Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-06-09

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although here lately things have been moving
along pretty rapidly.
1t is warm weather You have refrigerator
in which you keep butter and milk and meat and
slams in the ten-cent chunk. Ice in summer is
a great convenience. The butter comes the
table nice and solid instead of being COB of yellow
grease. But you have to consider than that.
Where would you get your fresh meat otherwise!
You could choose between eating beef that hadn't
got done bawling when you put it on the fire, and
was tough sole leather, or beef that But we'll
not go into that Not to expatiate too much what
would love- courtship, and marriage be without
the soda fountain and the ice parlor, nsti-
tutions absolutely dependent on the ice supply?
Look at all the fruits and vegetables that you have
that from far, away in advance of the brief
local season, away after the local season. And it
isn't only diversified diet and comfort and luxury,
it is life and death What would become of all the
bottle babies if the milk they drink jogging
down from the country without ever being chilled?
Think of all the sick folk burning up with fever.
Just that one item of ice in summer makes this a
far different world from the one that Washington
and Hamilton and Jefferson and all the rest of them
took up so much room in
There Are No Flies on Us
V7HEN the Continental Congress was in session in
w Philadelphia hundred and thirty years ago,
at this of the year, when they didn't have
screens, the flies bit viciousy through their thin
silk stockings, and they brought in typhoid and
cholera and what not The screens keep out mos
quitoes too In the days of the Continental Con-
gress, New York had yellow fever epidemics every
summer. Some credit for present exemption
must be due to window screens, admitting
the fact that the least bit tidier in ways
We are not allowed to throw slops out of the win
dows as they were. George Washington's picture
comes up on the stereopticon screen as pink and
fresh colored you please whereas the real George
was as white as bone, and pockmarked as everybody
in those days, and almost nobody is in these
days. A world in which smallpox and cholera and
yellow fever practically unknown is different
world from in which these pests constant
menace.
During weather, the madam does her cook
ing with gas or gasolene, on the oil stove. The
Colonial dame did her cooking the in summer
as in winter. On range? No, indeed No range
for her. At an open fireplace. If she remembered
the dying womans advice, Always put the dish
water to heat before you sit down to meal, -
she had to hang kettle of water on the sooty
crane. No hot and cold water laid on for her, no
sink, no stationary tubs, no bath tub, plumbing
of any kind kitchen pump even. Wash day
must have gone pretty hard with her, having to
carry every drop she washed with, having to rub
out everything between her hands, or battle" it,
pounding the clothes with big stick. There were
clothes pins or bars of laundry soap, washing
powders. That battling of the clothes must have
been rough on buttons, and in those days there
no shirt buttons that could be removed, they were
all sewed on.
And the Colonial dame had to make them as