Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-01-21

It''1il AL+ ~ himself i H. II ~ MAUI
testify absurd /" expect that from five TO
twenty or more men and women. all re-
Puired to spend ihrfr seven hours a day in
common work room. shall possess the
same notions with respect to the proper de-
gree Of temperature and the right sort of
ventilation for their hive a all seasons Of
the year Such unanimity Of thinking ON
the :rmpCTatuTe-V enIilsit ion problem SimDlv
does not exist. on tHe contrary it would
be difficult Ia find u single room in Wash
lEGtpn gOycrume ut q, partnent wherein
III" advocates Cf fresh air and whole lot
OF II are not III perennial conflict with fell
low employees who are so susceptible 10
drauGhts and to low temperatures that
they shudder even to reflect upon these
horrors, much less To endure them.
Rival Camps
The fresh-air adherenjs. in their private
corridor conversations among themselves.
refer to tbs anti-fresh-,tirites as ''mole,
who want L" live in a state OF suffocation
and Z" ~ufoca,e everybody else The
an,i-fresh-airites plaintivcly pipe their opin-
ions with respect TO the wheels thar
must of necessity revOIVe IN the heads of
frtsh-tir crauks-" And 50 this hoary feud
goes on Conflicts over The matter are as
numerous aS the phases Of the moon. They
are generally short. sharp and decisive.
Occasionally, however, they are prolonged
Tor considerable periods of time TIE writ
tr has IL dPou exceedingly good authority
that row Of this nature has been going on
increasingly in one Of the bureaus of the
redSury Department between Il male and n
female clerk CHE man hater of the winds
81 heaven the woman a lifelong fighter
Tor air as We'll as for other and divers
TlGhtsb for a matter Of Jwenty-eight years
with no present indications Of an adjust
ment- Victory has often perched uDOu the
banners of each. and the man and woman
have grown old in deadly enmity Yet they
struggle on for supremacy. Ordinarily
however. as said. these rows over the tenn
l'fdtuft-NcntlidtlOn question are of short
duration. and the most determined OF The
scrdppers wins. If female clerk is one
al The parties to such controversy she
generally wins by the convincing and conn
I"Iling process Of melting into tears when
htr contention seems to be in the greatest
jeopardy. hen a woman clerk gets the
we"pS. then it's all of" said a frivolous
spoken young man employed in the Treas
ury Department in speaking of this matter.
Fight to Finish
To Illustrate the manner in which one If
these Recommendation battles is car
rltd on. in one Of the rooms Of the nens,on
once there Is thin, acid-tamncred man
a clerk so valuable that his services ara
practically Indispensable who earnestly
maintains that he was endowed v.i,b I,r.
one lung AZ his birth. He says this in All
seriousness. lie believes it, FL. also claims
thaf the Specter of consumption has barn
hanging over him for 4 matter of forty
years or 50, and that for him the slightest
CFaUGEt means immediate death ne s,,s
that If an infant were simpIv 10 hlop, r.
breath upon tho back of his head he'd he a
gone. would perish instantly and OUT of
h'na- This man has his desk in a remote
corner ~ q large room with his back tn
me wall. 80 that dcvouring drauphts If
the front - 'i'''i II o't4
IN the same 'oom n stout hut asthmatic
woman ~ long service in the Office has her
gtsk ranged slap up 20 one of The b;e, yin.
dnWS- IeinE asthmatic. she must have air
Sn' loved air ana heaps Of il. she savs
even before Sha became asthrnatir. Wiz,
the advent Of her asthma. however II he
cam" matter Of the most extreme and
pressing necessity for her to hay, sirnnjy
carloads Of air. Having her desk r1nved
W ~ this before mentioned wintlnv- enc
naturally regards this window IS her own
% DO with as she elects. She elects To -,
about twenty inches Of the top If il down
during the coolest weather. to have II
raised twenty inches from the bottom dur
ing the chilly days Of spring and autumn
and t" have Ii raisa d to its uttermost limit
no matter whether a cyclone RACES o,,tside
during thu months of summer
Has Her own Way.
One brilliant, very cold day last month
The one-iunged man. as soon as he came in
a. o'clock. walked over to the window
" hiCh was lowered its