Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-01-20

The show window OF novelty store ot'
PENNSYLVANIA avenue is filed with leather
pocket books. with compartments for rail-
way annual passes a sign in the window
reads:
PASS BOOKS AT COST"
Now, that is what I call real irony.
remarked a congressman, sadly. as he
vazed into the window and ruminated on
the new anu-pass rule of the eastern rail-
ways.
''Pity the sorrows of a poor teetotaiier.
said a Columbia Heights citizen to group
of sympa thizing friends.
whats the trouble?"
"Why. 1 went on the water wagon Janu-
AIRY l. to stay until the 27th. The very
next day | received a present of bottle
of twenty-seven-y ear-old Scotch whisky
from a friend abroad. Ny wife took a
liking to it and every day samples Dit
persistently refusing my tirnd eaorts 10
Substitute two or three other brands OF
Scotch | have in the house. Now, you
can figure for yourself just how much OF
that precious twenty seyen-year-oid VIII
be left when get OFF the water-~agoh'
And his friends wept with MN
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A well-known gentleman of the capitai
city was talking the other evening about
rewarding people for the return of lost
property He said:
81 have never lost anything of value that
has ever been returned, but 1 believe i
would reward the finder of any of my lost
Valuablcs should they be returned to me
The way some folks treat a finder of their
yaluables was illustrated to me last sum
mcr. We had been out to the cavalry drlll
st Fort Myer one afternoon and the car
was waiting for a moment, preparatory 10
the run back TO the Aqueduct bridge, when
a cavalryman dashed up on his charger
and after dismounting quietly asked If any
lady in the car had lost her purse.
In a moment a Stylishly dressed lady in
the front part of the car screamed out
that her pOclSetboOk was gone The cavalry
man asked her to describe the purse, ana
being convinced from her description, re
turned it to her. With smile she took
it. said Thank YOU and settled down IN
her seat.
THE cavalryman returned to the plat
form where he told a bystander that lie
had picked the purse up after the drill
" How much was there in it, some one
asked.
Three hundred dollars was the rerIE-
But he didn't get three cents for resto:-
ing it to its owner
"A1irian has new admlter. said hef
observing father. and we are hearing
less of music and more of the beauties
of the foreign languages since his add
vent. which varies the tune we have
been listening to from the time she net
the director of a theater orchestra at
Asbury last summer. The new devotee
is a Bohemian. Not. as Miriam reiteT-
ates to all her acquaintance, ram
bling. artistic, free-living Bohemian crea-
ture who affects to despise the cOnven-
lions OF well-reguated. weil-bred society,
but a veritahle, bonatide Bohemian with
a capital letter. from Bohemia, which has
no sea coasts.
The Bohemian unfortunately or for
tuuately, as you look at it, speaks little
English. and Miriam speaks no bohemian
csc, but it makes no difference. Miriam
has an undiluted load of culture and
French is one of her trump cards. 1t
seems to me the foreigner is making
some progress in the American vernac-
ular. in spite of Mirian's scorn of her
mother tongue. She adoreS French, and
the poor fellow would have no oppor-
tunity to learn English at all if Miriam
had her way. She says 1t is so rough.
it is not melodious and has absolutely no
harmony. What she calls horrible cacO-
phOnies of cOnsOnants disturb its sonor-
ity. The voWeIs are not so frequent as
in the Italian. and she maintains that
some letters which she calls the liquids
are subordnated to the gutturals.'
In the library last Sunday evening
Miriam was much astonished when the
young man said:
language. l not know its meaning, but
II is tres beau, II is soft like what you
call the dream; it is full of liquidity like
the music
hang her head. She waited and raised
her eyes shyly.
What is it, monsieur?'
II know not the use how to do with
It,. he said with enthusiasm; but the
sound, ii is enchantment-it is cellar
door
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A perusal OF the volume on street rail-
way laws in the District of Columbia pre-
pared by D. f. Garges. secretary to Com
missioner Biddle. brings to light a provi-
sion of the police regulations regarding
street railways which it is believed is not
generally understood. This provision is a
part of section "A, article 10, and reads as
follows:
mo motorman or conductor shall refuse
10 stop to take up passenger unless all
the seats in the car or train are occupied. -
The Commissioners are periodically IN
receipt of communications from irate citi-
zens complaining that the motormen Of
street cars refuse to stop when sigualed,
and that the said iTate citizens have been
left on some corner waving their arms in