Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-01-12
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his beaver. EFF you'all hear oh a nice,
sof' watcherman's job dat respec able old
cullad gemman cud git I'd be obliged eff
you'all wud drap line to old INK Ike at
de Brightwood pos offs. A Happy Moo
Yeah" I'll drink to yer happiness and
health wild dis heah Nickel" and the old
man put on his beaver and rambled off.
X
A Tennessee national lawmaker tells a
story about an ignorant. worthless, ire
ligious family named Ransom, not a men,
Der of which had been seen in church In
the memory of the oldest inhabtant' Of
the village. The pastor finally persuaded
two of the boys to attend meeting, but
they were in great terror for fear that they
would be made the subject of personal re-
marks or upbraided for their wickedness
However, the boys went to the meeting
were astonished at their presence. All
went pleasantly enough until the singing
of the hymn
BLOW ye the trumpet blow!' ETC.,
and when the end of the third line
Return ye ransomed' sinners home"
the boys seized their hats and skeedaddled
4 X
VIII the installation of water meters, now
in progress by the District water depart
ment, have a tendency to add the citizens
of Washington to the army OF the I'M
washed? Such question was raised by
protestant at the District building recently.
This protestant was one of the fair sex and
stated that she had tried to rent her house.
in which one of these meters has been IN
stalled, to three tenants, but as soon as
they learned that the house had water
meter they refused to enter into lease.
This woman was told that even with
copious use of water she would find that the
water rent paid by meter measurement
would be less than by the old method of
paying by the width and height of the
house, but, shaking her pretty head, she
said that the people of Washington who
are accustomed to paying gas bills by me-
ter had to be educated up to the fact
number of years before they could thor
oughly believe 1t.
"Now with a meter in my house, she
said. If take bath or wash my dishes,
instead of drawing a generous amount of
water, as 1 would ordinarily do, l an in
clined to put mark on the tub or dish pan
to indicate the least amount of water I
can get along with
Have you noticed how the climate Of
Washington has changed within twenty
years?" asked the stout man, as he mop
ped his brow while walking up street
Friday. when l came here a score of
years ago we used to have winters that
were winters Snow on the ground for at
least couple of weeks during the winter,
and many good, bracing days. 1 remember
the people used to wear ear muffs, and
mufflers and mttens and those things that
keep a fellow warm. I haven't seen pair
of ear muffs on the streets for l don't know
when.
Every year the Potomac used to freeze
over and there would be good skating the
better part of the winter on Soldiers Home
lake In those days We used to have sleigh
ing carnivals on Pennsylvania avenue, too,
and other winter sports.
Yes" rejoned the other man, land the
chances are that before you are twenty
four hours older your beautiful Washington
climate will give you taste of your old
fashioned winter again.