Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-10-13

why, Casey. you're following a steamboat
| and we are headed back down the bay"
casey could say nothing other than to
ADMIT that the charge made by the cap
tam was correct and he was only happy
to know that he was not working for the
captain of an oyster boat.
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The West Point Military Academy" says
Gen Mills. the retiring superintendent, "has
long occupied prominent position in in
tercoEeSiate athletics, and this position has
been Won notwithstanding the principle
winch has been vigorously insisted upon
tlat all members of athletic teams should
give as much time to their studies and
tne!r military duties as other cadets In
other words. West Point believes that sat
,slaStofy athletic teams can be developed
by deFotlng to practice no more time than
Is allowed to al the cadets at the academy
cor aoi recreation purposes. If the most eff
| iic!eht team cannot be developed under this
s % nntaple; .hen success in athletics must be
sacrinced to more important work The
| record or the academy in athletics shows
| that iirst-c1ass teams can be DEVELOPED with
reasonable amount of time devoted to
Stud;es'' oA
VIA prints are now very fashionable
uecoFatlon and the real thing is almost i'm
possible to obtain. But as demand invaria-
piS breeds supply, the industry of manu-
lacturing old prints while you wait has
taken It's place with the manufacture of
otner sorts of antiques. This is an infant
INDUSTRY not properly protected in this
country, and the result is that the manu-
iacture houriShes abroad. and the prints
are imported in vast quantities. They are
/ very good pieces of work, too for those
VINO like that sort of decoration. though
| the drawing and the coloring are by no
means up to the standard of modern real
| ism. '
one or the curious happenings Of the
custom house that brought out some of
the Iacts connected with this industry oc-
cured recently when one of the dealers in
washington undertook to import a largo
collection of old prints for sale. They
We're good enough to have gotten by the
customs collector as the real thing The
paper was old in texture and carernll,,
discollered. and the pictures were as nm
salniy In drawing and uncertain in coloring
as the most eXacting amateur critic could
nave desired. The dealer. in order to i'm
part a color of realism to the proceeding
| undertook to import them as genuine N,
tlques. But he found. when 1t came to
settling the bill, that the tariff would be
several times as heavy were they listed as
genuine as it would be on modern works.
So he 'fessed up and not only admitted
that the old prints were thoroughly
modern, but produced the documents to
prove II.
Whether he will be as frank with his CHS
a matter for future determination. But it
Is an interesting revelation to find that
such clever taking can be done in this line
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Fonetic spelling seems to be gaining in
popularity everywhere, and the announce
ment that the reforms would be adopted
in the District government probably had
much to do with the plan followed by a
dusky "citizeness" of Willow Tree alley
l.
for certain position. Her letter. speaks
for itself:
District CONCESSIONS
Dear Sir I noticed that you all might
be knedlng some femail help and not
moving weather you all had ingaged some
| one or not 1 thought I would ask, you all
| If 1T could be possible to allow me the
| pleasure as l wont work this will be my
| first time work 'ng out and the reason
| have not my III }ther keeps a little store
| in willow tree court and it has kept me
quite bizzy until now and it is so meny
stores around in this court until it makes
| bsiness very dull and I am married and
have two children to pervide far and can
give you the best reptashion from good
bisncss cidersons 1 hope you all will helyp
one ho wonts to get along arrest"
= :; = !: x
Il suppose" said the matchmaker, you
do not know that watches like human be-
| ings, sometimes don't go for the very
good reason that they are tired.
sometimes watch is brought to me
which is ali right Nothing about 1t is out
of order and it is fairly clean. When they
| become sulky and refuse to go except by
| fits and starts the best thing to do is to
| lay it aside and give 1t rest. The mechan-
| ism in a tired watch seems to be in per-
| feet condition but 1t won't work. The fact
| is that long and faithful service has thrown
| 1t slightly out of adjustment in perhaps ten
| different places. Scrapng and cleaning and
| readjusting fine watch is the worst thing
that could be done 10 It. A months rest
| will, instead. cause the works slowly to re-
| adjust themselves and at the end Of that
| time, after careful oiing, the watch will
| go as chcerfully as ever"