Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-03-03
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"Persons whose nerves are in any way
out Of gear should not pick hair" observed
a well-known specialist in nervous diseases
to a Star reporter, land. indeed, | am al
most willing to go further and to say that
they should not handle mattresses or pill
lows stuffed with hair. The tactile nerves.
the nerves that are located in the ends of
the fingers. seem to be specially affected
by handling of hair or animal woods of any
kind. Many good housewives do them
selves great injury in picking hair in the
repair or alteration of mattresses, and.
while they think they will save money by
doing such work themselves they often find
out that besides the personal suffering in
consequence. they pay out many times in
doctors and medicine bills what they save
from the mattress makers. l know of some
persons. men more frequently than women,
however. who would be thrown into nerv-
GUS spasms if they Were compelled to han
die velvet for fifteen minutes; that is. to
handle it on the fuzzy or velvety side.
Those who are unpleasantly affected by
velvet know it and therefore avoid it as
much as possible"
The general belief that locomotive en-
gineer is not of much good after a collision
or big accident of any kind explained a
locomotive engineer to a Star reporter, lis
an erroneous one. and this in consequence
of the railroad novelists and story writer's
work. Some of the earlier ones of that
guild got into that error and those who
have followed have kept it up. That a
locomotive engineer has grit and has to
have ii in his calling is an acknowledged
fact. 1t is just as necessary as a knowl-
edge of the machine that he operates \
locomotive a u wi
do its best work unless the driver of it has
sand in him. The idea that because a man
plays into hard luck once. but gets out of
II IN good enough shape to work. he is to
be Shelyed for the rest of his life is all
nonsense, and there are denals Of it by
the hundreds. Many of Americas best To-
connective engineers today are men who
have met with accidents. and serious ones,
too They give but little thought to what
Is behind them. devoting all their energies
To what is ahead of them. In my own
ease ] don't think because l have had sew
eral collisions that l am more careful
careless. | simply do not give them any
thought. any more than l do 10 the coal
we burned yesterday.
The demand for distilled water has
grown much of late that it is impossible,
with the present plants, to supply it." said
the superintendent of a department build
ing to Il Star reporter, and the demand for
the past two weeks since the Potomac wa
enormous. The distiIIation of water is an in
Cident in connection with running the heat
ing apparatus and the dynamos for light
Ing Ordinarily the distilled water was al
lowed 10 run off into the sewer, but of lare
years it is saved. OF course. there is a con-
siderabl- use for it. for drinking purposes
for tire clerks and employees Besides this,
dcmij0hn after demijohn is given away to
certain persons-officiais ana others-whose
houses are supplied wiCh it, The on
the city pumps for drinking water has been
very large recently. The forethought of
the District authorities in having artesian
wells dag throughout the city mas been
very thoroughly Endorsed. for without them
do not see how the people would have
been supplied with drinking water. There
are any number of filters on the market
many of which are excellent and all of
them better than none, but somehow the
public does not take thoroughly to filters
1t will, however. in time. for in the mat
ter of drinking water the eye has to be
pleased as well as the palate Even with
filters generally introduced there is a de-
mand for distilled water, for the germ and
bacillus theorists have managed to scare
thousands into the necessity of using dis
titled water alone for drinking purposes,
and to furnish this there will eventually
have to be built big public distilling plant
in every city
They sat in the street car together-she
and the dog-and all OF the passengers
looked at them. She was a little girl of
twelve. with faxen. curly hair. her curls
falling down around her shoulders. She
was unconscious and unconcerned Of all
else save the dog. He a hairy. dirty
looking terrier of the Scotch variety, but
he had wound himself around her heart
He licked her hands, wagged his tall and
with little whines tried to thank her for
something she had evidently done for him.
She looked pleased with these manifesto
lions. patted him the back and once or
twice slyly Rugged him in a childke man
ner. She didn't even glance around fur
lively to see if her caresses were noticed by
the others in the car.
The conductor saw the passengers watch
ing the child and her pet. and said to sew
erai of the men: she got at odd street,
and 1 reckon she has taken her dog out of
the pound That's where all of them get
on when they have been down to get out
their pets Then man asked the girl
about the dog and she answered: THE old
mean dog catcher caught him the other
day. and mother didn't have the money to
give me to pay him out until today. l got
DOWN there just In time to keep poor little
Trick from being killed didn't l, TrIck?"
whereupOn the dog violently moved his tail
and tear came IN the little girls eyes
Trick is all I've got to play with" she
continued with chiId-like simplicity land
If he had been killed / would Just as leave
have died. Mother has to work hard for
US. but she knows that Trick Is the best
and coolest little dosgie In all the world,
and she got the money somehow"
There was a strong indication of mois-
ture in the eyes of several passengers when
she had concluded. The tenderness with
which she treated the unkempt-looking cur
carried every man and woman back to the
days when they possessed the same feel