The Washington herald., 1907-01-06

/ She put her thumb into one ring. took
/ two turns about the short sleeve Of her
blouse with the ribbon, and brought the
other ring down over her little finger. Her
coat went on over the short sleeve then
without pulling Il up. I've always wanted
something to hold my sleeves down while
/ l put on my coat, but ! never would have
guessed tiiat the ribbon was the thing
/ I've been needing if / hadn't seen that
/ girl use IL People ought 10 send direc-
/ tiOns for using with their Christmas pres
ents
! The lady with the new furs went up in
an elevator with me Wednesday. and 7
heard her giving family news TO the lady
/ in blue velveteen- Everybody it seemed,
was in excellent health except Annie
We've been terribly worried about An
/ ME said the lady with the new furs
/ she certainly has heen sick she was
/ ont 10 supper here Christmas Eve. and
she must Of ct something that wasn't
good She's had a dreadful time. The
doctor says she got paulOmime poison
ing"
'"Fhe new laws about drugs are going
to be dreadfully hard on my Aunt Jane"
SAYS an II street woman Aunt Jane
/ is great temperance woman. She al
ways says she'd rather die than touch
rum-yOu know how total abstinence peO-
pie are. They always talk as If people
never drank anything but REQ wine and
rum Aunt Jane goes ever further Since
/ all this drug investigation has been go
/ ing on, she's declared that she wouldn't
touch anything that contained any alcohol.
! / went out day OF 50 ago to get a bottle
Of tooth wash for her. It's the kind she's
/ used for years, and when she unwTapped
/ il. there, in red letters stamped on the
label, she read. Contains % per cent Of
alcohol That settled it with Aunt Jane.
/ She sent me back 10 the drug store with
/ 1t. and told me 70 ask the druggist what
I he meant by a deadly insult like that
She wanted something without a particle
/ OF alcohol in IL The man told me he
hadn't a single tooth liquid that he could
/ swear was untainted lie didn't seem 10
/ think that % per cent was going 70 set
/ Aunt Jane on the downward path 10 dip
/ somania, but ] knew how unalJerabIe
Aunt James convictions are. Finally I
! persuaded him 10 I'll a bottle and just
write the name on it, without mentioning
alcohol / suppose it was criminal act.
I
know what she'll do about her teeth
when she finds out that aIcohors in pretty
nearly everything. She's going to be
nightly torn between creature comforts
/ and peace Of mind "
/ Il has~never been explained why a Ger
/ tain great war correspondent who. a.-
cording to his own confession, very nearly
won the battle Of San Juan Hill single
/ handed. left the service Of a great yellow
/ journal but secrets will out Once upon
/ "a time so ] am told. a:,er the great war
| correspondent had severed his connection
\ with the saffron newspaper. an emergency
/ arose which made a member OF The staff
/ regret his absence. The member Of the
staff mentioned it to the proprietor. say
ing he wished Blank would come back
oh. said the proprietor. BLANK viii
/ come back. / guess, any time when I'm
/ willing TO buy him a roll-top desk
Was that why he left?" asked the
member Of the staff
Yes said the proprietor. 'he didn t
want to write on a f1at-topped desk. and
I didn't think l ought to buy him a roll
[ top
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I A certain dEGullttl VINO + wei KNOW n
in Washington has a commission which
| would make me feel like Peter the Great
or Aladdin if 1 had ii. None Of your
petty State capitoIs OF skyscrapers for
him. He's been engaged to build "a whole
/ town. His Client-it isn't really good form
TO say either customer or employer when
you're talking about an architects q
railroad which is doing a great deal tO
develop the South. and the town IS TO be
in Louisiana The architect is To build "a
/ railway station, a hotel a schOOlhouse. Il
/ hospital. some stores, and few rows OF
| houses And as soon as the plaster is
dry the railroad is 10 bring the people.
/ For a few years numbering viii be the
| chief industry OF the town. and after the
] trees have all been cut down il viii be
| the center of a rich cottOn-Taising dis
| trict l don't know whether the people
are going TO be shanghaied or COaxed, but
the railroad is going TO nud enough of
them somewhere TO populate the town.
7 know several right here in Washington
| whom ] hope they'll get-peOple I'd love
to see settled in an artistic new town
/ as far away as Louisiana. and l don I
doubt that almost every other city viii be
/ willing To spare a few. II will be, so far
| as I know, the only made-tO-OTdeT town