The Washington herald., 1907-10-06


of the smell of paint in the house,
but that's no excuse for your coming
home ~ this time Of the night You
promised me faithfully you would be
home by 7, and here II is half past /,
and I have had to smell the paint all
night. and it has almost made me sick.
have been sitting here reading the
papers and going over the news Of the
week, SO that you and / could talk
about it when you came home. ! do
think that what you have to say about
the news is real interesting, and It
gives me such fine idea Of what is
going on In the world. OF course, you
don't care, Job. you have your own
interests; you didn't even know that
/ had 10 send for the doctor this after
noon because I thought that little Emily
was getting the mumps. ! have got a
potato poultlce or her neck now, and
am half afraid the poor child may
choke to death while she IS sleeping.
Wasn't it fine the way they received
Mr.. Bill Taft IN Japan? 1 see that
Gen, Tobacco gave him a dinner, and
Marquis Ito-(with the accent on the
"itO-told him that Japan never loved
anybody quite so much as it loved the
United States, and so / suppose there
is no danger Of our getting into war;
but I guess the battle ships are going
around into the Pacific just the same
Seems funny to me. though. while
Ill l.
is buying so many guns Of Mr.. Krupp
Of Germany. Maybe that's the artistic
sense Of the little brown men of the
East
Anyhow. I think the next war any
body has IS going to be fought in the
air. l have been reading about Capt
Chandler working with that military
balloon Of his and qualifying himself
TO be a real chauffeur, or whatever
they call man that runs a balloon.
He's made ten trips. and hasn't been
killed once. OF course, IL is using up
a good deal Of gas to run these military
balloons, but the Georgetown Gas Com
pany doesn't mind that Maybe some
day they viii run automobiles by gas
u don't see there's so much crime in
Washington. and yet they tell us that
the police need all sorts Of money TO
run the department next year. 1 don't
zee what they spend the money for IN
less it's for those silk stockings that the
bicycle policemen wear 10 show on their
calves. / think it's simply ridiculous.
Most Of the bicycle policemen I've seen
are standing around The Washington
Herald bulletin board. watching the
ball game score. / can't see that that s
any protection TO the people, even Il
Detroit did have 10 play seventeen in
nings the other day,
DO you hear Emily breathing hard
that way2 I think she's going 10 have the
tic doloreaux-the doctor told me 10 put a
sugar pOuItice on her throat, and I did IT,;
and little Haley climbed over into the bed
and ate the poultice, and the poor child
IS suffering now because l had 10 use
potatoes-I guess little Haley won't eat
those, leastwise without salt, and there
amt no salt up here
did you notice that Mr.. Bonaparte
got back to his Office and IS talking?
All them Napoleons was pretty great on
talk. But this little chap is getting after
the trusts, and l don't rightly under
stand It. but he says the real criminals
ought 20 be killed off-Eand. I don't
know whether he is referring 10 MI.
Rockefeller or not, but it seems Ike IT,.
I don't see how you could electTOCUte
Rockefeller with that wig on. II they
put him in the chair and took his wig
off he'd have 10 be arrested for public
indecency.
Say. did you notice the news about
Marshal Collins Of Glen Echo? ! knew
they'd get him at last. He's missing.
expect he's had so much experience
stopping automobiles that he's qualified
now for a job as train dispatcher or
something OF that sort. shouldn't Z
wonder if he developed into a hold-up
man and made a lot Of money. Seems
10 me everybody was handing Mr.. Col
Inns money for awhile, and I don't blame
Glen Echo for not wanting 10 pay it
back
Now, Job, you know you are not
sleepy, so don't pretend you are. II
you mad more sympathy for your own
flesh and blood you could hear little
Emily breathing through that potato
poultice-sounds to me like she's chok-
ing. but guess she's all right The
doctor told me this farinaceous food
was good for the mumps. OF course.
You slept 50 late last sunday suppose
YOU had been playing pinochle all the
night before-that you couldn't go oGt
70 the Cathedral foundation stone lay
ing with me. but I went. and had a
fine time. I couldn't see much of the
Cathedral. but at any rate they've got
the stone, and the Bishop of London.
in his scarlet robes, was simply lovely.
Scarlet looks awfully well on a man.
He's a doctor Of divinity, or something
like that-I don't see why YOU don't buy