The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1903-11-25
Free-liand Comment
On Men and Manners

Therell be something more TO say
/ For talk is sand in an hour glass
: That runs all away and then.
I They turn the thing bottom upward
And let y run through again
They are gathering wind for the fraeaa
/ And the yearnipg for talk is strong. \
As 1t was in the days Of Cromwell.
And the Parliament known as Long
Then close up the Senate Chamber.
Where they wrangle and bubble and
mock
But it's oh. for the unspoke speeches.
And alas. for the untalked talk.
The gentleman who signs himself
I Cold Feet and who wrote 20 The
Times the other day. complaining
against the open cars on Ninth Street.
should be promptly jumped on by some
/ body with big feet There is no earthly
reason why he should not ride in q
closed car to his hearts content. and
sit and SILVER. with his feet wrapped up
I In an old shawl There are always
plenty OF closed cars, and the only harm
the open ones can possibly do this SEN
sitive gentleman. is that they may. per-
/ haDs. make hirn cold to look al them.
/ Washington is q Southern city. and no
animal save Mexican hairless dog
should shiyer here. Take IL the whole
winter through there is only cold enough
/ IN the air 10 act as a heaIthful tonic,
and those who keep themselves closely
| Housed, breathing the fumes of furnaces
and latrObes. are sure to become fral
/ creatures, who sneeze at every breath
/ Of air. There is scarcely a day the wear
around here when an ordinarily robust
man-she sort OF man God intended 70
make-could not derive benefit and pleas
ure from riding down town on an open
car. There has been considerable com
plant of late by normal persons because
the Fourteenth Street line has taken
OF its open cars. A few should be left
on during the entire winter.
In his annual report to Congress. Sec
Rotary Of the Treasury Shaw has hit
upon at least one great truth More
elasticity in the currency. he says, IS
the crying need. Mr. Shaw will have
| proved himself the greatest fnancier
/ the world has ever known II he viii
show US how 70 stretch dollar bnl SUI
fciently to pay a two-donar debt.
Senator Newlands' resolution has nut
| tered the South American dovecotes
/ rather prematurely. Even with our
present high pressure of strenuOusness.
twill be several years before we get
/ farther south than the Isthmuz
| The lexington citizens are certainly
right in their contention that the age
limit for pupils Of the public night
schools should be abolished At pres
ent none who has passed the age OF
twenty-one years is admitted II fire.
reached middle life. OF who are even
older, desire 10 acquire those rudiment-
airy branches which are so necessary in
even the humblest walks OF life There
/ is no more appealing sight than that OF
a grown person trying TO make up for a
/ neglected childhood Older persons. TOO,
! who desire 70 learn are apt 10 be en-
ployed during the day. and the night
school may be their only hope.
The turkey which Henry voss. OF
Rhode Island. sends 70 the President this
year, weighs thirty-hve pounds Isn't
/ that enough TO make the rest Of rs
with our measly little nine and ten
pound fowls, turn green with envy2 BY
/ the way, this same Henry Yoss seems To
/ be sort Of typical American. II makes
no difference TO him whether the occu-
pant OF the White House be Democrat.
Republican. or Mugwump. the turkey
comes along just The same. ard the
sender's best regards come with it.
Among the harmless cranks are those
people who delight in being married in
odd and spectacular ways A Missouri
couple were wed a day or two ago in
the middle of a crowded city street,
blocking traffic while the ceremony pro-
ceeded. The bridegroom in this case
must have been an unusually seIf-pos-
sessed chap The ordinary man at the
quietest wedding feels as though the
world had stopped moving, and was
gaping at him.
Our German fellow-citizens are very
much in evidence these DAYS with their
beautiful and jolly eelebra ton in Con-
vention Hall One cannot help remem-
bering, on such occasions as these. what
good citizens they are. and how much
they have done for America The key
to their success in this country IS to
be found in a remark made by one OF
the most prominent Of the organizers
OF the Alt Deutschland celebrations
America has benefited US" said he.
and We have benefited America" This
is necessarily true II is only through
mutual advantage that a permanent as
ISOLATION can be kept up. The Germans.
feeling this, have come here 10 stay. to
take an interest in the country. TO make
and spend their money here. They have.
therefore, prospered. and have learned
long ago how welcome they are.
An old soldier has been banished from
Little Falls. N Y. because he has be-
come vagrant. He has not done a
stroke of work since he left the army.
He holds that II is beneath the dignity.
or a soldier TO toll He is drawing a
small pension, but il is not quite big
enough for him TO maintain his theory
with dignity. He should apply for an
increase.
Davis, the man who patented the
death chair used for executions in New
York. has sold his patent to the state
for $4,000 Hitherto Mr. Davis has per
sonally attended all executions and has
made the proper adjustments and put
things In working order. BY selling his
patent he has deprived himself OF this
pleasing occupation Davis will now
fade into OhScurftv TDff.- ba .o,rf7r,re