Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-05-12
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saved by his hanging on to a small tree, but
the horse went to the bottom and was
killed. A number of similar cases have oc-
cured
"Uncle Sam has an enormous Job on his
hands just now remarked an awning
worker to Star reporter, getting awnings
up for the summer. though it will all be
done inside Of couple Of weeks, for In
most instances those used last summer will
be used again, repairs having been made
wherever they were found necessary. Until
one looks into 1t little the extent Of the
work Is not apparent. 1 am not much on
calculations. but the government has
enough money invested in awnings In this
city alone to carry on the war in the Philip
pines for long time, even If war is an ex-
pensive thing. Other things are expensive.
Take the State, War and Navy building.
There are about three hundred windows on
each floor. and there are five floors, all of
which, with the exception of those facing
Pennsylvania avenue. have awnings. Here
are 500 windows and awnings right away.
There are over 600 windows in the two
courts of that building Now, without
counting the 300 windows In the Winder
building, where shades are used instead of
awnings, and over 200 windows in build
ings in that neighborhood rented by the
War and Navy Departments. the White
House is reached. One hundred and seven
windows there need awnings. Then comes
the Treasury Department, which has 200
windows on each of the long sides, and 12o
each for the north and south ends. Add to
this nearly three hundred for the windows
facing the courts. and it will be easily seen
that the treasury is no infant as buildings
go in this country in Europe and that
it costs a pretty penny to buy and put up
its awnings The patent office building, oc-
cupied by the Interior Department. needs
Io4 awnings and has them, there being 200
windows in the court. The old Post Office
building office
has 700 windows for awnings, including
those in the courts. The pension office has
plenty of wndows-over 40O-but 1t is
arranged so that none of the inside or court
windows requires awnings. The city post
office finds use for 80 awnings when it is
run full-rigged. All of them, however, are
not yet up. but are promised and will come
in time. Then think of the 400 awnings at
the Capitol. 200 at the census Office and
seventy in its rented buildings 264 at the
new library, the hundreds used by the four
outside buildings rented by the Department
of Justice, Seventy-eight in use by the
United States geological survey, sixty-eight
at the coast survey, 100 at the navy yard,
forty-six at the fish commission, and all the
other buildings that are occupied by the
government, and some idea may be had of
the amount that is invested in awnings by
our dear Uncle Sam.
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about the first thing that 1 teach my
pupils. said trainer OF circus gymnasts.
lis how to fall. That, you know. is the
secret of the great head dive from the
r1of. which remains up to date the greatest
feat in the way of gymnastic tricks that
the world has seem"
1T looks almost too perilous to be inter
esting." remarked a friend.
But it is not in the least dangerous if
one only knows how to fall" he continued.
Now. if the unframed performer should
attempt to fall in a net from any height
whatever he would be almost sure to break
some bones. Should he stretch out his arm
TO save himself he would be very likely to
break it in two places. Should he light
his heels he might break his leg, or, more
likely, pitch forward and break his jaw.
But just fill your lungs with air and hold
them full, double yourself up into a knot,
! leaving no limb free. and fall on the back
OF your shoulders, just above the shoulder
blades, and you can fall from what height
You like and come to no hurt. This ex-
plains the cannon and catapult tricks Why,
once We attempted the catapult trick in a
hall where the roof was SO low that we had
to sink the catapult below the floor. The
gymnast forgot all about having his net
lowered a corresponding distance, and
when shot $50 feet forward and upward
at the same time-lidnt he come down I'M
derneath the net and land slap-bang on
his shoulders the bare floor? We picked
him up for dead You may hardly believe
me, but it had only knocked the wind out of
him and shaken him up a bit. The next
night he was performing we'll usual.
That just shows what the muscles of the
shoulders. together with elastic cushion
of air in the lungs. will resist Then. of
course. in the case Of gymnasts. the mus
cles become hard as iron and furnish a
great protection for the bones.
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Gold hands and feet In summer time are
specially disagreeable." said popular ply
sician to a Star reporter land, as most
every one knows. are a consequence of a
| lack of the circulation of the blood The
boiled down to the fewest words possible
debility of the system. The cure has to be
brought about by a general building up
of the system. exercise in the open air and
sunlight generally. There is as will be
seen, room for lot of remedies and the
believers in the efficacy of medicine APP
| allopath and homeopath strike at the same
| thing, but by different means of attack
and their medicines have to do the rest,
| the patient helping out. The believers in
electricity and electrical appliances have
| lots of sure things for 1t and succeed very
often. A couple Of years since, while in
London attending medical conference. an
Eng ish physician told me of the simplest,
easiest taken and incest cure for cold
hands / have suggested 1t to a number of
others, and the universal report has been
in its favor. 1t Is simply to eat several
Jumps of sugar every day between meals
This does not get at the cause of the COM
plant but adds a sufficient amount of
heat to make the trouble less noticeable
and disagreeable."