Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1901-03-16
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'T witnessed marriage the other day In
which the bride and groom both live within
fifty miles of Washington. yet neither have
ever seen steam or electric car" said
drummer to Star reporter. You will no
doubt be surprised when 7 tell you there
hundreds of people living over in Fir-
ginia who have never been TO town But
to the marriage. During recent trip one
of the friends of the groom met me in
country store and cordially extended an in
vftation to take a drive across country to
witness the 'hitc..In'.' l very gladly availed
myself of the opportunity, and We arrived
at our destination in good time. The neigh
borhood was well represented, the male
contingent being congregated in the barn,
where barrel of hard cider was on tap.
We were soon notified that the ceremony
was about to take place. and We all filed
into the best room. L shall never forget
the appearance of the contracting parties
The groom was understood though pow
er.ully built young fellow. He was dressed
in pair of jean overa1ls, a stiff shirt, no
collar. a fancy old-time vest, but no coat.
The bride, who was at least six feet in
height, was dressed in a calico wrapper,
piece of pink ribbon around her neck,
little Old-faShiOned bonnet on her head, but
barefOoted After the ceremony the happy
couple received the congratulations of the
assembled company. every man and woman
of the guests brought out a violin and dane
ing was INDUCED in the rest of the evening.
When | expressed my surprise that the
bride should be barefoOted l was told that
there were lots of women in that section
that had never known what 1t was to wear
shoes"
Last week, at Trinity Hall, Harvard. one
of the dormitories caught fire and was
completely destroyed in spite of the efforts
of the Cambridge firemen- 1t was a lively
scene for the students who gathered in
large numbers to witness the efforts of the
hremen to quench the flames.
One of the students from Washington
writes of some amusing adventures
neeted with this occurrence. He says: 'All
the fellows turned in and helped get things
out of the building, and there were wild
scenes. One man leaped into room which
was full of smoke and knee-deep with wa
ter, and finding piano played Fair Har-
ward on 1t, to the great joy of all be-
holders Another man jumped from sec
ond-stOry window into blanket. Another
who was a genius in his way, wrapped a
string around a cake of soap and lowered
it to the sidewalk with great care
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party of former experts in such mat
tiers were discussing. the other night, the
various queer effects over-indulgence in
alcoholic spirits have upon different people.
masters, the ardent used to act in sundry
peculiar ways, and one was that it would
make me very crafty. Sometimes I'd wake
UP and be unable to find any of my porta-
BILE possessions in my clothes, and only
manage to locate them after a search of
my room, wherever it happened to be- in
all sorts of places, carefully hidden away
The money l have thus put away and
never been able to locate would amount. I
rnH to a.
this phase of insanity proved life saver
The banner we had been carrying, for I
had cnum at this time. was pretty well
frayed out and uniforms were in such
condition that there was only one pair of
respectable trousers in mutual ward
robe When Elmer-that was my partners
nameIwanted to present a good appear
ance those trousers would be his and when
L desired to dixie out they would clad nv
neither limbs. One morning we both awak-
ened-t was out in Seattle-penniless and
credltleSS, thirsty and hungry. To alleviate
our distress, at least temporarily, we de-
termined to sell that pair of trousers to a
secondhand Malay around on West street
preparatory to sallying out to make the
sale We concluded to see if anything was
In the pockets. l did the searching. Side
and hips developed nothing. but in the fob
pocket my hnger touched something
" Here's a laundry ticket of yours Ell
L remarked, satirically. pulling out the ar
ticle. Then l nearly tainted IT was son
bill. . T-'
You must have cache 1t the night YOU
beat the bank said Elmer after our hilari-
Gus huSglng match was over
THAT twenty, continued the narrator
was the turning point in our career in that
section OF the country. We spruced up
took the sober lay and Elmer got a good
thing surveying township and | fell into a
steady newspaper rob. Dickens knows
what would have become of us If nv booz
ing craftiness had not planted such a boz
nanZa.''
Picking eggs may be INDUCED In by the
boys of the present day. but my observa-
tion is that the boys do not give as much
attention to it as the boys of fifty Years
ago did," remarked old citizen to a
Star reporter. In those days the bows got
their picking eggs ready several weeks be-
fore Easter. There were all kinds of
processes in vogue those days for harden
ing eggs, but it may be that some of the
modern methods. of which know nothing
are an Improvement on the ways of long
ago Resining an egg-that is rubbing DOW
dered resin carefully into the shell-Was
one OF the ways. and some of the bows were
quite successful in it. Soaking an egg in
a strong solution of lime was another wav
and often produced very hard shell But
the best way that | ever knew to harden
an egg shell was to bury it for several
weeks In the ground. 1t is best to mt the
egg into clay soil. The egg was buried
so deep that practically no air could reach
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