The Washington herald., 1907-09-15
WHAT SHE HEARS AND SEES.

TO make fun Of him. So many years in
the business and unable TO estimate the
speed of train, Every other witness had
been so positive. The man stuck to his
answer, and no amount Of tormentng
could make him change it, Finally he
said:
It was a dark night, and we were
crossing a long bridge We could see no
object beside the track Any man who
says he can give any reasonably accu-
rate eSimate of the speed Of a train
under such circumstances is q plain liar
The speech lost the case for the COM
plainant Every preceding witness had
/ been honest in the statement of his be-
lief, and 1t had not occurred TO any Of
them that what they thought were es-
Inmates were entirely without base
It's a dull tradesman that can't make
something out of every fad 4 young
man who has charge Of the furniture de-
partment in one of our stores has just
/ been telling me of the scheme he de
vised for selling off a stock of footstools
/ that had been in the warehouse dear only
knows how long They were hassocks
and crickets OF the Brussels-carpet-cov
cred sort that one remembers in the
| drawing-rOom OF the 'I0s-yhe kind that
went out of fashion with black walnut
and gilt lined ebony. tie had them all
/ busted of neatly. and piled up in a sales
room with a card above them reading.
/ Automobile HaSsOcks." or course,
| everybody realized at once how unen-
/ durable an automobile without haSsOCk
/ Is. Placed carelessly In the 10Xl2 parloT
/ Of fiat one of those hassocks must make
/ IL as apparent that one owns machine
/ as the wearing of an automobile veil does.
/ The dullest can see how those hassOcks
/ filled a l0ng-felt want You can't buy
/ enc now, because the stock is all sold. but
/ I have no doubt YOU can find the same
thing at any really up-tO-ddte furniture
store by the middle of next week at the
( latest.
I saw new thing out in Chicago that
puzzled me for "a bit" said the bred-and-
/ born Washingtonian I went into one
OF the fashionable hotels 10 dine OF
/ course. I was struck with the round
! bowled soup spoons Ny wife has some
/ that shape that she uses when she gives
la luncheon. The advantage of them Is
/ that you can't put the whole spoon into
/ your mouth. but ours aren't half the size
| Of the kind I saw in Chicago. I suppose
/ they gradually train people 20 eat soup
/ in the proper way. I ordered corn on the
| cob We don't often have II at home be-
! cause my wife doesn't like TO sea me eat
! il, but I had it in Chicago Ii came on
with a silver knob stuck into each end.
| / suppose I'm way behind the times any
way, but I'd never seen knobs Ike that
/ before I took il they were put in TO
/ help the cook dish up the cobs without
/ burning her fingers. So I pulled them ont
/ Ny Chicago friend across the table looked
/ distressed.
/ Those are TO hold the cob with while
7 YOU eat il. he explained
4 hadn't imagined that-weu. eating
/ corn on the cob looked 10 me like q
/ thing YOU can't very well refine into an
/ elegant habit any more than YOU can
glorify picking your teeth in public by
| usiEg gold tOothpick I didn't quite
! seeSny friends point even after he spoke.
and l put a moments thought on H.
! - see. ! said OF course, here
/ where you can't keep your hands clean
TWO minutes at a time you have 20 have
/ them, don't youT
! And he was too mad 10 speak all the
/ rest Of the dinner. Chicago's long on cui-
I ture. and has US all faded in the matter
/ Of elegance. but no ChicagOan likes 20
/ have you hint that his town isn't clean"