Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-06-17
WAS A GREAT MISTAKE
Winter Clothes Should Have Been Kept
AwhileAi5 &c
The Experience of a Citizen ON Aris-
ing This MOrning-The Chances
a. to the weathee.
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"Br-r-r-frv' II
The young man who had found delight
last week in waving palm-leaf fan in
front of a sweltering sufferers face and
asking rs it hot enough for you?" chat
tered out an ejaculation very much like
the consonants that precede this paragraph
when he awoke this morning. The diapha-
nous summer sheet and coveriet that had
replaced the blanket and quilt of blizzard
comfort trembled in accompaniment to his
thin and shivering limbs. He grabbed the
bolster and folded it around his shaking
anatomy, and urged his numb fingers to
strike match with which to light every
gas jet in the room. This accomplished, he
added the bureau rug to the bolster and
sat down to moraliZe on the WretchednesS
of weather and the mercilessness of retribu-
tive justice, while the covering of feathers
and Jute thawed out the icicles in his veins.
What a fool is man." he mused ito
hook his overcoat before the firecrackers
have made the glad weikin of independence
day ring out to scare the horses and give
the fire department hard work. What an
idiot he is TO stow away in the nethermost
depths of trunk in co.d-ugh!-cold stor-
age the thick double-chested and double
backed undershirts and the likewise sub
Stantlal drawers and Sole-intranci socks!
Br-r-r-r-r! What l. consummate essence of
st. Elizabeth mentality is that which in
spires man to send his outward clothing
of substance to the same sealed vault and
present his WORKOUT ditto to his country
relatives down in Alabama, to be made
more threadbare by the moths and measiy
bugs and ants ere the kindred can snort
them on gala occasions. Br-r-r-r-r!'
Breaking the Ice.
He eyed the pitcher askance as he con-
templated matutinal ablutions. Was there
a skim of Ice on it? Br-r-r-r-r! Then his
eyes furuvely glanced around the cham
Der. There hung the sheer flannel trousers.
here was the sheerer silk coat; mockingly
on an arm chair rested the gauzy unmen-
tlonableS and the surf-like undershirt and
the scarcely more substantial neglige
Br-r-r-r-r! His vision reached the clock
Horrors! Forty minutes only in which to
dress and breakfast and reach division
NIX in time to save fracture of his an
nual leave This time his lips emitted a
plain and unmistakabe expletive. 1t COM
menced with 4 d that display advertiser
IN the country can ever hope to see in his
most ambitious announcement Away went
rug; away went bolster. Courage is largely
bern of necessity, and he exemplied it. Seiz-
ing his trusty toothbrush by the bristle end
he jabbed the ivory handle down into the
pitcher and shattered the ice. With des-
perate determination he poured the frigid
fluid into the basin. Then he paused. Gin
gerly placing the end of the towel into the
basin, he made with it two wipes at his
eyes, one wipe at his lips. But what's the
use of detail? He sailed forth at last, and
this was how he was clad:
Four pairs of diaphanous drawers.
Two of ditto undershirts, with supple
ment of The Star pinned between them
back and front. 'p
Three pairs of open-work Isle thread
socks y
Two neglige shirts.
One pair flannel trousers.
One silk coat.
One pair of low quarter shoes.
One necktie, madras, three for quarter.
One ventilated straw hat. %
And when he went down to breakfast the
musical young lady in his boarding house
was playing on the piano How Would You
Like to Be the Ice MANI ~
There were others who had almost similar
experiences to those enumerated above, and
the early hours saw some queer combina-
tons of clothing spring overcoats and
neglige shirts, and straw hats and heavy
winter buds were plentifuiiy evident on the
same individual Eton Jackets were over
shirt waists, and all in all the sudden
change in the temperature made individual
apparel in numberless instances necessari-
ly inconSruOuS. ~ 30