Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-03-09
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amount to give him what he ought to have.
The response received by the firm to this
letter was brief and to the point
IF l had 5000. what in thunder would
l want with saw MILF?
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Thomas Jones. q citizen of dusky hue, was
in the dock at the Police Court day or
two ago to answer a charge of stealing an
overcoat. 1t waren't no use TO Thomas to
try to slip off the coat and blame TO the
whole occurrence. because he was wearing
the pifered garment when arrested.
why did you take it?" queried the judge
as the prisoner was arraigned and, per-
force, pleaded guilty.
Il cayn't tell 20 TO- sure. please yer
sanity and the un'ritten law.
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In his infant breast, possibly. he is cher
ishing the hope that he VIII ultimately
reach the age when 1.-The fellers will call
him BILL but at the present time he has
Just turned two and Willie is a conven-
tionalist of no mean attainments for his
years. The other day he was taken out
visiting, and, among other things. was
called upon to count the cars OF freight
memory. but counting the cars Is ia
vorite daily occupation as they pass within
sight of the windows of his home. This
Is the way he did it:
eight, nine, ten, eleven, caboose."
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Little Margaret was the happy recipient
few days ago of a handsmoe doll, the
only unwelcome drop in her otherwise over
flowing cup of bliss being that the doting
relative. who made the present. insisted
the doll should be named Agnes" In her
own honor. Margaret thought Marion"
in honor of another member of the family.
would be more appropriate she apparent
ly submitted to the inevitable. however,
when she found that even Marion Agnes
would not be acceptable to the donor.
Agnes was put on dolly's first name.
Next day little Margaret issued cards LOT
the new dolls first party, little girl friends
being invited to tea to meet Miss A.
Mar ion.
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"A little prior to the revolutionary war;,
says the Newport Bluejacket, there was
no such thing a naval uniform. The
officers wore civilian clothes or some sort
of an adaptation Of an army uniform, as
suited their fancies, and the men dressed
anyhow though they generally agreed in
wearing their hair long and done up in
a queue, or pigtail. and with lovelock or
two struggling down either side of the
face. The lor seems always to have been
given to wide trousers. experience having
taught him that his neither garments must
be so constructed that they could be easily
rolled above the knees when washing dowa
decks. Sometimes the oldtime sailor did
not wear trousers at all, but sort of Kilt
like Highlanders. Look at any old print
showing a. man-o-warS crew as late as
1918 and see what a motley lot of garments
are shown on the men. Some of them
even wore stove-pipe hats upon their
heads
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In connection with the proposed prohbi-
ton crusade in several states, the state
ment was made recently that several WASH
ington men are about to engage in novel
temperance movement. 1t is said they pro-
pose to form In all sections of the country
societies, the members of which will be
pledged to drink only light wines and beers,
and to be moderate even in those 1hdul-
gences. The promoters of this scheme
claim: that the evil Of .habitual drunken
ness can only be cured by the use Of light
tain injunctions in the Bible, as well as on
scientific reasons.
The claim is made that scientists have
wines and beers as beneficial In cases of
records for evidence that the deaths
a result of alcoholism are in every instance
caused by the excessive use of the heavier
liquors. such as brandy whisky. rum and
gin. They also point to the infrequency of
deaths from that cause in the beer and
wine countries of Europe.
1t is said that the first of these ''tem-
perate' societies may be established in
Va