1t may deaden it,
X
II was talking with one of the members
of party OF tourists now doing the sights
Of Washington, said well-known gentle
man to a Star reporter, land he told me
that in visiting the Capitol the guide en-
ployed charged each one Of them ten cents
-eighty-five of them-making eight and
half dollars per hour for his invaluable
services; and when his hour was out and
there were few items unseen he declined
to go further without an additional cOntribu-
ton. AS this seemed little less than rub
bling In a barsfaced swindle, they respect
fully declined the further services OF his
highneSs"