Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-02-14

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to dispose of the Seventh Day Adventist
question" explained a War Department
official to a Star reporter, land now the
War Department has the question OF chris
tan Science and the Faith Cure before 1t
for decision, and in way that decision
must be arrived at. 1t came about on a
peculiar request of a lady clerk in the
quartermas generals Office in connection
with sick leave. 1t appears that she mas
regularly, like number Of other lady
clerks taken advantage of sick leave as
an excuse for absence, and that 1t has al
ways been allowed. During the past year
the lady in question has become a believer
in Christian Science, and so strong be-
lever that she is never sick any more. she
now regards sickness as something tnat is
entirely unnecessary and altogether out OF
the question for her at least. While she
was making up her mind to her present
belief she seems to have forgotten that in
doing so she was cutting herself out of
sick leave, which time, 1t appears, she
usually took for doing her shopping and
having her dresses and other clothing made
which she wore when she was enjoying her
annual leave. 1t is against the principles
of Christian Scientists to admit for mo-
ment that there is any sickness or that
there shall be. This the lady in question
found to operate decidedly against her, for
to admit sickness was out of the question,
and not to claim it was the loss of thirty
days each year which she had always Sc
cured in addition to thirty days of annual
leave. In talk with the chief of her di-
vision she put in claim for leave out
side of her annual leave, giving as reason
that she did not believe in sickness she
could not claim any sick leave, and yet did
not want to lose the rights that other
clerks had. The answer was that if she
not sick she could only have her an
nual leave, and that the law made no pro-
vision for Christian Scientists or other I'M
believers in sickness, and that there was no
leave that could be given in exchange for
sick leave. The lady said she regarded
this as unfair to Christian Scientists, and
that she would not believe that any depart
ment of the government would insist on
such a ruling. She was then advised to
present her claim for a leave outside of an
nual leave in writing. SO that it could be
authoritatively decided. This she has
promised to do. which will bring up the
question for decision by the War Depart
ment."
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The laundrymen have recently had an
illustration of the proverb that Blessings
often come in Disguise observed the
manager of one of the large downtown
laundries to Star reporter, Tin connection
with the coal famine. AT the outset it
looked as if the increase in the cost of
coal would practically close up the laun-
dries and there was some nervousness over
the outlook. As an offset to the raise in
the price of coal an increase in the price of
laundry work was agreed upon by laundry
men generally. the Cinnamon coming into
the arrangement after considerable infu-
ence had been brought to bear upon them
Inside of month after the price for laun-
dfy work went into operation it was no
tced that instead of laundry work decreas-
ing 1t began to increase steadily and is now
larger than ever before, and this at the in
creased price more than makes up for the
rise in the cost of coal. The secret of this
is the burning of soft coal, the dust SCOT
and smoke from which soil linen in an
amazing manner. Ladies find that their
linen is affected in the same way, the dust
and SCOT on the sidewalks being specially
destructive to clean skirts. From a laun-
drymans standpoint these conditions are
satisfactory. but l find there are a great
many people who cannot understand why
their collars get so black. 1t seems per-
fectly plain to them, though, when the use
OF soft coal Is explained. The great ma
jority of them, however, had to be told
about it,
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Senator Willard Of Nebraska found a new
trouble in this city when he came to rep
resent his state in the United States Senate
With one accord his name was changed in
pronunciation. much to his discomfort.
Out in Nebraska Senator Willard is plain
Willard. with the accent an the Mill. He
has never been anything else. and he never
suffered an attempt on the part of his
friends to make him anything but plain
Willard, with the accent on the Mill But
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